Dear BarBri

You are kinda two faced!
On the one hand, I am happy that you are giving me structure and encouraging me to be "mediocre," Steve Rubin, the regional director, just gave us his home phone number (I totally bet it's his separate line) and I bet I will find a reason to call him at least once this summer :). Unless I forget!
On the other hand, you are freaking me out! Go to class for 3 1/2 -4 hours, study for 6-9 hours extra each day - umm that's already 9 + 4 = 13 - that's like 9 - 10 including breaks - no way Jose. Yeah, I want my money's worth, but not that much worth! Also, I can't believe how incompetent some of you are! I had a note in my file saying "enroll this student into the NY Mini Review" - it's good I checked "My Account" because guess what? no one enrolled me! And when I called to ask about it, the girl said "Yes, there is a note we have to enroll you, but it's not our job to look through student accounts to see who we should enroll." OKAY, sure, except NO ONE told me I should call you! I don't mind calling! Also, I was promised free shipping of all the books, given that I broke my ankle and I can't carry heavy stuff, NOPE. Promised one day, took back the next. WTF? W/ever. And the website is NOT intuitive, so really work on that.

And my last gripe with everything is that WHY should there be so many broken foot/leg questions? Every assault and every accident and every products liability and every medical malpractice DOES NOT INVOLVE BROKEN LEGS! I hate hate hate reading about it. Especially since my own MD was so negligent!

So yes, the Bar time has come. Time to do the mini-review...

I have also started going to some sample sales. I like that a lot better than those on line things b/c I can try stuff on, which is a great plus. I also have stuck to my mantra of "Don't love it, don't get it." Even if it's $15, or $10, doesn't matter. I now look at things and ask myself: Will I wear this a year from now? Two years from now? How often will I wear this? I am not talking about everything, of course. I need basic t-shirts and basic every day knits and I don't want to spend money on those b/c they are just not meant to last long. They are fun & cheap Daffy's summer pieces. I realize that I have stuff in my closet that I have bought that I don't love. I wear it but it's blah. I think my clothes should make me happy and I should love them and love wearing them. Otherwise, what's the point? Really?

I know I will end up using this blog to bitch about the bar, I just realized that. Sorry in advance :).

Also, I am pathetic. I signed up for ABC Familiy.com so I can finish watching the episode of Greek that I missed on Monday. Even I am disgusted.

Well, I'm signing off for today.

In Treatment Update

I am not asleep at 1:30AM b/c I am watching In Treatment - mind you it's on DEMAND...w/ever

Anyway, this episode started with a Jewish boy who is a law student and he can't get it up! ANd I jsut thought it was hysterical when he said "She is sitting there naked with law reviews behind her back" :). Oh law school!

Ok I am turning off the tv.

hahahaha

http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/05/17/big-max

half asleep

my leg is really not into this changing weather :(

so my Norway boy won!



he is an amazing singer! and this is him singing one of my favorite songs




in non-Alexander Rybak related news - and you know I hardly ever have a crush on a singer, but I guess sometimes! Also, what bothered me most about this whole Eurovision business is the way they praised the bitchy girl who represented Russia. They kept saying how she is awesome and wonderful and kept incenuating that the only reason she didn't win was because it doesn't ever happen that the same country wins twice in a row. Yeah, except she got 11th place...and this is after Russia made finals automatically. This is the same girl who thinks Nazis were right, who is openly racist and anti-semetic. And she didn't even qualify properly she was pushed into representin' by the TV channel. Yuck. So I am glad the boy from my hometown won! :)

This girl Yohanna got 2nd place, and except for the clumpy eyelashes she is gorgeous and an amazing singer




I also love this duet - they came in third!



So moving on...but not too far. It's Real Housewives of NJ time! Apparently some of the hubbies have criminal records! and not moving too far away from NY, here is the story about Kelly
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05162009/gossip/pagesix/ruined_kelly_rues_wives_169481.htm

Ok, now I am sleepy so nap time, maybe more blog time later.

What's the #?

4? 15? 

http://blogs.smh.com.au/lifestyle/asksam/archives/2009/05/15_lovers_one_too_many.html

On hygiene etc

Since I've started taking the subway again, I realized what I haven't been missing for 2 1/2 months of driving, I thought I've seen it all, but NYC subway never fails to amaze me. I actually sat next to  a woman with a toddler in her stroller doing her nails on the subway. Now, we are talking making fancy designs with red and sparkly grey/black nailpolish over her painted toes and fingernails. Like stripes and dots and whatever else. She apparently left her WetOne with nail polish on the floor under the seat because there was a woman sitting across from us who bent down and picked up the dirty WetOne before exiting the subway. I would never ever ever pick up someone elese's garbage off the subway floor. Please,  I don't even want to touch the railing going up and down the stairs. Why would someone do it? 

