3 coats Essie Chinchilly, accented (on the 2 fingers on which I wear rings) by Sally Hansen Night Flight

…also ruminating about how I’m turning 23 in less than a week. And how I’m almost done with my first year. And how I should be studying for my sixth (!!) round of tests instead of painting my nails and wasting my time on YouTube and Pinterest. Must keep pushing — Nicaragua in 2 weeks!

The extent to which medical school has kicked my butt since the beginning of the year is astonishing. I have an 89.7 set in stone for my end grade for one of my classes (but still hoping for a merciful bump), and I’m set up for (maybe) 2 more by the end of this module. That’s 3 89s. I cannot. With. All. The. 89s. (Note to self: STUDY MORE???)

Other news: to end off my delightful round of tests last week (6 exams in 8 days, I’ve never experienced such hell), my dentist replaced 3 of my fillings and started on a root canal this afternoon. My life = :(

But on the bright side, I’m finally getting to straighten my teeth after my parents refused to justify the thousands of dollars needed to do so when other teenagers were doing it. I’ve spent years trying to hide the imperfection so that I would look “normal” in pictures (show my left side more prominently, only open smiles when there’s flash involved, etc. etc.), and now I by this time next year I won’t have to….needless to say, it’s been a kind of thorn in my side ever since my permanent teeth started growing in. Crossing my fingers for no mishaps!

Other other news: I’m having a bit of a blog identity crisis. I’m playing with the idea of “merging” this blog with Drama Hour here — there wouldn’t be reviews or anything like that, but more of some occasional gushing about dramas I might currently be watching. The “theme” of this blog has yet to be decided, but I figure if this is to be my own personal blog, it would be a fusion of school, life in general, and Asian pop culture. (And NAIL POLISH. I seem to have developed an addiction lately.)

It’s currently 2:08am and I have a Physiology quiz tomorrow at 9am (with a crap-ton of information to be tested on…), but this man is seriously one of my heroes.

Astrophysics is something that greatly interests me (that black hole section during the interview blew my mind!), and I wish I had the intelligence to pursue it. This had to have been one of the most interesting interviews (if not the most interesting interview) I’ve ever watched — having Stephen Colbert leading it was a big plus too :)

Other news:

• Test week is approaching (yet again) in 2 weeks, so updates will probably be sparse between then and now. But it’s not like they were numerous to begin with…but…
• I’m going to Taiwan for my winter break, so that hopefully means that I finally get to use my camera again and make lots of photo updates! Yay.