Ugh. EXTREME information overload.
it goes in and immediately goes out of my brain.

I'm so damn ADD right now. I need to focus. I need to study.
I've noticed that i've become a coffee drinker these last few weeks.
I don't even like coffee (funny that i work at a coffee shop) and i don't
even really know if it does anything for me.
It takes me about 1-2 minutes to finish a cup. I'm not one of those that
enjoys their coffee and take sips of it here and there. I gulp it. Really.
And the reason i do it is to avoid the taste in my mouth. That's what she said!
oh how i love myself... ha jk.

I saw the movie chang-a-lang (lol. aka "Changeling") and it's really great!
Very very interesting and great acting. Anyone see it?
Definitely went in a direction i totally didn't expect. It kind of freaked me out..
Anyways. Go see it. Hmm.. now that i'm really thinking about it.. why is it called Changeling?
Did i miss something!?

Went to the LA light show with Christine, Saena, and Vince last night.
Definitely wasn't as cool as it sounds.
First we kept getting lost. Oh vince, what an asian driver.
Then we get there and we get on a really smelly shady looking prison bus
thinking it's going to take us to where we need to be. Little did we know that
while we were in there, the whole time we were experiencing the "light show"
Basically you look outside and there are displays of christmas themed lights..
Lasted about 3 min. And on the way back to the parking (where the bus picked us up)
it took maybe 20 min. HOW?I don't know.
It's ok. We ate Denny's afterwards and the seasoned french fries made the night
10 times better. How i love potatoes...

Good luck on Finals!
winter break! you're just around the corner!

-Abbie

SO OVER SCHOOL.

Warning: This entry describes very gross material
i watched a creepy hippie-porno-like video on vaginal births the other day... (no, not for my own pleasure but for clinicals)
basically the point of watching it was just to see a different take on the way people viewed/performed/delivered a baby.
THERE ARE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS VIDEO. i really don't even know what to say. oh if only you could watch it...

highlights
-first of all it was from the 70s (and this was not animated or a re-enactment) HIPPIES. EVERYONE.
-no one wore gloves (touching the vagina and baby and placenta and ALL with bare hands. wtf)
-everyone had really long hair that was not tied back (easily could have touched places it should not be touching)
-the husband was in there and while the woman is literally laying there with her legs wide opened, naked, baby trying to come out, she and her husband start "smooching" (aka making out wtf)
and the midwiveS(multiple) are stimulating the woman's nipples (biggest nipples i've ever seen!)
-woman kept saying "oh baby, oh baby" while looking at her husband
-more that i can't remember or most likely just trying to block out of my memory for good

AHHH. ok so i guess there ARE words to describe what i saw in this video.. but OMG. AH. Definitely a different take on it!

Ok, so you kind of understand why the hell they're doing that: arousal and stimulation of the woman(nipples) can help start uterine contractions. Which is a good thing..needed for the baby to be delivered.. Yeah i won't go into detail. I just had to share. Weirdest video ever.
I think i'd rather watch real porn. NOT. Keepin it PG!

-abbie

TERENCE! LOL. YOU LOVE ME

Note to self: don't wait until you completely run out of underwear to finally do the laundry. undie-less is NOT cute/comfortable.

it's been a good and bad for day weekend. good because i had no school on thursday, it was turkey day and i had lootttsss of mashed potatoes. CARBS! my weakness, went to a free metrostation show in LA on friday night, palapas in dt fullerton/in n out/hangout at mike's on saturday night, lots of time for napping and laziness!
bad because of all the napping and laziness when i should have been studying for my finals that i have in two weeks! yes i need to start early! it may seem like that's enough time when in fact it ISN'T. so much material to study. ahhh. brain explosion!




















beer is NOT my friend. i HATE IT.







































'

Happy Thanksgiving to all who read my blog! (Ha..two or three people. Hi!)

I love the feeling of a holiday. I don't know why. Makes me all warm and tingly inside(that's what she said!) Christmas time is coming up! Meaning winter break is just around the corner. Can you tell I'm really anxious for it to come? I talk about the coming of break every blog. But this semester is HELL. gotta get out and get it done and over with already.

Yesterday I observed/helped with a vaginal delivery. YES. i was face to vagina. Ok not literally but i was RIGHT THERE. I had to help hold my patient's legs back and up to open up her pelvic cavity because her baby was pretty big. I'm sure you're thinking "wow that's fucking gross", and yeah.. i guess it kind of is. Bloody and not sexy at all but it was absolutely amazing. Really! I just couldn't believe it. Conception and the whole giving birth is truly a miracle. It's so unbelievable, right? Of course we understand exactly how it happens and the smallest details of how it all occurs. but WOW. ah. I can't even describe how it makes me feel. Oh, the wonders of life...

Ok but also. Watching how painful and excruciting it probably was made me not want to have babies anymore. At least not 8. OUCH. And i just think to myself "how the HELL is THAT going to come out of ME..my you know what". OUCH.

oh. and i also got to play with the placenta.. haha.

I watched Girl, Interrupted last night! Pretty good movie. I really enjoy movies that take place in some kind of psych institution type of setting. Can't wait to work in the psych ward next semester.

alright! poop time.