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Im working on Georgia Sex Offenders 2006 page for my website. If it isnt up within 2-3 weeks, bother me about it.

I’ll be busy next week so I probably wont have time to finish it. My problem is that, upon checking my schedule for the week, I realized Im scheduled to work 60 hours, which is not gonna work. Im trying to get ahold of my unit coordinator today to sort it out, but she hasnt gotten back to me as of yet. Oh well. This grownup stuff isnt fun.

Funny thing is though, if I worked all those hours, next week I would make $1,190. That is a lot of money.

ps
Im totally tired of seeing this dude (nsfw) on the internet. It seriously pisses me off. It was funny for like a while but now it makes me feel gross.
The other night I made Adam and myself a Polish dinner. I dont know how to cook yet, so I tried real hard. It was aweeeeessommmeeeeee. I made the most amazing cabbage and pierogies also. Oh man, it was delicious. Amanda, if you ever come over and want me to make it for you, I totally will.

I dont supposed I have mentioned much about Adam. He is the fellow I am dating. We have been dating for something like 2 months now (I dont know. I dont keep track of these things. We started dating one of the first days of May), and havent really spent a day apart, literally. We are pretty close already. He is my good friend Rickie’s brother. That is how we met, even though I’ve known Rickie for 2 years. He just recently decided to introduce us, mentioning how perfect me and Adam would be for each other. We are, and it is gross.

Pictures:

Adam and Emily while Adam is trying to beat Emily’s high score on tetris

Adam smiling like Emily (if you know me in person and have ever asked me to smile you will know what I am talking about. If not, my fake unenthusiastic smile looks just about like this)

We is two dorks.

Also, Ive started my job as a Registered Nurse. So far it is going pretty well. No complaints, really. Not quite used to working so early in the morning or 12 hour shifts, but Im sure I’ll be ok after a few more. It feels really good to sign my name with RN behind it instead of SNSAU (student nurse, sau=southern adventist university). Also it feels good to be able to do my job without so much supervision. Its annoying to go give an IV drug and have to be watched, etc.

Being a “grown up” is gay though mostly. Im not used to that either. Im trying to learn how it all works, and while I am learning, Im making mistakes. At least I am learning though. One of these challenges is cooking. So far Ive been able to make delicious enchiladas, lasagna, cabbage, pierogies, and chicken nachos. They were all really good, ask Adam. I cant make cookies or brownies well yet though. I keep burning them. Also I tried to make an omelet and overcooked it and also it just looked like a pile of crap cuz I couldnt turn it over right. I GUESS IT COMES WITH TIME! At least I am trying to learn. Gosh.

Keykey is doing well. She loves Adam more than me though. It is weird. Maybe it is because I torture her:

Look, she sits with him while he reads Dungeons and Dragons books on his laptop:

NOTE: THAT IS NOT ME. THAT IS ADAM. I say this because someone viewed this and said I should shave my arms. Mens are allowed to have hairy arms though.

The cat is really funny. Im pretty sure she is nuts. She runs around like a retard and falls off the couch a lot. She is about as annoying though as she is crazy. I cant even sleep with her in my room. She will sleep nicely beside me for a little while, and then wake up and lick my face or put her cold nose on my nose EVERY TIME. Im told this is adorable. It isnt. It is annoying. Currently, I am laying down and she is sitting on my butt, kneading my lower back with her paws. It feels nice. It is like a kitty massage. She is very friendly. Come over to my house and meet her. She will love you.

Well, this is a lot of words. I hope you have enjoyed reading it.

1. Today I started conversations with two people in the campus store while in line to buy my books for this semester. Both people asked slight variations of “Is this your first year here?” and I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE saying “No actually, its my last semester, I graduate in May”. It makes me so happy like you dont even know.

2. They should not let two young black men be the only employees working at one time at Subway. It is a disaster.

3. I cleaned my room for 2 hours today and it doesnt really look like I did anything.

4. My schedule this semester sucks fanny. I have lab every Monday from 6:15am-3:15pm and one 12 hour lab on a SUNDAY (6:30am-7pm). After the first two weeks of class, I have my classes every day from 10am-1pm. I have Adult Health III on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Pediatrics on Wednesdays and Fridays. My first two weeks starting tomorrow are like these special labs or something so I have all sorts of them, so they are extra bad. And by special labs, I mean 12 hour shifts. 3 days in a row, and all the other days of the week, labs ranging from 3 hours to 5 hours. Prepare for a very grouchy Emily.

5. For dinner I am eating carrots, celery, broccoli, and Dove chocolate.

I am a bit worried/stressed/full of anxiety about this semester though. Ive been both looking forward to it and dreading it. Looking forward to it because it is my last semester of college, and dreading it because its going to be all intense, time consuming, and the whole graduation thing is just going to be a hassle. I would be content not doing the walking thing at all, but of course my mother will not have that. I havent even started yet, and I already feel overwhelmed. I know though that tomorrow I’ll probably feel a bit less anxious because I’ll have a better idea as to what is going on. Also, Im sure this semester is going to go pretty quickly. The last one surely flew by. Im going to be so busy that the same thing will happen as last semester, I wont even realize how fast time is really going.

