restaurant week!

this week is restaurant week in san diego! that means all the fancy schmancy restaurants are offering menus with like 3-course meals for like 20, 30, or 40 bucks! its supposed to be a good deal its much dinero. anyway, tonight pauline andrew sarah and i went to the butcher shop and we got stuff from the $30 menu...i started off with crab cakes with tomato basil sauce, then lobster-stuffed chicken with rice pilaff, then ended up with princess cake! it was good but towards the end i was so full that i couldnt really appreciate the food. i was stufffeeed!!! but fun times.

anyway, today was an awesome day! i woke up super early, like at 730am because i was volunteeringmy first day at the ucsd student-run free clinic. it was pretty awesome. i was workign with patient assistance and its basically a program that allows people who dont qualify for governemntassistance programs - like medicaid/medical - to get free prescriptions meds. we called companies to reorder meds, and filled out forms to reenroll patients into the program. its a lot of paper work but it's pretty neat to be taking part in that process even though we dont work with patients much. =) it was crazy cuz the lead volunteer knew lots of stanford folks who are at ucsd med now and she was all naming people and i was like HEY! that person sounds familiar. anyway, yeppp. OH and we get to write out real prescriptions for patients so its super cool cuz we leanred like the unviersal symbols for like 1/2/3 tablets, however manytimems a day, etc. =D OH and girl from my MCAT class volunteers there! so pretty crazy.

YESTERDAY (wednesday), i was volunteering at UCSD med center and i was training this new guy to be a ptietn advocate and THAT was crazy too because he also used to be in my MCAT class. THEN, after i finished ovlunteering, i went to drop off some forms at campus, and i saw JESSICA LIN! from alondra days at stanford...yes, i lived in alondra too. lol. anyway that was pretty crazy. she's at ucsd med too. crazy kids...after that i went straight to work at the restaurant. i was pretty tired by then but it was fun cuz i talked to derek about how to pronounce different brand names like abercrombie n fitch and gucci and some other stuff. =) OH, and linh asked me to go to IN CAHOOTS! its a club for country music but i guess wednesdays are hip hop nights. i totally wanted to go but by the time i got off work it was too late and i was hella effing tired. lol.

lets see..tuesday..OH in the morning iw ent runnin at cowles mountain with john! the highest point in san diego. i thikn i may have wrote about this already lol. anyway afterward..we ate at MINH KY and had dEEELICIOUS mi! it was great!!! then i went home showered picked up some forms at ucsd, hung out at annie's, then i went to class - the last class!!!!!! woooo. then...after that..i went to annie's. i watched her play starcraft, ate her food - pizza and RICE - and then watched what happens in vegas! partayyyyy