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this has been a very exciting week. this is going to be a long entry.
today was yet another interview, for which i took an express bus for the very first time to get to the bronx. minus the rain for the two minutes total i was outside, the trek up there was not bad at all, the express bus was comfortable and it was good times. unfortunately, i had to walk for ten minutes in the rain to get to my interview location, and most places were flooded so i gave up trying to save my poor shoes at all. i'm talking like two inches of water EVERYWHERE. i'm going to get like pneumonia or something. my interviewer was a half hour late, but she was really awesome, she's actually from my town, and she happened to be the same person who interviewed maria two weeks ago, so we had a lot to talk about. i practically ran back to the med school to get to lunch since we ended up talking forever, and got wet again. which was lovely. and then we took the tour, which involved going outside and getting really wet AGAIN. nice how the worst rain day is the day i'm wearing my suit. my skirt suit, which made it especially awesome. so the school was great, everyone was freakishly happy, and i liked it a lot. the tour ends and this other guy and i go to take the express bus back. so we're going down to manhattan, and we're having a great time talking about med school and hawaii, where he's from, and just random things. and we're not paying attention to where the bus is going.
so at some point the bus driver is like ok this is the last stop. we assume we're in manhattan. except we were at 136 st. so this guy, who is like the most polite individual i have ever come in contact with, pretty much stands next to me in order to block the rain as i call maria to give us some kind of direction. and she can't get on the computer. so we're like awesome. so we go into this shady deli where no one speaks english. and i'm like where's the subway, and he asks where i'm going and i say union square. and he's like "manhattan???" so we weren't even in manhattan. we were all in the bronx, where i've never been except in a car. with people who don't speak english. so we're directed to this other express bus and we pray that we're going to somehow at least make it to manhattan. luckily this bus ended up stopping right next to a 6 train stop. in like harlem. but we did make it back, hawaii guy came all the way to union square with me because the subway was ghetto and then went back up to his hotel. most polite person EVER. and i learned a great deal about hawaii in the like two hours we spent lost in transit together. thank god i was with someone else, who happened to be awesome. or i would've had a nervous breakdown in the bronx somewhere :)
this weekend would've been really awesome, but it ended up being the grossest and rainiest weekend ever. saturday was pretty fun; olivia took us down to the brooklyn museum, where we saw lots of egypt stuff and got a personal tour of the islamic art section :) this would've been so much nicer for me if my digestive and reproductive systems weren't working together to piss me off, but it was still nice. my original plan was to go up to westchester, so i was really pissed off about that since i've been trying to get up there for like years, but no, stupid rain. then we had a big movie borrowing adventure that night after i passed out for like two hours, where the guy at the desk thought we were messed in the head. you'd think with a list of like 15 dvds they have to borrow, that at least one out of the three we wanted would be there. but no, of course not. so we're like ok guy, do you have ANY terrible romantic comedies? the only one was when harry met sally, which i had never seen in its entirety before so that was fun :) sunday was a miserable study day, until maggie came to visit and we went to spice, our usual location. i had a pink mimosa. it was really awesome.
monday night, i let this girl i met at an interview stay here since she had an interview in the city the next day. i got to show a tourist around new york for the first time and it was a lot of fun. central park is SHADY at night. it was COMPLETELY EMPTY, even right on the outside where we looked in from, since we were afraid to go further. we almost went skating at rockafeller center, but then the guy was like oh it's 20 dollars today since it's a holiday. columbus day is so not a real holiday so he can go to hell. i even went to a real tourist store, since she needed to get gifts, and that was an interesting time. and she was afraid of the subway, it was funny.
