17 November 2009

On 5 things that peeve me

Disclaimer: I am in no way saying that I am above any of these things, simply that they peeve me. Hypocrisy is an innate trait in most human beings.

In no particular order:

05. Squished groceries. Thank you, bagger person, but if you don't mind, I'll take the extra few minutes to bag my own groceries so that my bread and fruit aren't smushed by those canned goods you are so delicately tossing onto them.

04. People who are too nice. Not those who are genuinely nice, but those people who are overly nice in an attempt to...goodness knows what, but generally people can tell if you're being fake nice, so just stop it!

03. Drunk homeless people in the ER. One of the main deterrents for me to ever become an ER doc. Watching those doctors deal with the same drunks with the patience that they can show (in front of the patient at least) is amazing. Same thing goes for the crazies.

02. Overly lovey-dovey pictures/albums or drunk/high pictures/albums on facebook. No problems with what you're doing, but what are you trying to accomplish by posting these pictures on facebook? Lina will laugh and we will call each other cynics, but seriously!

01. Nomenclature about most scientific things. Not that I could come up with a better system, but seriously, CD28, CD44, CD-goodness-knows-what is the best you could come up with? I'd rather memorise the LFAs and the ICAMs. Life was so much easier back in O-chem when there was an actual system and logical reasoning behind the names!

This was originally going to be a list of 10, but I ran out of things to hate on! How is that possible?

07 November 2009

On things that make me happy

10 things that always make me smile, in no particular order:

10. Getting letters in the mail (except bills, although I don't usually get any of those in the mail anymore)

09. Random dance sessions in class, in the car, in my room, wherever

08. Saturday morning Skype dates with Mickis and Sina

07. Bad chick flicks/rom coms that I love and fall asleep to

06. A book (good or trashy novel), a hot cup of tea, and comfortable place to curl up

05. Long conversations (phone or otherwise) with friends that I may or may not remember the content of the next time (the conversations, not the friends)

04. Good music that makes me think of certain scenes in movies or TV shows or what not

03. Dreaming about all the food I want to eat

02. Little kids that are happy or are hurt but still smile (not whiny or annoying or crying or bratty little kids; those give me a headache)

01. Knowing that no matter what, I still have someone to turn to or family to fall back on

I think I like lists of things like this. They are also rather handy procrastination tools.