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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
10:50 pm	Emotional Roller Coaster of a Day It's been a while since I updated this journal. So I just finished my last of finals for this quarter and I am graduating this Friday. I'm going to be walking and I have my cap and gown (and Jordy bought me a leigh(sp?)!) I'm really excited to be done and to finally be walking because this quarter has been tough. So the emotionl part was not me finishing my last set of finals but going home. Jordy and I and his parents were going out to dinner to celebrate my last day when my aunt calls me and tell me my mom is in the emergency room. All she tells me is that her heart apparently started beating really fast and she had high blood pressure. She can't even tell me what god damn hospital my mom is at. I was beyond upset and emotional and frustrated. My mom decided to not tell anyone what happened. I don't know how she decided that's a good idea. I was so worried and not knowing what happened or which hospital she was at made it worse. Hearing it from my aunt who was basically yelling at me was worse. So anyways, Howard and Leslie were very good about comforting me and making me feel better. We got all the food to go and I was ready to go and drive to Daly City to see her because I didn't want her to be alone. She ended up telling her bf and he was the one who drove her home. I still feel really just confused. My emotions are all over the place. I don't even know what we'll do about Friday...*sighs* Current Mood: distressed (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 21st, 2009
9:45 am	4 Year Anniversary I'm celebrating my 4 year anniversary with Jordy today :-) Current Mood: chipper (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
11:37 am	Update on Things So it's been a very long time since I've written in here so I thought I'd update it. My last entry had been about me getting engaged well it's a year from the wedding now (the official date is February 20th of 2010) and we're finally starting to get into gear with plans. We just put a deposit down at the restaurant (Scott's Seafood) so I'm really excited about that. On March 1st Jordy and I are planning on going to a luncheon provided at Scott's Seafood to check out wedding vendors. Hopefully we can find someone we like. And I'm aiming to my spring break in March to start looking at invitations, thank you cards, save the dates, wedding dresses and hopefully fit in some wedding cake tasting. Also, would be nice if I could get together with a lot of friends that I haven't been able to during this quarter. Other great news is that I finally filed for Spring Commencement so I will be walking on June 12th and I've already ordered tickets. I think it will be just wonderful because I'll have my family (including Jordy's parents) and friends with me so I'm really looking forward to that. Also, I can't leave out this other bit of news. We just found out yesterday that another of Jordy's brothers is expecting a second child :-). This is on top of the oldest brother who is expecting twins. So this family is expanding very fast and it's just wonderful to see that. I obviously can't leave the fact that today is Valentine's Day so Happy Valentine's Day everyone. I actually started out the beginning of this week thinking the whole holiday is overrated but then as we got closer I realized that I was getting in the spirit of things. Jordy obviously knew me better than I knew myself and was already prepared to surprise me this morning with chocolates and cards :-) That completely made my morning. I came home really late last night because I stayed in Davis for an extra credit opportunity for my class. Although it was worth it, I was sort of regretting staying so late since it had been horribly rainy that evening and I don't particularly like driving at night and in the rain. It was all worth it thought because Jordy's mom made dinner for us and it was quite the Valentine's Day dinner. We had green beans, portabello mushrooms with filet mignon, lobster tail and baked potato. And to top it all off, she made chocolate covered strawberries!! Is that perfect or what? And as far as things going overall with school, it's been actually a tough and busy but very rewarding quarter. I've really grown into and love being the Pre-Nursing Peer Advisor and I feel like I'm really making a difference in student's lives. Whatever I do in the future it has to include giving back and educating students. I really feel that's where I excel. Obviously I still feel really strongly about being a nurse. School has been really interesting as well. I started out feeling really overwhelmed with my anatomy class because I had to spend so much extra time but it's really grown on me. I really love our professor who has made the class really fun and relevant. I'm so happy that I was able to take it at UC Davis because it just wouldn't be the same at a community college. He is actually a practicing pediatrician so he makes the anatomy part of the class have a lot of clinical relevance by showing us actual cases and doing demonstrations on students in class. I've learned so much in his class and how many people can say that they got to learn on cadavers outside of medical school? I believe he said we are one of the few programs who get to work cadavers at an undergraduate level. I really appreciate that he is aiming to teach us everything that medical students learn ( this is according to him, not to me). Well, I think that's everything in terms of updates on my life so far. Hopefully I'll have a lot more to share. Current Mood: cheerful (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
