Carpe Noctem

Reevaluation

jennyclee — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:22:52 +0000

As I lay here waiting for the doggahs to get here to go to the park, I started thinking (always a bad idea). It’s fiscal yrs end ..an opportunity to think about what went wrong/right and who to hand out big fat bonus checks to. But really..it’s time to reevaluate/re-evaluate things: med school stuffs, relationships and the goals list that has been staring at me w/o anything crossed out since I made it. To date, I have probably only completed 2 things on the list: get a job and …oh yea i guess there’s only one thing accomplished. I haven’t even been able to cross off the ones that start out with “TRY TO…” or “THINK ABOUT…” I should’ve put “get healthy” on the list bc I’ve definitely made attempts. Since I quit bootcamp w/R I started going to the fitness classes at my apt complex, the first of which was SPIN CLASS. WHERE WAS MY WARNING?? I don’t think I could be in more pain…the reproductive areas aren’t doing so hot. Med school stuff isn’t doing so hot right either (which is also on my goals list)…I’m starting to get emails ab receiving my app but that means I won’t be interviewing til a lot later than expected, which def scares me a bit. I had originally planned on applying to a handful of schools OOS, but I haven’t even submitted anything for AMCAS…I just now finished the 2nd secondary app for TX. Total FAIL. Can you blame me? I worked 13 days in a row so all I wanted to do was sleep/eat/drink. Reevaluating relationships…that can always turn yucky…esp for those who don’t make the cut this yr. Not sure what to say about this one, other than thanks to all of my loves for being around all this time even tho i disappeared for a while this yr I have a newfound appreciation for relationships…yea yea yea u would all think i’d be the last person to say that. I was randomly talking to J ab this…why do girls always upgrade but guys never do??

sidenote: I’m so frikkin ecstatic D is moving back tomorrow…I can hardly contain my excitement !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sweet Summertime

jennyclee — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:44:46 +0000

4 weeks of bootcamp (minus 3 days bc of the hurricane/rain) is almost over and I’m only halfway to my goal. The hardest part isn’t even working out …it’s controlling what I eat. For example, today I had 2 choco chip cookie dough ice cream bars, chinese takeout, waffles/eggs/bacon, freebirds burrito and i currently have large fries sitting next to me. This weekend I had beer, sangria, pizza, cake and hot chocolate in 6 hrs. I’m almost tempted to put everything into a blender to see what it would taste like…it sounds more efficient than having to chew things up…haha jk that’s my lazy butt talkin.

Our trainer was telling us not to drink soy milk anymore bc it has too much estrogen…makes men impotent (no, I did not say IMPORTANT) and causes endometrial cancer in women. I’ve been drinking an excessive amt of it in the last 2 months and I swear it just makes ppl want to do bad things. So basically I’m just like any other guy. I knowingly make HORRIBLE decisions because sometimes I’m just a curious george…I wanna see if I’ll get in trouble for it. Instead of racing cars or doing drugs, this is my guilty pleasure and I can’t seem to shake it! Dr. Phil, what’s wrong with me?

Sidenote: If ur reading this, this is ur invite to schlitterbahn…sometime in aug (chubbs mc-chubster needs more time to fit into her swimsuit)…still figuring out when depending on ppl’s work schedules. im in dire need of a vacay …esp once everyone is done with apps. i would’ve already gone nuts if i didn’t have someone else suffering with me

Freeeeedom!!!

jennyclee — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:32:53 +0000

1 day after TMDSAS has officially started processing, I have finally emerged from the cave and now I’m ready to start crossing off things on my 26-things-to-do-before-26 list. Not so surprisingly, we decided that having a fitness goal for a person who thrives on burgers/cheesy fries/tacos/guac would be ridic. But then I started seeing all these pts who are 40-50 w/heart problems…I don’t wanna be one of them! So me and RH decided to join this lovely bootcamp that meets every M/T/Th. My goal is to be at 15% body fat at the end of these 4 weeks … according to SL’s scale, I’m 2 pounds heavier than it actually says so I might even go for 14%. The only muscles in my body that haven’t hurt yet are the ones in my fingers. I think their trick is to get ppl to eat less ..if u eat too often, u gotta use the restroom and it hurts to even sit down without having a grip on something… they should def make booster seats for those suckers.

