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22 April 2007 @ 01:41 pm
yes! finally someone was smmaaat!

CNN

'fruity cocktails count as health foods'
b/c the ethanol makes the fruity antioxidants work better. sweet. but, the greatest part: "The study did not address whether adding a little cocktail umbrella enhanced the effects." of course they do! silly rabbit!

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mmm, summer plans floating around in my head, physiological formulas floating in the space that's left. on a beautiful day, coffee in two hours, Kyp - a swedish game played outside in four, and a chance for a friend to get rid of all her worries in seven. anddddd, start of looking around for a thesis topic. oh my god. i don't wanna grow up. but i'd love to do the research for it in my physio prof's lab. *drool*  he's cool. period. because he can ramble on about one type of ion channel (recently TRP) for ages. respect.

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sun, salt, spring, taking out international students to the beach and AHOI-BRAUSE!!! our local erasmus specialty: take little packets of flavored powder that you use to make soda drinks, add vodka to the little packages, and down it goes. we learned in biochem: drink the alchohol warm, with bubbles and on an empty stomach for best effects. i'm not an alcoholic, the high off of life still holds.

 
 
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uk_rike
03 April 2007 @ 07:14 pm
ahhhhhhhhh. i could become so aggressive right now.
mi curso de español este semestre es uno de los mas peores que he asistido a en toda mi vida. sé que mi gramatica no es perfecta, ni mi vocabulario, pero en la clase hoy, tuvimos que escribir frases con ideas como: “ si podríamos cambiar algo en nuestro barrio, sea …” “deseo que en mi barrio haya mas parques” me voy a matar, me voy a matar. pero, olvidé que yo tengo la posibilidad de chupar los reservos descubiertos de esta clase. la profesora es muy amable, pero los otros estudiantes son … demotivatos. voy a traer periódicos, libros, otras cosas para que no me duermo … no es que imaginé. no puedo lograr nada en esta clase, no hay ninguna persona que habla con fluidad, sin miedo, tengo la impresión que algunos no quieren pronunciar las palabras de manera corecta… pero, ‘la vita è bella’ y no voy a quejarme nada más, no tengo tiempo para cosas pequeñas… quiero discutir poemas, hablar de la vida, escribir ensayos, ver películas, sentirme una parte de la comunidad que habla español. hablé con la bruja que ‘capitenea’ esa parte del departamiento de lenguas modernas, y, descubrí que no habría sido tan buena idea de asistir al próximo nivel del curso (unicert II, semestre 3) porque no quiero asistir a clase con esta bestia. pero tengo que forzarme de practicar ... Odio el sistema, odio la burocracia.
en otras noticias, empecé con clases hoy y va a ser un semestre duro, pero con muchos rayos de sol ! tengo bastante reservos para sobrevivir, ganados con las semanas en el extranjero, ¡viva el verano!

cheers!
 
 
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uk_rike
05 January 2007 @ 10:00 pm
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I'm procrastinating so badly, I'm even updating my LJ! wow. I'm alive!

I hope not to die tomorrow at 9am on the first part of the biochemistry final. yippee! However, I have something to look forward to; after many months, I will slaughter the box of real Kraft's Macaroni and Cheese I got for my birthday over 'dirty rotten scoundrels' with a depresed friend who is supposed to be writing her thesis on ADHD kids and Ritalin abuse and special education... I see parallels... Just like when we were dissecting - no morals occasionally (it was the formaldehyd...!) - "I see dead people." so bad :-)

Biochemistry Final Exam, Part I; Medizinische Fakultaet, Rostock:
Pass rate last year: 20%
Percent needed to pass last year: 40%.
I dislike the cold hard numbers.

Example of MC Question:
Which statements about the regulation of pyrimidine synthesis are true:
1. the key enzyme for procaryotes is Aspartatetranscarbamylase
2. Orotat is an allosteric inhibitor of Dihydroorotase.
3. Uracil inhibits the CPS-II (carbamylphosphate-synthetase II)
4. phosphoribosylpryophosphate (PRPP) is an allosteric activator of CPS II
5. ATP is an allosteric activator of the Aspartatetranscarbmylase.

A- 1,2,4
B- 2,3,5
C- 1,3,4
D- 1,2,5
E- 3,4 5

If you guessed A, it was just luck, nothing more.

Time to take some Baldrian capsels to actually fall asleep.
 
 
Current Mood: exhausted
 
 
uk_rike
13 February 2006 @ 08:01 am

Where I work... best ever. I do lots of nurse-y things, too much to go on in detail about here...
but also get to watch doctor-y things like lumbar punctions and EMG exams.

