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Mar. 20th, 2009 @ 10:37 pm Chicago trip
Current Location: home
Current Mood: anxious
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I went to Chicago this weekend and it was a great time. We went out for St. Pat's, we went shopping on Michican Avenue, went to Shedd's Aquarium, saw some trendy little neighborhoods in search of bars and food. The one low point was Tuesday night, I went to take Ibuoprofen because I was getting a headache and instead wound up with my similarly shaped sleeping pill that (idiotically) happened to be in the same place. I remember closing out my tab at the bar and leaving to go to the hotel but apparently somewhere after the tab and before the hotel, we visited another bar. Where I started acting like such an asshole that they were trying to figure out if somebody'd slipped something into one my drinks (yep, somebody did, it was me, damn) I was talking incoherently and apparently attempting to put lipstick on Nicki. We also talked to some homeless man and I fell down in the middle of the road when Greg tried to get me back over to the hotel. I feel like a prime asshole over the whole thing. I dislike when I get to the point of being too loud when I've been drinking, let alone anything more. Keith and Nicki understand, but Jevon and Cecilia I rarely see and now I'm afraid they think I'm the type of girl who drinks herself into a stupor everynight. And that is TOTALLY not me. And I feel REALLY bad for Greg who had to take care of me after I got back to the hotel. (thanks honey, I love you lots and I didn't bitch at you for falling asleep on the train in gratitude) I'm just confused. I see how the mix-up happened, but it NEVER affects me like that. and I've drank before with it (yeah yeah, bad girl) and it just makes the sleepy come on a bit faster. But I have NEVER reacted to that medication like that no matter what and it scares the crap out of me and I really want to apologize to Jevon and Cecilia for ruining their night and I promise that that's the first time that that's happened to me.

But I sent out my offer letter to Walgreen's today. I sat down and seriously thought about how I felt about each company. And what it came down to was the pharmacy staff at Walgreen's always seems happier. I don't think I've ever seen a wal-mart pharmacist smith and with the new set-up, it feels like it would be a major inconvenience to everyone involved if the pharmacist had to counsel a patient and it would piss them off.
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Feb. 26th, 2009 @ 08:15 pm (no subject)
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Just had an interview today. Apparently my answers to their questions were very different than my classmates' answers. When asked what I thought was most important to me in a job I said that I wanted to build relationships with my patients and know them by name and have them trust me as their pharmacist because I can't use my drug knowledge if patients just see me as a drug dispenser, they have to trust me before they'll listen to me. Apparently the most popular pharmacy student answer is "I want to use my drug knowledge and clinical skills to improve health outcomes" or some canned shit like that. I also told them that time to spend with my family and the ability to do part-time work when I have kids is in my top three things I'm looking for in a company. I don't think they're used to that level of honesty but the guy interviewing me needed five nights off a week when he was hired to spend with his kids, so he loved that.

Not sure I want to work for the company, but I like feeling like I really nailed an interview. It helps that it was over the phone so he couldn't see my hands shaking. He said several times that I had a more realistic outlook than many students he'd interviewed and seemed more mature than a lot of them. I had a hard time not going "Tee hee, I farted, how's that for mature?"

PS - dieting sucks the big one. I just want a pizza right now.
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Feb. 9th, 2009 @ 10:51 pm Big Love ramblings, get used to it
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I just downloaded the first season of Big Love from iTunes (YouTube was not cutting it anymore) and all I can think about is how many of these actors have been in other things. I'm sitting here going "why is Lilly Kane here and why is she being nice to Mac, and by the way, why is Mac a crazy Mormon? And why isn't Mac all over Beaver because they were the cutest couple ever" And that's JUST crossover from Veronica Mars (loooove Veronica Mars) and if they need hot boys from Veronica Mars I could give them a name or two (mmmLogan) though they're doing ok with Ben right now. And then there's the whole "Hey! That's Donnie Darko's little sister being all creepy with Harry Dean Stanton!" thing

Now I'm pretty sure that to make this show automatically 400 times better they need to bring in Veronica Mars (fine fine fine, Kirsten Bell if you must) and have her be Ben's new borderline Mormon girlfriend/eventual wife. And then Heather/Mac could marry them too and it would be all adorable and stuff and Sarah/Lilly Kane would stick around with her baby because these polygamists are obviously way cooler than the current ones she knows. But then she might have to marry Beaver or something to fit in and that's weird. No, Beaver should go to little Darko girl because their creepiness would be separated from the bunch. Sarah will find someone nice anyways, weird old Scott probably is not that guy though.

