Obnoxious, self-congratulatory "OMG everything rules" post

[la_belle_laide]

Guys, thank you for the kind and supportive thoughts and posts. :)

Gran is home from the hospital. She actually slept at my parents' house last night because she was afraid she would have nightmares. She's feeling better but she still has to go in for more tests. She went in for chest pains but her kidney values were elevated. Her heart tests all came back within range. (knock on wood!) Seems as if she pulled a bunch of muscles either playing with the baby, or playing tug o' war with her dog. ^_^ At any rate, I'm just glad she is home.

Haku is doing the whole healing, eating, itching, scratching, trying to lick, thinking he can play, and once in a while still yiping a little if he gets up too fast or if something startles him. (When he gets startled he jumps up and howls like a damn fool; I swear he's like a panic button on a car.) STILL no biopsy results on all the many bits they took out of him. (They took the uterus and ovary--if indeed that's what those were--and bits of his liver and kidney just to test.) I'm antsy for the results; tomorrow will be eight days. But, he is almost back to being my spazzy Kohaku-chan and I'm so glad for that.

I don't remember if I wrote down what happened Saturday with my A&P mid term? Looking back, it seems I didn't. So, I got an A on my anatomy and physiology mid term! I'm so happy. My score was 91. The second highest was 87 so he set the curve at 13 points, which gave me 100 and allowed most of the rest of the class to pass. The professor was so kind to the ones who didn't pass. They can take the class again and he said, "The ones who got 90 and up, they're the ones who go on to be administrators, or continue school, or go further into western or eastern medicine." (I had to laugh, because I utterly lack ambition when it comes to the business end of things. An administrator? LMFAO.) He said, "Those of you who didn't do as well as you liked, you will obviously still have a career. You're not going to fail. You're just going to get better." He's nice and everyone thinks he's so cute. It Niles Crane mated with Sting, their kid would look like this guy. There were two answers on my scantron that I got right but the machine marked wrong. I pointed them out and Dr. A. said he would correct the grade. He looked my grade up on the computer and said, "Umm, you really can't go any higher," in a "the curve gave you 100, what more do you want?" kind of way and I realized I was maybe being petty. But damn it, I wanted those two frigging points on my raw score. As I was leaving the class he pulled me aside and said "Hey, seriously: good job." That about made my day.

And in chemistry, today was a good day too. For some reason I was rocking the organic chem; every structure he drew on the board I could name without having to consult the notes--and it was all brand new to me! It's like a word game, very easy! But I have to tell you, it is so damn satisfying to be the first one calling out, "2,3 dichloro 3 methylpropane!" with ease after having failed this bitch in high school. And Dr. H saying, "YES! This is why I love teaching."

This is why I love learning.

Also we got our mid terms back and I got an 87. With the bell curve it was a 94; the second highest grade in class. Going back over the test, there were two questions I got wrong that I actually frigging knew, knew really well, and just marked the wrong stupid answer. I call those my "dog surgery points" because hey, I honestly wasn't paying attention when I took that test. Haku was in surgery as I was taking it. Anyway, I'm mad at myself for the two damn questions (reading them more carefully would have given me a raw score of 91 and a curve score of 98. :/ ) Still, most folks got in the 70's and a few people failed outright. One of my friends said, "Dr. H., I'm just not made for chemistry." He said he understood, and that some folks would struggle with it all their lives. He said to me, like Dr. A did, "Hey, great job," and I thanked him and said if only I could do so well in channels and points. Another girl said, "It's a left-right brain kidn of thing; some people get C&P and some people get chemistry." I said, "But... I'm a writer." And Dr. H said, "Well... But I think you're kind of a science geek."

O_O

A SCIENCE GEEK. ^_^

I fully realize that this is total beginner stuff, this is stuff that I should have learned when I was sixteen. But I didn't learn it when I was sixteen; I let this all slide by thinking that I would never need it and never even want to know. I want to know now, and I'm so glad to know. I want to understand the world better. These teachers are breaking it down in a way that I can understand, in ways that make sense; not in the "this makes sense and I can pass a test" kind of way but in a "this makes sense and I understand how things work now and why they are what they are" kind of way. Which just blows me freaking AWAY.

The other night I had a nightmare that I had to go back to work at The Bad Place. I have this dream abotu once every two months and it's always so godawful. I go back there to take care of some animal, and I'm going out of my way to avoid Dr. Dickwhistle and Nurse Knifeback. But they always seem to be around every corner anyway. It's a frustrating and totally maddening dream. I don't even want to see them when I'm asleep. Then I wake up and it's with such relief that I can barely put it into words. I don't ever have to see them. I don't ever have to return to that place. Instead, I'm going to this place where not only am I learning the logic of the world, but also where there are free massages if I wait around long enough, and in a month, a trip to China. Instead of shoveling their crap, I will be going to the Shaolin Temple. Instead of having to smile at 7 AM when I don't want to, instead of having to put up with their snipes and illogical bitchiness and unfairness like I did for so long, I'll be taking a walk along the Great Wall. So while I still totally wish bad things especially on Dr. Dickwhistle (he's got it coming, when people begin to find out the things he's done, and I have no doubt he will eventually give himself away.... Nurse Knifeback has it bad enough as it is,) on the other hand I just want to be like, "Thank you for being such dicks. You saved me from a life of stagnation." I know I say that a lot, or a variation thereof, but I can't get over how true that is.

Hum, what else. Oh, Thursday it's Springtime Hair-dyeing time. Also I downloaded some songs by Gackt, Faye Wong and Utada Hikaru and been listening on my way to school.

Yup, I think that's about it for now. ^_^

Comments

[fierynotes.livejournal.com]

Science just plain rocks. I know I only post on the subject when it involves things that blow up, but science as a whole rocks.

Other than that, I'm glad things are going so well. It's almost as if all the planets lined up on your behalf, if I believed in such things.

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

It does rock; I wish I'd known this the first time around! But hey, I'll take it now anyway. :)

Thanks Loki; I hope so. It would be sweet if everything turned out okay for Haku and Gran and everyone... and everything. 'Kay, now I'm getting into my OCD.

Hope everything's going great for you, too. ^_^

[spatterdash.livejournal.com]

I'd think rather than giving you shit about your top score on the exam, he'd have been concerned that perhaps the scantron marked those wrong for everyone in the class, which could made a grade-letter difference for others who might've had scores on the cusp.

Anyhow, congrats on the exams, yay for your gran and your pup, and hooray for no longer working at the bad place. Fuck them in the facehole with a knuckledustered fist.

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Oh he was cool about it; he gave everyone the chance to go over the scantron and check to see if there were mistakes. There were a few and he adjusted the scores. :)

Fuck them in the facehole with a knuckledustered fist.

This is why I love you. ♥