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commotiocordis) wrote2007-03-30 02:22 am
commotiocordis) wrote2007-03-30 02:22 am
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So. Internet's been down since early Wednesday, no idea why. Just came back on late this evening. The most annoying bit was that the entire time, the DSL box thingie said it was okay.
Mock trial tomorrow. I find that I don't care at all. In fact, I'm rather pissed about it. I feel like it's cutting off the last days of my vacation. But get this. We've got to go two rounds, one Friday evening and one on Saturday. I figured the one on Saturday would be at a civilized hour. But no. After a week of sleeping poorly (my allergies have been hell these past two weeks, getting worse any time I try to lie down) and not going to bed until 3 or 4 and getting up around noon, I'm supposed to be downtown by 7:45 in the morning? Meaning I'd have to leave home prolly around 7:00 because it takes about half an hour and that time sounds to me like right around rush hour, no? WTF? I don't want to do this in the first place because I'm tired of the case (because it sucked to begin with) and I don't feel like we deserved to make it this far at all. We're only in because some other team dropped out and that cheapens it somehow. The season was supposed to be over in February, we've gone two trials past normal and now we're expected to do this horrible case for two more? It's also futile, not only because we're a totally new team to this (nobody from our school's ever made it to regionals, let alone state, I believe) but because everybody hates the case and is as tired of the whole thing as I am. Plus, I've got a new lawyer for when I'm being a witness and a new witness for when I'm being a lawyer, neither of whom I have practiced with more than once.
Well, shit. I had counted on time on Saturday morning/afternoon to memorize my questions and other lawyery stuff again. Because nobody's touched this in two weeks minimum because we didn't practice over break. In fact, we've only practiced once since regionals (again, because everybody's tired of it) and that was what, three weeks ago? I dunno. I don't like having to do it because stretching it out so long is all but killing it for me.
My face is being a whore. I don't know if perhaps it's from the general allergies that have been killing me lately (though nothing like that's ever happened before) but it's like the entire thing's sunburned. And it's most definitely not, as the only times I've left the house this week have been for a couple of quickish runs to the store. It feels all sensitive and weird. And my cheeks are so killer dry that right along the cheekbone they're bright red and actually all sunburny painful. And then I tried to put lotion stuff on the dry bits and the entire both sides of my face turned bright red and hot and painful and reaction-like. (Of course, this was right before minimed, so I imagine I looked quite entertaining with my hair pulled down in front of my face and bright red peeking out under it. Hurt like a bitch.) This wasn't lotion I'd ever used before, okay, so that's the problem. I tried to wipe off as much as I could in the car on the way to minimed, but no luck stopping/slowing the reaction. It was gone by the time I got home (but the red painful cheekbones weren't) and I tried some moisturizer stuff I had used before and had no problem with, and even as I stood there in front of the mirror my face started to turn red again. I was able to wipe that off quickly enough that it didn't last long, thankfully. But it's bothersome. I don't get why my face is being so sensitive and annoying. You'd think with the anti-histamine stuff I've been taking lately before bed that I would be less likely to have something like this happen, no? Odd.
Minimed was interesting. Bariatric surgery, which I didn't think was at all interesting but ended up being rather intriguing, especially when the doctor lady showed video of an actual lap-band surgery. Which was wicked. But confusing, as the camera was close to whatever was being worked on and it was hard to get a grasp of the big picture with it so close. (I kept being all "So that's the stomach. No, no, liver. That's the stomach? Over in that corner? Umm, okay. Not what they're working on? No? Ahh, they're cutting the hepatogastric ligament. But isn't that, err, helpful in the whole peritoneal membrane thing? No big problems with hernia after? Okay. Whatever you say." I think I needed more explanation than the lady was giving as she narrated along with the video and answered completely random questions at the same time.) The second guy had an interesting title for his lecture (The Hot Zone: Pediatric Infectious Disease), but from that I expected cool diseases that were life-threatening and, you know, cool, especially after hearing that he worked with the Center for Disease Control. Instead it was all about vaccines. He was very much of the opinion that everybody should get vaccines all the time. Which is interesting, because I've been hearing a lot of anti-vaccine stuff from my parents all of a sudden lately. But he wasn't nearly as good of a speaker as the first presenter was, unfortunately. I would have liked to see him with children, as he seemed rather timid the entire time, which I thought could simply be explained by his having to talk in front of people, but he was the same way when I came up after to ask a question.
But then my ride was 30 minutes late and I had to stand outside the building which was annoying and not altogether comfortable as it was downtown at almost 10pm and dark (though the sidewalk I was standing on was lit, thankfully).
Oh, and what the hell is up with the weather? It was 83 degrees-of-the-F-persuasion on Tuesday afternoon. 76 or so tonight at 7pm. It's March, for frak's sake, and we had to turn on the bloody air conditioning on Tuesday. Which is undoubtedly why my allergies have been working overtime lately. Not fun, I say. Not fun at all.
