Report card. Semester 2.
Advanced Nursing - Pass
Human structure & function - 91
Comp. with radiographic apps. - 92
Math - 80
Radiographic Procedures - 89
Principles of radiographic exposure - 79
Image analysis - Pass
Clinical education - 95
"Patrick is a pleasure, and a hard worker" they say...
Aww, i'm blurshing :)
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Central to Prospect. Uptown to down
Last weekend I saw two amazing performances at Central and Prospect parks, respectively. The first was a free summer stage concert by Diplo, A-trak and Santogold.
Diplo and A-trak were kind of super boring. It was easily 100 degrees out and nobody was in the mood to dance to dj's for 2 hours. One girl literally passed out from heat stroke onto Bay. It was ridiculous!
But Santogold was AMAZING! She only performed for about half an hour though and it left everyone wanting more. Equally amazing were her super choreographed, matching back up dancers. I couldn't stop watching their funky fresh moves.
The next day at Prospect park there was a free movie screening of "Enter the Dragon". They opened with a really great Taiko drumming performance. It was hypnotizing. There was this ultra cute little old Japanese lady in the troupe bustin' cartwheels who just looked so damn happy that my heart got a boner... (Umm, *ahem* just forget about that part :)
Afterwards they showed the movie on the most ginormous outdoor projection screen i've ever seen. And to top that off, they had a group of live dj's and a drummer playing their new remixed score as the movie played. It was pretty amazing. Sometimes you forget how fuckin' badass Bruce Lee really was. What a shame.
This weekend my friends Yousif and Kyla were in town seperately. I got smashed drunk and rode a mechanical bull at a western bar twice! And I saw the Dark Knight. That shit is every bit as good as it's hyped up to be. Go see it now! It'll change your life maybe.
Weekends are fun...
Diplo and A-trak were kind of super boring. It was easily 100 degrees out and nobody was in the mood to dance to dj's for 2 hours. One girl literally passed out from heat stroke onto Bay. It was ridiculous!
But Santogold was AMAZING! She only performed for about half an hour though and it left everyone wanting more. Equally amazing were her super choreographed, matching back up dancers. I couldn't stop watching their funky fresh moves.
The next day at Prospect park there was a free movie screening of "Enter the Dragon". They opened with a really great Taiko drumming performance. It was hypnotizing. There was this ultra cute little old Japanese lady in the troupe bustin' cartwheels who just looked so damn happy that my heart got a boner... (Umm, *ahem* just forget about that part :)
Afterwards they showed the movie on the most ginormous outdoor projection screen i've ever seen. And to top that off, they had a group of live dj's and a drummer playing their new remixed score as the movie played. It was pretty amazing. Sometimes you forget how fuckin' badass Bruce Lee really was. What a shame.
This weekend my friends Yousif and Kyla were in town seperately. I got smashed drunk and rode a mechanical bull at a western bar twice! And I saw the Dark Knight. That shit is every bit as good as it's hyped up to be. Go see it now! It'll change your life maybe.
Weekends are fun...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Summer vacation part deux. beerbeerbeerBEER!!
And then the big day arrived...Beerlympics.
What started as a drunken pipe dream over 2 years ago is now a full fledged yearly tradition. I was a little bit worried that this year wasn't going to go as well as last, but all my fears were quelled when we entered that big beautiful park and it was completely empty and ready to be taken over by our gang of hooligans.
I arrived around noon with Jehan, Lauren and a keg. Shindig and his girlfriend were next to show up. They had with them the silver cup from last year that their team had won. I was so happy that they still had it! Last year Mariza was awesome enough to paint 3 mugs gold silver and bronze for the winning teams.
As more people started pouring in and enjoying our keg of Pabst I began to feel like it was really going to work. I was worried for a second that people were going to bitch out on me because I hadn't really done more than posted a couple Myspace event invites. But the turnout was really great. Old friends like Tai, Babak, Emily, Dana and lots more came through. About 60 throughout the day I think.
