sick.

yeah, so i'm spending the last week of my last summer ever with a cold. it sucks. to be sick.

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gram and i had a good time. we played some scrabble and lots of skip-bo. i plucked her eyebrows. we visited her friend in the hospital. she begged me to stay another day. sorry grams!

yeah, so i didn't take my straightener with me to gram's house. and not that my hair looks like this if i don't straighten it. no, worse. if i don't straighten it, it's really fuzzy. so i figured i could use gram's curling iron to smooth it out, but it was too small and ended up putting in too much wave, so i decided to embrace it. here's a better shot in which you can see both sides. unfortunately, i liked it. so i'm hoping i can find an old curling iron around here from 1993 that may be small enough to pull this look off.

when i look at it now, it just looks a stringy mess. but i liked it at the time. perhaps another day of experimenting is in order. i'll get back to you.

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eek. this time next week i'll have finished my first day of pediatric psychiatry. is anyone else nervous?!?

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saturday was karma's birthday... the big 3-0. and i sent him a really funny card and wrote some pretty sentimental stuff in it. and i called on the big day (but i don't think he'd gotten the card yet, because i'm a bit of a procrastinator...) and he's surely gotten the card by now, and i've heard nothing from him. i guess i was just expecting an email or something saying "i always knew you were a big goob." or something else equally as heart warming as the text message he sent me last week that said "i just took a huge dump. how are you?"

i REALLY need some new friends.

i'm moving into karma's house (for 4 weeks) on sunday (and then again in november, for another 4 weeks). i'm glad he'll be around when i'm having a nervous breakdown from the reality of the craziness of some kid's lives.

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i know a famous person. well, not really. but check it. a girl from the class below mine that bigred and i used to tutor with at a local high school is going to be on the new season of "the biggest loser." you should check her out. and root for her. i'm so proud of her! we're not super great friends or anything, but i totally know her. good for you, jen! and good luck!