Technically, It's Thursday

Class was relatively painless today, although I'm pretty sure I drove around every street that is remotely near campus trying to find the elusive third bookstore where my lab manual was hiding.

I think I gave a lot of people road rage today.

I'm still job searching like it's my....job....
I've become increasingly aware that I not only want, but more like need a hospital job here. I just keep thinking about how good last summer was for me up at the hospitals in Lafayette, and I know I need that sort of thing again here for several reasons, not the least of which is to get my mind off of less fun things.

In other news, I came up with some good ideas for the new place today. I think it's not going to take much for it to be a really great looking place. I'm excited to start the redecorating process. :)

In more news, I found a new favorite non-alcoholic beverage - white hot chocolate from the Caribou Coffee in the campus center. Delicious!! I don't even care that it's summer, I'm going to drink it anyway. It's amazing.

Bad Mood?

This weekend was....well, it was pretty emotional. Highs and lows.
Without getting into that....I drove to WL on Friday afternoon to continue packing up everything. Saturday was the Taste of Tippecanoe, and I have to say it was one of the best times of the summer so far. Great food, great weather, great people to be with. It was really crowded, which wasn't as annoying as it was amusing (counting the pregnant ladies, etc.). And the fireworks were pretty nice, too. On Sunday my little car was loaded up and I drove back to Indy. The experience of moving all of my stuff (aside from the furniture) myself has really made me realize how small my car is.

Just eight days until I officially get my new apartment! That's eight days too many. Tomorrow I get to go do a final walk-through of it, then next Tuesday sign the lease and attempt to figure out how I'm going to move everything in.

Ugh, moving. I hate it.

This morning, after about 4 hours of sleep, I woke up early to experience the joy of rush hour commuting....I mean, go to a meeting. The meeting went really well, which was very encouraging, then I had time to eat and go to the first day of physiology.

Let me just say that, as someone with a degree in neurobiology and physiology, I feel like this class is going to go by verrry slowly.
Or maybe I'm just in a bad mood today. I don't think it's going to be easy, but I don't think it's going to be particularly hard (despite the professors' threats). It's just going to be time consuming and right now all of that is something that I am not in the mood for.
The thought of opening a textbook and studying right now makes me want to go watch TV for an unneccessarily long time, or stare at the HGTV website and think about my upcoming redecoration projects.
On the bright (?) side, I've definitely thought this before on the first day of a class, yet I managed to graduate without failing any of them, so obviously it all works out in the end. My motivation is just temporarily lost.

I'm not really in the mood for much right now in general, I guess. Except maybe chocolate. And not studying.

So, this was entertaining.
Hope everyone else out there's having a better week so far.

Lazy Sunday

Ahh, second post of the day. Well, like the title says, I've been pretty lazy today.

Rohit left to get back to Cleveland this morning. It was nice to have him here for the weekend. I wonder when I'll get to see him and my other out of state/country friends again, since we're all moving on pretty soon. At least there's always Facebook. :)

Other than that, I haven't done too much. Sat around outside, chatted with my parents, showered.....nothing that could really be considered productive. I might actually get so bored that I start studying. It's just as well, though, considering I have those two final exams on Wednesday. Then no class on Thursday and anatomy is OVER! Onto the next class on Monday, though.

I got a call from the Red Cross today. Apparently they need nurses and EMTs to go around with their case workers and sort of translate some of the medical lingo and take care of basic medical-related needs. It sounds pretty interesting, so I'm going to stop by sometime this week and take care of the paperwork. Unfortunately, it's not a paid position, which I am still slightly desperately looking for. I just need to be making some more money, and preferably as soon as possible. I've applied so many places already....hopefully at least one of them will work out! I'm also planning on stopping by Riley and University Hospitals after class this week to talk with them. I think that would probably be the best possible place I could work, plus I know I'd really like it. But anyway, like I've said, we'll see.

OK, on to try to be somewhat productive....let's see if I'll end up with a third post of the day or not. :P

Should've Brought The Camera....

Even though all I really do is eat, sleep, go to class, and study Monday-Thursday, having that 3 day weekend every week really makes it all not so bad. :)

Friday I spent the afternoon at home, and around 7pm (just 2.5 hours late! but due to some crazy traffic) Rohit arrived from the far away land of Cleveland! We had dinner at Mudsocks Grill, a nice little local place just a couple of minutes from my parents' house.
After that, we went to The Cheesecake Factory for (what else??) cheesecake. As always, it was Amazing. God, I love that cheesecake. I really don't care how "unhealthy" it is. Something that good can't be entirely unhealthy. It's at least emotionally/psychologically healthy due to the happiness it brings me. But I digress.
After the cheesecake, we went to Blu Martini (no idea why the word "blu" is so popular at Indianapolis establishments....). I'd never been before but I heard it was a pretty good place. We both liked the atmosphere....Rohit said it reminded him of one of those martini bars you see on TV....but the crowd was a little odd; there were a lot of people in their 20s/30s, but then the addition of a noticeable amount of people who were probably too old to be in a place like that. Like guys with gray hair sitting by themselves, watching who knows who. Sorta weird. But other than that, seems like a place to go with a group of friends if you don't feel like driving out to Broad Ripple or downtown. Could do better in terms of a regular hangout or something though.