We didn't have teams with funny names and rules and score keeping this time around but I think the unplanned aspect of it made it a little less stressful. We just ended up playing rounds and rounds of flip cup which eventually organized itself into a boys vs. girls bragging rights challenge. I'm not ashamed to say that the girls kinda outperformed us that day...
I think it was thanks to the fact that they were CHEATING and had more team members than us!! :)
Anyway, it was fantastic. A real tribute to the undying spirit of alcoholism that my friends and I all share. Pretty much everyone stayed in the park, playing wiffle ball and enjoying Jehan's pork loin sandwiches until the sun went down. I must have personally consumed the equivalent of a 12 pack or more. And as a final farewell to the festivities, a single firework was blasted into the sky, which ended up getting us our only complaint of the day from the parks distant neighbors. Whoops!
Afterwards we went to barclays on college ave. to eat somehow. We were all so tired and smashed drunk we could barely keep our heads up! I don't think that more than 5 words were uttered at that table... :)
Then next few days I thought I would relax a bit but that didn't really happen. I hung out in SF with my friend Yumiko a couple times and did quite a bit of daytime drinking with her. I rested for about half a day after that before heading to the next big drunken adventure... Shabu-Shabu! An amazing all you can eat japanese stew and all you can drink beer and sake experience in Japantown.
They serve you plate after plate of this delicious, super thin beef that you can dunk in the stew for about 10 seconds before eating. I had been hoping to do this again ever since I first went with Robin and Casey almost 4 years ago. It was fairly pricy but worth it. Mariza's friend Sara that I had met at the food fest came and we were kind of overdoing it with the sake bombs! But it was great, Sara and I got to know each other pretty well in the next few days after discovering that we were both big fans of booze and cartoons.
That was a pretty intense night of drinking, lemme tell ya'. Jehan played me a message I left on his phone when I was smashed and I didn't even recognize my own voice!
Highlights of the last couple days there include hanging out with Parisa at her bar near Lake Merritt and, you guessed it, drinking all day! Kenya and Jehan and I enjoyed her kooky martinis and fancy fries. I think Parisa was a little dissapointed that we never had a solo kick it session while I was there.
As my trip drew to a close I finally got to see Billy's amazing new place in Rockridge and a few of us enjoyed some BBQ and a few rounds of Rockband. Is it weird to say that playing Rockband with 4 people on all instruments is so epically fun that it makes me want to cry?? Billy and his girlfriend covered the guitar and bass, with Sara on drums and me singing my little heart out to some Pixies tracks. (Here comes your maaaaa-aaan!!)
On my last night I had to gather the family one last time. We met up at the Missouri lounge. My favorite old haunt, and had a grand time. People who I hadn't gotten to see much showed up. All the guys who abandoned my beerlympics plan to go to Lake Tahoe (jerks!) And others who I just didn't get to see as much as I hoped. As expected, it was bittersweet. Mostly bitter. The dread was creeping up on me. I knew that in 24 hours I would be back in NY and hating life again. Not to sound too overly melodramatic or anything! And anyway, that night turned out to be the best of the trip overall so I can't complain :)
But all in all I'd have to say that this was an even better trip than last winter. I really needed this vacation. And the fact that in just one short year i'll be back in the bay with so much to look forward to will really help me get through this damn school shiiiet. I just hope that this initial homesickness leaves quickly. I wish I could immerse myself in all my amazing NY friends, but i'm so friggin' busy with this 8 to 4 hospital internship everyday that I can barely think!
Wish me luck. Wish yourself luck. Be good to each other. Drink a beer for me, friends!
What started as a drunken pipe dream over 2 years ago is now a full fledged yearly tradition. I was a little bit worried that this year wasn't going to go as well as last, but all my fears were quelled when we entered that big beautiful park and it was completely empty and ready to be taken over by our gang of hooligans.
I arrived around noon with Jehan, Lauren and a keg. Shindig and his girlfriend were next to show up. They had with them the silver cup from last year that their team had won. I was so happy that they still had it! Last year Mariza was awesome enough to paint 3 mugs gold silver and bronze for the winning teams.
