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This is school. -J

Hey girly,

I've officially started WEEK 1 (whereas you're in what week 6?) and I have a test on Friday. Thank you quarter system. So I'm commuting this year (and living out of my car, which is still cleaner on the inside than yours, though the outside is pretty muddy), which means that I hang out in the library almost all morning, go to classes between the hours of 10 and 2 and then go to the lab in the afternoon. This quarter's classes: extremophiles, microbial physiology, introduction to playwriting and 2D art. Its really weird to be in art classes because the last time I had to think creatively like this was senior year of high school. It must be a senior thing for me, like hey I'm a senior, lets take an art class! So, maybe I'll put up some of my artsy fartsy stuff as the quarter goes along so you can suffer through my inability to draw with everyone else.

I can't believe that you even have time for a social life with all your classes and research work and sports and stuff and OMG THINGS!!!

Congrats on being more than tolerated. I've ALWAYS loved you. Its awesome to know that I knew you were cool and awesome before everyone else. I'm like an A-hipster.

No drama in my life, just school and work and sleep. I know, so much fun.

Sorry about Franklin, Chuck feels your pain.

THIS IS A POST! -A

This week is going to be week 4 of school for me and my teachers aren't pulling any punches... and neither is my social life! I ACTUALLY HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE! ALERT THE PRESSES!!!!!!!! After SOS, school started right away and, as I decided to take 5 upper div psych classes, take a practicum (research project with a professor), play lacrosse, join a bunch of student activities, and continue to work for SOS, my plate was a little full. Hence the lack of posts. So lets start with SOS. Apparently half of the 40 SOSers thought I was dating Jay, which freaked me the F out. So I kind of stopped hanging out with him to try to get some distance. But while I was at SOS, I made friends with both my upperclass coworkers and some baby freshmen, so everybody wanted to hang out with me. Being thought of as popular/cool/nice is weird... Anyways, so I have been invited to stuff and asked out and two separate friends of mine actually called me to ask me to come back to 2 different parties and it is really weirding me out because I have always just been accepted/tolerated, not welcomed. School has been great too. I love my classes/teachers, especially Forensic Psych, which I kind of told you about on FB. But school is school... I do have some very sad news though. My beloved ancient Mercedes, Franklin, was a victim of a cruel, cruel hit and run accident while I was driving him, so he is out of commission indefinitely. I AM SO SAD! and pissed.

Anywho, this should be enough for now. I have friend drama and other deets to spill, but that can wait...

How is your life?

Weirdness -J

So yeah. I like your BC pic. Those PANTS!!!

I'm dropping my brother off at college and AFROTC training this week. It feels like I'm sending him away to camp, except instead of picking him up from it in two weeks and having him come home and stay there, he'll be there for the next like three months. My mom keeps crying like every 30 seconds. His dorms are really nice. He's in a double (because thats all they have). He shares a bathroom with five other guys. AND they have their own suite hang out room (just for the six of them) complete with couches, a TV, and a fully functional kitchen with a stove, fridge, and microwave. Plus he's like 500 feet from the dining hall.

Can't wait to hear how all your boy problems are going.. :P

My mom keeps trying to find me a husband here.. All the air force guys are short though..

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. -A

Sorry darling for not posting. I know we've been texting more lately and I swear I have stuff TO post. It's just that I've been really busy and work has been tuckering me out since I've been working like 12 hour days. I'll try to post on this Sunday or next Sunday... Sundays are my days off. In the meantime, have my new favorite picture of Benedict. He is just so adorable. AND THOSE PANTS...

You Might Just Be A Saint -J

AND MAY I, J, BESTOW UPON YOU, A, BOUNTIFUL READINGS?

]I swear. You go like at most two days without posting and I'm on your ass, but you give me three weeks without so much as mentioning it.

So things have been busy and not working as planned. But that's biology. Always doing what you don't want it to do. Work has been good, eight to nine hour days waiting for bacteria to grow and DNA to multiply. Now that I've written it and said it out loud, to anyone not a biologist, that's going to sound very sad and lonely (but I know you'll understand MY fascination with it, even if its not your cup of british tea). So my bacteria start out growing the way they're supposed to (you know by growing) and then when they are supposed to start dying THEY KEEP GROWING! Its annoying. I keep trying to kill them AND THEY WON'T DIE!!! I'm not looking at vitamin uptake and integration, I'm breeding super-bacteria! Its nice working on the beach because I get to watch everyone else do fun summer vacation things, like sail, or surf, or you know, just relax on the beach, from my fourth floor window. I really need to play hookey.