so on thursday was the big gala in new jersey for my research fellowship. i take the subway uptown to this woman in my lab's apartment, which is REALLY fancy. to the point where some guy turns the revolving door for you. nicest apartment i've ever seen. with an amazing view. so anyway, i get up there and she asks me if i'm ok, and i wasn't really sure why, but it turned out that there was some major terrorist threat right while i was in the subway. which we heard about over and over again in the car on the way to jersey. so we get off the bridge and we're supposed to get off and switch to another highway. except we stay on the wrong one and end up exploring paterson, nj. which is not the most lovely place ever. and lab woman and her husband were all angry and whatever and i kind of knew how we could get back, but they weren't really listening to me so she kept calling out random people on the street to give directions, which they couldn't really understand. eventually she just called the place and they kind of verbally guided us there, so that was pretty funny. so the audience is primarily rich old people. but for some reason, someone thought it'd be a good idea to have comedians who were in their 20s. the first guy wasn't so bad; his jokes weren't funny, but at least they were appropriate for the most part. then i had to speak, and so did the other fellowship guy, and i mentioned rats, which i found out later a lot of people were surprised about. but my prof was like they can go to hell, where did they think we got the brains from anyway? so then we eat dinner, i barely got to speak to the fellowship guy, which is unfortunate because he was kind of cute and appeared to be straight, instead i talked to this random woman who actually graduated from my high school the year i was born. small world, i guess. then we had like four speeches in a row honoring this dude. who they sat in the back, by the door, only with his wife, which i thought was totally weird and inappropriate, and this guy almost didn't come because he had double knee replacement surgery two weeks ago. that took forever. but then it wasn't even over, there was yet another comedian, worse than the first one. all kinds of inappropriate jokes about sex and suicide and whatnot. these are OLD PEOPLE. rich fancy ones. whoever planned this was on drugs. at least i got my money finally :) the ride back was yes, lab woman talking about how bad it was and listening to light fm. good times. i met more people in the lab and have more lab friends now, all of whom are old, but still yes. yesterday this girl in my lab got her ph.d. after her thesis defense and i went to the party, where i had some relatively ok wine and gnocchi and mushroom tortellini. yes times. lab is so much yes.
wow this is a long entry. i should actually go do work. i'm starting to stress about immuno, even though i really shouldn't be because i don't really care :)
today was yet another interview, for which i took an express bus for the very first time to get to the bronx. minus the rain for the two minutes total i was outside, the trek up there was not bad at all, the express bus was comfortable and it was good times. unfortunately, i had to walk for ten minutes in the rain to get to my interview location, and most places were flooded so i gave up trying to save my poor shoes at all. i'm talking like two inches of water EVERYWHERE. i'm going to get like pneumonia or something. my interviewer was a half hour late, but she was really awesome, she's actually from my town, and she happened to be the same person who interviewed maria two weeks ago, so we had a lot to talk about. i practically ran back to the med school to get to lunch since we ended up talking forever, and got wet again. which was lovely. and then we took the tour, which involved going outside and getting really wet AGAIN. nice how the worst rain day is the day i'm wearing my suit. my skirt suit, which made it especially awesome. so the school was great, everyone was freakishly happy, and i liked it a lot. the tour ends and this other guy and i go to take the express bus back. so we're going down to manhattan, and we're having a great time talking about med school and hawaii, where he's from, and just random things. and we're not paying attention to where the bus is going.