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uk_rike
01 February 2006 @ 06:47 pm
I promised Han a long crazy entry. Um, here it goes. Except it's not gonna be crazy cause I don't feel so well - just as my psych prof said - you usually get sick after all the stress is over. and so now i have a sore throat, kind of, a headache, and a runny nose. it's quite lovely and bleh. But I should update, I have this journal and so yeah.

part one )

part two )

classes con’t )

people )

other )

now - munich )

map )

pictures )
 
 
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: jamie cullum - but for now
 
 
uk_rike
02 January 2006 @ 09:47 pm
*does a little dance* please be in Boston, everyone (almost)Sigh. The following is in German - but I hope it's understandable that I'll be in Boston on Thursday, March 9th at 18:55....


<3<3<3

 
 
uk_rike
31 December 2005 @ 12:59 pm


Much love from me!

 
 
Current Mood: working
 
 
uk_rike
29 October 2005 @ 03:06 pm

 
 
uk_rike
30 September 2005 @ 06:24 pm
Nun ja.

I thought I had fled from the insane early xmas decorations and shopping craziness by coming here, but I was sadly mistaken. I forgot one tiny thing. There is no Thanksgiving here (nor Hannukah for that matter). Ergo - xmas items - from chocolate santas to light-up fake green neonish trees - are already available in stores. It's depressing. Went to the Praktiker today (like Home Depot) and was greeted by lovely smiling santas and sleighs and lights and trees and then went grocery shopping and was led, by my nose, to the Stollen (special xmas cake), and chocolate and Lebkuchen.

On the bright side, I made myself oatmeal for dinner today, yes, I'm weird like that. Classes start in two weeks, orientation in one. Komisch. I feel like I'm behind already. Complained to the facebook in an email today for not having a section for *special* people like me, was about to drive to the mechanics to check out a problem that dissolved into thin air, liberated some grapes that fell off the back of my bike, enjoyed the crisp autumn air, strolled around the city and, for the first time, used my student ID to get a 20% discount at the bakery shop. :-D That's life. Haven't accomplished much yet I'm still tired come the end of the day. Signed up for gymnastics-course every Tuesday night, next tour-guide course (to eventually get a job to tour in english) is Thursday, and still have a list of things to do that are a) not urgent b) really unimportant, but c) they make me feel important. I should start memorizing the bones in the arms and legs or the muscles or tendons or something, but I have no motivation quite yet. I think I'll become nocturnal anyways. Might as well start now.

Met a 2nd year med student who said she didn't see the sun during the first year, and that the physics and anatomy profs have fun "shocking students." Also found out that I must perform 90 days of cheap labor (let me rephrase that: free labor) in a hospital before my end-of-fourth-semester exams (Physikum). Lovely. In my vacations. Even lovlier.
 
 
uk_rike
07 September 2005 @ 12:44 pm
Figured out how to post pictures, finally. I'm an idiot. But so is geocities. Tried to img src there, but they said I was over my "data transfer limit." So screw that, signed up for photobucket like everyone else. Neh, I wanted the yahoo way to work, then less accounts to manage. Bleh. But here it is. Picture was taken approx 1.5 months ago, so it's changed a bit, I have pics up on the slanted wall... Love my room. *Photobucket account deleted. - 26.9.2005*



My room.



The pictures I have of my desk I cannot show --- too messy :-p. But it's all good. Missing Boston...and everyone and everything.
 
 
uk_rike
14 August 2005 @ 08:10 pm
GOT IN. Bailey´s is my friend. ;-)
 
 
uk_rike
10 August 2005 @ 10:41 am
I have been wanting to write an entry for a while, but either it got deleted by accident, or I was too lazy to hit "update," or the connection was too slow...anyways.

I am in Germany, yup, and there are some new pictures up, from my Outer Banks trip (NC) in late June, early July, as well as ones from Germany so far; my great grandmother's town and family as well as the chaotic state of my apartment before most everything was finished. Now, there are only details to be worked out, it's livable and a whole new world of I can do whatever I please...very nice, with food right downstairs and access to anything. Having flat rate dsl now also makes things a lot easier (since today).

Let's see, a few highlights from what I've done; picked up my uncle Paul after five months at sea with my aunt in Berlin TXL, went to my greatgrandmother's funeral in Goessnitz, a six hour drive south, visited my dad's parents for a few days, went to Wustrow a lot, made lots of marmelade (21 jars aka 7kg berries, 7kg sugar; gooseberries, red and black currants, raspberries), attended a concert of the students of Igor Oistrackh (violin), hung out with Anna a bit, talked with Luisa, am happy every day when I wake up that I don't have to go to school anymore, got all my grades translated, recognized, and equivilated to a German average, applied to the central organization that gives out the spots, applied to one university directly (my hometown, where I am now, Rostock), and am slowly setting up my upstairs kingdom. Already have one plant...:-)

Otherwise, the weather was good for a couple of days, really warm, but now it's raining and I'm glad to have everything at my fingertips. Watched the shuttle touchdown in Cali yesterday, man, mankind... I like it when those kinds of things go well, it's a good feeling.

