yarn + old friends + another option.

i mentioned in the last post that i've been knitting. yesterday, i went on a yarn hunt in addition to my hunt for wooden needles. and i found some pretty fabulous stuff. i'm a sucker for yarn that's ridiculously soft. i might continue the hunt a bit today. we'll see.

helix has been going a little bit crazy with the balls of yarn sitting on the couch. it's pretty funny. he will just sit there and watch me knit and then sort of growl at the yarn. he wants to play with it so badly. last night, i got up for a minute and he swooped in and tried to steal my yarn. silly guy.

& & robin, in case you happen to read this, i found some of your yarn when i was sorting through boxes from my apartment. yes. i still have plenty of boxes that i've not unpacked. ack.

last night, i met up yenh and hector for dinner and a movie. [photo circa summer 2006.]

it was really good to see them again. they were both biology majors, so we had a few classes together here and there and knew some of the same people. we became close friends and had a some pretty awesome adventures together. yenh is now going to pharmacy school in utah and hector is going to medical school here at unr.

we talked quite a bit over dinner. we covered lots of ground... politics, relationships, marriage & kids, movies, school...
yenh is trying to convince me to apply to pharmacy school. last night, i couldn't sleep, so i was seriously contemplating the idea. when yenh started telling me that i should do it, james said, "hey. the salary of two pharmacists wouldn't be so bad." then yenh said "yeah! the three of us could open our own pharmacy!" ha. but i also think that it would be a job that would allow for a family, which is important to me. and you can finish in three years. the thing is, i don't have all the prerequisites to apply. the main one standing in my way is anatomy and physiology, which i swore i would never take because i know that i couldn't handle the whole cadaver situation.
it would be nice to have another option than grad school though. plus, pharmacy school leads right into a career whereas grad school leads right into who knows what. so i don't know. maybe i'll try to convince deepa, radhika, or mike to take anatomy with me so i can freak out to them and not have a full blown anxiety attack. ha. :]

ok. i'm off to work on some more christmas gifts. wish me luck!