My new rotation ROCKS. It's a volunteer walk in clinic that serves patients who don't have medicare, medicaid, or private insurance who fall at least 200% below the poverty line. So basically the people that slip through the cracks with the state run stuff. It's open Monday and Wednesday 9 AM to 3:30 PM and Thursdays are topic discussions on campus and I have specific project days and tomorrow I'm working from home which will be a normal occurance apparently, which is why it's 11 PM and I'm not spazzing about being awake still.

I've pretty much come to the conclusion that I'm going to stick with Walgreens for my first job out of college. I know the system, I know the people, I have two years of experience built up for leave, they pay well, and if Greg winds up needing to transfer in the next few years it'll be easiest with them or Wal-Mart and I don't want to work for Wal-Mart, I like Walgreens. However I won't take any sign on bonuses or whatever because I don't want to feel obligated to stay at that district full time for 3 years (big secret... I want to have kids after our first year of marriage and I want to stay home with them and I don't want a contract forcing me to go work any more than I want to. And I DON'T want to wait 3 years to get my full time everything under my belt)

I was terrified of calling for the flowers because our desired bakery was already booked up and this florist lives down the street, next door to Greg, went through cancer treatment with my mom, etc etc, We WANT her to do our flowers. And I was so scared I'd call and they'd say "nope, no openings, sorry!" but there was an opening that I got snagged and hooray! We have flowers sorta. We ordered invitations today, so those should be going out in the next month. Be aware that many of you will get emailed or called out of the blue so I can get your address if you've moved off. Mom ordered the prescription vials for the favors and the skittles will be cheap and we'll need to come up with a cute saying for the vials "Take two and remember that everything's freaking perfect" No? Needs more work. Anyways, that's done and cheap. We really need to get my gown fitted and I'm TERRIFIED. I need to lose some weight before I go in and I don't want to.

My aunt sent me a birthday card that said "only four months away, aren't you excited!?" I was excited until she said that, I round up, 4 months is way too scary and close. But! I now I have dishes to eat off of for nice and everyday meals. However we don't have silverware. We've got nicely arranged coordinated plates and deer antler steak knives and mismatched forks and spoons and all and beer glasses from college. Apparently we should try to replace all that.
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Dec. 2nd, 2008 @ 09:43 pm (no subject)
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I spent about three hours today unstringing lights from our Christmas tree and then another three with Greg unstringing more. We also went to Target and bought lights since the whole "prelit" thing was crap. The tree is six years old and I spent days upon days last year tracking down all the burnt out lights and it still didn't work so now it's a plain fake tree. We spent about twenty minutes looking for a second package to match the first we'd decided on, discovered that we'd grabbed the last set, and said "screw it, let's get the plain lights".

We set the tree up and Mikey promptly climbed two thirds of the way up it. I tried to get a picture but he jumped down before I found my camera. No matter, he'll do it again before the season is over.

I woke up this morning with a cold. It's basically miserable and I had no cold medicine in the house so I bought some to stock Greg's cabinet with at Target. Boy doesn't know what a properly stocked medicine cabinet is. If I'm sick I want to be able to reach in there and get something to make it better, not run to the store and fight with everything to feel better. I get sick every year because mom teaches fourth grade, I spend a bunch of time in hospitals and around sick people at work, and Sophie brings home all the junior high germs and drinks out of our water glasses to generously share them with the rest of the house.

Mikey is kneading my belly right now. I can only see half the screen so blame typos on him.

I have a dinner with Schnucks tomorrow and an open house/look at our cool pharmacies! thing. I feel like crap and don't want to go, but I really want a job offer so I'll suffer through. I wonder what I should wear. I'm saving my nice suit for the real interview, but I want to look professional and nice. We're also eating italian s0 something that hides marinara stains would be nice. (totally typed that last sentence with cat butt in my face) The worst part will be the pharmacy tour because it's in my old store and everyone that works there still knows me. I mean, it'll be kinda nice because the managers will say hi and the pharmacists know me and they mostly all loved me at that store, but still, kinda weird. Also the fact that I met the recruiters at the job fair and they said "Corinne, I know that name... wait didn't we offer you an internship last year?" and I had to be like "Yeah I turned down one of three spots in the St. Louis area to take a Walgreens internship and they basically give one to anyone who has a pulse and shows a vague interest in pharmacy, but you know, I learned my lesson!" That and the fact they pretty much offered me my own store right off the bat, but only in locations two hours away. Bleh on that.

Tomorrow Greg will hopefully get the lights and garland strung up while I'm schmoozing with pharmacy bigwigs and then Thursday we'll hang ornaments. I should also try to write another section of my paper sometime this week so I stop feeling so bad for being a procrastinator. Really this whole capstone project sucks. I realize most advanced students have to do a thesis and it's a lot more work, but really I'm just whiny and I'm not gonna stop.

I'm gonna go eat cookie dough, drink a glass of wine, and go to bed.
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