So literally, as per the title, I’ll be talking about my late night apple escapade (less an escapade, more a desperate race to use 20 apples before 11:59pm on Sunday night) and some fun revelations I made while painting my kitchen with various sugary ingredients.
Fun revelation #1: when the recipe tells you to use 3/4 cups of flour for a dozen cookies, they’re lying. That’s way too much flour, and then you have to make up for its doughy consistency by mixing in a tub of peanut butter. On the bright side, now you have oatmeal, peanut butter, apple cookies (… ok ….).
Fun revelation #2: People really like when you bring baked goods to the hospital. But don’t bring sh*tty a** baked goods because people (like all the important people in your life – doctors, nurses, nurses, nurses, nurses) will judge you, and then hate you because they were expecting chewy yet lightly crispy desserts, with a hint of cinnamon (not pieces of dough flavoured with sugar). That being said, if you can fix said cookies with peanut butter, that demonstrates creative thinking. Right? RIGHT? No but in all seriousness, bring cookies and other baked goods to work – even if the staff just look at them in disdain, students are ALWAYS hungry.
Fun revelation #3: wow, I must really love urology, so excited to wake up at 5:30am tomorrow, just sitting here thinking about how excited I am, whoooo so excited. Seriously though (because all sarcasm should be taken with a grain of salt), I’m so grateful to have finally found a specialty I love. Since this is a premed/med blog at heart, I really should talk a little more about this (and I will). But I’m sleepy, a little delirious and a little hungry, which makes for prime rambling. Anywho, it’s true that when you like something, time goes by quickly. It’s just like sleep – I like it. It goes by quickly.
Fun revelation #4: I was reflecting on my life today, and I realized I’m happy. Like REALLY happy. Life can be stressful (like REALLY stressful), and people get into fights, and sometimes you feel sad when you’re studying at Starbucks and you see other people your age chilling with sangria on the patio…. BUT I think it really hit me today that these are all the things that make life interesting. Working hard makes having fun that much more fun, and sad times are necessary for good times. Life is all about balance – the PSL has single origin, artisanal single roast coffee, Mac has U of T (kidding), chocolate cake has peppers (ok maybe I’m biased, but peppers are probably the single type of vegetable I can’t bring myself to love).
Fun revelation #5: As I was swiping through Tinder today, it kind of hit me that there are a lot of single people. Like everywhere. How is it that (and considering Tinder tends to appeal to a 20-30’s crowd) there are just SO MANY people to swipe through? Like hundreds upon thousands of people to swipe through within a 20-mile radius. If no one’s ever thought about this, clearly you have better things to do with your time, but I kind of wish we could go back to the days when Tinder wasn’t a thing. You know, when people actually asked people out v. “hey, Netflix and chill?”
Fun revelation #6: So I was talking to my high school friends today about general stuff you talk to your friends about, and my friend sent me a picture of really really cheap hard alcohol being sold in CVS (a convenience store chain in the US). Of course, this raised a lot of nostalgia and reminded me of the fact that I’m in Canada now, and the fact that if I stopped drinking for a year, I’d probably have enough saved up to buy a house in Vancouver. But my friend’s birthday is coming up, and as I calculated in my head how much it would cost to get her really really inebriated, I came up with the following calculation:
- Canada: $35 bottle of tequila (whoo $1 off) + 4 shots at the bar * $8 + buy a homeless man a meal on the way to the club * $15 (because late night meals aren’t cheap) + Uber * $17 because when you’re really drunk you tend to type in the wrong destination = a lot of money
- United States: $5 bottle of local on-sale vodka from CVS, Trader Joe’s or Walgreens that’s only consumable if mixed in jungle juice + 4 shots at the bar* $0 because if we were celebrating in the US we’d be in Vegas, and for some reason it’s always easy to find free alcohol in Vegas + people don’t really stop for homeless people in the states so.. + Uber * something ridiculously cheap, like $3 for an hour (see my Chicago post for more fun Uber details) = why did I ever leave…
Fun revelation #7: Some people really hate on Buzzfeed. But I really love Buzzfeed because of profound articles like this one: 21 Things No One Tells You About Being A Human. It really speaks to me, #9, #19, omg #20.
Fun revelation #8: I think I found some inner peace this weekend when I realized I don’t have to go out every weekend. Yes, I’m in my early 20’s but it doesn’t mean I have anything to prove, and theoretically, I still have at least a couple good years of partying in me. Now that I know what it feels like to spend Saturday night at home slothing away in my bowl chair, I think I may need to buy some more onesies…
Fun revelation #9: You start to feel really old when a new class comes in. It doesn’t matter if it’s in high school, college or medical school. But when you’re no longer the wide eyed bambi, you feel like you’re supposed to have some wisdom and be able to give at least a few (albeit small, and often subjective) pieces of advice. And yet, the older I get, the more I realize I DON’T know. It’s like that super famous quote that everyone loves to quote:
There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.
Thanks Donald Rumsfeld. That really makes me feel so much better. As someone who’s expected to know everything, it can be really frustrating to know that there are more things we don’t know we don’t know than we’ll ever know we know. As someone who’s inclined to make life as easy as possible for herself, I’ll just accept the idea that if I don’t know what I don’t know, then either a) everyone else also doesn’t know I don’t know what I don’t know or b) they know what I don’t know and they’ll let me know. Either way, it’s all about perspective.
Fun revelation #10: Since I’m writing this at 11:32pm on a Sunday night and the title is literally about apples, I’m pretty sure no one is going to read this. That’s probably a good thing since I feel like my fun revelations were just fun for me, and everyone else probably thinks I need to sleep more.
THUS as I conclude my fun revelations, I’m actually looking forward to waking up tomorrow at 5:30am and deciding if my doughy cookies can pass as “healthy, vegan, gluten-free” cookies, which just happen to taste a little too hipster.
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