Mock trial tomorrow. I find that I don't care at all. In fact, I'm rather pissed about it. I feel like it's cutting off the last days of my vacation. But get this. We've got to go two rounds, one Friday evening and one on Saturday. I figured the one on Saturday would be at a civilized hour. But no. After a week of sleeping poorly (my allergies have been hell these past two weeks, getting worse any time I try to lie down) and not going to bed until 3 or 4 and getting up around noon, I'm supposed to be downtown by 7:45 in the morning? Meaning I'd have to leave home prolly around 7:00 because it takes about half an hour and that time sounds to me like right around rush hour, no? WTF? I don't want to do this in the first place because I'm tired of the case (because it sucked to begin with) and I don't feel like we deserved to make it this far at all. We're only in because some other team dropped out and that cheapens it somehow. The season was supposed to be over in February, we've gone two trials past normal and now we're expected to do this horrible case for two more? It's also futile, not only because we're a totally new team to this (nobody from our school's ever made it to regionals, let alone state, I believe) but because everybody hates the case and is as tired of the whole thing as I am. Plus, I've got a new lawyer for when I'm being a witness and a new witness for when I'm being a lawyer, neither of whom I have practiced with more than once.
Well, shit. I had counted on time on Saturday morning/afternoon to memorize my questions and other lawyery stuff again. Because nobody's touched this in two weeks minimum because we didn't practice over break. In fact, we've only practiced once since regionals (again, because everybody's tired of it) and that was what, three weeks ago? I dunno. I don't like having to do it because stretching it out so long is all but killing it for me.
My face is being a whore. I don't know if perhaps it's from the general allergies that have been killing me lately (though nothing like that's ever happened before) but it's like the entire thing's sunburned. And it's most definitely not, as the only times I've left the house this week have been for a couple of quickish runs to the store. It feels all sensitive and weird. And my cheeks are so killer dry that right along the cheekbone they're bright red and actually all sunburny painful. And then I tried to put lotion stuff on the dry bits and the entire both sides of my face turned bright red and hot and painful and reaction-like. (Of course, this was right before minimed, so I imagine I looked quite entertaining with my hair pulled down in front of my face and bright red peeking out under it. Hurt like a bitch.) This wasn't lotion I'd ever used before, okay, so that's the problem. I tried to wipe off as much as I could in the car on the way to minimed, but no luck stopping/slowing the reaction. It was gone by the time I got home (but the red painful cheekbones weren't) and I tried some moisturizer stuff I had used before and had no problem with, and even as I stood there in front of the mirror my face started to turn red again. I was able to wipe that off quickly enough that it didn't last long, thankfully. But it's bothersome. I don't get why my face is being so sensitive and annoying. You'd think with the anti-histamine stuff I've been taking lately before bed that I would be less likely to have something like this happen, no? Odd.
Minimed was interesting. Bariatric surgery, which I didn't think was at all interesting but ended up being rather intriguing, especially when the doctor lady showed video of an actual lap-band surgery. Which was wicked. But confusing, as the camera was close to whatever was being worked on and it was hard to get a grasp of the big picture with it so close. (I kept being all "So that's the stomach. No, no, liver. That's the stomach? Over in that corner? Umm, okay. Not what they're working on? No? Ahh, they're cutting the hepatogastric ligament. But isn't that, err, helpful in the whole peritoneal membrane thing? No big problems with hernia after? Okay. Whatever you say." I think I needed more explanation than the lady was giving as she narrated along with the video and answered completely random questions at the same time.) The second guy had an interesting title for his lecture (The Hot Zone: Pediatric Infectious Disease), but from that I expected cool diseases that were life-threatening and, you know, cool, especially after hearing that he worked with the Center for Disease Control. Instead it was all about vaccines. He was very much of the opinion that everybody should get vaccines all the time. Which is interesting, because I've been hearing a lot of anti-vaccine stuff from my parents all of a sudden lately. But he wasn't nearly as good of a speaker as the first presenter was, unfortunately. I would have liked to see him with children, as he seemed rather timid the entire time, which I thought could simply be explained by his having to talk in front of people, but he was the same way when I came up after to ask a question.
But then my ride was 30 minutes late and I had to stand outside the building which was annoying and not altogether comfortable as it was downtown at almost 10pm and dark (though the sidewalk I was standing on was lit, thankfully).
Oh, and what the hell is up with the weather? It was 83 degrees-of-the-F-persuasion on Tuesday afternoon. 76 or so tonight at 7pm. It's March, for frak's sake, and we had to turn on the bloody air conditioning on Tuesday. Which is undoubtedly why my allergies have been working overtime lately. Not fun, I say. Not fun at all.