As more people started pouring in and enjoying our keg of Pabst I began to feel like it was really going to work. I was worried for a second that people were going to bitch out on me because I hadn't really done more than posted a couple Myspace event invites. But the turnout was really great. Old friends like Tai, Babak, Emily, Dana and lots more came through. About 60 throughout the day I think.
We didn't have teams with funny names and rules and score keeping this time around but I think the unplanned aspect of it made it a little less stressful. We just ended up playing rounds and rounds of flip cup which eventually organized itself into a boys vs. girls bragging rights challenge. I'm not ashamed to say that the girls kinda outperformed us that day...
I think it was thanks to the fact that they were CHEATING and had more team members than us!! :)
Anyway, it was fantastic. A real tribute to the undying spirit of alcoholism that my friends and I all share. Pretty much everyone stayed in the park, playing wiffle ball and enjoying Jehan's pork loin sandwiches until the sun went down. I must have personally consumed the equivalent of a 12 pack or more. And as a final farewell to the festivities, a single firework was blasted into the sky, which ended up getting us our only complaint of the day from the parks distant neighbors. Whoops!
Afterwards we went to barclays on college ave. to eat somehow. We were all so tired and smashed drunk we could barely keep our heads up! I don't think that more than 5 words were uttered at that table... :)
Then next few days I thought I would relax a bit but that didn't really happen. I hung out in SF with my friend Yumiko a couple times and did quite a bit of daytime drinking with her. I rested for about half a day after that before heading to the next big drunken adventure... Shabu-Shabu! An amazing all you can eat japanese stew and all you can drink beer and sake experience in Japantown.
They serve you plate after plate of this delicious, super thin beef that you can dunk in the stew for about 10 seconds before eating. I had been hoping to do this again ever since I first went with Robin and Casey almost 4 years ago. It was fairly pricy but worth it. Mariza's friend Sara that I had met at the food fest came and we were kind of overdoing it with the sake bombs! But it was great, Sara and I got to know each other pretty well in the next few days after discovering that we were both big fans of booze and cartoons.
That was a pretty intense night of drinking, lemme tell ya'. Jehan played me a message I left on his phone when I was smashed and I didn't even recognize my own voice!
Highlights of the last couple days there include hanging out with Parisa at her bar near Lake Merritt and, you guessed it, drinking all day! Kenya and Jehan and I enjoyed her kooky martinis and fancy fries. I think Parisa was a little dissapointed that we never had a solo kick it session while I was there.
As my trip drew to a close I finally got to see Billy's amazing new place in Rockridge and a few of us enjoyed some BBQ and a few rounds of Rockband. Is it weird to say that playing Rockband with 4 people on all instruments is so epically fun that it makes me want to cry?? Billy and his girlfriend covered the guitar and bass, with Sara on drums and me singing my little heart out to some Pixies tracks. (Here comes your maaaaa-aaan!!)
On my last night I had to gather the family one last time. We met up at the Missouri lounge. My favorite old haunt, and had a grand time. People who I hadn't gotten to see much showed up. All the guys who abandoned my beerlympics plan to go to Lake Tahoe (jerks!) And others who I just didn't get to see as much as I hoped. As expected, it was bittersweet. Mostly bitter. The dread was creeping up on me. I knew that in 24 hours I would be back in NY and hating life again. Not to sound too overly melodramatic or anything! And anyway, that night turned out to be the best of the trip overall so I can't complain :)
But all in all I'd have to say that this was an even better trip than last winter. I really needed this vacation. And the fact that in just one short year i'll be back in the bay with so much to look forward to will really help me get through this damn school shiiiet. I just hope that this initial homesickness leaves quickly. I wish I could immerse myself in all my amazing NY friends, but i'm so friggin' busy with this 8 to 4 hospital internship everyday that I can barely think!
Wish me luck. Wish yourself luck. Be good to each other. Drink a beer for me, friends!
Sunday, July 20, 2008
How I spent my summer vacation... pt. 1
Here we go...my first week home in a nutshell.
I'm writing this not only for any potentially interested readers but mosty so that I can have a written description to look back on and enjoy after i've killed my next bushel of brain cells. Forgive my diary-esque prose style but that's basically all a blog really is isn't it?.