In other news, The Fashion Show is on Bravo, and if you know me you know I love everything Bravo. Isaac Mizrahi is awesomely funny, in a gay wicked way.  What Ilike is that everyone is critiqued on the show in front of everyone else, that's awesome! What I don't get is the whole "sell it oon Bravo TV.com" concept, but hey, who am I t know these things. On yesterday's show they had Tisdale or whatever her las name and one team really really blew it with their ooogly clothes. "I'm not a seamstress" and he keeps digging himself deeper into the hole with that "This is not America's best Seamstress" lol. 

It was also the end of Real Housewives of New York City and there was so much reunion drama that they had to do two episodes of it! I love it love it love it! I know I am easy to please. 

And I am saving the best for last. Yesterday, a drunk guy at Katwalk kept taking his pants off and showing pple his butt, w/girls taking photos of it. When I walked back inside that was literally the first thing I saw - some guy's naked butt. Fun times... 

Hmmm

Ok so now I have time to post and catch up....

I went to see Irena's Vow this Saturday, and it was AMAZING! WOW! I absolutely loved the play. I am usually not a fan bcause I get bored about half way through, but this one was very very good. It was sad but also really really funny at times and so uplifting at the end! I would highly recommend it to anyone and everyone :).

Some memorable quotes from Saturday

"You, you what's your face" - Faina to me at the GAP

"The only thing that's keeping me from punching you in the face is that this one is doing even worse than I am" - blind item

"I like you better when you can't speak" - another blind item

The other weekend I got the most random text from a number I didn't recognize> Someone txted and said "Who are you you txted me and i didn't recognize your number" I checked and nothing. So I txted back and said "sorry, don't know maybe wires crossed." Person txts me back "wait your number does look familiar." And I think maybe there was something wrong with his phone but every message was x2/3. I txt back say "Sorry, don't know you pls stop txting." Person txts back "You don't scare me you big fat scary person." and "c'mon ha ha ha" and something else. I ignore it. Next day "Wat up." Well, wat up is that now you can call verizon and they can block the number from ever txting or calling you ever again. Which is awesome b/c I remember before you could only put a stop on all txts, not selcetive txts... but why me? hwo do these idiots find me of all pple?

I was watching Eurovision with my mom yesterday. It was mother's day and when else do you get to see so much pop gone wrong? although Abba and Celine Dion both won it at some point. It's going on in Moscow now. I am from Belarus and apparently we are representin' this year. The guy from Belarus is very good and another guy is from Norway but he was born in Belarus and he is good too!

So this is the Belarussian guy from Belarus - if I cut my hair I'd sorta look like him, no? :)

and this is the Norway guy - and he is very very talented - writes his own music and plays the violin and he is so cute :) in that "cute" way! I wish I could vote in Eurovision! I'd vote twice - once for the boy #1 and the next for boy #2 :)

and this is just funny

in other news i am done with my orthopedist! yep. exactly 3mo after surgery i no longer need to make appointments to see him. i just need to take it easy and increase my walking as time goes on. i am excited!

RIP

It makes me very sad to say that one of my favorite college professors, Professor Lev Loseff, passed away. He was the department chair, an incredible professor, and a very kind and intelligent person. I also didn't know that he was such a prominent figure in Russian literature.

Free Physical Therapy

When I got out of the subway today, there was a man preaching Jesus Christ the Savior will come and save all of us. As I passed him by with my cane, out of the blue he said "Free physical therapy!" So I guess in NYC, you can still get religion with a side of free physcial therapy, all before 9:30 in the morning. 

That being said, I just fail to see the logic in the flyer give-awayer (?)  I have a bag in one hand, a cane in the other hand, why are you shoving the flyer into my face? Why? 

So my new obsession is In Treatment. I was sitting flipping the channels & trying not to fall asleep with my icepack yesterday and stumbled upon the "making of in treatment" so today in the morning as I was getting dressed I turned it on. ME LIKE IT! And definitely beats watching the Real Housewives of NYC. I highly recommend! I mean it's no secret that I used to go for therapy weekly so to me this is very interesting. And it helps that the episodes are short. I guess I'll catch up on them when finals are over. 

