close encounters of the food kind
Feb. 13th, 2008 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theladyroseI failed my first test ever, the one on the treatment manual I need to know for research, just as my new supervisor predicted. Actually, he's a pretty nice guy; I've probably spoken more to him in the two times we've met than in the two semesters I spent with my old one in the social psych lab. Ironically enough, I performed most poorly on the material that I had actually read (midterm season shouldn't be an excuse, but it is) and did well on the stuff I didn't have time to read. It really helps that I'm taking a family/systems theory class right now, even if it feels like my brain is being saturated with systems and therapeutic literature.
The apartment doesn't smell like burnt filet mignon anymore after leaving the doors open for a day and a half; we discovered firsthand that the smoke detector does work outside of fire drills, which is reassuring.
I've finally had the time to start looking for apartments for next year; it looks like I'll be having 5 roommates, although only 4 are confirmed so we're still looking for the 5th. Although there's a greater likelihood that I'm more likely to become a homicide victim because I have more roommates to piss off, it also means that the rent will be cheaper and that we might be finding a nicer place if we're lucky. I've also come to the conclusion that my mother was wrong to believe that I should consider law school because I think I'm too dumb to figure out the fine print in the renter's leases. If all else fails, we might have to start looking for oversized cardboard boxes, though the options aren't as bad as I had expected.
I did end up getting the passport photos taken at Office Depot 19 blocks away, but it took me a good hour before I could find some place to take them on a Sunday. Serves me right for procrastinating :S Hopefully I'll be finding out today or tomorrow whether or not I'm going to Verona for sure this summer.
I'm back in Norcal for the 4 day weekend (bwahaha, no classes on Friday!) for a belated lunar new year celebration. Mom and I are going to the San Francisco Symphony's Tchaikovsky concert on Saturday. I'm meeting up with a few friends while I'm back, but I'm afraid because I'm in SF for two days time's limited, so if you do want to hang out please call me if we haven't already figured something out.
Oh, before I forget, I'm posting the answers for the unguessed quotes on the movie meme here. I was pleasantly surprised by who guessed what.
1. I'm sorry, but I thought I better hit you before he did. He's in better shape than I am. (The Philadelphia Story)
2. I keep telling you not to think! You're very, very good at a great many things, but thinking, hon, just simply isn't one of them. (the original The Manchurian Candidate)
4. Locked, from the inside. That can only mean one thing. And I don't know what it is. (Murder by Death, one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies spoofing the most famous fictional detectives with an amazing cast - Peter Sellers, David Niven, Alec Guiness, Maggie Smith, Peter Falk and Elsa Lanchester, to name a few. And you get to see Truman Capote in drag!)
5. It's National Crime Prevention Week. Take a burglar to dinner. (How to Steal a Million)
6. Oh, I still do believe in God, old man. I believe in God and Mercy and all that. But the dead are happier dead. They don't miss much here, poor devils. (The Third Man)
12. Atlanta? You can't be serious! That's Siberia with mint juleps! (One Two Three, possibly my favorite earnestly strident communism vs. decadent capitalism comedy ever)
15. I don't know if it will help saying this to you...some men in this world are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father is one of them. (To Kill A Mockingbird, the movie that changed my life)
The apartment doesn't smell like burnt filet mignon anymore after leaving the doors open for a day and a half; we discovered firsthand that the smoke detector does work outside of fire drills, which is reassuring.
I've finally had the time to start looking for apartments for next year; it looks like I'll be having 5 roommates, although only 4 are confirmed so we're still looking for the 5th. Although there's a greater likelihood that I'm more likely to become a homicide victim because I have more roommates to piss off, it also means that the rent will be cheaper and that we might be finding a nicer place if we're lucky. I've also come to the conclusion that my mother was wrong to believe that I should consider law school because I think I'm too dumb to figure out the fine print in the renter's leases. If all else fails, we might have to start looking for oversized cardboard boxes, though the options aren't as bad as I had expected.
I did end up getting the passport photos taken at Office Depot 19 blocks away, but it took me a good hour before I could find some place to take them on a Sunday. Serves me right for procrastinating :S Hopefully I'll be finding out today or tomorrow whether or not I'm going to Verona for sure this summer.
I'm back in Norcal for the 4 day weekend (bwahaha, no classes on Friday!) for a belated lunar new year celebration. Mom and I are going to the San Francisco Symphony's Tchaikovsky concert on Saturday. I'm meeting up with a few friends while I'm back, but I'm afraid because I'm in SF for two days time's limited, so if you do want to hang out please call me if we haven't already figured something out.
Oh, before I forget, I'm posting the answers for the unguessed quotes on the movie meme here. I was pleasantly surprised by who guessed what.
1. I'm sorry, but I thought I better hit you before he did. He's in better shape than I am. (The Philadelphia Story)
2. I keep telling you not to think! You're very, very good at a great many things, but thinking, hon, just simply isn't one of them. (the original The Manchurian Candidate)
4. Locked, from the inside. That can only mean one thing. And I don't know what it is. (Murder by Death, one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies spoofing the most famous fictional detectives with an amazing cast - Peter Sellers, David Niven, Alec Guiness, Maggie Smith, Peter Falk and Elsa Lanchester, to name a few. And you get to see Truman Capote in drag!)
5. It's National Crime Prevention Week. Take a burglar to dinner. (How to Steal a Million)
6. Oh, I still do believe in God, old man. I believe in God and Mercy and all that. But the dead are happier dead. They don't miss much here, poor devils. (The Third Man)
12. Atlanta? You can't be serious! That's Siberia with mint juleps! (One Two Three, possibly my favorite earnestly strident communism vs. decadent capitalism comedy ever)
15. I don't know if it will help saying this to you...some men in this world are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father is one of them. (To Kill A Mockingbird, the movie that changed my life)
