Mr. Gatti's and not studying

Alright, so I totally told myself, and my friends, that I would start this semester off right! I was going to stream  (re-watch lectures online) all of my classes the same night after the class, and start memorizing all the little stuff, as soon as the semester started........ Like hell. I spent the first two weeks of school playing Mario Party with the wife, and then this week, which I told myself to get in gear, I went to Hooters (it was Marie's suggestion I swear!) and then Gattiland with Marie, my mom, and my little brother. Needless to say I am feeling the pressure of the eight, that's right eight, 8, ocho, EIGHT, tests that are coming up in ten days. However, I don't really care! I had a lot of fun with my family and to say I'd rather spend time with my wife over pharmacy school is like saying that the vast majority of America is stupid (an understatement). 

So anyways, that is what's been going on this week, a whole lotta jacking around, but it has been fun. Yesterday we all wore red for women's heart health and our class almost all showed up in the crimson color. And we ended up taking a very good photo! 

And of course, I had to be up front! I dragged along my friends Sameer and Mike. Mike loves the attention too, but Sameer looks like someone pooped in his cereal.

So I need all of you loyal fans to go to this link, click "like" at the top of the page, then "like" our photo. It is a compilation of all three classes, but it says UTCOP on it. So it'll be easy to find. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and is able to catch up from the week, I know I am going to try, sucks to my ass-mar for having a nine hour shift. I chose it though and we for sure need the money, I can't take listening to Marie brag about being the sugar mama.

I will leave you with one last comment, I think I may have mentioned how crazy, and trashy, the people above us are, well right now the mom is cussing out the 6 & 7 year old kids. Dropping F-bombs like they're going out of style. I feel so bad for them. I have contemplated calling CPS on them but every time I see the kids outside they seem to be perfectly fine. I think they may have mental problems and the mom cannot handle the pressure all the time and she snaps. They cry all the time and run around like crazy, jumping on their beds and generally causing mayhem. The other day one of them was screaming his head off while getting on the school bus, at 6:35 am. I know exactly when that bus comes because I can hear them as I am getting ready for school. "Get the F down here." "Don't slam the Fing door." "You're gonna be late you little assholes, hurry up." And then the kids "WAHHHHAAHHHHHH". I truly love living in the ghetto.

NOT!

New semester

Okay, so  have decided to start blogging again for the new semester. I was considering ending the relationship, because I didn't want to have the same stuff over and over. That would be boring. So I have decided to be less of a little bitch this semester. The blog will be more about my PhramD life, and less about how hard pharmacy school is, y'all have probably figured out that it is hard and don't need constant reminders from me.

So, to start off the new semester, we have been going relatively slow so far. All of the class seem not too difficult, and I have only been working on papers outside of class, no studying yet....... I think it is gonna sneak up on me and kick my ass! I know I need to get back on the study train and start my rotating study schedule, but it is so hard when there aren't four tests breathing down your neck. And Mario Party 2 is sooooooo fun! Marie and I downloaded it for the Wii and have played many a game.She is usually the champion, but the last two times I have beaten her! It's insane how crappy the graphics are, but back in the day we though N64 was the best in graphics and design. Now playing a game is like watching a movie. I cannot even imagine what will be next, but Tron comes to mind.

Fear not my lovely readers, I have been working on two amazing assignments for Intro to patient care though. One on Assisted living facilities and we have to cram a lot of information into 400 words, which is a lot harder than it sounds. And one is my own death. I will post that when I finish it to give you a taste of what I feel my funeral would be like. Heck, you may even learn a little something about the way my warped mind works.

I have finally started studying, I missed the classical piano music, but not the material. Oh well, at least I am starting slightly ahead of the game. We will see how it pans out. I will keep up the weekly tradition of writing about my week for y'all. And hopefully everyone will enjoy it.

As always, may the force be with you, and have a great weekend!

PS Sophie says hi from my lap. She can be such a baby sometimes! Oh and my wife made a great post about our wedding, you should check it out, there are some good pictures!Marie's blog. Look on the right side of the screen for the navigation menu and click on the wedding part 1 and 2 posts.

