As stressful and ridiculous as this semester has been, I think I actually managed to do well on my finals...:D Never ever EVER again will I be taking three lab courses in a semester, especially when one of them is organic chemistry. EVER.

What do you do when you just found out that one of your friends is in jail for sexual assault?

Remember, remember, the 5th of November...

Today I found out that I can still graduate on time, something that I didn't think was going to happen. If I take 5 classes next semester, Anatomy and Physiology over the summer, 4 classes in the fall, and 5 more next spring, I can walk with the rest of my class. Thank God...I need to start doing something with my life, and I can't wait to do either Americorps or City Year before PA school.

Definitely waking up in the hospital at 6 in the morning to discover that after drinking cheap tequila I was unconscious, my roommate walked on me throwing up everywhere, I got carried out of my room in an ambulance, and I had no memory of the past 4 hours. Never ever ever will that be happening ever again.

RIP King of Pop...your achievements were legendary and will be sorely missed.

I am officially done with this school year...woohoo! My last choir concert of this year is Friday and the parental units and potentially the sibs are coming for that and then we're making the trek back home after graduation on Saturday. I can't believe how fast college is going by...I wish high school had gone by faster and this would last longer. Between two new tattoos, two new piercings, one hospital visit after my first encounter with tequila, and lots of new friends (especially my ever-so-fabulous little), this year definitely had its moments. This summer will be fantastic, from going to NY twice and the beach every week to just getting a break from everyone at school. Hopefully this summer will be amazing, and I see no reasons as to why it would not be.

I love being a Big. I miss mine very much, but having a Little makes it a lot better. But I need to work on my time management skills, because if I get any C's next year med school won't happen. And God knows that after all the shit I went through with that this year, that's what I truly want to do...let's hope I learn how to stop sleeping all the time and start studying.

So. Tennessee is a pretty cool place, especially when the hotel you're staying at looks like it has a rainforest growing in it. Free shit is also an added plus...NACA is a pretty cool place. My new tattoo's ink is rejecting...apparently I can't handle 2 tattoos in 4 months or blue ink. It sucks because all I have left is the black outline...there's no blue or white ink left in it. Stupid tattoo. My immune system isn't helping either...being sick and being on antibiotics is making it even worse. Sigh. Now it looks like I'm going to have to go home for spring break with a not fully healed (or fully colored). At least I get to go home...New Jersey and New Hampshire and RI and NYC here I come!

Everyone on campus being sick + me getting sick + nose ring = not the most fun in the world. All of my muscles are sore from aerobics class, I have a bio test tomorrow that's basically a shit ton of memorization, and I thought that today was Thursday and that Bones was on...nope, still Wednesday. Sigh.

I'm glad to know that for as little as I'm home and that as little as I get to see people from home, I can still rely on a few of them and talk when we get the chance and while things have changed, we're totally comfortable just picking it up from where we left off. That's how friendships should be. I have my best friend, one of my closest friends, and another good friend that I graduated with that I can still call and hang out with and talk to when I'm actually home. While it's not a lot, it's enough for me. :)

Nose piercings are fun...except I forgot how much I hate cleaning the stupid things every day. Tattoos are 10 times easier to take care of.

I hate finals. And staying up till 4:30 writing a paper. And then not studying for that final because you were up till 4:30 writing the stupid paper. And having an organic final that is going to kill me. At least I'm home Thursday...I think I'd die otherwise.

Somehow, it's finally the last week of classes. Which means that I only have 3 more classes, one more lab, and a final left in organic before I can finally give up on it forever till next semester. Hopefully, I'll pass. If I am extremely lucky, I might end up with a C-. If this happens, I might not have to take it over again next year. There would be no better Christmas present than that, especially now that I know what I want to do in the future (at this point in time) has nothing to do with organic chemistry and everything to do with playing with diseases like Ebola and smallpox in high security areas and researching them. How cool would it be to do bioweapons research?

I carved the sickest pumpkin ever last night and I am ridiculously proud of it.







Yep. I carved the freaking Joker and am damn proud.

Dear organic chemistry, why do you have to suck so ridiculously bad? My lab reports are always late, I don't understand anything in class, and my professor absolutely sucks. I wish I could drop the class, but if I want to continue to have one of the hardest majors on campus, I unfortunately have to deal with this class. Thank God my stomach is basically back to normal now, because I'm going to be up till 2AM dealing with this and I'm hungry. And my Big is coming back tomorrow! I am so excited to see her again. I don't think I'm going to tell her about my little hospital visit this weekend...no one needs to tell her about that, although I'm sure someone's going to tell her that her Little ended up with alcohol poisoning. Sigh.

Dear keys, where are you? You have my room key and my school ID and my debit card and the last of my cash and birth control pills in you, and I cannot find you anywhere. Please make yourself available ASAP. Thanks.

Fall Break was not long enough. Given, we got 10 days off, but when it's spent going to doctors and getting MRI's and stuff it doesn't leave enough time for everything else. And they HAD to go and lose last night and put me in a miserable mood for probably this whole week...if someone decides to mention baseball, they might just get hit in the face. With an ice cream cone. Erin learned that the hard way last year after the Super Bowl...

When you have a spare hour, Google "The Most Hated Family in America". One of my friends made me watch it. It's a BBC documentary about this family in Kansas that absolutely hates gay people and thinks that anyone that either is gay or supports gay rights or basically anyone that doesn't belong to their 'church' and share their beliefs is going to hell. I know these people are out there, but I still can't believe that people really act like that. I absolutely can't believe it. These are also the people that picket the military funerals because they believe that they are all "fags" and that God is punishing them for being "fag lovers". I just absolutely can't get over it.

I am absolutely in love with my new tattoo. It took 3 hours of a hot needle digging into my skin, $190 dollars, and a lot of patience on all parts, but it is absolutely gorgeous and I wouldn't change it for anything.