I have a new favorite thing to do that I forgot about. I did this last winter when it was so cold and it makes me happy. I started doing this week too and it just makes me feel good. Lying in the sauna at the rec center, make it really steamy, get a bottle of lemon flavored Dasani and listening to Joanna Newsom. If you haven't put all these things together yet, I highly suggest giving it a whirl. Well, most of that is true. The Dasani machine coin slot was jammed with coins so I had to drink Coke Zero which is far less refreshing but has at least maybe given me the lucidity to study a little tonight with the very small amount of sleep I obtained last night. I did have my big paper due today, but I wasn't up doing it all night. Instead, I finished it last night (for the most part) and went to the 7th St Entry to see some local bands including my favorite- Maps of Norway. It was way more fun than trying to finish a paper the night before. I'm no good at that. However, after an early work morning and what has now become a long day, I have been forced to succumb my Friday night to quasi-relaxing.
So, yeah for my paper being finished! It was pretty fun to write, really. After like 3,000 articles, the paper practically writes itself. All of the articles available to us are really, really helpful. I can't even imagine what doing research was like before the internet or really before the biomed library's database and images. How did anyone look stuff up? Like the card catalog? I think I vaguely remember that from elementary school. Did journals go in there? That must have seriously sucked. Also, I am going to re-emphasize the importance of Refworks. I will never write a Works Cited page again. After not doing it, I now realize how badly making them scorched my soul. I learned a lot about public health from the broad perspective and also about DDT and malaria. Knowing that the Bush administration is helping fund malaria control in Africa makes me think that the last eight years have at least done one thing POSITIVE for global karma.
Oh yeah, and a New York Times article that came out last week found that teen birth rates in the US are up!!!! AHRHHRHAHSHHHWHALHLJLKJFLKJlrkq. Hmmm... maybe the data that shows that abstinence-only programs don't work as well as comprehensive programs are valid....
Dude, '08 better show some results. I am reluctant to get too excited yet can't help it anyway. Health care reform?? Thank god. People are finally THINKING about really important things. I mean seriously. Why is abortion even a political issue? Isn't health care reform a little broader of an issue on the national scale? Maybe if young people had better ACCESS to birth control...
I won't do this again to you. Unless you like it.
Well, apparently I'm in a ranting mood. The only decision I really need to make at this exact moment is whether or not to do homework tonight for a study group tomorrow or watch Weeds, Season 3 that has been sitting here for like two weeks and I've had the self control not to watch yet. That would mean I'd have to get up really early...
I'll do one-third of the work tonight. Me and me can work with that.