Week fifteen

Wow, there is not too much to say about a week like last week. It was a totally mind rape, I felt dirty and in need of a shower after Friday. Five tests in one week are never fun, but when the last one is for Physical and Chemical Principles of Drugs, you just want to die at the end of it. I don't know why they decided to put all our last exams the week before finals. I guess there really isn't a choice and I am glad to have made it through. All I have been doing for the past week is studying and it's hard to make myself get back on it for the five comprehensive finals we have. I am going to celebrate so hard when it's over. I plan on throwing up at some point that night. We'll see how it goes. I am going to have to cut this post short cause I spent the whole day watching Harry Potter and hanging out with the wife. We needed a break and it is our SIX YEAR anniversary of being together. Six years ago we were crazy high school kids and I forced her to go out with me. We then went to Sonic Drive-In, don't judge, and I was in so much disbelief that this sexy awesome girl would date the fat me, that I ignored her and acted funny. But the next day we started the dating game and now here we are! I am so glad that this first hellish semester is almost done, and I can't wait for three and a half years from now! I am not going to post for next week until Wednesday following finals. No distractions, I am sure Marie will make sure that doesn't happen, and I am going to crank these finals out and then jump for joy! After a nap of course. I hope that all is well in everyone else's world, and that all those still in school have a great set of finals. May the force be with you.

Week tredecim

Another week closer to getting my life back! Too bad these next couple of weeks are going to blow harder than Monica Lewensky! We have a test before Thanksgiving, four tests the week after, and then we start finals. Two weeks of don't sleep, don't eat, don't blog, just study! Five comprehensive finals in a semester that felt like a years worth of coverage of material. It's going to be rough to say the least. I love pharmacy, but pharmacy school..... We don't get along so well. So once again, for those pre-pharmacy people, know what you are getting into and make sure that you are going to be able to handle the material and the course load. Also, enjoy your life now, cause you won't have too much of one once you start. That being said, pharmacy school is a great place to make friends and you have the support of everyone around you, from P3s to the deans, they would all do anything for you. I honestly have not met one upperclassmen or professor that won't talk to you about school, work, or anything in between. They will help you with stuff you don't understand, or just tell you, I know it's hard, but you'll make it through. It's very refreshing from undergrad, where you were competing with everyone around you, and most professors really didn't care.

I still cannot wait to graduate though! I want to be able to sleep, watch TV, kill zombies, eat a real dinner, go for a drive, not feel guilty every second that I am not studying, spend time with my wife, and just enjoy my life. I know it'll be worth it, and if the semesters keep going as fast as this one, it'll be here before I know it. It's nice to be able to vent on this blog though, so vent I shall. I probably should have started an anonymous blog, so I could say whatever I want, but for the most part I get it all out. If you want to read a more down and dirty blog of what retail pharmacy can be like, click here. It's not always as bad as he says it is, but there are some bad times, especially when you work in a bad area. If you have never worked retail, and you think it might be something you pursue, I would 100% suggest reading his blog, and work in a retail pharmacy as an intern or tech for a little bit too.

Just got off work and now it is time to study, so I am gonna wrap it up now. Wish me luck and I wish all of my fellow PharmD students luck for these next four crazy weeks! Like I mentioned above, I probably won't be able to do to in depth of a blog until after the semester is over. I am glad to have made it another week in the PharmD life! May the force be with you.

week dymbedhjete

I want to apologize for the delay in posting this blog, as you will see, I took the weekend off and that included from blogging.I promise not to let it happen again! So this week we had an exam in Pharmaceutical Biochemistry, always a fun class. The lecturer is awesome, but the material is sub-par to say the least. So we learned about the Serine proteases and crammed our heads full of vitamins. Oh and GLYCOLYSIS and Krebs cycle or Citric Acid Cycle, I call it The CAC, pronounced cack. It was a demon to say the least. All of you pre-pharmacy studs reading this, be sure and learn it now and save yourself some time. Other than that, and changing up professors again, it went pretty smoothly last week. Speaking of changing professors, I get the concept, each teaches what they are best at, and it hasn't been too bad so far. However, it is kind of annoying to finally get used to one's teaching style and then have it all shifted on you. Some is for the better and some for the worse, but you think the one thing they could keep stable for you in the crazy life that is PharmD would be the profs. Nah! That'd be too easy! I guess the biggest change from undergrad to PharmD is the craziness of it all, I feel like I am perched on the edge of a great abyss and it'll only take one more little thing to push me over. I know I am not the only one to feel this way, but I guess it is for the best. Pharmacy is almost never structured and every day is a new day. So it is best we be prepared for the craziness that is being a pharmacist. One of our labs is finally done! Woot! And we had our last Introduction to Pharmaceutical Care, or whatever that class is called. To say the least, it feels like the end is near and it's nice to have a little more taken off our plates before the three weeks of hell that follow Thanksgiving.