So now for the fun stuff. I went on a date. With a platonic friend. He's the one with a girlfriend in every city (or at least used to be). But he paid for lunch so that makes it a date (according to my dad). We hung out for a bit and talked about exes a totally non-awkward conversation that rapidly turned into talking about sex drives, which quickly became awkward considering we were sitting in a restaurant with about 50 other people (and NO, I'm not entirely sure how we made that transition). Now that sounds really pathetic. A month of working forty hour work weeks and a platonic date :/ I should probably get out more.

Jack is adorable as always. He's been sleeping curled up next to me, which means that two hours into me sleeping, he's sprawled out across the middle of my bed trying to take up more room than his eleven pounds should allow (I mean, he's like a snack for your dogs, he shouldn't be able to push me out of my bed, like yours do).

My brother is leaving for college and Air Force boot camp in three weeks. It's kind of scary to think about him not being home. I know that he's going to have fun and that I won't be crying like my mom will be when we drive away (because he's promised to at least text me once a week so that I know he's still alive). But its still weird to think that the next time I may see him (after august 19th) is for winter break..

My knees have been acting up again (surprise!). Now that its been hypothesized that my pain is a result of the lack of part of my femur (and result instability) they won't give me any more drugs (so I'm raiding my mothers) and they put me back in PT (my favorite).. I hate my physical therapist. I'm sure that he would be a perfectly nice human being any other time, but because he chose this profession and because he had the misfortune of being assigned to me, I can't stand him. Apparently I have no "active muscle strength" whatever that means.. and so I get to do all these exercises that make my knees hurt worse. BUT he told me not to do anything that made my knees hurt more than 1-2 points (on a scale of 10) more than they already do (so I don't go above a 7).. Seeing as my knees are currently at a 9, I guess this means I don't have to do my exercises today :P So I can't consistently do them because doing them makes my knees hurt. So I'll do my exercises for a day or two and then spend three recovering and trying to not cry when I have to stand up. But my surgeon won't even think about doing anything to fix it until my PT guy has told him that I have reached the point in strengthening stuff that my pain should be gone but isn't.. THAT was depressing.

BTW, thanks for the update on Benedict's Birthday. I would have hated to have missed out on all that wonderful Sherlock inspired banter.

I know I love you more than I love Sherlock!

Hope this makes up for all my delaying.

Patience is a virtue. -A

And I have developed it waiting for your posts. And I might love you more than I love Sherlock.

Hugs and poodles, A

Soon. -J

I promise.

I'll do a real post really really soon.

Things have been busy. And not just in the "I'm busy working in the lab way"

I love you more than I love minions, which is saying a lot.

YOU ARE INSANE. -A

First off, I am supa dupa excited about DM2. I might see it tomorrow. Or Tuesday. I was supposed to see it Friday, but my friend flaked out. I just really want to see it...

Your life seems utterly insane, but lowkey fun. If you didn't want to be doing this, you would be a psych major like me or something, so stop with your whining, missy. But I'm sorry about your insane work schedule/freaked out mom. My mom thinks I'm antisocial or agoraphobic because once I'm home for the day, I'm home so I totally get where you are coming from.

As for my summer life, this has been the most relaxed summer ever. I got an A in speech after ACING my final 2 speeches and final and am currently killing it in abnormal psych (which is like the O-Chem of the psych department, but I have a 100% in it right now). I don't have a job or full-time collegiate sport to worry about, so I have seen more friends and done more things than I ever have in a summer. But, due to me not being outside in the pool all the time, I am actually Vitamin D deficient. Yes, that means I'm lacking the D. Feel free to giggle.

I have been spending quite a bit of time with Jay, the guy I mentioned a while ago. Like we hung out for over 12 hours one day last week alone and have plans to hang out all day again at least once next week. Also, EVERYBODY, and I mean EVERYBODY, is convinced he has a crush on me, from the girl at GameStop who thought I was his girlfriend to our mutual friends at school who think he is like in love with me or some shit like that. I have also been spending time with people I knew from high school, which has been a fun little trip down memory lane, except for that one night where I saw my ex 2 times in one night, which was a little weird. Oh well, at least I looked hot.

I have been making new friends (i know... shocker right) and spending time with them too. I went to one of my friends 22nd birthday party last week and ended up hooking up with a 25 year old, which was weird because he has like a career and shit and I'm still over here talking about finals and course schedules.

