TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

ha ha, estela, you are making me want to send John things in a box now, just to give him a hard time!

I heard on the radio this afternoon that Minnesota is #3 in the nation for binge drinking. I think my nursing class may drive this number upwards in the near future. The only person in the class who hasn't mentioned wanting booze desperately lately is the recovered alcoholic.

reading post-colonial theater is making me pass out. now in the crucial 'do i actually go to bed this early or try to get more work done?' moment.

I am honestly just trying to get past organizing this ridiculous 2 point project; after *that* I can focus on the zillions of pages of reading for Monday's test. Ha ha, I have to fit a clinical in this week, too!

Someone please kill me now.

tehresa, I hope you decided to get some sleep.

i just ended up talking to my little sister in peru for an hour on skype instead of sleeping. now i sleep? but now i'm a little wound up from sisterly silliness.

Aw, that sounds like a nice way to spend some time!

Time for me to sleeeeeeep....

'Night ITR <3

Good morning ITR!

word. i have been absent since the strange goings-on of friday night. Bank holidays rule! Later I shall post three pictures that quite neatly encapsulate my weekend. But now must get on with pretending to work.

morning! i slept way longer than intended, but didn't go to bed til 3. i am an idiot.

in other news: i love coffee.

OHMIGODAHORSE

this is still awesome

I think I am getting ANOTHER cold.

And you guys, my partner for the diabetes project in class just wants to do a role play instead of dancing, singing, or rapping. ;_;

I might still try to write some diabetes related limericks to share, though.

we got too drunk on date

sara, i woudl totally love a diabetes limerick!

I am going to try to work out a limerick or two. It is not easy working with words like "pancreas," "beta cells," "insulin," and "hyperglycemia," though.

I will share whatever I manage to come up with, though. At least tehresa will enjoy it!

There once was a man with Type One...

Who thought diabetes was fun!

No one.

I am trying to find ways to make learning about it not boring/easier to grasp. I feel lucky that we were assigned Type I diabetes, because the mechanism is a lot simpler and more clear. This is not making my presentation any more creative, however.

My TWO POINT presentation!!!

You should write all of the relevant terms on a basketball and, for your presentation, shoot a layup and say "Well, there's my two points."

hahaha that would be AWESOME

Well, assuming that I could actually make the basket.

Being short sucks.

not 4 grrrls. girls is can be ickle and cute. admittedly youse struggle to reach things on high shelves but there are step ladders for such tasks.

if it's any consolation, i'm relatively tall and still lousy at basketball.

I struggle to reach things on high shelves, and often those things wind up falling on my head. But you're probably right that it is better to be short if you are a woman than if you are a man.

That being said, sometimes I think I should have married someone shorter. A. is about a foot taller than me; it's kind of out of hand.

good afternoon, itr

hi ruby, how many days now?

64!

Hi you guys!

Random side note: I'm pretty sure that those nuns who were turned away from voting in Indiana live in the convent on the campus of the college I attended my first year.

64!!!!

hi sara!

ruby, i feel sad for you over the leaving of wellington but happy for you about everything else.

i'm not really sad about leaving welly, i feel like my time here is done. i love this city but it's time to move on and do new things and meet new ppl. i'm predicting by my third week in oakland the homesickness will kick in, and i'll get all nostalgic for wellington, but that will only last a couple of weeks.

and jordan has all kinds of plans for 'nz time' to help with the homesickness (he has been working on his nz accent for over a year).

Poor fella.

how dare u (i said that without moving my lips)

Just so long as he talks through his nose everything will be fine.

ded raggett

it drives him nuts that he finds it so hard to do a nz accent - he can do individual words, but not whole sentences.

I hope there will be audio footage of this faux NZ accent available.

HAHA i will try to get this for you, sara!

That would be awesome! Especially since I have no idea what an NZ accent should sound like...

Is he just watching a lot of "Flight of the Conchords" and talking to you to get it down, or is he undertaking further RIGOROUS NZ AFFECTATION STUDIES?

Sara, you replace any e sound with an i sound, it really is that simple ;]

ha ha, thnx for the tip, wilter!

sara you have gmail, right? i will leave you a voicemail on googlechat for you and then you can hear a nz accent!

Okay, you can try. I will have no idea how to retrieve the voicemail! (I'm sooooo computer nonfunctional...) But maybe A. can help me.

Remind me if you need the gmail address.

And now... laundry folding fun awaits!

i just put marinade on chicken to sit while i do homework. exciting night!

webmail me your gmail address, sara! altho i've been having trouble getting my microphone to work with it lately. don't worry, they're easy to access.

goodbye again itr, i have to do some work.