In other news, as I said above, I took the weekend off and we went to the Renaissance Festival (RF) in Plantersville, aka BFE, and Wurstfest in my hometown of New Braunfels. Both of which were way fun and a nice relief from the usual study filled weekend. Though I did feel guilty every once in awhile, I think I needed the respite. Otherwise I might have fallen off the edge of slightly insane to bonkers.

The RF, acronyms all day baby, was quite enjoyable, especially since I got to wear a kilt all day and have a healthy breeze. It's a little uncomfortably sitting down, but other than that is was fine. We walked and looked at all the crazy shit and watched a whip cracker, who was cracking jokes as much as his whips. (BA-ZING) They had many weapons and I totally wanted to get a sword, mace, and battle ax, but it just wasn't in the cards. They also had some sweet hats with big plumes on them, but the $80 price tag put a damper on me being a pimp with that hat also. Whenever I graduate, I am gonna buy one of them hats fo sho! We had great fun and met a wizard!

This dude was a baller to say the least.

Here we awesome folks be, my sleeves were very puffy, and would have been perfect for stashing a wand. EXPECTO PATRONUS!

The Wurstfest was also a great time, and we had lots of beer! It's a little bit pricey, what isn't these days, but since it was the last day we got in for free! Plus we woke up late, had breakfast, then went back to sleep. It was a much needed break from living life in the fastline that we have been doing. We ended up running into my mom and my little brother and had a great time with them. Got to dance to the Chicken Dance and some polka. Oh and did I mention they had beer, lots of beer! Potato pancakes, that we waited in line for 45 minutes for, but were amazing, and brautwurst in a stick. Marie dressed up but wasn't able to make me a costume, so I procured a hat and we made plans for me to be rocking the lederhosen next year.

Marie's awesome costume, and my hat.

A.J. doesn't mess around when it comes to the Longhorns. Check out that serious face!

Alright my blogger friends, I need to start studying! I have a whole weekend to make up for and a test the Tuesday before Thanksgiving to own and not get owned by. I hope you enjoyed this week, remember to give an animal some love, the good kind only! Pervs. Just glad to have survived another week in The PharmD life. Pray I make it through finals!

Week Zwolf

Sorry for the delay, I am just now getting the chance to sit down and blog. It's been a pretty action packed weekend, between working and partying I haven't gotten too much done. So last week blew big dragon ballz. To start off the fabulous 3 test, 3 quiz week, my body decided to pull a fast one on me and get sick. So I started the "hell" week feeling like crap, and didn't start to feel better until yesterday. So I took a whole bunch of knowledge assessments with a head full of more boogers than knowledge. Hopefully I didn't fail any. I think it's crazy how much my perception has changed since undergrad. I honestly considered B's as a failing grade in undergrad. Now I just want to pass. My brain is sore from all the exercise it's getting and I have no time to rest it. Even if I don't have a test to study for I still think about tests coming up. It makes me want to vomit. But enough of the biotching, I have made it through another week in the PharmD life and I haven't failed out yet, so there is still hope.

I got to relieve some of my stress by going to a Sysco roll out party for the new warehouse they're opening. Open bar and getting to hang out with my wife and the in-laws. It was perfect! Then we went to Perry's Steakhouse, good food, ridiculous prices. I had a $40 steak, thankfully Sysco picked up the tab. Then we ended up on 6th street and things got crazy. Marie's dad's friend from work was plastered and buying us drinks and being all crazy. We quickly vacated or else we knew we'd be puking in the bushes. The hotel room was amazing, it had two TVs and a living room with a couch and table! The place was bigger than our apartment! It was a wonderful little mini vacation. Marie and I got to spend some time together without pharmacy notes. I wish it wasn't over already. Now back to the grindstone.

I found out how much of a nerd I am and how much pharmacy school is drifting in to my normal life. As I am laying in bed last night, about to pass out, I start hoping that I have enough Alcohol and Aldehyde Dehydrogenase enzymes to be able to convert the ethanol to the less harmful acetyl form. How nerdy/lame is that? And then I start pondering whether water is used in the reaction which is why people become so dehydrated when drinking heavily. And then I passed out. Only a pharmacy school kid would be wondering about their converting rate while still drunk. I cannot escape it! Luckily my rate is good and I had no hangover to accompany me to work today. I think that extra hour of sleep really helped out.