so at some point the bus driver is like ok this is the last stop. we assume we're in manhattan. except we were at 136 st. so this guy, who is like the most polite individual i have ever come in contact with, pretty much stands next to me in order to block the rain as i call maria to give us some kind of direction. and she can't get on the computer. so we're like awesome. so we go into this shady deli where no one speaks english. and i'm like where's the subway, and he asks where i'm going and i say union square. and he's like "manhattan???" so we weren't even in manhattan. we were all in the bronx, where i've never been except in a car. with people who don't speak english. so we're directed to this other express bus and we pray that we're going to somehow at least make it to manhattan. luckily this bus ended up stopping right next to a 6 train stop. in like harlem. but we did make it back, hawaii guy came all the way to union square with me because the subway was ghetto and then went back up to his hotel. most polite person EVER. and i learned a great deal about hawaii in the like two hours we spent lost in transit together. thank god i was with someone else, who happened to be awesome. or i would've had a nervous breakdown in the bronx somewhere :)
this weekend would've been really awesome, but it ended up being the grossest and rainiest weekend ever. saturday was pretty fun; olivia took us down to the brooklyn museum, where we saw lots of egypt stuff and got a personal tour of the islamic art section :) this would've been so much nicer for me if my digestive and reproductive systems weren't working together to piss me off, but it was still nice. my original plan was to go up to westchester, so i was really pissed off about that since i've been trying to get up there for like years, but no, stupid rain. then we had a big movie borrowing adventure that night after i passed out for like two hours, where the guy at the desk thought we were messed in the head. you'd think with a list of like 15 dvds they have to borrow, that at least one out of the three we wanted would be there. but no, of course not. so we're like ok guy, do you have ANY terrible romantic comedies? the only one was when harry met sally, which i had never seen in its entirety before so that was fun :) sunday was a miserable study day, until maggie came to visit and we went to spice, our usual location. i had a pink mimosa. it was really awesome.
monday night, i let this girl i met at an interview stay here since she had an interview in the city the next day. i got to show a tourist around new york for the first time and it was a lot of fun. central park is SHADY at night. it was COMPLETELY EMPTY, even right on the outside where we looked in from, since we were afraid to go further. we almost went skating at rockafeller center, but then the guy was like oh it's 20 dollars today since it's a holiday. columbus day is so not a real holiday so he can go to hell. i even went to a real tourist store, since she needed to get gifts, and that was an interesting time. and she was afraid of the subway, it was funny.
so on thursday was the big gala in new jersey for my research fellowship. i take the subway uptown to this woman in my lab's apartment, which is REALLY fancy. to the point where some guy turns the revolving door for you. nicest apartment i've ever seen. with an amazing view. so anyway, i get up there and she asks me if i'm ok, and i wasn't really sure why, but it turned out that there was some major terrorist threat right while i was in the subway. which we heard about over and over again in the car on the way to jersey. so we get off the bridge and we're supposed to get off and switch to another highway. except we stay on the wrong one and end up exploring paterson, nj. which is not the most lovely place ever. and lab woman and her husband were all angry and whatever and i kind of knew how we could get back, but they weren't really listening to me so she kept calling out random people on the street to give directions, which they couldn't really understand. eventually she just called the place and they kind of verbally guided us there, so that was pretty funny. so the audience is primarily rich old people. but for some reason, someone thought it'd be a good idea to have comedians who were in their 20s. the first guy wasn't so bad; his jokes weren't funny, but at least they were appropriate for the most part. then i had to speak, and so did the other fellowship guy, and i mentioned rats, which i found out later a lot of people were surprised about. but my prof was like they can go to hell, where did they think we got the brains from anyway? so then we eat dinner, i barely got to speak to the fellowship guy, which is unfortunate because he was kind of cute and appeared to be straight, instead i talked to this random woman who actually graduated from my high school the year i was born. small world, i guess. then we had like four speeches in a row honoring this dude. who they sat in the back, by the door, only with his wife, which i thought was totally weird and inappropriate, and this guy almost didn't come because he had double knee replacement surgery two weeks ago. that took forever. but then it wasn't even over, there was yet another comedian, worse than the first one. all kinds of inappropriate jokes about sex and suicide and whatnot. these are OLD PEOPLE. rich fancy ones. whoever planned this was on drugs. at least i got my money finally :) the ride back was yes, lab woman talking about how bad it was and listening to light fm. good times. i met more people in the lab and have more lab friends now, all of whom are old, but still yes. yesterday this girl in my lab got her ph.d. after her thesis defense and i went to the party, where i had some relatively ok wine and gnocchi and mushroom tortellini. yes times. lab is so much yes.
wow this is a long entry. i should actually go do work. i'm starting to stress about immuno, even though i really shouldn't be because i don't really care :)