Basically, I have been hanging out with everybody except for you. (commence guilt trip... <3)

So other than hanging out with friends and killing it in summer school, my life has been boring. I have been watching so much TV and reading a ton though. In fact, I bought the standard reference book that the APA uses and am learning about all of these fun psych disorders. Oh and I'm still researching grad schools, which still depresses me

But on an interesting development, one of my lacrosse teammates wants to back me for captain next year and thinks I should campaign to be captain, which is extremely flattering and kind of incredible.

Re your knees: If you want to see my knee guy who works with all of the superstar athletes and shit like that in LA and your insurance will let you see him, you can come up and stay with us for a weekend or something to see him.

Can we please skype soon?

Miss your face. AND WUV YOU!!!!!!!

#psych nerd #miss you

I'm Back!!! -J

And in time for more minions! (Yay DM2!)

I'm so sorry its been so long. Work has been taking up so much time. I finished finals on a Friday, moved home Saturday, and started work on Monday. I've been working 8-9 hour days five days a week since. So yeah.. things have been a little hectic.

Happy Belated Congratulations on your grade and your speech. I hope your summer resolutions and summer school classes are going well.

Since I've been working non-stop my weeks have been crazy and I've been mainly sleeping and browsing the internet, which drives my mother crazy to no end.

What have you been up to other than fun summer class stuff?

UPDATE: a new update (obviously) on the fun stuff happening in my knees.. Turns out that I'm missing part of my femur, you know the inside part that helps to stabilize your joint and hold your kneecap in place. So because I don't have this, my ligaments (ACL, PCL, MCL) are all worked super hard to keep my knees from dislocating every time I put weight on the joints. Unfortunately, there's really nothing surgical that my ortho thinks we can do, so he's sent me back to PT for the rest of the summer (for which I hate and don't think that it will work). So you know, fun stuff.

LOVES YOU!

One quick update on my prior post... -A

MY PROFESSOR CHANGED MY GRADE!!!! I was right. The only reason I got such a low grade was because she announced something during a class that I wasn't there for because I was having a test for her class proctored in another room. So yay! I don't have to retake it... She was going to change it to a B-, but redid her math and decided to give me a C+. I don't care... Cs get degrees.

#cs get degrees

Potpourri. Like the Jeopardy category. -A

Today I gave an 8 minute and 30 second speech on organ donation. And I rocked that shit. Of course, I finished the speech at 8:45 this morning and my class starts at 9 so I was slightly 10 minutes late.

I am finally cleaning my room/unpacking all the San Diego stuff and throwing most of it away. Which makes me incredibly sad, but kind of happy at the same time because it is kind of like I am moving on, past that (mostly) awful chapter in my life (meeting you wasn't an awful part), but it still means I'm letting go of a lot of stuff that I have been carrying around with me for years (metaphorically of course... I'm not a bag lady).

I unfairly got a C- in my psych class and I successfully argued with my professor (who is also my adviser so she likes me) to take a look again at her gradebook for me. So I am just sitting here like a bump on a log typing away to you waiting anxiously for our meeting. Because if she doesn't change it, I will be royally screwed since I would have to retake it. Like there is NO reason I should have gotten so low of a grade. So fingers crossed yeah?

So my 3 "summer resolutions" were 1. clean my room (which I am working on), 2. be more social (which I am doing), and 3. exercise regularly again starting the beginning of June (which I had to delay until after tomorrow when I finish my class). I know that I can't keep New Years Resolutions because a year is a really long time for me, so I do semester and summer resolutions.

What are your plans for the summer? and do you possibly want to come up the weekend of June 20th if you have nothing else planned? My parents are going to be out of town with my sister at a wedding in Morro Bay and I dont wanna be lonely. Plus we could do Pinterest crafts and recipes and shit. If not, it's cool. Just an idea.

Okay now I'm rambling so I need to cut myself off, get this damn meeting over with, go to Roscoes Chicken and Waffles with one of my best guy friends from high school (Shaye... I think I mentioned him before), and get some damn sleep!

Miss your face. Good luck on finals.

Fine. -J

Here. I know. Its been forever. Things have been busy. But since you complained on other social media outlets I'll come back.

My knee is still screwed up. Nobody has any idea of what to do with me. My last doctor a "brilliant" orthopedic surgeon who graduated top of his class from UCSF had the genius idea to send me to another doctor so he didn't have to deal with anything. He didn't even want to take an MRI, told me to start walking on it even though I'm maxing out on major painkillers. IDIOT! So I got him to let me get an MRI and now I get to see another doctor.. and in the meantime I get to destroy my liver with drugs! YAY!

I survived the first round of midterms and am about to enter the second round.. you know, lots of fun. But ADA is carting me around campus because this lazy butt can't walk so I get dropped off at the door of everywhere I need to go.

