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Name: Skimmy
Location: Avenue Q, Azerbaijan
Birthday: 8/24/1987
Interests: 1. you already know
2. you shall learn by reading, my friend
Expertise: singing "past" really off-key. heh
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| i'm considering ending my run with xanga...maybe i'll start up another blog somewhere else!
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| 2009!
what i've seen when i come back to sugar land for breaks is that high school seniors *cough* high schoolers in general *cough* are extremely obnoxious and full of themselves. was I that obnoxious and pretentious four years ago? i'm pretty sure i wasn't b/c i've just been nerdy and awkward my whole life...and if i was obnoxious, maybe i was just a teensy bit obnoxious during my high school senior year.
zipping back to the present: i'm a senior in college already?! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
only one more semester of undergraduate life left...eeeeeeee
i'm both excited and scared
we're ever-so-slowly growing up emotionally, mentally, professionally, etc. and it's pretty freaky
i got called by the dean of admissions of the UH College of Optometry early afternoon yesterday and was told that I was accepted into the doctor of optometry program. it was both anti-climatic and extremely awesome and i still don't know how to feel about it just yet. but i'm definitely pretty excited about this.
i'm going to take out a pretty hefty amount of loans so i can go to school for another 4 years and that's pretty scary. i'm probably going to have to live at home and commute to go to school since that'll allow me to save some much-needed monies...but i kinda don't want to. it's a 30-50 minute commute (one-way, depending on traffic). it's fine and dandy for people who work but i really really really don't want to deal with that and then have to study hardcore when i come home.
and working part time during optometry school is out of the question b/c you take 19-20 hours of classes PER semester. the most i've taken in my undergrad is 17 hours and it was pretty hellish, haha.
even with all these concerns i'm really excited about my future 
and i hope all my family, friends, and aquaintances (yes even those who i haven't seen/talked to in forever) feel the same way about their futures too.
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| ACL was so awesome!
but so very dusty.
I shall post pictures on facebook soon/eventually.
i'm reading The God Gene for my psych of religion class right now. it's interesting but not at the same time. i like the anecdotal stories about different peoples' experiences in the book more so than the discussion of dopamine/serotonin receptors, etc. i already have enough of that talk in my psychopharmacology class...but that class is pretty cool
i get a bit anxious when thinking about post-undergraduate life. oh nos!
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| classes don't seem like they'll be too bad this semester...maybe.
the class i'm worried the most about is my comparative physiology course. the professor seems hardcore and we already have a quiz covering five chapters on tuesday! we've only had one lecture thus far (where he clearly did not go over 5 chapters) and he wants us to take a 5-chapter-long quiz...eh..we'll see how that goes, haha
psychology of religion got off to a good start. it's a discussion-based class, which is good b/c i haven't had such a small, intimate class setting in a long while...but it's also bad for me because i never think of things to say until AFTER the discussion/class is over. this makes me sad. 
psychopharmocology seems okay so far....we've only had one lecture and it was just a reading over the syllabus lecture, so we didn't learn anything. also, the textbook for this course hasn't been ordered by the co-op yet and the professor was oblivious to that fact, so that was kinda funny. mich is in this class with me, so that'll be nice.
intro stat. is okay. the professor speaks to us as a middle school teacher would speak to her less-than-bright students, but that's okay. it's my only lower division class this semester and there are a lot of freshmen...but still, it's pretty condescending. i don't think she's doing this on purpose, though, b/c she seems very nice. i'm taking this course b/c it's the only thing standing between me and a bachelor of science degree in psychology. i guess i could've not taken it and gotten a bachelor of art...i worked on the first homework of the semester yesterday and though it was not difficult at all, it was so time-consuing and tedious.  i'm hoping that the later homeworks aren't like this.
human anatomy seems like it could be fun...except i feel a little bit bad for the professor. at the end of the lecture on wednesday, he was finishing up by saying, "so for next lecture, we're going to discuss...." and right after he spoke those key words, so many people started packing up, ignoring what he was saying. these people were so rude and disrespectful! i couldn't hear what the professor was saying as he was timidly going on about what we were going to learn next time...it was kinda sad...maybe he'll stand up for himself next time?
i'm continuing with research in the Whiteley Lab, so that'll be cool. I don't know what i'm working on yet, but i'll know by wednesday, i think.