10:57 pm	I'm engaged! Jordy proposed :-) Current Mood: excited (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
6:33 pm	Done!! Yeay! Just had my last final today! Let the summer begin!!! Oh yes, and I took the final for my last o-chem class and chem class in general ever. I'm ready to begin making plans! Current Mood: chipper (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
8:49 am	yeay! I'm done. Just took my last midterm. Hmm...actually, it's my last ochem midterm, and I don't mean for just this class. It's a strange feeling. Now, just got to get through finals. But I won't be worrying about that this weekend though. Yeay! 3-day weekend! Current Mood: cheerful (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
7:14 pm	Jordy's grandmother has passed. The funeral will be held Sunday and I came down to Walnut Creek today to be with the family. Current Mood: sad (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
4:23 pm	A Pleasant Surprise... Don't you just love it when you're just having a regular day and then someone reminds you about something wonderful that you totally forgot and it just makes your day? Sometimes it's like finding $20 dollars in your wallet that you didn't know was there. Other times, and in my case, it's a staff member at the tutorial center at Davis reminding me that I hadn't picked up two paychecks that I didn't even know about. :-)) Yeay! Extra money is always good. Current Mood: cheerful (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
2:01 pm	More reason to celebrate.. I am completely on cloud 9 right now. Not only did I find out this week that I got the Brisbane Scholarship I applied for but I just listened to my voice mail and apparently I got the nursing peer advising position at Davis!!!! I'm so happy. I was hoping so much that I would get it but after my interview I had my doubts. They were partly compounded by the fact that it is a much competed for position. I felt like I was being rushed out but I guess they were running out of time. I couldn't be happier right now. :-)) Current Mood: bouncy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
6:15 pm	Yeay! I received a letter in the mail notifying me that I got the Brisbane Scholarship Award that I had applied for. I've never received a scholarship of any type before, this is a first for me. I had really thought that the interview didn't go all that well because they only spoke with me for 15 minutes. I guess they must have liked me after all. I'm really happy. Awards Dinner is April 23rd and my mom and Jordy will be accompanying me. :-)) Current Mood: accomplished (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
9:22 pm	I'm really bummed... I was really looking forward to being there for my niece's first bday. I really wanted to be able to spend time with my family and finally see Jordy's brother and sister-in-law in LA with their baby girl. Midterms suck. It sucks even more that I have 2 midterms the weekend after I wanted to go to see the family in LA. It looks like I won't be able to go...*sighs* Current Mood: disappointed (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
5:07 pm	Happy I'm soo happy. I signed up for the Take An Aggie to Lunch through the Alumni Association and they sent me an email today with who I will be going with. She has her RN and her Ph.D. I'm totally psyched to go out with her, hopefully I can learn something new and get some perspective. In other news, It is seriously windy here. I thought I was going to get blown over during some parts of today. Yeesh. Finally, almost done with my scholarship. I have one more letter of recommendation to go. Can't wait to send it off. Hope I can get a lil help *keeps fingers crossed* Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
9:26 pm	911 My roomies and I had been planning to have a "girls night" sometime at the beginning of this quarter. We finally decided on today and the place would be Indian according to one of my roomie's preferences. The other roomie had never had Indian food before and was up for trying it. The place was pretty empty but the food was really good and the waiter was entertaining. He was coming often to check on us and to make small talk, very enjoyable experience overall up to this point. Then one of my roomies tells me the food "tastes" itchy. And I was asking her what she meant by that. She kept saying she didn't know, just that she was feeling weird. Then a moment of thought on my part, " Wait, are you allergic to something? Are you allergic to nuts?" She answers that she is, and I realize that she's told me this before and I had forgotten. At this point, I feel like there is a knot developing in the pit of my stomach as I'm comprehending what this means: "When you say allergic, do you mean like severely allergic?" She says "yea". Crap. So I tell her that I'm pretty sure that the curry dish she ate has nuts in it, in fact any curry dish most likely uses nuts in