Fifth Week!!!$!

The fifth week has come to pass! Kind of crazy to think that it has already been five weeks. Time certainly is going by fast, I just wish I could speed it up a little bit more. Maybe fast-forward to the day I get my licence, that'd be nice. So this week we had a lab quiz on Monday that was super easy, still a long day though. Tuesday and Wednesday passed pretty uneventfully at school.

However, Wednesday night Marie, her mom, my mom, and I went to the Comal County Fair. It was very exciting. Well, as exciting as fairs can be. We rode the Ferris wheel, and the whole time I thought about a wheel made out of Fe2+, played some games, and ate some fried stuff! I won the dart throwing game, my prize, a fifty-cent frog. Oh well can't always expect gold plated toilets. It's crazy how much the prices have changed in the last five years. I remember it being two dolla billz to play the games, now it's five big ones! I don't see how the majority of the goers pay for all the stuff, especially when they have 3-5 kids wanting to play and buy everything. And of course, being as it's in the NB, I ran into to a couple people I haven't seen in years, people I tried to erase from memory. Can't go to New Braunfels and not run into someone you know. All in all we had some fun though, it was nice to take a day off from school work.

Thursday was an action packed day, I went from class to an APhA event to visit my resident to work out to going to dinner with CAPA. So we'll start off by elaborating the CARE visit. My old lady is so sweet, probably the best, she constantly tells me I am "gorgeous", and this time she told me she loves me and gave me a kiss on the cheek good-bye. She has Alzheimer's so we repeat a lot of our conversations, which is probably why she tells me I am gorgeous all the time, so I didn't expect her to remember me. Well she didn't recognize me when I walked in, but about five minutes into our conversation she said to me, "Did you say you have a little brother?" I sat there shocked, because I hadn't mentioned my little brother since the last visit two weeks ago, and then told her yes I did. She remembered something about me! So maybe there is hope after all, at least maybe a chance that she'll regain some short-term memory. I would love to walk in and have her remember me and her kids be so happy and grateful to know that with patience and effort, she may remember them and their children. I know it's a long shot, but you gotta have something to believe in or else this world will chew you up and spit you out.

For dinner I got to attend my first wining and dining event sponsored by Merck for CAPA members. CAPA= Capitol Area Pharmacist Association. It came included with APhA membership. It was awesome, we ate at the Shoreline Grill and I got two giant glasses of wine and one of the best filet mignon I have ever had. FOR FREE! I can get used to this! I can't wait for even more events! I will for sure sign up for all the free dinners once I am a pharmacist, we deserve a free meal every now and again.Not only was the food good, but the presentation wasn't bad either. So it was definitely a win-win situation. If only I could have brought Marie, I tried, then it would have been perfecto!

Friday was yesterday and tomorrow is Sunday! Then Monday follows and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday...... then Friday again! Stupid Rachel Black. Anyways, Friday sucked but I am getting a little more used to the suffering every week. This time it was Mike's stomach growling. Then I got to go eat Outback and enjoy some beers and a movie. We watched Equilibrium, very Matrixish, pretty good though. Christian Bale is pretty hardcore and I liked the literary ties to 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and Brave New World. I recommend re-reading those if it's been awhile or not at all. Makes you wonder what we start to sacrifice for the sake of peace and equality. Today I worked and didn't have too much trouble.

So I had an interesting experience on the bus Wednesday morning. I kept feeling something hit the back of my seat followed by a "ping" noise. I finally turned around and found it to be a man's head hitting the metal bar every time the bus lurched, which is often. The pinging was pretty loud and sounded quite painful, so I watched him to see if he would wake up and lean back. He didn't move except for the sway of the bus. This occurred for about five minutes before I began to the]ink that the guy was dead. So I questioned the bus in general, "Do you think this dude behind me is dead?" I received only one response, "I think I saw him move awhile back." So here I am sitting with a dead guy behind me and I am really wondering what my mode of action should be, shake him and risk him being alive, but drugged up, and attacking me, or let him continue to bang his head against the pole and assume that the city was gonna have a funeral on its hands. Before I could make up my mind a slight cough slipped out and I took that as proof of life. Who knows, that may have been his last breath.

Then a transsexual gets on the bus and starts talking about God to another passenger. The bus driver got angry and asked her to stop because that is soliciting and it's a city run bus and people shouldn't have to listen to that if they don't want to. She then starts arguing about free speech and religion, so the bus driver tells her not to speak to him because it's not safe for the other riders and that's a rule. She keeps going at him so he presses a button that announces over the speaker, "Please do not speak to the bus driver for your safety." She finally get's the message and starts talking to the guy next to her, claiming that since there are no Arabic, and therefore no terrorists, riding the bus that she can talk about the Father, Son and Holy spirit all she wants. I am not making this up! She said that all Arabics are terrorists. That just doesn't sit well with me, but I am not going to go any further into this discussion. Let's just leave it at this, Austin is a strange place and a lot of weirdos ride the bus!

Sorry this was such a long post my lovelies, but I had a lot to cover. First test is this next week on Wednesday, I'll let you know how it goes! Stay strong and pass the vodka!