Finally taking a bit of a break...
I have been making waves today. First, I send the bio dept on a tizzy cause I took their coffee carafe and they couldn't find it this morning and nobody got coffee today. Har.
And I've been surviving off the generosity of the math dept. First I use their ubernice, uberfree color printer to print out two copies of my thesis (it's so beautiful *sniff*, I just might have to print out another copy for myself) and then as the secretary is laying out nice food for the alums, I look at her with big puppy-dog eyes and tell her that I hadn't eaten anything all day (which was true). And then she welcomed me to nice reception food, including chocolate-covered strawberry goodness. Yay.
And now I'm vegging out for a bit before I have to finish one last stupid lab report and drive Shana to LA on two hours of sleep. On the computer lab floor, no less. Ugh.
You know you've regained your sanity when...
You wake up on the floor of the computer lab and think how stupid it is that it's the second time you've slept there. Then you know you're ready to finish up your thesis. :P
Today is a surprising deja vu to two days ago. Wake up on the floor of the computer lab, decide to eat, eat really quickly, decide to shower, shower really quickly, and then rush over to a poster session. But I'm here printing out my thesis since nobody's asking me stuff and I have things to do today, dammit.
I love my math dept job. Or rather, the access it gives me to a supernice,
free color printer. Heeeee.
Late night with cell bio and two male bio nerds
...results in stuff like:
"We should totally write, "
Tetrahymena is a model orgasm, because it has four hymens.""
And me going, "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah.." and hiding under my blanket. Because ITS is cold. But at least it's keeping me awake.
This is ridiculous
I am FREEZING here in ITS. I have my blanket here. Yes, really. And I'm wearing my skating pants, and I'm STILL colder than I was watching Worlds in Calgary. Like, in Alberta, Canada. In the arena. With the ice below. This is so stupid...
LOL
So I've missed
all of my classes for the past four days, straight. Including my makeup piano lesson, which I mistook the time for. This is a record. w00000t. Hopefully I'll be sane enough to go some of my classes tomorrow, but this probably means I won't sleep. I probably won't sleep anyway if I did miss class, depending on my lab reports are going...
It'll be over by next week, it'll be over by next week....
Grrr
I hate it how I'm invested in other people's lives at times, even when I know I should let them figure out their damn problems on their own.
ETA: Or maybe it's a good thing. I feel like I'm finally making some leeway with someone. I should be more aggressive in my feelings more often. :P
And I wish people would stop feeling so alone and self-conscious. I guess I'm naive in that I have an innate trust in the goodness of people (despite their shallow quirks) but hey, spending time in downtown LA alone at night actually cemented that notion in me. :P You're all wonderful and special and have so much potential and stop worrying about what others think about you! What will it take to get it into your heads?!
I think...
I think my strongest attribute as a person is accepting, and even welcoming criticism. I mean, how are you supposed to learn if you don't know what's wrong? (I wonder where I could put that on my resume...) I feel like there's an overbearing culture that says, "Act like you're right all the time, and hide your insecurities."
I disagree. I think that I should be aware of my weaknesses...and then choose to fix them as I see fit. :P
And apparently I am lacking skill in teasing boys or being unpredictable. I'm still figuring out whether I want to fix that, or how. (And if lack of said skill was the dealbreaker in that relationship, I think you're seriously
on something. :P But I guess much can be forgiven if one has much teasing skills. Note to self.)
Heh...
One unforeseen consequence of having the middle finger of my left hand damaged and bandaged up is that I'm constantly having to hold it up so it doesn't bang on anything, and it looks like I'm giving the finger to everyone.
Yes, eff you too world, eff you too.
Posting my resume online...
Is inviting job spam emails.
I'm being offered a marketing position?
Are you high????
I need to take my mom to a MUNI bus...
..and see if she can set off the weight-triggered doors. Linh says she can't, and she just asked Ranor to sit on her chair to lower it, cause she's apparently too light to do so.
ROTFLMAO.
I HATE MY COMPUTER
So, the motherboard is STILL attached to the case, and I've stripped the screw on the inside AND outside. Not that the outside hex shape would have helped much - it was like 5.5 mm and good luck finding a socket that size...I've already gone to Home Depot twice today. I've even tried taking everything out of case - now my computer is in pieces all over the floor.