Next week I get the information of whether or not I have been accepted here... *crosses fingers* *again*

http://public.fotki.com/rike2/
 
 
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: traffic
 
 
uk_rike
08 July 2005 @ 08:15 pm
Sup... long time no write. Anyway, one week Nickerson behind me...(see friend´s entries), two weeks Outer Banks as well... AND I am now in Germany (for a while yet), and willing and able to send little brown sugary squares to those deprived of such necessities.If you want my address & I haven´t given it to me, e-mail me, cause I don´t feel too comfortable posting it in the world of stalkers and perverts. ;-) Hope you´re all doing excellently well...
Kudos to the internet... ;-)
 
 
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uk_rike
03 June 2005 @ 02:55 pm
yay - school is out...no more admin... but now - applications for that land of Broetchen...na ja. Auch gut.
almost officially summer...(which I don't understand @ all - since the days start getting SHORTER...)
passed my driving test ;-) got my new Inspiron - from which I'm leaching off ppl's unsecured wireless...
yay good stuff all weekend, next week... prom (reminder, I WILL stop by BLS prom- nu - if only for five), prize night, graduation, sleep-less...NICKERSON
makes me happy...lots.
k- must continue compressing files for transfer cause stupid Dell's new memory key doesn't have a driver for windows 98... sux for me ciao
 
 
Current Mood: sweet
Current Music: la calle es tuya
 
 
uk_rike
21 April 2005 @ 02:59 pm

Give me some (expensive) glassware, a(n old) tennis racket, and some ATP. And I'll be all set.

Cheers -- Life goes on. And I don't like writing LJ entries. I want the LJ without the J part. ;-)

 

 
 
Current Mood: apathetic
 
 
uk_rike
04 March 2005 @ 07:05 pm

I must agree with [info]russiangitar02, life is beautiful. Tja. But it all balances out in the end, right? Up early tomorrow, at least I only had to wake up early 5 times this week, cause of the white white Tuesday. Term three is over, and now only one more extended last and final term of this institution. Wow. At least I haven't been stuck here for all of the six years.

Things I love (& hate) @ BLS )

Wish I had all cool languages in school - not just German...ha ha. All the Romance + Slavic... must be mine. While on the subject of classes that we should have - let's throw in physchology, all forms of dance, a few more art selections (BHS has a course in "International Baking" for god's sake, technical architectural drawing, sigh), some more specialized sciences, some more gym choices besides "sitting on the bleachers and sulking," and one semester classes are FINE. I won't go into other improvements, I would never finsih. 

Enjoy Friday night.

 
 
uk_rike
26 February 2005 @ 02:58 pm

Sigh. Vacation is almost over...but oh well...it's been a good one, even though most of you have been gone. At least the sun, culture and food >cough< will diffuse across when you get back, no? ;-) Come back soon.....

Ellies are gone to San Antonio - and I'm in Brookline with family friends. For the first time, I finally get my own laptop in my room, where I can listen to music, keep aim on 24/7, and procrastinate more....(just realized I have chem hw due Monday arg). Life is good again. I just have to selectively block out certain stimuli. He.

Other than that, nothing much.... besides, I'm not much of an LJ person. More of a face-to-face person. Sting - Fields of Gold....sigh, wish I could find that online as mp3 or something. This week needs to be over... 

 

 
 
Current Mood: mellow
Current Music: hyper mix
 
 
uk_rike
31 December 2004 @ 06:26 pm

Happy Happy New Year Everyone!!!! Okay, almost 2005, so nice and round.... ha ha.

Listening to Hyper Mix -- oh yes....sweet. Hope everyone is having and will have as good a day/afternoon/evening/wee-morning hours as moi..... Life is good. Good good. Got to Han's late last night...today we built an awesome mutant camel/horse out of snow  AND a snow fort  (SEE www.fotki.com/hannka2) AND went ice-skating even though I grabbed the wrong (old) pair of skates while leaving my house yesterday, still got that high, jumping and natural  ha ha. Getting hyper....caffeine helps...(now drinking 3rd cup of tea today) Soon off to the Raizs' for pool, then Vitya's.  

