Oh My..

Greetings from Seattle! Been visiting family for the past week. Very exciting, very exhausting. Since we've always lived WAY far away from family, whenever we're in town our time is completely absorbed with seeing people we don't know. Awkward. The plus side is that it's wonderfully warm compared to the weather in Boston! I love it! And for the first time I've really gotten to visit the city. It's strange that I lived in WA for 2 years and never really got to know how great Seattle is! My favorite in the US so far. Pictures and such to be posted when I get home.

On a different note I'm so excited to be here during the OLYMPICS!!!!! I have always loved watching them and generally do so religiously. Fortunately our trips tend to coincide with the Olympics so we can watch in our hotel room because we don't have cable at home. The only down side is the coverage on NBC. Fuck you NBC! It's absolute shite! I can't believe how terrible it is. So skewed to AMERICAN dominance and no continuous live coverage. It's especially torturous being so close to Canada, which has much better coverage, and I have no access to it.

Tonight I'm especially excited for the men's figure skating. I was a competitive figure skater for 8 years and I love the sport! It's so weird to see Evgeni Plushenko again since he was in his hay day years ago when I was still skating. I just wish the commentators would strangle themselves. Scott isn't so bad but that other ________ needs to die. Ergh! And on CTV Sale and Peltier are the commentators. Why couldn't they get someone of their caliber?! Bah! Well at least now I can go online later and find videos so I don't have to deal with NBC any longer.

Grammar shmammar

My grammar is abysmal at best. In 5th grade when they started whipping out the Grammar textbooks I decided I didn't really care about grammar and promptly began day dreaming. If you ask me to define an adverb or a preposition I am completely at a loss as to what they are. So new goal, learn grammar. Woo hoo! Being home means I have more materials to create my own curriculum so I introduce to you: The Deluxe Transitive Vampire!



My parents found it in a used book store at Pike Place Market. I love the pictures and the humor of the book so I'm hoping it'll keep my interest long enough to teach me what I should have learnt 10 years ago.

Daily Drabble

-ASOS boots have finally arrived after much anticipation. I am pleased to say that they look much nicer than the pictures, which is a relief. After ordering them I kept going back to the site and worrying that they look cheap.

-Have been toying around with the idea of making my own magazine just for fun. Something silly to occupy my time.

-For some reason I am unimpressed with the blogs coming from Boston. I don't know why, they're perfectly adequate. I guess that's it. I was hoping for something that would be a little different and have it's own Boston feeling. Most impressive blogger I've found so far is http://www.phosphenefashion.com

-Speaking of blogging I'm sort of at a loss as to what I want to do with my own blog. What I really want is balance. Perhaps I should structure the blog more to push myself to find new things.

A minor tragedy...

:(:(:(:( My laptop is broken. The screen is cracked to be specific. It happened when I was feeling bratty and hurled my phone at my bed. Apparently my aim was off I struck my laptop with great force. I've never had Karma be so instantaneous. So it is my fault and hopefully I can get it fixed, but until then I have to use my family laptop which is really old and laggy. My family always seems to pile all their crap on without any organization which is really frustrating. So I'm going to work on it and try my best to clean it up until I can get mine back. I miss my baby.

Current Read: Angela's Ashes

Wanting to feel a bit less like an idiot I grabbed the first book from my need to read pile which just happened to be Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. It's a good book and was surprisingly straight forward for an autobiography which often times I find to be disjointed and rambling. Another plus is that it's not heart wrenchingly depressing like I feared it would be. Mr. McCourt writes with great humor even though the circumstances he's discussing are quite dire. Haha! Already I'm starting to pick up on some of the word usage. I truly don't mean to but when I'm reading books I tend to absorb the language and start using it for short amounts of time. It often means that people haven't the vaguest idea of what I'm trying to say which can get really, really annoying. Good thing it's temporary or I'd always sound like the worst sort of poser.

If you have read Angela's Ashes you should check out Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska which is a very similar sort of story. It's about a family of polish immigrants growing up in the slums of New York.

Emetophobia

Lately I've been thinking of going to medical school. I've had many discussions with my father about what happens in medical school, watched a documentary about Harvard medical students, researched what it takes to get into medical school etc, and overall I'm very excited about the whole idea. There's only one little glitch in this whole plan, I'm pretty sure I have emetophobia, which is the fear of vomiting. I guess that's a bit over dramatic, I'll rephrase to I very INTENSELY dislike vomiting. Not that anyone LIKES it but I especially hate it, to the point of abandoning my little sister in fear (as in she was little and me literally running away from her). Not exactly a quality you want in a doctor. I've mentioned this to my dad before but he just brushes it aside and says that you become desensitized to those sorts of things. Hmm. I don't know if he realizes how much I really fear it. For example earlier today I was watching Super Size Me and I had to turn it off after he started throwing up, I wasn't even watching at the time but just the sound and knowing what was happening plunged me into a panic that I'm still trying to calm down from. At that moment I was completely ready to give up on all medical school plans and find a new occupation. Now that I have calmed down I know that I still want to pursue becoming a doctor, but I'm going to have to work really hard on either containing my fear or overcoming it so it doesn't effect me as a doctor.