And while I was trying to get it out, my hand slipped and a piece of the motherboard took off a chunk of my fingertip. I'm so pissed it doesn't even hurt. On my second trip to Home Depot, I drove basically one-handed while holding a tissue to my damaged finger, and walked around holding a bloody tissue. Didn't care what people thought. At least I can still type - hopefully that means I'll be able to have my piano lesson on Wednesday.
I think the only option now is drilling it out, and by this point I'm only too glad to do it. (DIE, COMPUTER, DIE!!!!) If I have to buy a new case, so be it, if the motherboard is fairly intact and MSI is still willing to replace it.
I'm a revolutionary!
So, my sand dollar ink drawing is on display at the PoSA Spring Arts Fest thingie at the campus center. The people who set it up displayed it upside down, and only after seeing it that way did I realize that the center arms of the sand dollar looks like a marijuana leaf. :P
Not on purpose! I swear! Or, what the hell, I need something politically exciting anyway...
GAH!
2009 Worlds is in LA!
Why am I graduating now?! *keyboard*
Prospie invasion!
Prospies and their parents are so cute. :)
In a much better mood
Going to San Diego and Vegas for senior week! Of course, going to see Avenue Q. Yaaay John Tartaglia!
What do you do with a B.A. in English?
What is my life going to be?
Four years of college, and plenty of knowledge
Have earned me this useless degree...
Can't pay the bills yet
Cause I have no skills yet
The world is a big scary place.
But somehow I can't shake
The feeling I might make,
A difference to the human race!And yaaay that we're driving (and that I'm paid for gas money..)! If I see the Las Vegas airport again, it'll be too soon...
I don't think...
...I've ever cried so much in my life. 40 straight minutes.
It's not even that I did badly on the test, it's the feeling that no matter how hard I try,
I can't do any better. It feels like there's a wall closing in on me. I hate it.
The cumulative lab report for this class
will be longer than my thesis, so God help me. I don't give up.
*meow*
Now I know what it's like to be chosen by a cat. The little kitten I unofficially named Wicket (because he/she looks like an ewok) treated me like a plaything, pouncing onto my leg and ending up in my lap no less than 3 times and trying to chew on the drawstring of my pants.
I might become a cat person yet. :) Still not used to the claws though...although it's really funny when small kittens haven't figured out how to disengage from something right away.
And heh, Diana (who has my room next year woh) gleefully borrowed my copy of Watchmen. Hopefully I'll get it back before I graduate...but yay comic book nerdiness!
Not the fiendest of the sugarfiends...
During tonight's finance class, I found myself sitting across from econ prof Michael Steinberger (who really isn't a bad person to find myself sitting across from, considering I mistook him for a student last week and he looks like a very-not-gay version of
Shawn Sawyer, truth be told) and I was flabbergasted at how much sugar he put into his tea. Everytime he went up for a little cup of iced tea, he'd bring back 3-4 packets of sugar, and use them all. I swear, there was a little layer of sugar at the bottom on his cup.
And I thought
I was crazy for sugar. I have been defeated! *shame*
O.O
I just found a website called
http://www.proteintrafficking.com/I am SO weirded out.
Plus, I'm seeing the same figures again and again, and I've looked at three universities' lectures so far. What is this, do all cell bio professors have a get-together party where they agree to use the same figures?
And bit by bit...it all comes together...hopefully by tomorrow morning.
My second (or third) *snerk* post
So I'm looking for background to better understand the stuff I'm studying for cell bio, and I happen upon an entire semester's lectures from a cell biology class from UCSB. (Yay for Google.)
Like vert physio, they also have information on midterm gradess on these slides too. For one midterm, the average was 44. Out of 100. Suddenly I feel better now. :P
*urgh*
Thanks a lot thesis. Now I'm used to writing uberlong introductions for my lab reports. The physiology lab report calls for a 1-2 page intro and I've just typed up background notes that are 3 pages long, and very well could get longer once I go into detail.
O.O
Not to mention packing on the references, LOL...