Hope my grandparents aren't too lonley, my grandma was worse when she was a teeanger; hitchhiked to Paris on her own when she was my age and didn't tell her parents....So this is harmless. ;-) I don't wanna go back to school....Arg. Not thinking about it. And I still have to apply, unlike 99.99% of everyone else. Oh well. At least vacations exist. Sigh.

Have fun everyone.... Life is now.

 

 
 
Current Mood: hyper soon
Current Music: Hyper Mix -- "ah vremya vremya"
 
 
uk_rike
29 December 2004 @ 10:03 pm

Grandmother's birthday....All day. Oh well. We kind of did fun stuff. On the way out of the MFA, of course, she just haaad to reach up and grab the statue's butt....Lovely. Not complaining though. Baked some sweet mango cheesecake, which was 9/10 demolished about 1/2 hour after we took it out of the fridge. Then us four went downtown...Copley library, headache @ Kinko's, walked to MFA, randomly walked the galleries, home, fish, bed. Need to wrap crap (jk, not crap)...and do bio...arg, I had planned on learning photosynthesis inside and out, and reading and etc etc...lazy bum me. New Years...night...should sleep.

 
 
uk_rike
26 December 2004 @ 11:19 pm

Finally, it comes down. Almost perfect.

First of all, Happy Holidays, everyone. I'm here, trying to pass the time, I'll make this entry fun for once and hope it doesn't get lost by accident like 10 minutes ago when my knee hit the frigging power button. BLS Holiday concert was good...(sigh - had this stuck in my head all day) besides that all I did that day was drown myself in hershey's kisses, and go to Brookline for NY's putting-smiles-on-people's-faces...still have to get [info]russiangitar02's ...but I know exactly what I want, just can't find them anywhere. Came home only to leave 10 minutes later to get grandparents from the airport, their plane was delayed a while, we were late as always anyway. ;-P More stress w/ them, why does time have to be relative at the wrong times?

Friday was good too....did nothing except go to sing Silent Night like always in Brookline, met some old "friends" from elementary school. One guy I used to go to school with's mother said she cried when she saw me, all "grown-up." Ha ha. Kinda. We had our 'Bescherung', aka, we do xmas the German way, with presents on the 24th. My grandparents brought so much stuff in a huge sack. Mostly clothes for my bro and some other nice *fizzy* surprizes. 

Yup, holiday time at my house though, @ least this year, it seems like all we do is eat...Yesterday we had a nice turkey. Ha, we're cheap and get a big one AFTER Thanksgiving. Was good though, along with all the Stollen (delicious German holiday dessert), chocolate (loads), Quittenbrot (err...sweets from fruits from a tree in our place in Wustrow, Germany), cookies, Lebkuchen, etc etc etc... At least my dad and I also went running yesterday...AND I had my first driving lesson after that...sweet, no crashes. Drove around in little circles for like half and hour...Stick is hard...Man, I admire [info]hannka more and more...Spasibo...I'll learn though. The motor only died thrice. He. When I forgot to take out the gear...yeah. Then...more food and beginning of an artistic German movie, at 11:30 switched to SNL & from 12-2am, The Elegant Universe; soo cool....Mmmm, very-well explained, the graphics really helped. "There can not be two everywheres." *exactly* That was def. worth it.

Today....SNOW when I woke up, aka no driving lessons today, BUT sledding lessons for my bro. Very cute w/ him outside on our sno-tube, on the street...not too many cars. ;-D Sitting around, lots of piano and guitar. My grandma is always like, yeah, you don't have to help, just sit down and play. That makes me not want to play AT ALL. Christ, it's for myself 1st and foremost... Now I have time though. She's so ambitious w/ my bro, wants to train him this week, wtf!!!? He's 17 months old for god's sake. Whatever, not my business. As long as she entertains him and I don't have to. Also watched hilarious - one of my favs - DRS - ("welcome to hell," "Lady Fannie of Omaha!!!") which reminds me, finally got a new DVD player...which we'll prolly return to get the one for the same price that plays ALL regions instead of just 1,3 and 4. So we can watch the Das Boot DVD we got from my uncle.

Tomorrow....go cream-cheese shopping, lol...for the mango-cheesecake for my grandma's bday on the 29th. Register meeting soon...then, finally, NYs...sigh, I wonder how champagne and coffee mix??? ;-P I need my dose of guitar, PLEASE. Not getting much sleep, surprisingly...damn it's late...listening to Dr. Carroll's CD, oops....I hope it skipped before I got it...Lol. Les Comediens...sigh.

I think I should sleep... wish I were here. Austria 2006 is right.

Night....'dream sweetly of sour pickles'

 

 

 
 
Current Music: "Random - I don't know" burned CD/Aznavour