per Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

well well well…

So this quarter has ended (class-wise). No more waking up at the buttcrack of dawn to have to go to class and listen to another useless lecture which I could have just read on my own.

finally.

unfortunately, our professors lectured us until the veryyy last day of classes, leaving us NO time to study for our 6 finals. Yes, 6. Wonderful, no? On top of that, some of my friends including my so called “best friend” who claims to be my sister has been driving me insane lately. I just feel like Kyle’s saying that “people suck” is starting to hold true in a lot of my friendships. Friends that I thought were so unconditionally my friends, well… aren’t so much. People are just so selfish, and just just gossip whores. People seriously don’t have anything better to do but gossip, especially girls.

So this so called “sister” of mine, she is going out with a complete jerk (in my opinion). He lied to her from the getgo, treats her badly, and has on-and-off lapses of complete sweetness. Because she is sooo infatuated, she won’t break up with him and gets upset with me if i tell her what I think he is trying to do: get into her pants. She won’t listen. Kyle even talked to her about it, because this girl–being my best friend–means a lot to me. I don’t want her to get hurt but this guy is trouble–IN BIG FAT YELLOW WRITING. So she now has come up with a new habit of complaining that I judge him… well, i personally don’t want my friend to contract an STD from a guy she doesn’t even know the last name of. I told her I will support her if she really likes him, but it is my job as a friend to warn her /protect her. It’s up to her at this point…

Otherwise, from this group of so called “friends,” I’m actually a little upset with this best friend for another reason. She keeps CLAIMING that I don’t study. yes, ME. SUPPOSEDLY i’m a genius and I never had to study a day of my life.

YEAH RIGHT. I’ve worked my butt off ALL my life to get to where I’m at. And this girl had the audacity today, to comment in front of a professor I REALLY look up to–and hope to do some research for, he is my complete mentor and reason why i’m sticking to this school… She said “well unlike this girl [refering to me] i study soooo hard” and she just get these grades from luck. Yes, I MAGICALLY get these grades. I know everything about cardiology, microbiology, medicinal chemistry, and pharmaceutics before I even came to pharmacy school. The thing is, she gets mad at me, LITERALLY if i get a higher grade and i feel like she is just waiting for me to screw up to stick it in my face. We had our cardiology exam scores passed back, and I made a point NOT to mention to ANYONE that I got an A when the class average was a C-… why? JUST so this best friend of mine doesnt get hurt or put down cuz she failed. She always talks about how insensitive it is when people share their scores; therefore, i chose not to. SOMEHOW (I honestly don’t know how) she figured out what my grade was and told me–point blank to my face– “I can’t believe YOU did that well.” She automatically assumed and even mentioned to the professor today that she thinks i only study 2 days before a major exam. I let her know (in front of this professor) that i surely studied at least a week in advance and even kyle helped me understand the PHYSICSSSS of it all–something i DIDN’T need to know but helped me understand the material without memorization (at least the pathphysiology–pharmacology is a whole ‘nother story).

Anyway, i’ve been rather shocked this quarter that my friends aren’t QUITE my friends. They’re just friends out of convenience who will show up and leave as they please and play mind games. People DO suck, but I guess i have the people who are important to me close. That’s all that matters.

Otherwise, this weekend is MAD study weekend. Finals all next week and the end of the year exam (DUN DUN DUN) is just around the bend!

Anyhoo, structure of the day: DEXTROMETHORPHAN: an NMDA antagonist and sigma1 Receptor agonist.  See structure below.

what does that mean? Well, most people use Dex in cough syrups as a cough suppressant. It works great that way, but it sure does have some abuse potential. If you have too much, you get kinda psychotic and probably act like you’re drunk (slurred speech, altered level of consciousness, and impaired vision). The great thing with DEX is that the structure, due its orientation (a complete mirror image of butophanol), cannot bind to the opiod receptor and therefore lacks the ADR of respiratory depression:: a great thing. Last thing you want is to take some cough syrup and then you can’t breath. A cookie for someone who can guess how to make it more potent

You know what else you can use for cough if you don’t have enough Robitussin left in your medicine cabinet?

CHOCOLATE. yes, chocolate is also an antitussive .

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