I am always irritable and pissy. Anyone will tell you that.

But nothing makes me more pissy than cramps.

Today I found out that the only thing that makes me more pissed off than menstrual cramps, is having no painkillers for my cramps.

I'm back at home in LA, and was very frustrated to find that, despite being in a house with a doctor, our house has no Tylenol, no Alieve, and absolutely no NSAIDs, but we do have 10 kinds of anti-histamines for allergies. We have montelukast too, did I mention that?

So I left my house, and drove into our local shopping district. There were no Longs nor Safeways there, so my best bet was the herbal remedies shop. My mistake.

"Do you have anything for pain?"

"You mean, natural medications for pain? Why yes we do. We have herbal and vitamin supplements proven to provide pain relief."

I left. "Ok, my dumb mistake. You go into an herbal store, you get herbs."

The next closest thing was Whole Foods. Now, I knew my chances of finding ibuprofen was slim, but it was my best bet.

"Can I help you find anything, ma'am?" The clerk asked, as I walked down rows and rows of rose-hip supplements, CoQ supplements, and bee pollen supplements.

"Yeah, do you have any pain relievers?"

"Well, we do have natural supplements for pain relief."

Oh god.

We walked down a completely separate row, and the clerk asked, "What kind of pain are you having? We have all kinds of vitamin supplements to help with pain."

And this is the reason why people with anger management problems and cramps should never speak their mind: "No, I will not tell you what kind of pain I'm having. Because I am bleeding dead endometrial lining from my vagina, and my uterus is contracting and releasing prostaglandins, because it is irritated. It is irritated of all these fucking vitamin supplements, all 1,305 types of them, but no one fucking carries a single $2 bottle of ibuprofen for my FUCKING CRAMPS. And no, I do not need a bottle of 'cure tinnitus', thank you" was what was on my mind.

"Muscle cramps," I demurred, "And thanks, I think I got it."

I left Whole Foods, and realized all of the sudden, my cramps were gone. Homeopathic medicine has cured my cramps with the sheer amount of rage that it conjures up in me.

I'm a believer.

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Next time, I'm just going to make that extra drive to Long's Drugs.

A little old, but JK Rowling's Harvard Commencement Speech

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Every once in a while, I have to tell myself: "Don't ask whether you can or you can't; ask yourself if you want."

In my ongoing quest to become a vaguely competent doctor, I decided that I really need some help with the ophthalmoscope. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, it's a little handheld flashlight thing that doctors (and I) use to look at your eyes, and get so uncomfortably close to your face so that I can molest your face with my tongue. Just kidding. Awkwaard.

Anyways, who better to ask than my mom, the eye doctor? So, onwards to....

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY ADVENTURE!

“I need you to be the guinea pig.” Mom said to Dad, “I need to teach Jenny how to use the ophthalmoscope so she won't look stupid.”

“It's for my career.” I added helpfully.

My father reluctantly agreed, and so today, we went to my mom's clinic together. “This is my father's day present for Jenny,” He said, wearing the banana republic shirt I got for him, “I'm donating my body to science.”

It went along fine, with me being expectedly horrid, and with my mom getting annoyed by the minute.

As if it wasn't enough to have my mom giving me commands, halfway through, my father (not a doctor) decided that it was father's day, and on father's day, he gets to be a doctor too. “You're holding it wrong,” “You're pointing it at the wrong place,” and, my favorite, “I bet I can do this better than Jenny can. Maybe I should go to medical school.”

And,

Mom: Wow, I didn't expect you to be this bad at it.

Afterwards...

My dad, as a joke, put an eyepatch on to scare my brother. “Jenny was so bad that she poked my eye out and now I'm blind.”

Mom: “Your father made a noble sacrifice, because there is no way I'm letting Jenny touch any of my patients.”

Happy father's day, everyone!

Hajime no Ippo - New Challenger - Opening ( NEW ) HD

I'm a total geek, so I like these things. New favorite theme song for a while:

Thanks Dad. :) I know what I have to do now.

I'm pretty sure my dad and I are carbon copies sometimes.

Also...

"yeah, you know, we're friends. So lean on me and shit. You know?"

Starting to get into X-men

Bummed X-men the animated series (the one from the 90s) off of Sam. And now I'm really really getting into it.

But the more I watch it, I'm like... if I were a mutant. I'd be a bad guy. That way I can be tormented and emo.