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12/10/2007 23:30 #42466

It's Officially Over
So i officially decided yesterday that I am not going to Pharmacy school. I told my parents, coworkers and dermatologist. That makes it pretty official. THey all have differing degrees of dissappointment but frankly I hate science, and I don't care if you don't really do it on the job, I can't do it for 4.5 more years and then if I don't like science should I relaly be a pharmacist anyway. Like i relaly don't find it interesting at all...so now I need a new life plan...possibly winning big in the lottery or at the casino? Or opening a store, I love cash registers, maybe a cash register store? haha. I need to find something ough, possibly I'm thinking going back to school for my masters in sociology and work twoards a pHd and becoming a sociollgy college professor. Or maybe a socioal studies high school teacher except I fear my life is too much on the internet alreayd for that. Too many pictures, too many stories, and I come up way too fast when you google search for britney's privates. !
jill - 12/11/07 21:11
Ohh Mike...... what will we do with our lives????
tinypliny - 12/11/07 17:58
The important question is, what did your dermatologist think?

BTW, @brit: I am supposedly in a "hard science" PhD program but that doesn't prevent statistics from chomping all over the place.

Mike, if you think you would be happy to continue as a student forever and get a kick out of self-punishment (a.k.a working insanely long *and may I add, self-imposed* hours) then PhD is the way to go. If you are bent on pursuing academia, I would recommend NOT going to a guidance counselor (they are so full of it. :/) and picking a field in which you are most likely to be doing what makes you the happiest *and* making enough to make ends meet, financially.
mrmike - 12/11/07 13:25
I wondering if your news got under the dermatologist's skin. Best wishes with whatever road you choose.
brit - 12/11/07 09:08
oh Mike...you will be so bored and when you are done you will have to move to Nebraska because you have to go where the one job you get offered is. Also, you will have to have daily interactions with the most socially incapable people who are so geeky they will be unable to look you in the eye and every decent conversation you start about something interesting will turn into a debate about the merits of variables of interest. Plus, if you do sociology PhD it is pure stats just like polisci. You are too full of life to have it sucked out of you by institutionalized academic weirdness. It's your call but if you hate science social science isn't for you. It is supposed to copy the hard scientific method as much as possible but is harder because you also need to incorporate sound theory and no one ever agrees that what you did is enough. I often wish I had started a PhD in something useful like Geography or brain surgery.....what about history or anthropology? no stats, all very interesting better job prospects.
janelle - 12/11/07 08:19
I'm with James. Go to a guidance counselor before you plunge in and get a PhD. PhD in social sciences is like a 10 year commitment to school, busyness and having little money. And if you are one of those live in Buffalo for the rest of your life people, well, then being a professor may not be the best choice for you.

I'm in the same boat...sort of...I'm about ready to jump career ships...just don't know what ship I want to jump on yet. Will be thinking of you.
james - 12/11/07 02:42
sorry the pharmacy thing didn't work out.

If I were you I would walk down to the career center, set up an appointment with a councilor, and find out what you might want to do.

Social Studies teacher is a horrible, horrible idea. Take it from one who knows.

12/04/2007 23:12 #42398

Fancy Balls
So ever since seeing an incredibly amazing episode of Gossip Girl a few weeks ago I have wanted to have a masquerade ball. And then after seeing enchanted I just wanted like a fun formal ball. And then wham bam thank you mam two come right my way. One my friend Rachelle finally convinced Danielle to let us use her house for a masquerade ball for Rachelle's bday in January! She has a cool masquerade ball like house I have heard.

And then (e:amanda) told me about this tonight. It looks like fun, yo uget to dress up and drink and eat and be merry and the money goes to charity....

www.thebuffaloball.org

I can't get the link to work for some reason so you will just have to type it in.

it seems like it will be fun, excpet last time me and (e:amanda) were at a formal at the Statler we got kicked out and she almost wasn't allowed to graduate college....hopefully it turns out to be just as fun this time!
amanda - 12/08/07 00:24
woohoo. it will be so much fun if you come! i just bought my ticket. how can we pass up chance number two to get kicked out haha.

