Let it Snow...Snow...Snow!

I woke up this morning to my madre calling me (love you!) and realized that my alarm never went off. Once again I forgot to make sure my alarm was properly set in order to do what its supposed to do...wake me the hell up! However I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was at least a foot of snow outside, forcing NYU to cancel all classes for that day.

OOO-WWWHHHOOO!

There's something yo need to understand about NYU in order to thoroughly enjoy this moment with me. NYU is like the postal service. Neither rain nor shine, nor snow nor hail could keep NYU from demanding that we attend classes. I think they might remain open even if tornadoes were on a rampage through the city. So when I woke up I was sure I'd have to trudge through the mess.....NOT TODAY THOUGH!!!!

So what, you may ask, am I going to do with my snow day? Well first I went back to sleep, I'm mean that was just a given. Now I'm going to attempt to motivate my self to get ahead on my homework and begin to study or my next round of midterms. OOOO Goodie!

However tonight I also have to travel to Queens in this inclement weather, to do my 2nd ride-along in the ambulance. I'm so excited! My shift is from 12-5 am, so I should get plenty of good calls. And with the weather as bad as it is, maybe I'll get to go to my first car accident!!! Now I might sound like a horrible person, but so you understand, I'll share a secret with y'all. EMTs and other health care providers love when they get called to deal with an emergency. They get all excited and warm and fuzzy inside. Sure we don't want anything bad to happen to people, but it sure is fun to take care of the emergency when something does happen.

I'll keep you posted on how it goes. Stay warm and cross your fingers that spring comes soon!

One long week

If you haven't heard, yesterday mom and john had to put Sharise to sleep. The old kitty just didn't have anything left in her I guess. But she had a good, long life and God knows she was spoiled as hell. We'll miss you putty-tat!

It's only Wednesday and it feels as if a month has passed. So far the week has only seemed to bring lousy news/days and the grey weather certainly isn't helping. It's just one of those weeks. I guess.

I am looking forward to the weekend though. I have another ride along at the God awful hours of 12am - 5am! That should be interesting seeing as all the crazy people are out. And some where in between a ride along, homework and EMT class, I need to find time to eat and catch up on my sleep. We'll see how that goes.

I was very discouraged earlier with a bad grade on my Chemistry exam. I'm trying to not let it bother me too much and just focus on the steps I need to take to get better. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

As always I hope everyone is enjoying themselves and life is being kind. I here the snow has been intense for all m lovely northern friends and family. Stay warm!

Hola!

So 1st apologies are in order. Several people have made me aware that I have been slacking on my updating duties...SORRY! And thanks to those of you who do check to see what I'm up to... I'll try to be better @ keeping you all in the loop.

However the reason for my lack of updating is that I have been extremely busy. When I signed up for all of my classes, decided to take this EMT class and told my job I'd be coming back to work I was under the impression that everything would keep me busy, but nothing unmanageable. However on several occasion already I have come exceedingly close to the breaking point. If I'm not running to one place, I'm waiting in the subway, studying, to catch a train to start running again. It's been Crazy. I haven't talked to any of my friends in a month...I'm sure they think I died or something. And I have only been at this for a month...when I come home I fear that I may need to be submitted to some psychiatric ward. But against all odds, I am having fun and hanging in there.

So as for my love life.....(ha, ha, ha)... certain family members (cough, cough ANITA!) have been asking me if I have a boyfriend yet. NYC old men seem to love me(I get whistles from creepy old men everyday on my way to work). And if that's not a plus, there's always the NYU male pool. When I decided to come to NYU I didn't realize that I was selecting a school with such a low boy to girl ratio. About 60% of the university is female and 40% is male. Now that may not sound to bad...BUT...take that 40% and cut it in half and now you have to percentage of STRAIGHT men in attendance at NYU. It's tragic really. With that I mind, few boys I meet (who are straight) have been appealing. Either I'm friends with them and not attracted to them, they are such asses that I would rather die a spinster than date one, OR they are so stupid I find myself wondering how the managed to get into NYU.

So with such a small male population available to me, I've been forced to lesbianism (it's not what you think...really). I met this girl in my EMT class. Now she seemed perfectly normal and we hit it off really well the first day. I was excited cause I now had a friend in the class and wouldn't have to sit awkwardly by my lonesome. However the next class she decided to reveal her life story to me and start flirting with me. It's a long story but it basically boils down to she's 21, has wanted a kid since she was 17(but holds out cause she know she can't afford one...OMG really?!), had drinking problem to the point where her liver is permanently f'-ed up and has thought she found "the one" several times, but is still on the look out (HINT HINT HINT!!!!). All of this she revealed in the span of maybe 1.5 hours as I sat with her in a pizza shop doing an EMT test together. HOW DO I GET MYSELF INTO THESE SORT OF SITUATIONS? AND CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO NICELY GET RID OF HER?

Enough about love... chem and I are already in a permeate love-hate relationship...so I've got enough relationship issues for now. I just took my 1st chem midterm and well...I don't want to talk about it. I studied more than I have ever for chemistry and think it still wasn't enough. It was incredibly hard and I didn't even have enough time to answer every question even as I raced through the ones I could get done. Everyone I talked to after said they couldn't believe our professor had just done that to us (good thing cause i didn't want to be the only person who thought it was insane!). So as if my life isn't already devoted to chemistry, I will now be sleeping with my chem text book every night. Maybe the knowledge will magically seep into my head at night...a girl can hope.

But I'm still struggling forward with being a pre-med. I knew it was going to be hard, so I'm not going to give up just because I've hit an obstacle. I've suffered to much already to just give up...and I want it too badly. Although to be honest it's really discouraging when people are drooping out of pre-med like flies. I guess that's the point...weed out those who are serious and those who aren't. Although why anyone would decide on pre-med out of a whim is beyond me...it's torture some days. So for now I'm crossing my fingers, sticking to my plan and taking each day one at a time.

I hope everyone is doing well and I miss you all tons. Unfortunately with my crazy schedule, I'll probably only get to come home for spring break...so maybe I'll see some of you. I'm already looking forward to the summer. I love the City immensely, but it really makes me a appreciate home a lot more, when I get the chance to go. On that note, I hope this absurdly long blog will satisfy y'all until I have the time to update everyone again. Sending my Love!