The end. The beginning.

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Goodbye, P2 year. The past two weeks of exams dragged on so sluggishly that the abruptness of the end came as a shock. I wasn’t sure how to celebrate. All of the things I wanted to do during the semester, particularly the nights before exams… I can’t seem to remember most of them. It’s spooky but I can almost feel the boredom settling in–a deception, of course. This is possibly my last summer break and I intend to milk every drop of pleasure out of it.

I like to make plans for my summers. They aren’t extensive or even strictly adhered to. It just feels so good to have large chunks of time when I can do anything I want that I don’t deprive myself of this experience. Would it be watching Sherlock or reading fanfiction this Monday night but of course I can squeeze in both if I eat dinner earlier and push off cleaning my room until Tuesday… I enjoy pondering over decisions that have little consequence. Back to planning: I love reading. YA novels, fantasy, autobiographies, other nonfiction when it’s good. I’m not picky when I’m in a good mood but there are some books I think I should cover.

  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (finish reading) – Gift for my mom but I began reading it before the gifting happened.
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read) – Read it so long ago that I can’t remember most of it, only that it was good, which is unacceptable because the movies are coming out.
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman – Expect it to be like any other Neil Gaiman book: worth my time.
  • A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin – Heard of the HBO series?
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle – Referenced by another book I read (but didn’t really enjoy). Sounded interesting.

No plans for movies. I already saw The Hunger Games and part one of The Hobbit won’t be in theaters until December. No plans for TV shows either; they happen when they happen. I may tune in to Olympics soccer. On to personal projects.

  • Website – Hopefully JNC 8 guidelines will come out and I can work on the Rx Conductor. Either way, I have to work on the mobile page. Also, small updates in other areas of the website to make it feel loved.
  • Research – My pharmacy school project. Make data mining happen.
  • Study – Whoa! If I want to pass my therapeutics capstone exam next year, I should probably go over everything I learned (and didn’t learn) this year. I will do this. Because I’m a good student. Because this will make me a good student. Circular reasoning? A logical fallacy? A tautology. My neurons are jumbled in their haste to make and break synapses.

Happy (mindless) summer.

A story interrupted

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I don’t want to call this a beginning. There were too many beginnings in the past with quick endings. Instead, this is a story, because my life is a story. And it’s a story interrupted because I sometimes get writer’s block. The concept is the same. What you’ll find here, eventually, is a collection of narratives about my life and the things I’m interested in. I apologize if they bore you. After all, I’m only writing them down because I don’t want to dump them on an unfortunate listener too polite to cut me off.

My intention is to keep this blog semi-private. (update: I changed my mind.) Since you’re here, you are either someone I don’t know in real life (in which case privacy doesn’t really matter to me, oddly) or someone who’s really, really close to me and already knows most of this stuff anyway. Or, you stumbled onto this place because you were researching the web for my information, and I am very flattered. Actually, you must be a geek like me if you have the skills to find this. We should connect.

The title words and phrases doesn’t have much significance. Mostly English with few pictures was what I went for, probably. I was amused to learn later that Words and Phrases® is “a multivolume set of law books published by West Group containing thousands of judicial definitions of words and phrases.” Fate? No, I am pretty certain that law is not for me.