Good Xorning, 2008!

[OblivionKnight]

I LOVE THE WORLD AND EVERYONE IN IT!!!  FREE HUGS, KISSES AND ORAL SEX FOR EVERYONE!!!  I LOVE YOU!!!

[Luther Lansfeld]

What's up, OK?

[Cotigo]

Sounds like he finally got some.

[Monkeyfinger]

Let's not get too ahead of ourselves.

[Hunter Sopko]

First fishing tournament of the year today. Weather was good, alternated between cool/overcast and warm/sunny. Water temperature was perfect ~58 degrees. Not sure why they weren't biting too much. Might've been the storm that passed the night before. Anyway, I didn't really get anything until about 45 minutes before the tournament ended, then caught three keepers within 15 minutes and squeaked second. Good start to the season.

[OblivionKnight]

So, yeah, to explain:

The last few weeks have been insane due to finishing up interviewing and everything else I need to do so I can do something after I graduate.  This has involved way too many interviews and way too much travelling and business. 

So, 5 weeks before graduation, on Friday, I got a call from UPMC Presbyterian-Shadyside in the middle of a seminar at school.  Naturally, I took it and left the lecture hall.  Since I actually was quiet about it, and came back, and actually paid attention while others were jumping around and leaving and acting like idiots, no one really cared much. 

So, yeah, I got accepted into my top residency pick (4 spots for like 60-some+ people applying) at UPMC.  Which means I need to get my ass in gear to prep for the NAPLEX and MPJE.  But yay!  This has been the best news I've had in ages.  Celebrated with a bunch of people on Friday and Saturday, with other people getting ready for their lives in 5 weeks. 

Course, there are other things to say about everything that's going on now, but I won't bore people with that.  Suffice to say, I am extremely happy, and I'm almost nearly-certainly making it to DLCon now that I know what's going on (just need to clear some things first - I'll have to talk to Gate and others when I get things straightened out). 

So yay, happiness and cookies for all!

[InfinityDragon]

Congrats on the residency (even pharmacists have to go through a residency?), OK.

Yay, almost done with my stupid legal drafting assignments, which means I can start preparing for my one and only final exam.

Business agreement term sheet and accompanying legal memorandum? Done!
Seminar paper on tax policy? 50% done!
Contract for the manufacture and sale of goods? 75% done!
Various estate planning documents? 95% done!

The end is finally on the horizon. Too bad there's still the accursed bar exam to worry about in July. I'll be sure to make and stab various vodoo dolls and evil effigies resembling you the evening between the two parts of the exam.

[superaielman]

Awesome, ID. The bar is however going to make you hate life in general. Aww.

[Cotigo]

Congratulations, OK.

Cool.  Now's the time to get addicted to meth and ruin it all, ID.

[Mad Fnorder]

Note to self. Never take Drafting. Ever. Shoot self first.

[InfinityDragon]

Note to self. Never take Drafting. Ever. Shoot self first.

For all that it sucks while you're actually writing the drafting assignments....they sure beat the hell out of taking a standard law school exam.

That, and you actually learn something practical and useful and not some theoretical or worthless crap.

[superaielman]

Hey Niu, get on AIM/IRC sometime soonish? I need to talk to you.

[Strago]

Finished my thesis paper and handed it in this morning.

The play was this weekend. It went phenomenally well. Three theater professors whom I respect massively said incredibly comlpimentary things about my performance. God, the whole experience was just amazing. I am so excited and happy right now. Woot.

Congrats to you too, OK. Huzzah!

[Dark Holy Elf]

Congratulations, Strago. Glad to see you're kicking ass even if you don't visit us any more ;_;

Seriously, that's pretty awesome. Same goes to you, OK.

[Cotigo]

Good job, Strago.  So, now that you've got your thesis in and all, can we start sleeping in the same bed again or what?  I got an itch, and it needs to be scratched.

You know.

By your teeth.

[OblivionKnight]

Thanks.  Technically, I don't have to do a residency, but since I want to go into education and clinical pharmacy practice, a residency is "highly recommended and sought after".  In other words "hahaha better have 1!!!!!1133!"  >_>

In other news...

I will probably be on CSPAN tomorrow (Thursday) at some point.  Don't know when.  Today at Duquesne, my rotation partner and I went around campus, and the CSPAN bus was there.  With Youtube.  They were interviewing students (about 23 or so in all) about what they thought were the biggest campaign issues, stopped the two of us, and asked us to do our interview.  Spur of the moment, but they'll be showing them on CSPAN tomorrow night (or most of them - they weren't sure how many they'd show of the total they got, since we went in the middle of it). 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XlKfVKegkvU (Meeeee!!!)

So yes, mock me if you must.  Even though I've been more interested in politics with respect to the upcoming election, it's ironic the least political person in the group here (well, of the people in the US - damn Canadians!) had this happen.  But hey, go failing social security/medicare!

[Shale]

After two and a half years at a local weekly paper with a circulation of 5,000 and a coverage area of about six square miles, I won my first professional award today. And it was for covering state politics, somehow. Seeing as this is what I'd like to do full-time, I am extremely pleased with that.

[BaconForTheSoul]

Moving to Salem between June1-June14 so I'll be about 5 minutes from work and that'll kick ass.  I'll now save 6.5 hours a week driving and 88 dollars a month on gas.  (More if prices really do hit 4 bucks.)  Also, depending on which of the 2 houses we rent, I might actually save another 50 bucks or so on rent a month.  Yay 138 bucks a month + more free time + an actual job that gives me steady money.

New computer and PS3 are first two things on my list of shit to buy.  Should only take 3 months for those.  After that gotta stop having fun with money and pay off my final 12k in loans.

Also, one of our 2 choices is a 5 bedroom house with 2 car garage.  So umm... extra bedroom to turn into something cool and room for my pingpong and pool tables in garage.  Pure win.

On the negative side, something is wrong with my stomach and I don't get my health insurance for 45 more days.  This means no drinking, no eating anything remotely unhealthy for me, and mild uncomfort at nights.  Why at nights I don't know.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

so close to ending the thesis

[Taishyr]

Midterms in a week.

...you people are on finals?

...;_;

[Grefter]

Congratulations Shale.

[superaielman]

Awesome Shale.

EDIT: From the "Super nearly kills himself doing yardwork department."

Adding to the adventures of the exploding lawnmower blade and 'oh god I gave myself blood poisoning cutting the grass',  I spent most of my free time yesterday doing yardwork. It involved cutting down a tree growning into the power lines. I only cut down the last myself. It was fun, I had my left foot on the ladder, my right foot on a lower tree branch, my left arm on the ladder, and my right arm cutting down the branch and trying to pull it away from the power line it was growing into.

[Hunter Sopko]

As always Super, you live life on the edge.

[Dunefar]

You're gonna fry yourself one of these days, aiel.

[superaielman]

Maybe, but it'll be funny at least. Can't ask for more than that. The only really scary one was the lawnmower blade. If the blade had spun the other way when it had broke off, I probably would have at least lost a leg.