My so Charmed Life

Maggie, the dog we adopted almost 2 years ago does not do well with storms. She is on Prozac because of her severe anxiety & we have to give her a Xanax “booster” if she gets bad. We were supposed to have a tropical storm come through here today which means freak out time for Smack-Smack (Maggie smacks her lips she she is nervous). I gave her Xanax last night before I went to bed and got up at 7 to dose her again.

I came back to bed at 7:30 and told hushbear that everyone ate and got medicine but wouldn’t go outside. Hushbear said ok and went back to sleep. I somehow managed to take Nyquil instead of my Robitussin DM and I was out until 10:30. When I got up, hushbear told me that he had fed & drugged the girls. Ahhhhhh! That means the Maggie got a double dose of Xanax today!

We barely got any rain at all & she has been stumbling around the house all day long!
I wonder if they accept dogs in rehab now?

I’m still taking 17 hours in the fall, the classes have just changed a little. RF had told me to drop my first semester because I had failed a class. That would obviously increase my overall GPA but I would have to retake those other 3 classes. I decided to do it, but then I talked to Dr. S. He told me not to do it. He said overall GPA doesn’t matter when applying for grad school. They are looking at what you have done recently.

I have a 3.67 in my classes I have taken since returning (33 hours) and they only look at the last 60 hours. With 29 hours remaining that means the old ones won’t even figure in. I swear RF is just there to make the university more money.

So now I am taking 6 hours of history which include Comparative revolutions with Dr. S and Modern France (with a professor that I have been told is very tan and is in love with himself). 6 hours of psychology -Social Psyc and Gender Psyc and finally 5 hours of French.

I’ve tallied up my book count for the 5 classes (6 if you count the French lab) and it’s… 21 books! Social Psych doesn’t actually have a book (thank you Dr. Knee). Luckily for comp rev I already have 2 of the books and one is available in Kindle form. I’ve actually already downloaded that one. I don’t even want to think about how much money that will be.

If there’s one thing that will really freak me out it’s a sonogram picture. I do not understand why everyone feels the need to share theirs. I hate it when people put the picture up as their profile picture on myspace. Give me a break, I really don’t want to see your uterus. Creeps me out every time.

I can’t really think of many people with whom I would share that. I know the grandparents-to-be would probably want to see it, but why would anyone else?

What are you supposed to say when someone shows you the sonogram? Wow, looks just like you! Or do you tell them the truth? That it looks like every other sonogram picture you have seen. That you are actually beginning to suspect that doctors print out the same one for every person?

I used to think the 3D ones were cool, but now they creep me out even more than the regular ones. That’s just freaky, and doesn’t it take some of the fun out of it. What if your baby is ugly? You’re going to sit around for the next few months thinking “Damn, my baby is ugly…that really sucks.

I hate it when people announce that they are pregnant by putting up the sonogram picture. Ew! When I am empress I will outlaw this practice right away.

BTW, these are not my sonogram pictures; I am not pregnant. These were stolen from Wikipedia.

I had the best meeting with my favorite professor a couple of weeks ago. I went in to discuss a class he is teaching in the Fall and to ask about his Capstone course. I left there and had to redo almost my entire schedule.

Dr. S wants me to join the history honor society, Phi Alpha Theta. Although my overall GPA isn’t high enough he said he might be willing to overlook that. I’ve requested my transcript and have to give it to him next week.

We talked a bit about graduate school and he seems pleased that the French Revolution will be my primary focus. I have to take a year or so off but that actually works out well as Dr. S will be out for a year writing a book on the Russian revolution. I imagine he will be my adviser in grad school.

Next semester I am now taking 5 hours of elementary French as Dr. S said I will need to learn French and possibly German (eek!) for grad school. The French class is added on to the Comparative Revolutions, Modern France, History since 1877, and Social Psychology courses I signed up for. That’s 17 hours total. Yikes! Guess it’s time to talk with PICGirl & RPhGuy about hiring another tech.

I also had a really good meeting with my undergraduate adviser, RF. He again encouraged me to drop my first semester and retake those 9 hours and think I have decided to do it. He said he doesn’t think I will have a problem getting into grad school but getting that F off of my record will help. I have to go petition to the dean next week.

How long until things start to fall apart again?

Have you ever been so drunk that you have painful, violent hiccups? I am there right now. Suckage.

Update:
I have been home less than 20 minutes and have had to pee 3 times already…this is going to be a long night. I can’t help but think that being drunk at work would make it so much more fun, perhaps I shall try this one day with RPhGuy!

Bush gets booed at the 2008 National home opener

“I’ve coined new words, like ‘misunderstanding’ and ‘Hispanically.'”

-Bush at theRadio & Television Correspondent’s dinner
March 29, 2001

Anxiously awaiting the primary/caucus results. She is leading him by 28,614 with 46% reporting.

I was one of like 4 people in my little caucus table there for Obama, the rest were middle aged (primarily white) women voting for Hillary.

One in particular (her name is Jackie) brought a picture of herself with Hillary to place on the table. Fucking nutjob, she had Hillary signs and was prancing around in a Hillary shirt. She made a big point of walking back and forth and yelling so everyone would look at her.

The officials told her she couldn’t wear her shirt. She just happened to be holding a rule book and demanded that they show her where it said that. They gave up because the last person had just finished voting in the primary, so it was officially over.

She said that people tell her in the picture they look alike from the nose down. She then proclaimed at HC is 20 years older than her so that means HC must be aging well. I mentioned that it could just mean that she, Jackie, is not aging well.

I then requested a muzzle for her.