summer.goals

in one summer, i have a lot to accomplish.

1. ace the MCAT.
2. finish organic chem 1 and 2 and physics to fix my past mistakes.
2a. master all biological sciences
2b. master all physical sciences
2c. master all other sciences
3. teach stella to shake
4. be good and take all my medicine and vitamins
5. fix my laptop
6. memorize all the lyrics that i don't already know to every song by every band i want to see at v-fest
7. become an underwater basketweaving champion
8. fix my curtain rod and curtains so my apartment doesn't look quite so ghetto
9. fix my screen where stella tried to commit suicide and jump out the window.psychodog.
10. rearrange my apartment again
11. get a "big girl" job at a hospital or lab
12. erase a few things
13. write 1 poem every night
14. tan
15. work out
16. make the greatest dance and party cd known to man
17. make the greatest 80s and 90s dance and party cd known to man
18. take down my ceiling
19. summer cleaning
20. reteach myself flash... again
21. teach stella to do her rubber chicken/snake in the grass routine on command
22. shampoo my carpet
23. dye my hair aquamarine green
24. convince elie to come to baltimore or at least tell me where he's going in canada so i can stalk him there
25. go for a walk in the rain
26. fall in love, fall out of love, get another punch on my card
27. be fabulous, diet, study, and hope it goes by fast enough i don't forget what the outside world is like

stella artois and the forbidden summer of fun

is it summer? i wouldn't know... i don't even realize whether its weekend or weekday or day or night or whatever comes in between those. here i am again, pretty much where i was one year ago, smashing away at the MCAT while trying to master scheduling in doing amazing in two summer courses, volunteering and working. all in all... i'm busy. and i've been terrible at keeping up with this. my baby puppy mishka died a couple weeks ago and the far too young age of 11.5 years old... and out of nowhere, just as i decided i would wait a long while before getting another dog, a little puppy waltzed into my apartment (fell over into it more like) and was a practical carbon copy of my first baby... she's a sweetheart and apartment perfect. for all of you who keep saying "she'll never be mishka" no of course she wont... but shes wonderful too, and she can't be mishka because she's miss stella artois... and stella is sorta like... the puppy mishka sent to take care of me. :)

i have one month. one month to pull it all together, to perform. to prove myself to the MCAT, to the med schools, and to myself. maybe i don't get a real summer... but i do get a real year. a year i didn't think i was ever going to be able to have... i will be working, volunteering, playing with my dog, and having a non-academic life...it'll be a nice break, and hopefully get me sick enough of it to become motivation to do amazing in med school... on top of that, i'm starting it all off by going to V-fest in B-more.

wish me luck... and if you want to hang out at all, bring a book and come hang out at the library that was once my apartment.