Settling In

So my routine for this summer is starting to normalize. It looks like right now I'll be spending Monday and Wednesday mornings and Tuesday and Thursday afternoons doing biochemistry research, Tuesday and Thursday mornings and Monday and Wednesday afternoons doing bioenergetics research. Mooshed in between those two will be my two hours in the language lab between 11 and 1 Monday thru Thursday.

In my free time, I'll be doing things like catching up on lab notebooks and doing my French homework. Speaking of which, that class doesn't seem like it's going to be too difficult this summer. I think I should get an A in it pretty easily...

I am so TIRED though right now, it's not even funny.

In other developments, I have renewed my push to read all of my books that I have not yet read. In the last two weeks I have read a combined collection of "What Ifs" of history and then I read Kite Runner which was an amazing yet terribly sad book. Right now I'm reading my biography of Condoleezza Rice, who is without a doubt in the top five of my absolute favorite modern political figures (the others are Angela Merkel, Colin Powell, Margaret Thatcher, and Lech Walesa).

My sister has strep throat, which is the one disease I fear more than HIV/AIDS. Every time I've gotten strep it absolutely demolishes me. I think I had strep every year when I was a kid for maybe 9 or 10 years. The last one was the worst. I was sick for 15 days, of which I didn't eat for 10 days. My body weight went from 105 to 82 pounds. I literally had bones sticking out of my body pretty much everywhere and it took me almost a year to regain those pounds. I'm seriously considering getting a hotel for the next two days, but I've been exposed enough where if I don't wage an immediate and destructive force against it, I'll probably get it.

To go now.