On to more exciting news --
i turned 21 last week! haha, except i didn't go all out and get smashed or anything, which is good. i actually had a bit of a stomach flu, so i just had a nice dinner with jonathan, steph, mich, and kayla at The Oasys. mich, jonathan, and i drove downtown afterwards, trying to find a parking spot, but i felt really queasy, so we went home instead. also, the night before, jonathan and i drank a bottle of champagne by ourselves and then went to spider house after midnight to get some first-ever-in-my-life-legal-alcholic-beverages! it was kinda anti-climatic b/c the waitress didn't card me, haha. but i ordered a peach frozen margarita and jonathan got a half-carafe of sangria. they were both quite nice and tasty.
by now, my stomach flu-like thing has gone away -- huzzah! so yesterday night, jonathan half-dragged me downtown to go to a a beer bar, The Ginger Man, for the sake of finally being able to go out together downtown and to just have fun. i got one pint of a pale ale and another pint of an apple cider thing. jonathan got three pints of beers! we saw one of jonathan's friends there, which was cool and we did a lot of people-watching and whatnot. i was scared that the bar was going to be super-crowded and filled with creepy people, but it wasn't! the bar was crowded, but not so much that i felt really uncomfortable. i thought the bartenders were really cool, though. they're so efficient and quick! i wonder how it feels like to bartend at the ginger man...i think it would be really tiring and a little bit fun.
after staying there for a while, we went to the whiskey bar, b/c i wanted to go to a smaller, quieter place. jonathan and his friends went there once last semester and said that only the bartender and some old man was there, so we thought it was going to be quiet/less crazy than other places. well, we walked in and there were definitely a lot more people than just one old man. we each got a whiskey on rocks and wondered what happened to the bar.
to end the night, we went to get some Bratwurst and The Best Wurst. i couldn't finish mine by myself, so jonathan helped. it was some awesome-tasting wurst. we got back to west campus on the e-bus, which was crazy-crowded and that was the end of the night!
there was a strange satisfaction i got from being carded everywhere. all the bouncers seemed a little confused/taken aback when they saw my license, so it was really funny.
i hope everyone started out their school year well!
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| ignorant people never cease to amaze me. i seriously worry for our world's future. how do people remain this ignorant in 2008 in the United States of America?
Race is always a touchy subject, but I really can't believe how many people hold onto prejudices and stereotypes so tightly. People like to support their racism and ignorance by either making up statements with no valid historical support or by only selectively picking out events in history.
this might be a newsflash for some people, but EVERYONE'S racist. Don't just pick out white people and say how racist they are just because they are the people in most recent history to enslave people outside their race. Slavery has been around for a hell of a long time before the 13 colonies existed, so don't use that excuse. Everyone's at least a little bit racist; it's naive to think anyone's completely colorblind when it comes to race.
Even though racism is apparent in everybody, some people choose to be open-minded and ready to absorb new ideas and experiences.
Sadly, it seems like those kinds of people are far outnumbered by people who continue to stay ignorant and close-minded.
How can you expect others to embrace new people and ideas when you yourself are so opposed to learning and opening your mind?
This post was inspired by the featured entry, "Why I Will Never Date a White Guy: Asian Girl/White Guy Not For Me." I respect her opinion but she's rejecting one stereotype but accepting another and she thinks she's enlightened. Ha! And all the comments that entry got....wow...There were a few very open-minded people's comments and a lot of not so-open-minded ones. I don't care who dates who and what race/sexual orientation/religion/nationality/whatever the two people are as long as they LOVE each other.
By how the world is right now, there isn't enough love going around. Just a bunch of hate and haters spreading it.
On a lighter note:
I got a TS 360 (90.9 percentile) and AA 360 (95.3 percentile) on my OAT! My goal was to get a 340, so I was blown away by these scores!! All I have to do now is apply and ask for recommendations from good ol' professors...fun stuff 
I really, really, really appreciate all the support i've received from all my loved ones! y'all don't know how much your "good luck's!" mean to me. Y'all are the best people EVAR! haha
I like to say that the Olympians are not the only ones who won on Sunday, because I totally owned the OAT!! 
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