I dont really feel very happy right now, mostly because of stress related to my school stuff and several other life events. I apologize to anybody reading this that I may have been a bit grouchy to lately, or just simply distant. For anybody who didnt realize that Im totally stressed out, now you know, haha. Anyways, I feel almost miserable right now, but I think it will get at least a little bit better once I get into the swing of things.

Also, I suppose it is a bit exciting but scary to almost be done with school. I kinda feel weird about it. One of the problems I am having is feeling old. Im not old though, I am only 20. That is all terribly young. I think it is very funny that I’ll be taking other’s lives into my hands but I wont even be allowed to purchase alcohol legally yet. That strikes me as so funny.

It will be nice to be done with school and have my own place to live where I can have a freaking television and wear jewelry if I please and not have to hide my ear holes and not have to be home at 11:15 and have decent internet that doesnt block every other website and doesnt kick me off for downloading barely anything. Also, I want to purchase a Shih Tzu. We will live together in happiness and he will be called Cuppy.

He will look just like that.

Leave me cheerful comments. I needs them.

Finally I am hoping there is progress with this yucky room! I dont remember if Ive posted about it or not, but my room is gross and moldy and damp. Ive complained 4 times and had them look at my AC, but the lady just kept getting sassy with me. I told her how damp my room was and she’s like (with a bad attitude….that pissed me off…alot….cuz she is always like that) "Well, honey…it isnt going to be dry in there. Its 100 degrees outside and 100% humidity". I say "well, it isnt as damp in the hall and in the rest of the building….." because her explanation only makes sense if I like have my window open or something. ACs are supposed to filter that crap.  Anyways, Ive complained to two deans, including the head deans, in person. Nothing has been done.

So…I told my microbiology teacher about it. She told us at the beginning of the first day of class that she has a particular interest in molds, so I knew she’d be interested. I told her how I’ve been sick and have headaches, etc. and how the school hadnt fixed anything, so she said she’d help. Today after lab we took 4 petri plates to have the air (which could have spores and such that are making me sick) so it can settle on them. We put one about a foot from the AC vent, one on my sink, one on my pillow, and one on the toilet seat to see the concentration in different areas. Im supposed to leave them there for 2 hours.

Then we took three sterilized swabs and make one swab of the mold from my AC vent slat things, one from the track on my closet (which has had mold on it previously), and one from the wall above the AC vent.

Then we needed a control room. She said I needed to find someone in a room as close as possible to mine that would let me put them in their room and do swabs there. I walked down the hall and realized two girls from my micro class were sharing a room 3 doors down across the hall. They were of course fine with it and understood what I was doing and thought it was cool. Dr. Foster simply told me to choose a room with no odor like mine, and I didnt smell one in their room, but their AC had more mold in it than mine did (Ive cleaned mine several times and have spray bleached the inside that I cant reach…so naturally mine is decently clean). I am going to call her soon to see if that is a problem and if I need to redo a room with no mold or anything.

She said the mold should be all grown and we’d see what was there on Monday, so hopefully if there is harmful stuff or anything at all that WOULD be interfering with my allergies that she can report, I will get some action on my room as far as replacement of nasty crap.  She said she will write the school a paper with her findings.

Microbiology class actually isnt too bad. Its hard, of course, but getting to see stuff cultured from places you swab is really interesting. For instance, our lab yesterday was on transmission and such of bacteria, so we made like 20 something  cultures (if you think sciency stuff is boring you can skip this part:

We did one where like I (we took turns mostly) wiped my unwashed fingers on half a petri plate, then washed them with regular (non antibacterial) to see the difference. Result: There were more germs after washing my hands.

We did one where Amy (one of my lab partners…we have a group of 3 cuz somebody dropped the class so I let her join us) did the same as the last one, but instead of regular soap, used antibacterial. Result: Same, except that the presence of gram negative bacteria was the same, but the gram positive was mostly all killed.

We did one kind of investigating sterile technique. Matt (other lab partner) swiped his unwashed hand on half the petri dish, then washed his hands with the same type of surgical scrub used at hospitals and then used sterile technique to put on sterile gloves. He left the sterile gloves on his hands for 30 minutes. Then he took them off and swiped the petri dish on the other side. Result: His hands had like 3x more bacteria on them afterwards. That is why its important to wear gloves during surgery!