12/03/2007 00:59 #42375

Enchanted
Enchanted was really good! Like super good! Me and (e:jill) went the other night and I loved it! I think she liked it a lot too! Like it was kinda just like one of those old disney cartoons but like newish and fresh! The girl playing the princess was relaly good and the little girl was so cute! Everyone was really good in it! I can't get the songs out of my head and just keep watching scenes from it online. Yes, yes maybe I am really a 12 year old girl. You know why I am writing this right now:? Because I should be studying for my lab final tomorow!

I especially loved the part where she is singing "how does she know" in central park and eveyrone joined in. So classic disney and so great!

Here is the trailer for anyone who doesn't know what movie i am talking about.


anne - 12/03/07 18:24
(e:mk) and I took our cousins to see it and we had to convince them to see that instead of Bee Movie. It was so funny, I loved it, I felt like 9 again, haha. I would totally see it again if someone asked me to.
metalpeter - 12/03/07 17:12
Hopefully I will go see it this weekend and like it as much as everyone else had.
mrdeadlier - 12/03/07 10:21
I am SO getting this on DVD the day it comes out
tinypliny - 12/03/07 01:47
Now I have two big thumb-uppers - one from you (and I think our tastes in movies match a **lot**). I just HAVE to see this and get enchanted now! :)

11/29/2007 18:01 #42332

Oh the Things You'll Find
Oh the things I will decide NEED to be done right now when it is less than 24 hours before an exam in a class I know virtually nothing about and am doing poorly in and need to do well in to have any kind of future:

so far today....

1. cleaned up my shelf where I place things until I get to something I am really avoiding (like studying today) and then go through all the papers and recycle and file as necessary

2. count all the dimes in my globe bank (it is up to like over 700)

3. refold and organize all the clothes that are in my room not in drawers

4. re-read all my random cards I have bought over time to send to people to decide which ones to start sending out...IN FEBRUARY

5. plan on going to see Enchanted possible with (e:jill) after class

6. taking a snack brake every 10-15 minutes...thank god for girl scout cookies and asiago cheese (no not together , well ere and there i suppose they mix in my mouth)

7. go to the post office and wait in a somewhat long line in order to ask about what to fill out to send things internationally. I'm sure it could have been quicker online but it just seemed like I needed to go there and talk to someone.

8. go over all my bank statements and balance my check book

9. organize the christmas gifts I have bought thus far

10. the USA Today Crossword Puzzle followed by the other puzzles in USA today followed by reading USA Today

11. reading (e:strip)

12. Watching Days of our LIves in the first time in what seems like forever

and of course...

13. writing this journal about procrastinating. OK well back to the grind of studying well......maybe a quick check of facebook/gmail/myspace/soap opera digest website ....but then back to studying
tinypliny - 12/03/07 01:44
You are afflicted with the ODES - Obsessive Deadline Escapism Syndrome!

Good luck on the exam, duuuude!
leetee - 11/30/07 00:49
hahahaha... oh, how i understand that kind of procrasination. Good luck with your exam!! I am sure you will do well!!
james - 11/29/07 21:18
If your procrastination experience is like the one I just blogged about you will get an A+
jenks - 11/29/07 18:50
hahaha that is sooooo me. :) Good luck on your exam!
libertad - 11/29/07 18:16
Terrible! ;)

11/27/2007 23:31 #42315

Spice Up Your Life
Sometimes I forget how much I love the Spice Girls and all it takes to remind me of the greatness is one little magical phrase "spice up your life". Hearing them always puts me in a better mood, they were musical geniuses!


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Look at those gals, truly amazing in all their tacky glory!
metalpeter - 11/30/07 16:53
I can't remember if it was Scary Spice or Sporty Spice I used to like or maybe it was all of them. Does anyone think that the Fanta Girls are Better or worse then the spice girls? Oh yeah they are hot to.
tinypliny - 11/28/07 21:20
Have to admit, they were catchy and totally Christmassy, actually. And that's why I like listening to them but not as much as real Christmas songs. Nopes, nothing comes as close to swinging the spirit toward the North Star than Christmas songs!!
james - 11/27/07 23:36
I love playing 'count the camel-toe' with this picture.