*Ahem* After a grueling 3 hour delay on the tarmac at JFK and a 6 hour flight to SFO I was greeted at 2:30 am by Benjamini monster, my hero. He was in town from LA and couch surfing himself for the week. He swifted me away to the homie Evan's place over by lake merritt. On the way there I could just feel the joy of home washing back over me.
The first morning Evan, Hippy, Brian and I hit up the Triple rock brewery for some 11 am drinks and to watch some soccer game that was actually kind of exciting. Soon after I met up with Some of my special ladies; Parisa, Ali, Mariza, Valentina, Vicki for the Berkeley international food fest. They had closed off some side streets around San pablo and University. It was there that I had some delicious indian ice cream, bought a new pair of hologram money shoes from fashion 4 less and last but not least met Mariza's new friend Sara who was super awesome...
There was a strange feeling like I had simultaneously never left and had been gone for 10 years straight. I felt right back at home but like everything had changed ridiculously.
I visited some of the favorite old spots those first days...the Mallard, where the bartender Robin frantically raced around pouring drinks for people like her life depended on it. Gordo's, sweet gordo's where I was reminded why it's always the first place I have to eat when I get back to the bay. And a couple trips to T-rex for happy hour and delicious ass BBQ.
There's just something so pleasant about a gang of good friends, food and booze. It's just so amazingly relaxing when we're all together and laughing, talking and reminiscing and creating new memories. I can say without a hint of sarcasm that i'm really blessed (in a non-religious way) to have these peeps in my life.
After Evan and a handful of friends bounced up to lake Tahoe to celebrate Evan's birthday up there I was offered a place to stay with a couple of ex-coworkers and roomates of mine, Richard and Andrea. Things have always been cool with me and Rich ever since he was a degenerate little kid hanging out drunk at 7-11 and I was popping acid like tic-tacs. But things were not so peachy with me and Drea once they started dating after meeting at work. Living with them was kind of a huge disaster a few years ago so i've been a little butt-hurt with her ever since.
But to Drea's credit she tried hard to make nice with me offering me a place to stay as long as I needed, making me early morning ramen and just being fun in general. We all went golfing along with Jehan, Ben and Brendan out by the Oakland airport.
I say "we" but mostly Rich, Drea and I were just drunk driving the golf carts, smashing into each other and peeing in the tall grass. So much fun! For some reason golfing has become a new thing for Jehan and Ben. Their trying to bring upper class pleasures like golf and paella back the the proletariat.
Went to a Giants vs. Cubs game that I actually enjoyed also. We got tickets from a scalper and had a few $9 beers. By the middle of week one my spending was already getting out of hand!
When the 4th of July rolled around I was thoroughly blissed out. A little dissapointed that some friends had left town or were so busy with work, but that's sort of what I expected. On the day of the 4th I went to a BBQ at an old coworkers from Trader Joe's place. It was pretty great to see some of the old TJ's freaks. Wacky drunkards like Velvet and Sebastian that seem like their characters straight out of Fear & loathing in las vegas.
That night we kept it fairly chill and a gang of us went up to another old friend, Shabnams house. I saw my old beer drinking partner Emi there for the first time so that was exciting. And Billy was able to kick it too thanks to the 3 day weekend.
We got drunk, made food, played apples to apples, argued, laughed, watched fireworks from all over the bay from her amazing house in the El Cerrito hills.
And at the end of the night when we were all passing out on the floor we were convinced by Brendan to venture out to the old local park to light off all the illegal 'works that Billy had been hoarding for hella years.
It was really spectacular actually and when we ran through the park and blazed off into the night afterwards I felt that old thrill that only comes from the fear of getting pulled over and arrested. Ahhh...that's what home is all about!
Well...that just about covers the first 6 days... excitement abounded. I'll be back with more tales as soon as I can put down my new PSP. I welcome any comments filling me in on any things my drunk ass forgot. (This was like a month ago already!)
