Get Offa My Tractor!

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drawing, ms paint, sharks on a tractor

Ahhh my leg!!

I made this in MS Paint about 5 years ago for my boyfriend.

I was Trapped in an Ele-Elevator.

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embarassing, trapped in an elevator

All smiles before the night went sour. I blame the Hungarian 40s that came in plastic bottles (jk).

Over Thanksgiving break my college friends who live near me decided to go out to the local bars. The night started out well enough. Bar one was a chill atmosphere and bar two was right next door. At the second bar the boyfriend broke a glass “cheers”-ing. We bundled up and marched across the frozen tundra to the next bar. Well, actually three of us were too cold and stopped in a gay bar. The girl above who is seeing not seeing…it’s complicated with the plaid-shirted man got angry at him for leaving with her wallet. I ordered three martinis for my boyfriend, the plaid-shirted man, and myself. We went to the next bar where I attempted to find the bathroom, I went in the elevator. I was stuck in the elevator by myself, between floors, for 30 minutes. This part I remember very clearly: I remember ringing the alarm bell and doing the bathroom dance. Then pure panic when I realized that my 21-year-old slightly inebriated self could not hold it in anymore. I peed myself. I never thought I would have a truly mortifying moment as I brush things off fairly easily but this was just ridiculously embarrassing.

Also, on a more positive note….

SHOES!

Can you believe that I got these cute navy blue Steve Madden shoes for three dollars from Salvation Army?!

Uhm, Excuse me, What? Publishing my First Journal Article

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daily life

This is me right now. I am finalizing a paper for publication and it will be my first published journal article. Huzzah! Yet, there are a few rather interesting tidbits I should probably share. The paper is on prenatal alcohol (ethanol) exposure and was written by a graduate student that I never met. This paper was never finished because the author died of alcohol intoxication. I did not know this until just last week. Now, I feel slightly guilty when changing her paper, like I’m defiling it. I want something I will be proud of. That’s understandable, right?

Now, my lab partner and I have the task of finishing this paper. We didn’t anticipate many problems but then we read the introduction and narrative review and they were super wordy and about twice as long as it should have been. Also, there is no reference page. We have the in-text citations but not the reference page information. Today we started finding the citations and writing a proper reference page and we realized that some of her citations spelled wrong, one linked to 256 page book and didn’t include a page number, and she wrote something directly contradictory to the results of another article.

What the What!

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big lots, funny finds, nicolas cage

Wait, you mean Ghost Rider isn’t included?  Damn! (Big Lots)

Etiquette? Handicap Stalls

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bathroom etiquette, etiquette, handicapped

So if you’re in a public restroom and every stall is taken except for the handicapped one can you go in it?

I went in there today but was so scared I’d be confronted with an angry handicapped person.

Once I had to change in a Kmart bathroom (I had leggings on under my pants to prevent my stitches from chaffing but it was too hot and tight) and I went in the handicapped stall only to be confronted by a woman in a wheelchair knocking and waiting to go to the bathroom.  Big woops.  Needless to say I try to not go in handicapped stalls now.

Fire Truck Fail

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fail, fire truck, fire truck crash, st. louis

This happened one year ago in St. Louis