This is me being handy: (and not wanting to pay for it when we move out)

I have too much free time so I’ve decided to look for a PT job in addition to my FT job. I’m sure no one is surprised that I wanna be a dogwalker/petsitter…it’s something I already do all the darn time, except now I’ll get paid for it. It’s totally a bum’s job, but this is gonna be the last time I can do fun things like this before I start the real stuff aka med school.

my next project:

…this is after i hadn’t been home for like a week…and a hurricane or some sort of natural disaster hit my closet

O M G i just realized that uchiko is the sister restaurant of uchi…and i’ve been driving by it almost everyday. MUST TRY ASAP. also saddened by the fact that there will be an uchi in houston…it makes it less austiny/special

bootcamp today….ready to lose these cheeks

T-30 days

jennyclee — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:23:46 +0000

1 month before the test and I already have test anxiety. I’ve had dreams about getting kicked out of the test for accidentally carrying my own pencil, clicking on VOID even though I knew every single answer (unlikely), test center vanishing… you name it, I’ve dreamt about it. I have hit a point of diminishing returns… its actually more like a huge wall…

while the rest of my mid-20 something friends freak out about their futures/marriage end of life/insert string of surrrrious topics, me and nan have decided to embrace our youth and make a list of 26 things to do before 26. live in the present…indulge your every whim. judge me ALL you want… i’m gonna do me… and hopefully that means i can cross things off my list one by one

Things I currently lurb

jennyclee — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:56:30 +0000

Other than studying, these are things that bring me joy:

1. HARNESS. After being told countless times by kobe’s trainer that all of his faults are bc of the way I trained him + he’s a bully, I HAVE FINALLY FOUND THE SOLUTION! It’s absolutely MAGICAL.

2. Loreal go360clean. what an uncatchy name, but AMAZING product…i look forward to using the scrublet everrrry night. props to mlam…+10pts.

3. EAR PLUGS. more specifically, ear plug DISPENSERS…courtesy of the law school. Without my ear plug collection, I wouldn’t be able to bribe ppl to study with me. And I would be distracted by countless stuuupid sorority convos and the incessant construction at the law school.

Oh and one thing i don’t like so much:

jennyclee — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:50:28 +0000

Business sense

jennyclee — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:56:13 +0000

If there is anything that I took away from my overly expensive b-school edumacation, it is to DIVERSIFY YOUR PORTFOLIO. Or if you aren’t a business person, then put your eggs in many different baskets…good looking, smart baskets.

Proof that the “dog” exists

jennyclee — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:15:56 +0000

Because there aren’t enough hours in the day…

jennyclee — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:26:27 +0000

If I wanted to/had the time, I would express these thoughts to everyone individually, instead lets just kill a couple birds with the same stone. As many of you know, my life will be consumed by the mcat (complete misnomer…it should be the mpanther or some man-eating tiger) until April 10. My only scheduled breaks from studying include: dog park and personal statement writing…hardly considered a break. So if you want some quality time, please consult the posted schedule (you will fit in easily as 1. a study buddy or 2. kobe’s playfriend or 3. someone to teach me all 1.5 yrs of sci material)

Why am I awake? My neighbors are drunkenly singing in Spanish on the balcony (which surprisingly has no effect on me)…and my roommates “friend’s” little rat-dog is barking nonstop (which, not so suprisingly, is annoying the bajeezus out of me). Apparently its named after the french word for present…but I’m pretty sure she just named it after the store on the drag. If something is the size of a rat and it runs around like one, it probably is one…meaning you probably want to catch it in a mouse trap. Don’t get me wrong, I love dogs, but this thing can hardly be considered a dog. When it eats one of Kobe’s pieces of food, its his entire meal…then it proceeds to sh*t all over my carpet, which is hard to see when its unexpected. The only reason animals that small are able to survive is bc humans have intervened. There is no clear evolutionary advantage of being 3 pounds (unless its purpose is to be eaten)…I find myself almost stepping on it several times a day…and it seems to put itself right under my feet. As you decrease the sze of the dog, you decrease brain mass, which is directly proportional to intelligence (inspired by tpr). This creature is living proof against Darwinism.