This is the best news ever.
Best day ever.

( Click here to read about my current state of super-awesome happy state!! )

( Panicking, I'm told, solves nothing. Relaxing, I therefore assume, also solves nothing. So if neither panicking nor relaxing will fix this annoying wait, what am I supposed to do while I'm waiting for that one stupid letter? I have learned to detest and love all envelopes. Bleh. ) )

Title: Be Brave
Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Temari, Shikamaru, Hinata, Naruto
Word Count: 1,349
Pairings: ShikaTema and implied(?) NaruHina
Summary: Temari was a lot of things, but she was not as brave as she's always wanted to be. She could not say the words. She was afraid of the words. And then, there was Hinata, who for all her reputation, was braver ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back from the med program interview at Rochester U (REMS).

( The more I learn, the more I love... )

( My thoughts on the presidential address and GOP response on Tuesday, Febuary 24, 2009 )

The piece I submitted (well one of the pieces at any rate) for VASE (artsy competition) is one of the ones they picked to advance to state!! They picked like...8 ( I think) out of 70 something...(I think it's more than that actually).

I feel uberly happy since I really liked this piece and spent a lot of time on it. (this piece looks a lot better in ( Read more... )

In personal news, my school hosted another blood drive today.
And once more, I was deferred. I was not allowed to donate. That makes it three times now. Whoever said third times the charm is full of it.

Let's run it over.
1) I said I was in an area of Mexico in the past year that was at risk for malaria
2) They screwed something up with the records, ( Read more... )

Grades are a funny thing.

This NY Times article (I read that a lot don't I?) talks about senses of entitlement concerning grades in student mentalities.

“I tell my classes that if they just do what they are supposed to do and meet the standard requirements, that they will earn a C,” he said. “That is the default grade. They see the default grade as ( Read more... )

( If I take pleasure in other people's mistakes does that make me bad, or does it just make it funny? )

( I literally jumped for joy...Seriously. )