I hate rain, and I hate going to class when it’s raining. I’ve been in university for almost 3 whole years, and I’ve spent all three of them trekking through rain days to class, effectively ruining some shoes and suffering through cold feet. I don’t know why it took me so long to invest in a pair, but after ruining my black suede boots today I finally decided to! (This purchase was also accompanied by the purchase of a new pair of black Steve Madden Bonanza boots at a surprisingly cheap price of $44 from Amazon. Hurry while it lasts!)

Hopefully they don’t disappoint. These rain boots had a 4.5 star rating on Amazon, and I paid $70 for them (more than the Steve Maddens, oh my), so I’m going to be mad if it turns out to be a bad investment. But judging from the reviews on Amazon, I don’t think I have to worry about that……..maybe. Hahaha. I have an Amazon Prime trial account, so the boots should be here by tomorrow — I’ll be sure to update about first impressions. They’re getting here just in time, because according to Weather.com, it’ll be raining all next week. Oh joy.

Other news:

1. While I am no longer updating my Project 365 blog at my domain (I blame it on having to resize every picture, since the simple photoblogging program doesn’t do it for me), I am still uploading pictures for said project on my Flickr account. I’ll probably end up deleting everything from the former location and its data on my MySQL database server sometime in the near future.
2. Re: Gossip Girl – is anyone else severely disappointed by the current direction the show has taken since the first season? The first 18 episodes were so good, and mostly everything else was crap. I also just currently read a huge spoiler for the upcoming episodes, and I’m even more disappointed now. SO DISAPPOINTED.

My weekend was full oxymorons — fun and sadness; birthdays and death days; forget and remembrance. What was supposed to be a weekend celebrating a friend’s birthday had me thinking about a friend’s death that occurred a year and a half ago. The birthday girl tends to be an emotional drunk: in the middle of karaoke night, she started asking, “Where is James? Why isn’t he here?”

It’s quite unexpected how things can turn out in life; what you thought would come true never does, and what you never thought could happen happens. It’s hard to believe it’s been more than a year since James’ untimely death, but it’s quite easy to see the effect it’s had on us. While I can’t claim to be as close to him as his core group of friends, I was his lab partner in high school and shared a couple of classes with him during high school and college. And while I wasn’t extremely close to him, I’d like to think that I was a good friend — I  hope that I was at least as good of a friend to him as he was to me.

He would have been graduating at the end of this semester and going on to medical school. It’s a shame that the world missed out on such a great individual, but I know that he’s always watching over us. My friend said it best that night — “Stop asking questions. He’s here, he’s always here with us…..he’s always watching over us.”

I’m not one for resolutions, but whatevs:

1. Participate in Photo 365 in an attempt to actually learn how to use my camera
2. Complete a personal mission involving 3 little words (I’d say putting this off for 3+ years is kinda pathetic)
3. Make my GPA go up instead of experiencing this slow and steady downward trend for the past 3 semesters…
4. Write the most bangin’ personal statement ever for med school apps
5. GET INTO MEDICAL SCHOOL

2010 should be a very exciting year for me, considering I should be applying to medical school during the summer. Interviews should theoretically be during my fall semester so EEEEEEe — I’m excited!! I just have to own this MCAT in the face in ~25 days. Maybe I should seriously start studying…….ugh.

So I didn’t get as drunk (or drunk at all…) as I thought I was going to during New Year’s. My friends and I had a New Year’s party with lots of booze…..but no drunkness, considering the last time we all did something like this 1/3 of the people ended up vomiting entire days worth of meals. I’d say that’s pretty fail, but it ended up being an okay-sorta-fun night, but nothing entirely super awesomely special. I’d say there’s something nice about spending certain holidays with a group of awesome friends.

I have my MCAT Physics and Biology books open, but I’m not really studying…….just caught up with the most recent chapter of NANA (late, I know), and I have to say it’s one of the most depressing things I’ve ever read. I haven’t cried this much since I watched A Litre of Tears (another really sad and depressing drama…ughg maybe I just cry too easily), and I haven’t been this attached to a character like Honjou Ren since…..I’d say Seifer. Me and my 2D loves :)