one form or another. To confirm we call the waiter over, and ask him in a mild panic whether he can talk to the chef and ask him if there are nuts in the food. He comes back some minutes later to confirm our suspicions that in fact curry does have a cashew base in it. Now I'm really starting to worry. I ask her, " Do you have your epi-pen with you?" She tells me that she does not and she doesn't usually carry it. She mentions that last time this happened she just needed to throw up and she was fine. As we're sitting there in silence, there is a moment of inaction when we are thinking whether to get home as soon as possible or just not worry and let it ride out. She starts feeling nauseous. That's not good. We pay our bill and we go outside. She doesn't make it to the car and starts throwing up in the nearby trash can while I'm running in and out of a restaurant to get her napkins. We wait with her for about 15-20 mins as she is throwing up starting to worry that maybe this is getting worse and we should really get home. She seems to be better when she finally gets in the car. Halfway through the ride she tells us that her throat is starting to feel tight. This is really not good. She says she wants to go to the hospital. Then, on second thought, she says she wants us to call 911 because she can avoid waiting in the emergency room. We rush home and I run upstairs to our phone (I wanted a land line) and call 911 (I have never called 911 in my whole life or ever seen an ambulance up close, let alone take a friend to a hospital). Somehow I'm surprised that I'm so calm even though my voice sounds nervous and the only thing going around in my brain is our address, say the address, say the address, say the address. I practically blurt out our address to the operator and let them know what is going on. She gets the information down and gets off the phone. That's funny, I thought they were supposed to stay on the phone with you until the ambulance got there. Anyways, I go back downstairs and she is throwing up again. The fire truck from the next door firestation arrives a minute later and I wave them over. They are feeling her pulse and giving her oxygen while I'm trying to comfort her as best I can. One of the fireman starts asking for information (name, age, when did he eat, what is she allergic to, how long ago,etc.) and I'm racking my brain to remember everything. They ask for her epi-pen so my other roomate goes upstairs and gets it for her. At this point the ambulance arrives and insist that she has to stick that epi-pen in her thigh and she is the one who has to do it. There is a look of terror on her face. Not only has she never used the pen, but she told us at dinner how she was scared and how she didn't want to use that epi-pen. My other roomate and I look at each other as the same thoughts go through our mind. Anyways, she braces, and she sticks the epi-pen in her thigh. I think I must have cringed at the sight, I've never seen anyone do that before. Her whole leg starts shaking as the epinepherine is coursing through her body. The firefighters lift her now limp body up onto the stretcher and I think all of us just felt a bit helpless and a little scared. It sorta hits you when you see someone close to you in a stretcher ready to be loaded in the ambulance. Her friends calls her parents and notifies people in her family taht she's at the hospital but doing fine. We eventually go to the hospital and were able to see her along with her mom and dad who arrived shortly after us. By then the doctor talked to her and us and she was feeling better. They gave her something for her nauseousness. She's finally home. I'm glad everything is alright now. I don't think I'll ever forget that she is allergic to nuts now. I'm going to go to sleep cause I need to call her at 5:00am to make sure she is still doing alright (doctor's orders). What a night. I think I'm still high on adrenaline Current Mood: awake (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
11:05 am	New Year's Eve Yesterday was awesome. Lots of great memories. See facebook photos for details.hehe. I'm just sitting here soaking it all in. :-) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
3:31 pm	YEAY!! I'm really overjoyed right now. I got some of my grades back and I got an A in bio/genetics and an A- in ochem. Unofficially I have an A in geology and waiting for the grade for jewish studies. I'm happy that I can say that all the long hours of studying and lack of a social life were not in vain..lol. Although balance is good. In other news...i really don't want to make plans..lol..i just want to sit here and do nothing. Oh well, I'm coming to SJ on Wed. afternoon and the madness begins with trying to hang out with as many people as possible in like a day and a half. In other news, I'm getting the house ready for the holidays. Current Mood: cheerful (Comment on this)
Friday, December 14th, 2007
8:38 am	I'm done!!! yeay!! So....peoples...I'm free! Let me know when you're around in San Jose would, love to hang out!! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
5:55 pm	soooo tired.....Can't study anymore. *sighs*. Wish me luck tomorrow. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