I'm writing this not only for any potentially interested readers but mosty so that I can have a written description to look back on and enjoy after i've killed my next bushel of brain cells. Forgive my diary-esque prose style but that's basically all a blog really is isn't it?.
*Ahem* After a grueling 3 hour delay on the tarmac at JFK and a 6 hour flight to SFO I was greeted at 2:30 am by Benjamini monster, my hero. He was in town from LA and couch surfing himself for the week. He swifted me away to the homie Evan's place over by lake merritt. On the way there I could just feel the joy of home washing back over me.
The first morning Evan, Hippy, Brian and I hit up the Triple rock brewery for some 11 am drinks and to watch some soccer game that was actually kind of exciting. Soon after I met up with Some of my special ladies; Parisa, Ali, Mariza, Valentina, Vicki for the Berkeley international food fest. They had closed off some side streets around San pablo and University. It was there that I had some delicious indian ice cream, bought a new pair of hologram money shoes from fashion 4 less and last but not least met Mariza's new friend Sara who was super awesome...
There was a strange feeling like I had simultaneously never left and had been gone for 10 years straight. I felt right back at home but like everything had changed ridiculously.
I visited some of the favorite old spots those first days...the Mallard, where the bartender Robin frantically raced around pouring drinks for people like her life depended on it. Gordo's, sweet gordo's where I was reminded why it's always the first place I have to eat when I get back to the bay. And a couple trips to T-rex for happy hour and delicious ass BBQ.
There's just something so pleasant about a gang of good friends, food and booze. It's just so amazingly relaxing when we're all together and laughing, talking and reminiscing and creating new memories. I can say without a hint of sarcasm that i'm really blessed (in a non-religious way) to have these peeps in my life.
After Evan and a handful of friends bounced up to lake Tahoe to celebrate Evan's birthday up there I was offered a place to stay with a couple of ex-coworkers and roomates of mine, Richard and Andrea. Things have always been cool with me and Rich ever since he was a degenerate little kid hanging out drunk at 7-11 and I was popping acid like tic-tacs. But things were not so peachy with me and Drea once they started dating after meeting at work. Living with them was kind of a huge disaster a few years ago so i've been a little butt-hurt with her ever since.
But to Drea's credit she tried hard to make nice with me offering me a place to stay as long as I needed, making me early morning ramen and just being fun in general. We all went golfing along with Jehan, Ben and Brendan out by the Oakland airport.
I say "we" but mostly Rich, Drea and I were just drunk driving the golf carts, smashing into each other and peeing in the tall grass. So much fun! For some reason golfing has become a new thing for Jehan and Ben. Their trying to bring upper class pleasures like golf and paella back the the proletariat.
Went to a Giants vs. Cubs game that I actually enjoyed also. We got tickets from a scalper and had a few $9 beers. By the middle of week one my spending was already getting out of hand!
When the 4th of July rolled around I was thoroughly blissed out. A little dissapointed that some friends had left town or were so busy with work, but that's sort of what I expected. On the day of the 4th I went to a BBQ at an old coworkers from Trader Joe's place. It was pretty great to see some of the old TJ's freaks. Wacky drunkards like Velvet and Sebastian that seem like their characters straight out of Fear & loathing in las vegas.
That night we kept it fairly chill and a gang of us went up to another old friend, Shabnams house. I saw my old beer drinking partner Emi there for the first time so that was exciting. And Billy was able to kick it too thanks to the 3 day weekend.
We got drunk, made food, played apples to apples, argued, laughed, watched fireworks from all over the bay from her amazing house in the El Cerrito hills.
And at the end of the night when we were all passing out on the floor we were convinced by Brendan to venture out to the old local park to light off all the illegal 'works that Billy had been hoarding for hella years.
It was really spectacular actually and when we ran through the park and blazed off into the night afterwards I felt that old thrill that only comes from the fear of getting pulled over and arrested. Ahhh...that's what home is all about!
Well...that just about covers the first 6 days... excitement abounded. I'll be back with more tales as soon as I can put down my new PSP. I welcome any comments filling me in on any things my drunk ass forgot. (This was like a month ago already!)
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