I start summer school this weekend and will be attending classes almost every weekend of this summer until August 1st. This program I'm enrolled in is geared toward working professionals, which is why classes are held on weekends as opposed to weekdays. Since I'm enrolled to take 4 classes this summer, I can no longer work my usual Saturday and Sundays in the pharmacy. In addition, with the huge budget cut, my boss can't schedule me on weekdays. What I'm left with is being on call, just in case someone calls in sick or chooses to take a personal day off. I actually get a lot more hours this way than you'd think. Last week I was called in on Tu, Wed. This week I was called in on Wed. The only down side to being on call is that I have to drop everything that I'm doing and rush from LA to the Costa Mesa/Irvine area which usually takes about 1 hour, not taking into account the time is takes for me to get dressed.
Yesterday morning I woke up late, and started to watch some Korean dramas and was eating chips when my pharmacist friend texted me "Tech called in sick, can you work today?" As I was contemplating whether I should ruin my relaxing day to work to pay off my debt, I decided that I would do the more responsible thing. After I got off with him on the phone, he said it'd be great if I could get there in about an hour. I rushed, but even then, it took me 1.5 hours before I got to the store. The rest is history, working tirelessly and even staying over 30 minutes to help clean up the pharmacy. Boy, do I hate chain pharmacies. They increasingly cut hours and expect us to keep performing at an insane standard. Hopefully, I won't ever have to work in one after graduation.
It’s been such an eventful few weeks and I haven’t updated anything at all. To recap I’ll post a few pics of each event. I’ll be brief, that way I can carry you through the last 4 weeks of my life without wasting so much of your precious time :P
Banquets Galore
In pharmacy school, there’s one thing to always look forward to at the end of the year, extravagant and lavish banquets thrown by each student organization.
Phi Delta Chi Centennial Banquet at the Westin Bonaventure in downtown LA.
VAPSA banquet at the Trump Gold Resort in Palos Verdes
EIF Revlon run/walk 5K on 5-9-09
This was at the LA Memorial Coliseum
Wango Tango 5-9-09
At the Verizon Amphitheatre in Irvine
Getty outing with my PDC brothers on 5-12-09
Yuki’s (my pharmacist) wedding on 5-16-09
The wedding was at the Heritage Museum in Santa Ana. It was a very cute country-like wedding. :P
That’s it for my updates for now. I’ve grown tired of writing as of the moment, but that’s because I’ve consumed myself with work and fun activities. Also, I haven’t had one of those light bulb moments of realization lately and therefore have nothing deep to write about :P
It’s been a quite busy lately. I finished my last final on Monday morning! I had my final presentation today (Thursday). Afterwards, Mariah met up at my school. She took the tram from the main campus to the health sciences campus. We went to Target, got some cooking supplies to make tuna helper. We later got home, got to cooking and then went to my 2:30 hair appointment. Lok did another great job. I’ll have to write an entry on him separately at another time. In short, he’s been the only stable hair designer I’ve ever had in my entire life. This was the 4th time that I’ve gone to see him and I like what he does with my hair every time. Afterwards, we visited Phuong, who was at John and Pepsi’s place watching their dog Lucky since they are currently out of town. I passed out for an hour or two and then met up with Andrei and Denita at Noodle World for dinner. Afterwards, we all ended up at Cue Studios and took a set of sticker pictures. I still have to scan them. They’ll be up soon.
This weekend is going to be super busy. My Pharmacist is going to get married this Saturday! I’m going to go find her a gift tomorrow at South Coast. Ok I’ll be back soon with more updates. I have yet to post my pics of the Run/Walk which took place last Saturday and Wango Tango which was later that same day. Uh, this summer is starting out to be extremely eventful :P
My body shivers when I listen to “C’mon Through” by Lasse Lindh from the Soulmate soundtrack. I guess I really connected with the drama.
It’s 8:07am right now and in a couple of hours I’ll be in the classroom taking my Therapeutics IV final. This will be the hardest final and after this I’ll have an easy one to study for on Monday. I’m really excited.
Saturday is the EIF Revlon run/walk and in the evening, I’ll be going to Wango Tango. Pics to come :P
Yay, BS finals down. Now to get down to the real deal.
I can’t get this song out of my head. The Fray’s “You Found Me.”
“I found God, on the corner of 1st and Amistad…Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me.”
With the advice of a friend, I applied to an internship that’s related to Regulatory Science up in Norcal for the summer. It’s for an internship at a small biomedical company researching some type of heart valve that’s currently in clinical trials. Given that getting into the industry field is going to be incredibly tough, it’d be nice to get some experience before I graduate. Next summer, the competition for internships will only get worse as it will be the time when the majority of the students in the program will be applying.
It’s been nearly 4 days now since I’ve applied. Still crossing my fingers. The only bad thing is that it’s in Santa Rosa. They haven’t exactly discussed the topic of room and board yet, but I’m guessing that students will be responsible for it entirely. I think that’d absurd considering that it’s in a foreign area and most students wouldn’t have any contacts up there. I checked on google maps the other day and it’s about 1 hour west of Napa, and 1 hour north of SF. My friend told me I’d be bored out of my mind, but I guess sometimes you just have to sacrifice a bit to get what you want. Sacrifice would be an understatement though, since leaving LA would mean missing 3 concerts that I’ve already bought tickets for (Kelly Clarkson, Incubus, and No Doubt). It also means taking 4 summer school classes online on the weekends after working. It’s way to say to predict what will happen though. I need to stop overanalyzing things and just go with the flow.
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