ihop adventure

Today was a terrible day. While everyone else was downtown getting drunk and catching beads (not that this is what I wanted to do, just saying...), I woke up at 7:30 and immediately got to studying physiology.  At 1 o'clock I realized my productivity was waning, so I decided to break.  I transferred to Anna's where she fed me pizza, then I miserably studied (with still about half the productivity I had in the morning) until about 7:45.  Then it was IHOP time.  

Today at IHOP, everyone could get a FREE 3 stack of buttermilk pancakes.  IHOP sketches me out, but I will eat almost anything that is free.  So, with Anna driving, we went and thoroughly enjoyed those pancakes.  At the end of our meal, we discovered Anna's keys were missing.  After searching the places we would have preferred them to be (in her pockets, at the table, i even looked through my purse) we found they were locked in her car, still in the ignition.  And the car was running.  Then, she forgot her phone number and the color of her car all within the span of 5 minutes.  People, this is what med school is.  Our brains are disintegrating bit by bit (some faster than others apparently).

This has never happened to me.  Luckily, Honda makes it very difficult to do such a thing.  I cannot lock my car without my keyless entry unless I pull on the door handle while I push down on the lock. But I have done some stupid things while driving.  

1.  tried to get out of the car while it was still in drive

2. tried to put the car in park while it was still moving 

3. tried to turn on the car when it is already on (done that a lot, herbie gets angry)

4. recently I endangered 4 very nice people's lives by setting my mileage to zero while I was turning.  When the wheel straightened out, my arm got stuck and twisted around, and I ended up in the other lane.

So, conclusion of the night, we waited for about 45 minutes for AAA to show up.  In the meantime, Steven (who also happened to be partaking of the free pancakes with his fam) broke apart an umbrella and tried to use the metal piece to unlock the car.  Unsuccessful.  Lee asked almost every person leaving IHOP if they had a coat hanger in their car.  Unsuccessful. We did talk to a girl who had locked her keys in her car earlier that day, and she said the AAA guy told her more people locked their keys in their car on Fat Tuesday then any other day of the year.  I wonder why...

10pm on a friday night=bedtime!

some of my new favorite things:

- Gelato.  So much better than ice cream.  Thanks to Allison's recent betrayal, we were able to go to Serda's downtown with her $100 gift certificate.  They have gelato, and it is fabulous.  Allison and I shared 3 scoops- tahitian vanilla, bananas foster, and dark chocolate raspberry truffle.  Each is as amazing as it sounds.  

- 30 Rock.  The 2 funniest shows on TV come on back-to-back on Thursday night.  Thanks to Netflix, I've  seen almost every episode (only 3 left, then I'm switching to arrested development).  You should check it out.  Tina Fey is a genius.  

-  Netflix.  It brought me to 30 rock. 

- Statistics.  Who woulda thought?  Please don't judge me.  

- Not going to class.  It's amazing what I can get done in two hours when I'm not sitting in that classroom.  

The perfect afternoon?  I will skip class, go to Serda's, order some gelato, and watch 30 rock on Netflix.  I need some help figuring out how to work the statistics into that plan.  

  

things more important than studying

So, this morning started out like any other day.  My alarm went off at 7AM and I got out of bed about 3 minutes later.  (Correction: this is nothing like a normal day, in which I usually snooze for about 40 minutes).  As soon as I got up, I turned off my alarm, so I was a bit confused when I heard it going off again about 5 minutes later.  I went it there and it was actually someone calling me, a number I didn’t recognize.  This is what followed…

Me: Hello?

Random Dude: Is this Elizabeth? (said very energetically)

Me: (awkward silence)…. Yes?

Random Dude: GOOOOOD MORNING!!

Me: (much longer awkward silence) Thank you?

Random Dude went on to tell me that my friend Allison (LOTT not to be confused with any other Allison I know) had written an email saying I needed a wake up call because I was grouchy in the morning and always late to class.  The only words I was able to get out were awesome, thank you, yes, etc.  I won a CD and a $10 gift certificate to Serda’s.  Allison however, wins a $100 GC to Serda’s.  Does this seem unfair to anyone else?  She spends about 2 minutes writing an email full of deceit and I get embarrassed on the radio?  I’m wondering the impact this will have on my medical career.  I’m sure hundreds of thousands of people across the gulf coast were listening to 92Zew this morning at 7:15, and after hearing that Elizabeth Donahue, who is in med school, is mean and has no concept of time, they’ll probably think I am going to be a terrible doctor.  When in actuality, I am a very nice person and I am never late to class.  That is because I do not go, but that’s irrelevant. 

And apparently this is not the first time they’ve tried to call me.  One morning a couple weeks ago I was still asleep and got a call from a funny number which I did not take.  And I’m glad I didn’t because who knows what I would have said in my half-conscious state.  

quick update on life

1.  I've been on a mission along with some amigos to see all the best picture nominees for this year.  I'm still missing Milk and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.  But the 3 I have seen...

-The Reader- I wasn't a huge fan, but everyone else that I went with loved it.  Its just not my kind of movie.

-Slumdog Millionaire- absolutely amazing.

-Frost/Nixon- also not my kind of movie, but I enjoyed it.  I did fall asleep a little bit, but 

          that was only because we went at 10:30 at night.

I am super excited about seeing He's Just Not that Into You and the Shopaholic movie.  I am pretty sure the latter is going to be terrible, but those books are my favorite so I can't not see it.  

2.  I made a 94 on my physiology test.  I studied hardcore for this thing so I'm glad it paid off.  It was the first A I've made in about 5 months, and it's also been quite awhile since I've been above average.  It is exhausting being in a class with a bunch of geniuses.  The only problem is, I made a 94 on my first anatomy test... and then I ended up barely making a B in the class, so this trend will hopefully not continue.

3.  Sunday was my birthday.  I had lunch with the fam, and I went canoeing that night.  The canoeing was lots of fun, even though I saw none of the advertised "creatures of the night".  It was a good day, but also highly unexciting.  Its a bit depressing that birthdays get less important every year.

4.  I'm lacking the motivation to study right now.  I have to be in a really good mood to study, and I'm not right now.  Not entirely sure why... I probably should go for a run and work up some endorphins.