Damn Ferris

I went to Ferris today because it was the graduation fair and I bought my cap and gown. I also learned that I was graduating cum laude and thus was entitled to wear honors cords. Well I got up in line to buy cap, gown and cords and they were out of honors cords. How the hell do you run out of cords? I mean, seriously, shouldn't you know who gets them and how many people need them? I worked my ass off for my cords and now it looks like I'll have to make a special trip to Big Rapids to get them, and that's why I took today off and went to Big Rapids, was to take care of all of that

Heavenly

I love having my hair touched and played with. It's probably one of the most relaxing things in the world to me. So when I got my hair done today, two hours of someone messing with my hair felt awesome. My blonde highlights are fresh and revitalized and I got a nice lil cut to freshen things up. But what is it about someone else washing your hair that feels SO damn good that you could just fall asleep while they do it? Or having someone else comb your hair? It's just heavenly

Amanda News Network

Ok, so I just realized that it's been about a week since I've updated here, so here we go. What's been going on in my life?

I finished my chemistry rotation last week (w00t!) and tomorrow I start my microbiology rotation, which is my absolute favorite department so I'm super excited about that. Plus, the start of this rotation means that I only have 7 weeks left until graduation, 8 until I'm done with internship, and 9 until the release of Episode III (good things happen in 3's too). I liked my chemistry rotation, but it was just a little too automated for me, the automation is cool, but there isn't as much hands on work, so it can get kind of boring until all the analyzers crash at the same time.

Thursday was St Patrick's Day, A.K.A. let's all go out and pretend we're Irish and drink green beer day (but I am part Irish so I don't have to pretend and I don't like beer). So Karen, Kelly and I headed to Lucky's Pub after Karen got out of work and spent a few hours drinking and making fun of people that thought that they could sing karaoke. Oh and fending off Jasper too. Why do I always attract the freaks? Seriously, this guy was creepy, from his soberness at the bar on national drinking night, to his comments about my boobies (yes, he said boobies) and making paper airplanes out of napkins and spit. I'm glad that we had my excuse of having to leave so that I could go to bed since I had to be up at 0330 to be to the hospital at 0500.

Which takes me to Friday. I got an awesome review from chemistry and they let me come home early, which was great because even though I wasn't hungover, I still felt pretty crummy from only getting 4ish hours of sleep and I came home and took a major nap only to be faced with the most evil of evilness. A charlie horse woke me up from my nap and had me in tears. I haven't been in that much pain in a long time. And then on Friday night we had my cousin's 4th birthday party. I had fun, he got toy lightsabers, so I was battling 3 and 4 year olds with a lightsaber. It was tonsa fun.

Worked yesterday, got snapped at by a customer and wanted to snap back at em. I can't wait until I get a real job so that I can tell the store manager where he can shove it. I'm sick of asking "Would you like to open a new JCPenney card and save 10%?"

Today was the parade. Went over to Karen and Kelly's since they live nearby and walked down from their house. Hung out by the WIOG tent and watched the parade. It was nice, I hadn't been able to go in a few years and it was just fun to be out there, except for the train guy with the cannon. That part sucked. Oh yeah, and my feet going numb sucked too, but it happens. The weather has to be crappy for the parade.

So that's what's been going on in my life. This is the Amanda News Network, signing off...

A strange new world

So this morning I left the house at the bright and early time of 0430. Except that it wasn't bright. It was totally foggy. At times I had very little visibility, yet it was kinda cool, despite the scaryness of it. It was like I was driving into another world, the fog lifted in some places and in other place it was so thick you could only see a couple of hundred yards. Cars just came out of nowhere and then disappeared into nothingness.

This and that

Well, I'm going to have another interview sometime next week for the 2nd shift position, which is a good sign. And I really need a new job right now because I've gotta look for a "Push pull or drag it in" sale for my car. It's really getting close to dying and well, I just want a new car. Mine took 3 tries to start this morning, and I know that I have to go get the oil changed, but it's just so cold out to wait outside a garage, or in a garage with the car shut off since dad won't change my oil. Ah well car for sale!

Likes water!
Extra tough lights!
Sometimes working left turn signal
3/70 AC
Super cheap!

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C3

Ok, so I asked my parents about C3 today, since I still live at home, I live by their rules and I needed to borrow their visa card to get my tickets. Well, I missed the pre-registration deadline, but I don't even know if I'll get to go now because they don't want me to go to Indy on my own because it's not the safest place says dad, who has been there before. I guess I should be glad that they care about my safety so much still, but I feel like a child and there were a few people that I was really looking forward to meeting and now it looks like I'm going to get screwed over there too unless anyone wants to go to Indianapolis with my April 21-23 to go be a Star Wars geek. Please my friends, help me indulge in my geekdom!

Backstreet Boys -- Incomplete

Empty spaces fill me up with holes
Distant faces with no place left to go
Without you within me I can’t find no rest
Where I’m going is anybody’s guess

I’ve tried to go on like I never knew you
I’m awake but my world is half asleep
I pray for this heart to be unbroken
But without you all I’m going to be is incomplete

Voices tell me I should carry on
But I am swimming in an ocean all alone
Baby, my baby
It’s written on your face
You still wonder if we made a big mistake

I’ve tried to go on like I never knew you
I’m awake but my world is half asleep
I pray for this heart to be unbroken
But without you all I’m going to be is incomplete

I don’t mean to drag it on, but I can’t seem to let you go
I don’t wanna make you face this world alone
I wanna let you go (alone)

I’ve tried to go on like I never knew you
I’m awake but my world is half asleep
I pray for this heart to be unbroken
But without you all I’m going to be is incomplete

Incomplete

Chaos, it's not just a theory, it's life

The point of having two identical analyzers on the chemistry line is not only to split the workload for a faster turnaround time, but also as a backup so that if one goes dow, you can load to the other as a backup. BOTH are NOT supposed to go down at the same time. We have two LX20 analyzers on the chemistry lab. We were having trouble with chlorides and BUN's on number one throughout the day, so we were keeping a close eye on that when number two just totally froze up right as we were taking number one down to fix the chloride problem. Problem: No working analyzers for electrolytes and a whole bunch of other tests for at least 20 minutes because #2 has to be shut down and rebooted, and rebooting takes at least 10 minutes by itself. So as that one is getting shut down, I'm putting #1 into maintenance mode so that I can tear out the new chloride electrode that was acting up and put the old one in that was working fine. I had the electrodes switched in 5 minutes, and by that time #2 was back up again. But then the BUN reagent had to be changed because that was acting up and we had a new lot number, so why not just change that? So that was done. Then came the calibration. I just crossed my fingers and prayed that chloride and BUN would calibrate and they did and then the controls were in, so all was good. But why can't this stuff happen AFTER I go home?