Needlephile

RAIN!!!
I awoke this morning to the wonderful sound of rain falling... I love that sound.... I MISS that sound. For those of you who aren't familiar with San Diego, it never rains here in the summer time. At least not more than a few sprinkles. Thats something I miss about the east coast- summer rain storms. Of course, this is not even close to being a "storm" (although the local "meterologists" might be calling it that), but when its enough to get the ground wet, its a big deal. Can you see how wet the cement is in the picture?? Nice.

These are the things that I get excited about lately! Well really I am just procrastinating because I should be studying right now. I have finals over the next couple weeks and my second year-end exams. If I can pass my year-ends, I will be an intern in the fall, and have my own patients in the clinic!! Yay!!
so... I must get back to studying!

It is just too damn hot outside!!! I can't
handle it anymore!!1

Those few of you who are regular readers of my blog must be pretty bored around here lately! Sorry I've been so non-existent! But, it turns out that when one needs money, they have to go out and find a job, even if that means that you have no time to post to your blog or do other fun things that you used to do. I haven't even been to the beach in a couple weeks! So I just started this job at the local ice cream stand here in OB. Mind you, it is not my ideal job, but the hours are short and its only a four block walk to work (which means I'm earning money but not spending any more on gas!). Plus, I get tips! As a starving student, its always nice to be able to walk home with some cash in your pocket. Its been busy in there, though because San Diego (and most of he country) is going through a heat wave, and I guess people like to go out and eat ice cream when its hot. I'm getting a little sick of this heat, too. At least back east we would get the occaisional thunderstorm to cool everything off for a little while. Oh well... try to keep cool everyone... get some ice cream and make sure to leave a tip!

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I hope you all had a great 4th of July, cuz I sure did. Nothing celebrates our country more than lots of sun, beer, fireworks and food! The above picture is a view of the beach and the OB peir from our friend's apartment where we were BBQ-ing. From there, we walked all over OB going to see different people all day.

We went to one party that was having bands play all day (I wish I had a picture of that), and the ones we saw were a punk rock band and then a kind of hip-hop folk band. They were so different, but both so great. From there we headed back to BBQ and eat lots of meat... mmmm... before we headed down to the beach to take a dip in the water. I'm not usually the kind of person that spends a lot of time in the ocean, but that day it felt great until I got a bunch of salt water up my nose.

Then we walked back up to our friends place and ate some more before going back down to the beach to see a couple groups of friends. Somewhere in there I went in the water again, and got more water up my nose, but it was worth it. After the sand cooled off a bit, we were able to get a volleyball court and play a couple games. I know I would have kicked butt if I was a little less inebriated.


By this time it was almost 7:30pm, so we headed back up to BBQ some more before going back down to watch the fireworks at 9pm. They were a bit disappointing this year, but what can you do. We made sure to get off the beach right after the fireworks were done because every year there is a giant marshmallow fight on the beach and everyone gets pelted by marshmallows. If you think a marshmallow can't hurt that much, think again. I had already gotten stung by a bee that day, so I wasn't in the mood for any more pain. So we went back up to our friend's pad, had a couple more beers and then started our 5 block walk home. We were in bed by midnight, but the next morning my body was hurting from all the walking around. So what could we do but go out to breakfast and then hit the beach again the next day? The beach was pretty much deserted though, which was nice. Of course I was lucky enough to step in a left behind sandy marshmallow.

All in all it was a great weekend... I had from Friday to Wednesday off from school, so I was able to have a little mini-vacation before the home stretch of this trimester which ends in finals and my year-end exams. I'm so sad the weekend is over.

This shrug only took me a year to make! I think I started it last July, and I just finished it yesterday. The pattern is from Crystal Palace Yarns and I used 2 skeins of Knitpicks Shadow in Vineyard. I don't know why I was so lazy about finishing it. Its knit in one long rectangle, so for a long time I thought I might just keep it as a shawl, but somewhere along the way I changed my mind back to turing it into a shrug. And I like it! I will have to get pictures of me wearing it to show you all what it looks like. Right now I am rather scruffy and unshowered.
I hope you are all having a great 4th of July weekend! Tomorrow I will be at the beach in OB along with half a million other people, playing volleyball and drinking some beers.