i heart NY

i'm going to nyc.
can't wait.
a much needed reprieve from school and exams
my head is about to explode. there's too much stuff crammed in.

i gave my first insulin injection last week. a subQ injection which means it's going in on a 45˚ angle. tricky.
it actually wasn't so bad.

tomorrow i give a heparin injection, change a colostomy appliance and suction a trach tube.
and then exams next week.
i'm exhausted.

can't wait for nyc.
last time i was there, did all the touristy stuff.
this time i plan on hittin up roosevelt island, to check out these ruins
maybe a knicks game...i don't particularly like basketball, but how fun would the $10 nosebleed seats be against the utah jazz? i'm betting pretty fun.
and tons of art to check out. never got to the whitney or the moma last time.
and i heard that the night of the living dead (the musical!) was off broadway. but i can't find it anywhere except some old listing at the greenwich theater. that would be zombifyingly fun.
i don't even care that zombifying is not a word.
it is when there are zombies involved.
in a musical, no less.

good food + good band = good night

saw a great band tonight
slow news day

ate a great meal in the annex at mt. everest
and had a wonderful fish jalfrajee. it was delicious.
had a baskin robbins ice cream on my way home from seeing slow news day

back to candy and essays.

i'm glad money's not on my brain.

today in psychology class...

you are kind of always aware of the influence that famous psychologists' theories have on popular culture...sayings like "he's so anal" wouldn't be in existence if it weren't for Freud, right?

but today i learned something new.
my psych prof said that george lucas was such a big jungian that the whole star wars trilogy is based on jung's idea of the duality of man and embracing your dark side ("luke, i am your father")

i was so intrigued that i looked it up. and although this particular reference is missing, wikipedia does have a fairly comprehensive list of jung's influence on culture...

even though i am a fairly big TOOL fan, i never really thought of aenima as being synonymous with jung's anima/animus
i've also read robertson davies, chuck palahniuk, and ursula leguin and really didn't put 2&2 together.
even northern exposure dj chris stevens made many references to jung.
who knew?

check it out here

random ttc exchange

i love transient ttc conversations.
who was that random guy?
he told me that it must be a good book i was reading because it was thick.
he told me that che wanted to be a doctor. and he thought he would have made a great doctor.
had it not been for that revolutionary stuff.
and he knows this because he's mexican.
and then mid sentence he got off the car.
just like that.