Alright, that's all folks! I need to start studying for my Bio-chem test on Wednesday. I hope you enjoyed my 12th week of Pharmacy school craziness. Hopefully I won't be crazy when I get out of here. See you next week in the PharmD life, if I make it that long......

week одиннадцать

First of all, those are some weird letters huh? I did copy and paste them and as part of the interactive blog you can copy/paste into Google to find the language. Secondly, this blog is going to have to be short this week, somebody hates us PharmD kidz and decided next week would be perfect for three tests and three quizzes. Oh well, story of our lives. Just got through a rough Anatomy exam and came home last night and prepared to start studying for pchem. Unfortunately, the Rangers game and huge glass of boxed wine got in the way. Instead I spent a little time hanging out with my wife. It was well needed! I feel bad for her all the time, I have to spend all my life wrapped in school that I think she is getting the short end of the stick. We just keep telling ourselves it'll be worth it. Marie had a similar blog just yesterday about how crudy our lives are right now. It could be worse though and that thought is what keeps us trucking on.

For all those thinking about Pharmacy school, and I know I have said this before, be prepared for a rough 4 years. It's no walk in the park and for the most part it isn't very fun. There are some people who hang out and have fun over the weekends, so if you are smart enough to not need to study everyday, then you can still have fun every couple of weeks. Just don't take this life choice lightly and DON'T put things off. Get stuff done whenever you can, there is a lot of busy work, and you will be less stressed and have more time for you or your mate or your family or your dog/cat/bird/snake/scorpion/rat/hamster/ect. or your television or your Facebook account.

So to recap, this week sucked a little, next week will suck a lot and I have now made it through ELEVEN weeks in the PharmD life. Only eight more in this semester and 84 more total. I'll keep taking them on one by one and hopefully I'll come out a Doctor of Pharmacy. Thanks for reading and since this is a kinda lame and sad post, I'll leave you with an awesome pic.

That is Sophie helping Marie cheat at Scrabble. What a fatty!

Fourth Week.....

So today marks the end of another week in school. I am not gonna lie, I wish it could go by even faster! I have been staying up late and getting up early everyday of the week. Except today, I had off and finally got to sleep in! Too bad I have to study! School has been pretty rough and I can tell all my friends are starting to feel the pressure also. Our first test is in a two weeks and we are all nervous as to how it's going to be. After that test it's non-stop until finals week. I am kind of ready for it though. I feel like I am at the part on a roller coaster where it is slowly bringing you up to the peak before you go flying down the other side. The "Ka-chink, Ka-chink" part. And I have that feeling where I am excited for it, but also kind of regretting getting on the ride. Hopefully all goes well.

So I decided to transfer back to my old store in Dripping Springs. It's a longer drive but a lot less stressful of an environment. I called and told my pharmacist and she said she started jumping up and down. Apparently they miss me and things haven't been going to well since I left, though I am pretty sure it's just because school started and business picked up. So we'll see if I make any difference. I wouldn't mind working over there as a pharmacist when I graduate, the people can be a little rude, but the area is very nice and lots of land equals lots of fun!

Mondays are now going to suck pretty bad, as the lab we have is fairly ridiculous. It took three hours to go over 10 problems. And that was with us just copying down the answers. I still need to go back through and re-do them all for the quiz on Monday. Thank god for Tuesdays and Thursdays, it's very pleasant to get out after only two classes, they are my "I'm not gonna freak out on everyone" days. Wednesdays aren't too bad and well Fridays, Fridays are the days I get to come home, after nine hours of class, and have a beer and reflect on the week. It's the little things that help you make it through pharmacy school. So Rule# 39: Enjoy the little things.

For those of you out there reading this that plan on going to pharmacy school, don't let this blog discourage you. Just be prepared for a very hectic and slightly depressing four years! It will be worth it once I have that beautiful doctorate and a nice number from the Texas State Board of Pharmacy though! If only I were master HP, then I'd use a wine out of nothing spell and enjoy a nice glass right now. So long Dear Readers, see you next week.