Sorry you're in pain too. We're such a pair <3

Glad you're kicking butt in school. Even on narcs.

I know that the Clippers and Blake are more your thing, but I still miss them with you too..

I don't have anything left to tell you.

Kisses and Kittens, J.

Kidney Stones and Clippers. -A

I never realized how hard it was to get work done while on narcotics. I have already missed a paper and have a huge quiz to do... but I can't do it because I have another GODDAMN KIDNEY STONE and am on meds again. It hurts so bad. And its not like ice or heat helps. So I just have to grimace and bear it.

But the Clippers game was awesome... Box seats, playoffs, and an extremely thrilling win in the last seconds. Not to mention Blake. Only thing that would have made the day better is if you were there... so sad.

I've been kicking ass in school lately, but if this dks (damn kidney stone) doesn't go away, I won't be.

I had something else to tell you, but I forgot.

Hugs and puppies, A

Thanks for Skipping Me -J

I know I've been busy but surely you knew that I was going to get around to replying.. now I have to write more!

First. Glad you survived all your papers and tests and such. I am just about to enter such a period.. almost week 4!

Second. I'm glad your friend is ok. I have a couple of friends that were out there and some of whom were leaving their place [10 miles away] to go watch the end. Fortunately they are ok too.

No worries about me making it through any marathons. If I ever decide to do such a thing in a state of madness, there is no way I would ever be able to make it anywhere the end. There are some very angry, very screwed up people in the world and I am glad to say I don't know any of them personally.

Glad you got some girl time. I went out to dinner with one of my friends last week.. my dad says its a date because he paid, even though there is absolutely nothing going on between us romantically.. lame date.

In the grand scheme of things I think that your roof rat is just fine.. think of it as a nightly reminder that you are here [slowly becoming an insomniac] and that you have so much more than many others..

wow that ended really self-righteously.

Go throw a puppy in the pool.

So I was feeling chipper... and then Boston. -A

Today, one of my friends who I have known the longest ran in her first full marathon. It was the Boston marathon. She's all right and all, but still... it made me depressed and kind of pissed off when I started to think about the fucking sickos who would bomb such a happy, innocent activity as the finish line of one of the most famous marathons in the world. (At least I don't have to worry about you, my broken bestie, running in a marathon).

But then I got boba and had a nice long girl chat with 2 of my favorite people at Marymount, Yvette and Elysia. Yvette and I are so similar, it's creepy. Except for the fact that she is Salvadorian and about 6 inches shorter than me and we look nothing alike. But personality wise, we are both too sassy for our own good and tell it like it is way too much. And Elysia is just like a teddy bear. So that was a lovely distraction from my lugubrious (great word, btw. my word of the day) thoughts, even just for a time.

But school is great, my family/puppies are awesome as usual (except for my alcoholic aunt who is a menace to my grandparents), and my social life is meh so I have nothing to be ungrateful for so I am just focusing on the good things in life.

But we have a damn roof rat, so I hear the little pitter-patter of rodent feet above my head every night which is creepy at best. But at least I have a roof over my head.

Sorry if this is a kind of random post. My thoughts are kind of scattered today.

#prayforboston #lucky

You know I'm stressed when Cumberbatch doesn't calm me. -A

This post is going to be short because I have had/will have research papers on top of tests on top of oral reports on top of quizzes on top of reflection essays for the next few weeks. I already turned one paper in, but this next month is basically 8th week of a semester stretched out into a month.

Exhaustion, all nighters, and naps have already started and I see no end in sight.

Maybe this weekend I'll catch you up, but right now I need to act like I'm a good student for once in my life.

Hugs and Bunnies, A

#Cumberbitches

Hijinks -J

So instead of hiding in the basement of Geisel to avoid the incoming freshies [today is admit day], I got to go home.. and then urgent care because I wasn't taking my backpack filled with textbooks to urgent care. Guess who did something to screw up her knee again!?! And guess who has no idea whats causing it?!? The doctors are thinking that it might be a ligament problem [ACL being their best bet right now] so they ordered x-rays to see if there were any problems with my bones [I don't follow that logic either, my dad says it has to do with procedure and insurance]. I also got some really really good painkillers so while I'm on those, I'm a happy camper.

Congrats on academic clearance. You are a nerd, but a better nerd than me. People don't mind if you start to go psych nerd on them.. the reaction if you start in on microbial genetics of molecular microbio is less than friendly.

Well you figure out what you can do for sungod and then let me know.

Maybe you'll like the girls better after you haven't had to be around them for some odd period of time. Or not. I think you just like to collect bruises. So sadist?

I miss you toos.

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