7:49 am	Interesting bit of info... I thought I'd post this interesting bit of info. that I learned in my Jewish Studies Class, which by the way, I'm totally loving. So happy I decided to take this class. It really took me to places I didn't expect to go. 1000 BCE (Kingdom of David and Solomon) World pop.: 120 million Jew pop: 2 million % Jews/World: 1.7% 586 BCE ( Destruction of the 1st Temple) World pop. : 130 million Jew pop. : 0.5 million (!!!!...Diaspora) % Jews/World: 0.5% 0 ( Greco-Roman Period) World pop. : 252 million Jew pop. : 4.5 million % Jews/World: 1.8% ( almost up to Biblical times of the "golden age") 135 CE ( Bar Kochba Rebellion) World pop. : 257 million Jew pop. : 1.5 million % Jews/World : 0.58% 1096 (First Crusade) World pop. : 300 million Jew pop. : 1 million % Jews/World : 0.33% 1492 (Inquisition in Spain) World pop. : 461 million Jew pop. : 0.9 million % Jews/World : 0.20% 1900 World pop. : 1.634 billion Jew pop. : 10.6 million ( notice the big jump? This is the period where Jews were emancipted and gained citizenship finally) % Jews/World : 0.65% Holocaust (right before it actually happens) World pop. : 2.295 billion Jew pop. : 11 million (Now wrap your mind around this: We're about to lose 6 million Jews of the 11 million shown here) % Jew/World : 0.48% With the establishment of the state of Israel, we're slowly recovering the numbers we lost. Most of the Jews of the world are in the US and Russia (second is surprising). And about 85% of the Jews living in America are Russian/Polish/Lithuanian. Interesting. Another last bit of interesting info. This may be more interesting to Jews than non-Jews but Hanukkah has nothing to do with oil. Lol. IT has everything to do with the Maccabean Revolt. Current Mood: creative (Comment on this)
7:31 am	Grades... So I finally got my last two midterms back. Geology: So the ironic thing was that he wanted to make the second midterm harder and he threatened us that it would be. Whether it was easier or people took his threat seriously, I don't know. To me, it seemed a bit easier. The ironic part regardless is that our average went up from the last midterm. The last midterm's average was like 86% ( which is high enough) and the second midterm's average was a 90% !! Oiy, and he seems a bit upset by it. Now he wants to lower the average and he says the final will be difficult. Damn it. Yea, right, all teachers say " In theory, you could all get A's! There' no quota for how many A's there are." B.S. They only say that when they know that they have low averages and that the whole class can't possibly all get A's. This is an example of a teacher who actually experiences something where a large percentage of the class could get A's, and like the predictable teacher that he is, he decides that he needs to lower everybody's grades. Come on. Biology: Good news. The second midterm was easier. I don't know whether it's because of the material or because we're more used to the style of the test. The average went up from the 54% of the first midterm to a 67.7% of the second midterm. That's pretty good. I was almost afraid he would be upset by it like the geology teacher, perhaps it's too high. He seemed pretty pleased though so that's good. I didn't do too bad, got an 87/100 and 82 and above was an A. I'm kinda dissapointed though, because I really thought I'd get in the 90s this time. For how much easier the midterm seemed, I thought I'd do a lot better than the 82 last time. Oh well, can't really argue, an A is an A. O-Chem: Yes, they stayed true to their word, o-chem did in fact get more difficult. Not only the concepts, but the test as well. Haha, I feel like my o-chem and bio class have switched places now. Can you guess what our average was for our second midterm in o-chem? If you can believe it, it was lower than the average for the first bio midterm. It was an astonishing 49%. Yep. That's the lowest I've seen it in any class. Somehow someone still managed to get like a high score of a 97%. Phooey. Well, there are always those people. Kinda like I predicted, I didn't do as well on the second midterm although compared to the class average a B is still pretty good without the curve. So the part that is annoying is that she seriously curved the B's and C's: 60-79 was a B, 40-59 was a C and she did nothing with the A's. Like from the last midterm 80-100 was still an A even though the class average fell by at least 10%. I don't know, you can argue with me that an A shouldn't be curved down, only people who really work hard should get it and then everyone else can get B's and C's but if you're going to curve down the B's and C's I think you should curve down the A's too. It seems that it's a trend here in science classes that in most of them 80 and above is about an A range and it is expected that the class average be around 50%-60%. It is also expected that they rarely curve down the A's below 80. Oh well. Perhaps I will get lucky and there are some mistakes on the grading on my test and I can earn a few extra points. Current Mood: contemplative (Comment on this)
Monday, November 12th, 2007
4:32 pm	It's my bday! This weekend has been so stressful. More so then it should on a bday weekend. Today was the first day I finally got to get everything done and relax. Thank goodness for a three-day weekend. Wish me luck on midterms. I'm so happy I finally got to be with family, it really puts me back in balance. (2 Comments |Comment on this)