Saturday (today, but technically yesterday) we drove to downtown. It was definitely a day of street fairs in the area. In Carmel, they had the Artomobilia on Main Street, which seemed pretty cool although we didn't stop by. Downtown, there was the Talbot St. Art Fair, Italian Fest, the Pride Festival, and the Jazz Fest (lots of fests....).
I showed Rohit around campus a bit and then we walked along the canal for a while. Unfortunately those paddle boats you can rent are like $20 each and we were sort of hungry, so after some more walking around we got some food at a cafe and ate outside to the sounds of the bands warming up at the Jazz Fest not too far away. Perfect weather today!!
After that, we went to the mall and met up with Tripti for the whole reason for the weekend....the Sex and the City movie! :P (It's a long running joke for those of you who don't know...) The movie was....well, it was a Sex and the City movie....it's like the show, only longer. I liked it for what it was. :)
After the movie, we went to Rock Bottom for dinner and then walked around the city some more and I showed them my new building and neighborhood area.
Then Rohit and I went back to my parents' place to play Wii and watch Scrubs. :D

So, it's been a really fun and busy weekend. It's not over yet, but basically the rest of it is going to be spent studying for my final exams in anatomy on Wednesday! Two in one day! There just might be another Thursday night repeat after that....

On the job front, I'm hoping and praying to get something in a hospital soon. We'll see how things pan out!

Hope everyone else is having a nice weekend as well. Leave some comments so I know you stopped by! :)

First Night Out!

So I spent last night downtown, which I'd been looking forward to ever since my awesome anatomy lab partner Crystal and I had talked last week about hitting some bars and clubs after our exam.

After seeing a show at the IRT with my family. It was a musical, which is something pretty different for my family and I. We like to try some sort of show each year, but usually not a musical....I dunno, maybe I just don't get musicals. When I was younger I always got annoyed that people would interrupt the story to start singing a song.
But anyway, after the show I met up with Crystal and we decided to go check out the places on South Meridian. There are quite a few options all within the same little area, and we really didn't know what most of them were like, so we decided to just go check out whatever sounded interesting. We started out at Subterra Lounge. It's a pretty modern chic place - lots of deep oranges and reds with multicolored lighting under the glass plates that line some of the walls. Our problem there was that it was about 10:30pm, which means the crowds haven't picked up by then. According to the bartender (who was sort of nice), it had been a little slow there over the past couple of weeks on Thursday nights. Not sure why, but Crystal and I didn't have any Thursday night downtown experience yet anyway, so we didn't really know what to expect. After about an hour and a glass of wine later, we decided to go check out some other places.
We stopped by Have A Nice Day Cafe in hopes of dancing, but they had some sort of radio show contest thingy going on, so we decided to come back later and went back across the street to Blu. Of the places we went, I think Blu definitely had the best atmosphere and music. Unfortunately, also no dancing! We each got beers and were there until about midnight, when we figured the whole radio thing might be over and we might get to dance after all. So we went back to Have A Nice Day and, lo and behold, people were dancing! Hooray! Have A Nice Day is '70s themed and reminds me of the Cactus, but smaller and without the giant cups. It has a pretty fun lighted dance floor, which is what we came there for in the first place. The crowd was mostly college-aged people and others in their 20s, with a few older looking people in business suits who probably were a little too old to be there and probably didn't know it. Such is a bar, though. But we danced a lot and made new friends on the dance floor. :)
After a while and getting ridiculously hot from all the dancing, we decided to call it a night and walked the couple of blocks back to the car.

Overall, it was a lot of fun!!! :) Too bad I didn't bring my camera. Drinks were ridiculously expensive (at least where we got them), but we only paid $3 cover all night (@ Have A Nice Day). Crystal said she heard that everyone goes to Broad Ripple on Friday nights and downtown on Saturday nights, so we will definitely be testing out that theory a lot in the weekends to come! :D

New Neighborhood

Today after classes I drove over to my new building, parked the car somewhere (probably illegally) and walked around for a little while to see what I could find. I actually brought my camera this time!

View from the outer edge of campus

Driving out of campus towards the new place


A portion of Mass. Ave. just a block away

Hmm, brunch! Maybe they have brunner too?

My new home! I'll be up there near the top :)

Anyway, I have ridiculous amounts of studying to do for this exam tomorrow, so I should get to that.

Yay!

Got a 102% on the exam I had today, which made the day a lot better despite this gross weather.
Kicking ass and taking names! :)
Unfortunately I've got another one on Thursday, one next week, and two the week after that (on the same day!). Studying for exams still sucks every time, but at least I'm used to it by now.

I also got a chance to talk with Vicki on the phone tonight, which was so nice! We've been friends for about 10 years now, and no matter what we can always have great conversations. I can't wait until she gets back from her internship in PA and we can hit up some of the nightlife around here. Crystal (awesome lab partner) and I are also planning a night out sometime soon. On top of that, I had a chance to talk with a couple other friends tonight who I haven't had a chance to in a while....it's really good to connect with people.

After the exam, class, and dinner, I went to go see Iron Man with my dad. I liked it more than I thought I would! Next weekend Tripti and Rohit are coming here for Sex and the City! lol. I really can't wait for that!

Hopefully once I move into my apartment down here, I'll be able to actually go out around town more often. I definitely keep busy during the day, but at night lately I just really wish I'd brought an extra book to read from WL or could find the USB drive that I have all of my stories on (where the hell is that thing?!).

But either way, today's been a really good day :)