Getting Ready

I'm leaving tomorrow for my Thanksgiving trip!!! Boston, New York and Washington, here I come!! I'm getting so excited!

And this week was ok, I got 20/20 from my cricket lab report and some quite young guy called me ma'am :D I also had fever of Wednesday, was in a wrong place drinking hot chocolate and bought some wine and cheese. We were supposed to be at T-spoons but we were at Java Juice but Kaisa and Suzanne was there and we wanted our smoothie so it was ok :) though I just wanted the hot chocolate as I felt awful... But when wouldn't chocolate make you feel better?? ;)

So I'm just doing my laundry, then I need to pack and read 10 pages of endocrinology to get that done so that I don't need to even imagine to be worried about anything study things in our trip :) The I'm going to Kaisas place to see Memoirs of Geisha in the evening and then I'm going to sleep and then I need to wake up at 5.30 am to get to shower and to call my parents and at 7 am we're leaving!!! Our flight leaves at 9 amish...

Just to inform you, I won't be available in a week, will be back on Saturday 24th... ^^

Back to ER

I visited ER again last night, Kaisa was feeling really nauseated (since Monday) so I left there with her. She got some medicine but we were back home a bit after 3 am so I've been a bit tired today, though not as tired as I would've assumed that I'd be.
Luckily I made some work from todays readings yesterday so I'm still in "schedule"... And I made the doctor laugh, I helped Kaisa when she was going to get X-rayed:
"Well, this is the first time I'm opening someone else's bra..."
"Interesting..." (Also the nurse couldn't help it but bursted into a laugh.)

Some random thing:
"What's your name?"
"Taina."
"How do you say that?"
"Taina."
"Like vagina?"
"Not quite, though I have one..."

I've been trying to get a ticket to Saturdays game, and I might have one finally... And tomorrow I'll go and carve some pumpkins, eat pizza and pumpkin pie, watch bonfire and go to a haunted house! And on Saturday I might go to the game and on Sunday I'll go and see some soccer (Meikes team is having the last game in here). So enough to do for the weekend, I still need to find some time to read... I'll have two exams next week!

And I finally found some time to do my laundry! Now I just need to wait for my towel so that I can go and take a shower...

Weather is beautiful. Sun is shining and the air is fresh and crispy. Reminds me of Finnish Spring. And I'm still smiling because of the letter :) What else? I'm quite tired so this is just brain streaming, I should eat something (been just drinking coffee) and I try to kill time so that I get my laundry ready...

Under two months! That's eight weeks!

Oh yeah, almost forgot! I'm so smart that I even surprise myself! :D Last night Kaisa got some medicine for the nausea and it made her twitch. I told her that it's because the drug effects the dopaminergic neurons, like in Parkinson's disease. I meant what I said but I never thought that it'd be THE reason. And today Kaisa gave me this:

Metoclopramide (INN) (IPA: [m?t??klopr?ma?d, -?kl?-]) is a
potent dopamine receptor antagonist used for its antiemetic
and prokinetic properties. Thus it is primarily used to
treat nausea and vomiting, and to facilitate gastric
emptying in patients with gastric stasis.

So I actually knew it!! I'm so smart!!! To bad that it comes and shows itself only occasionally :D But I really need to get something to eat...

Everyday Life

Oh now my things in here are in order. I got a bank account today and deposited my checks there so that I can use that money! I also have all my courses registered now and this is how it looks like:

• Endocrinology 2:30-3:20 Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
  
• Introduction to Developmental Biology 2:30-3:45 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays plus discussions 4:30-5:20 pm Mondays
• Fundamental Neurobiology 1:05-2:20 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays plus discussions 7:10-9:10 Tuesdays
• Graduate Immunology 8:30-10:00 am Tuesdays and Thursdays

I also did some laundry today and cooked! Last evening we were invited to play cards to the other side of Mayflower where all the other international students are. And there was a thunderstorm again and it was awesome! The lightning was so intensive and it was purple and they went across the sky. Beautiful!

And about fat people. I haven't seen so many fat people around Iowa City (expect on women who couldn't walk without support, that was just awful) but at the Fair I saw many fat people. Recycling is just nothing compared to Finland, though they recycle their plastic bags. They use enormous amount of water at the toilets and everything is "germ free". Music is just the same as in Finland and I still haven't found a groceries near me that sell fresh food. What else? I had a nap today and my back is hurting. Luckily the gym in Mayflower will open on Wednesday. I just need to rest this weekend so that my back settles down again.

I would post some pics but there seems to be kind of problem with our network, it doesn't upload any pics and it's just so slow. Next time.

ps. edited: I finally added pic ^^