We all did one where we divided the petri dish into thirds and sterile swabbed our lips. Amy’s didnt have much growth (which was odd…she probably didnt swipe enough on there), but me and Matt’s were FULL of bacteria. We had to rate the growth of colonies from 0 (no growth) to +4 (colonies covering most of the area), and me and Matt’s were definate 4s. We made jokes the rest of the lab session about this, such as if you had a microbiologist husband you could kiss a petri plate and it would make a big lip shaped colony of bacteria in the shape of lips, since there is so much of it on your lips, etc.

We did one experiment with coins. Most people think they are disgusting, right? You would never kiss a penny, but if you did it’d be cleaner than kissing somebody else’s lips! We swabbed them and barely anything grew. All of the class was so confused…cuz everybody knows coins are filthy. She told us that silver and copper that coins are made of have natural antibiotic properties to them and dont really carry much. I thought that was kinda neat. Dont kiss any paper money though.

We all did one experiment where we could choose whatever we wanted to swab for culturing. Amy chose the spout on the water fountain. There were germs in it. Matt did the mouth part on his cell phone. It didnt really have any germs on it…but then we realized that most people dont cough into the phone while using it since that is mostly rude, and they are constantly put in and out of pockets, wiping any germs probably off. Now, what Ive wondered for forever, is what I did my culture on. "Ear Funk". I dont know what else to call it, thats just what I have heard everyone else call it. If you dont have piercings (especially large gauge ones…cuz more surface area to notice it) or dont know or have extraordinarily clean piercings, this off whitish beigish crap builds up on them…and it STINKS SO BAD. I dont know of many other things that are worse to get shoved under your nose than a plug out of someone’s ear or their fingers after they mess with them. It smells for forever, also. I think I would rather hold a turd under my nose for an hour than a plug. Its really foul. Especially when you are just sitting there and someone shoves it under your nose and you arent expecting it and breathe in through your nose. So yes, I’d been wondering why this smells so bad, and if it was because of bacteria (I was pretty sure it was…and I wanted to see it). So, when the teacher wasnt looking (Im not allowed to have jewelry at school for readers who dont know. Also I use a lot of parenthesis. Is that spelled right?) I took out my one of my plug and swabbed my plug. It grew more than any other culture we had. It was TERRIBLE looking and everywhere. Like it was a forest and the whole entire third of the tray that was mine was full. Usually you get a few colonies to a line of them along your swab lines, but mine had grown over them and was pretty much solid. Here is an example of kind of how the culture stays on the lines (you can see where this person swabbed in a weird way…usually you just make one of the "sets" of squiggles he has. I dont know why you’d make multiple ones on top of each other….that makes it hard to see). So yeah, my ears are gross.

Im not sure if any of the others were of particular interest…but we did learn in class today that hand sanitizers arent very good for you to use…so stop it. 

Hooray for categories! 

So I was super stressed out about my mental health test today since my last one was horrid. It was so bad, in fact, that I only got a 73%, and you all know I am not that stupid. Everbody else did really bad too and the questions were awfully worded. So I studied for this one and I totally got a 91%. That means if I do ok on the final I AM GOING TO PASS. You have to get a 78% in the test section to pass, btw. That is why I was so scared with that 73%. I think I am going to be ok now though.

Next item of greatness: I wasnt going to say anything but I am pretty sure my room mate doesnt know about my website so its ok. Evelyn, if you are reading this, I am sorry. Sort of. But not too much. It is just that I HAD to say something. Something of this magnitude cannot go without showing and telling the world. 

Ok–here it is–my room mate is going to class today in her Jedi costume. She is actually going in public, in front of her classmates, in a Star Wars costume. Her star wars fan club meetings and get togethers, I maybe understand. But not infront of college classmates. Apparently she is doing a speech today having something to do with sci-fi. She was sad she cant wear her daily baseball cap to cover her shaved head because Jedis dont wear baseball caps. And now, the best part….I actually secretly took pictures. Too bad they arent great since she kept moving, and its hard to secretly take pictures of someone when they are only 6 feet away from you, but they will do. AND NOW FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE…..my room mate evelyn in her home made Jedi costume!

also note the piles of trash lolololol

Man, this was the best morning evar. Cept that one morning where we were in England and we were checking into our hotel (that didnt have air conditioning but did have heated towel racks. apparently air conditioning isnt a standard thing there. fags) and my sister katie started watching tv and there were these pay per view channels at the end of the regular stations of programming and it said what it was and you had to put your room number it to buy it and she didnt know what that meant and so she thought to watch tv you just had to put room numbers in and put them in several times and then we had to go do something and when we came back later she was flipping through channels again and i was watching with her and all of the sudden it comes onto one of those last channels that she’s bought but we dont know that yet right and so like i had gotten distracted and was looking at something other than the tv while she was flipping through and i hear a funny noise but keep doing something else and then she says to me "hey emmy, what is this?" and I look over and its totally porn and not just regular porn, its two FAT black ladies completely nude bending over onto a hot tub and a normal sized white man smacking their butts with his erect penis.