This past weekend I went to Boston to visit my Orthodox friends who go to college up there. It was a terrific weekend. To sum it up:

• Despite spending a buttload of $$ on a train ride, they do not provide free wifi, making online classwork damn near impossible to complete during the 5 hours you alloted for said work.
• Boston is a wonderful city, has absolutely no sketchiness (compared to when you've been to NYC and a lot of small cities in Jersey) despite what the inhabitants seem to think.
• I am definitely applying to Boston University for next fall and probably some other colleges in the surrounding area.
• Boys like to gossip. WTF.
• Absolut Boston tastes like black tea.
• Your hair will never look good when it counts.

I am working Monday-Monday this week with the exception of Thursday which royally sucks, but watchya gonna do. I have a Macroeconomics test to complete (and the accompanying coursework to do beforehand) and a 2 assignments for American Lit. Oh, and I completely bitchslapped my Basic Arrhythmia test yesterday, so that's something major to check off my list. 

My room needs to be cleaned, laundry needs to be done, and I need to finish putting together my desk now that the missing parts have arrived in the mail. I would also like to take my kayak on her maiden voyage while the weather is still nice (I finally got the cords to secure it to the top of the car!!). I should probably read some instructions on operating a kayak before taking it out, but I'm sure I won't and will just wing it. Kinda like throwing a small child in the pool to learn how to swim. Minus the child abuse.

Have a good week!

Productivity

Damn. I have not been efficiently using my time lately. Granted, I've been a little busy working 40 hour weeks (which is a bitch, by the way) in the ER. A few months ago when I decided to take a year off from school to work full time I made a huge list of self improvement issues I'd like to accomplish.

1. Buy Rosetta Stone: Learn French
2. Practice the piano. Finally learn how to sight read.
3. Get a passport.
4. Buy a car.
5. Take a handful of online classes to stay in the school game.
6. Apply to kick butt Northeastern universities for the fall. Write killer admissions essays. Be accepted. Get scholarships. Be scholastic genius.
7. Join gym. Become lithe and limber.
8. Stop eating crap.
9. Read enlightened and intellectual novels on the BBC's top 100 list.

Well. So far, I've enrolled in Macroeconomics and an American Literature class and done a terrible job at staying on top of my assignments and being involved (as much as one can be in an online class).  Oh, and I bought the Princeton Review's Best Northeastern Colleges book which is lying unopened on my desk. And the last 3 books I've read were trashy romance novels.

It all ends HERE. From hence forth, I vow to be Juliana, slender full time employee/part time student with impressive hobbies who eats beautiful fruits and vegetables and has a passport and car and saves her money and doesn't waste time who can speak french and murder Beethoven on the piano. BAM.