Oh my gosh! I almost forgot! We went to Ikea yesterday, and there was a family of hipsters there. One of their kids name was "Satchel"! WTF!!!!! What is wrong with people! How is that poor kid not going to be made fun of, and why would you as a parent name them that. SOOOOOOOOO DUMB! It's people like that, that make my heart sad for the future of this world. "Satchel". (Shaking my head slowly) I guess their next kids will be "Fanny Pack" and "Beach Tote". Pathetic! Also, Ikea screwed us again. They never have everything in stock that we need. We got the book shelf but they were out of extra shelves for it! Even Marie was saying "F Ikea". And they are never close enough to where it's like, "Ok, I'll just drive ten minutes to come back another time." It's always forty-five minutes away!

Second week

Alrighty then! Who would have thought life could get even busier! It's totally insane! I know that if it weren't for Marie I would never eat anything more than a frozen dinner. Have you ever had so much on your mind that you literally aren't hungry because you can't think about it? So the loving wife cooks and forces food down my gullet. She's beautiful.

On to the good stuff, so we still haven't started one of the labs, Physical and Chemical properties of drugs (VOMIT), so Monday wasn't too bad. But it'll get there. The rest of the week up until Friday was just like undergrad, maybe a little more intense, but not too bad. Thursday I had to go to an event for UT-APhA-ASP, short name huh? It was fun but time consuming. But the duties of Historian call! It's really funny to play games like Taboo and Apples to Apples with a whole bunch of nerds. We use drugs as clues, for example, the word is allergies, first thing out of my mouth "You take diphenhydramine for it!". We are super fly!

Friday, Friday, please kill me on Friday! Get there at 830am leave at 630pm. Oh and no breaks! Literally class-class-class-to god kill me-class. Then a lab! Three hours in the same room listening to someone explain Arrow Pushing is not my idea of fun. Then you're supposed to go home and study? NO WAY! Applebee's and cheap beer to the rescue. So Marie and I got to enjoy some us time that night, Bridget Jones' Diary, Marie says I kind of look like Collin Firth and she has a mad old man crush on him. So I guess it could have been worse. I do know that Fridays my brain will be too full to add more info after I leave school.

Then that brings us to today. Work my butt off, but at least the time goes by quickly. So check it, the pharmacist I work with is the wife to one of my professors! What are the odds of that? Out of all the CVSs we happen to work at the same one. So of course I threatened to make her life hard if she didn't tell her husband to give me an A. You know the norm.

Our cats are crazy! Greg tried to jump up on my shoulder and instead sunk his claws into my neck. I spanked him and then felt bad about it as he gazed at me with the "Big Eyes". Such a douche! But so damn cute! Sophie is asleep on my socks, freak.

Well that was another week in the PharmD life. Pretty soon Dear Reader, you will graduate with me and we can practice pharmacy together! Wouldn't that be nice! Now time to write my paper! Elderly People and Why we shouldn't not care.

Peace

First Week of School

Alright so here is my blog for pharmacy school. So last week was the first week of school, two days orientation and three half class days. Monday and Tuesday ended up lasting about 12 hours each. We learned about what to expect and did touristy stuff. Easy but tiring. Oh and Monday we had a White Coat Ceremony, give us our coats and put everyone to sleep with a talk on the history of pharmacy. Mine is a little too small and looks like on Tommy Boy when he puts on David Spade's coat, "Fat guy in a little coat!" 

Then Wednesday the fun began, we had two short classes and a lecture on Alzheimer's. Or was that Thursday? Oh no! Early dementia, seriously though I think my mom my have dementia, though mild. Then Friday we got done early and Marie commandeered me, even though there was a Luau with free BBQ, she wanted to have some alone time and we went to a sushi place for dinner. It was happy hour and we got a ton of sushi for cheap, not to mention two pints! Then we went to bed at....... 830pm! We were both so worn out from the week, and we ended up sleeping for twelve hours. 

Saturday and Sunday weren't too eventful, just hung out then did school work. And now it's Monday! Time to start the real schooling, I am starting on my research paper and then I am going to study for two hours. Greg is being the baby face and rubbing on everything on my desk, because he loves to help! 

Oh and Target and Old Navy both sold out of polos, so we'll have to go back another time I guess. How do you sell out of polos! Stupid school starting and what not! Oh and I got my hair cut at a super nice place, you may have heard of it, "Super Cuts". I think it's French or something. 

Any ways, I will try and update once a week so all of y'all wanting to go to pharmacy school can see what it's like. Oh the best thing about pharmacy school is that 125 of us have to do the same thing at the same time, so we have crashed two website servers and counting! Just another week in the PharmD Life.