I just watched our Governor & guy in charge of the health department in NYS give a conference about swine flu. Some reproter asked "What's the big deal considering how many pple die from regular flu. Beyond the novelty, what should we be worried about? How is this flu different if symptoms seem the same?." I think it was very amusing that governor Patterson answered the question and started with "That's an excellent question. What I find interesting about this flu is that it (now I am not quoting) is different in US than in Mexico. In Mexico there is pollution blah blah blah." I think the man was asking something totes different & perhaps the MD in charge of health should've answered? My mom heard on the, where else, Russian radio, that if someone sneezes in the subway car you should leave the subway car b/c one sneeze can infect everyone. Well, yeah, you try doing that in rush hour. 

In the future I'm hoping to put here sites to the things I  read on line. However, it's finals time so not going to happen for a while. But

Now courtesy of Deborah "Joke of the day: "The economy is bad. It’s so bad, third graders in China are being forced to take second jobs."

Also in class today my prof gave us the "policy" question that we'll have to answer on the final. He specifically said it's a 30 min question that we can prepare at home and just copy on the final.  He said it's a fun question that we should just think about given today's economy. A girl raised her hand and asked "Professor, what's the word limit?" Ummm, dude, this is NOT a competition in who can type the mostest words in 30 minutes. I loved his reaction - sad/bemused look with a "you can answer this in 1 page or 4 paragraphs and it should only take you about 15 min to retype." 

Ok I am saving this for last b/c i just need to get it out of my system, but it's mean so yeah. Anyway, a girl I know got herself a Hebrew name - Nissan. All I could think about immediately was "Why not BMW?" and then i couldn't help but think of others - it's like things that sound dirty but are not! 

1.  "Nissan - only 199 a month for well qualified buyers" 

2.  "Nissan -cash back due at lease signing and low APR!" 

3. Nissan - shift_the way you move! http://www.nissanusa.com/?dcp=ppn.16575170.&dcc=0.95072658

4. How much is Nissan paying her?

5. I looked up the meaning of the name - ummm, it's a BOY's name

6. Toyota - a smart way to keep moving forward.... 

k it's out of my system. But really, how do you purposefuly choose a stupid name like that? I mean parents get Coca Cola to pay them to name their child Coca Cola & you, as a girl, pick a boy's name that happens to be a car to be your name for free? NFG... 

August in April

It's that excitig time of the year - SHORT SKIRTS time :). Even though this year I can't partake in the full short skirt/ballet flats or platforms thing, I am still excited. Yes, perhaps the chunky Pumas aren't the perfect accessory to a short skirt, but hey that never stopped me before. Ok, maybe it did but I guess I am just so excited to wear "matching shoes" as one of my profs has been saying every day for the past month or so, that I don't even care if my look is circa 1998-99.
So it's all been about rehab and finals - not exactly exciting stuff blogs are made of. The most exciting thing that's happened to me was the discovery of the massage chair at the rehab place. Now, at first I assumed that they were just chairs for people with certain medical conditions - like you have to have back problems to get into one, but no, it's for everyone! So yesterday, I sat in one for about 10 minutes. It's AWEsome. Meaning, it starts out great, slightly weird, but great, but somehow, you end up w/a feeling that someone just pounded you on the back, and not in a good way. Maybe I should've used the gentle cycle. Maybe next time.
Speaking of next time. My rehab place has a lot of older russian men and women. Some of them really need to be there, others are just bored sitting at home so they get Medicare to pay for them to attend. Now, all these elderly bicker non stop! They will comment maliciously on everything. EX#1: Woman #1 has shoulder problems. She is wearing low heels & she is old and not russian. She gets on the special bed for Tracy, the teeny tiny 25yo rehab therapist to do her shoulder stretches (whatever that may be). Woman #2 is this nasty nasty older lady is sitting on the weightlifting machine across from her and says nastily, in Russian "Woman, take off your shoes, what are you crazy?" No response. Woman again "Someone, tell this one to take off her heels. What are we derevenskie (from the village) here?" Now that's the most insulting thing you could've told someone way back when in Russia when everyone strived to move from the country to the village, it's like saying "coutnry bumpkin." And this was repeated another few times. My other ave is when they all fight over the pseudo elliptical machine (it's more like a bike) and the stationary bike. It's a classic study in passive agressive behavior. Also, it's amazing how fast most of them can move in their quest to be the first ones on the machine! It's the adrenaline!

Well I am going to go now b/c as much as I want to write more, I gotta go do Business Reorganizations.... ugh.

And I am back

Well, Why am I back - and precariously just a week before my 3 finals? (Besides the fact that I am insane)? Bc I just read someone's blog, and I realized how boring it was and thought - man, I was sooooooooooooo much better than that! So yep. that's it.