Things I'm surprised about right now:
1) McCain picking Palin for his veep. I was sort of surfing the sites earlier and I saw that Pawlenty was out and Romney (thank God) was out. Then I saw Huckabee (seriously, thank God) was out too. So I was all...hmm, I wonder who it could be. Then I came across this obscure article that said that said an airplane left Anchorage last night, and it sort of clicked for me. I actually never thought that I would be REALLY excited for a vice president, but this announcement really galvanized me. What I really like about our possible future veep is that she's a normal American, who's not afraid to fight the establishment for the legal and moral right. She's cracked down on corruption and been a HUGE proponent of fiscal responsibility. If you look at my top three political issues: 1) National security, 2) fiscal responsibility, 3) comprehensive energy policy, between her and McCain, everything is covered. Plus, it doesn't hurt that our possible veep is totally hot....(speaking of which, I already have tickets reserved for their event at COS this next Saturday!). I was thinking about it too, and how amazing is it that in the first time of American history, we'll finally be electing someone who's never been represented in the executive office of president or vice president? Although I'm pulling for the woman to win first, because I think she's more competent, looking at our major parties and seeing equal representation across genders and cultures is promising for the fulfillment of the American promise of equality. We can now say that America really is a place for everyone to participate in their own right. Like Obama and Palin or not, these two represent something new, some thing that's different from old white men. These two people represent a new generation of American thought that encourages women and people of color to run for public office.
2) Guiness is freaking amazing. Quite possibly one of the best drinks ever concocted. Bailey's+coffee is an additionally amazing thing.
3) I am not a huge fan of Arbor Mist's exotic fruits mix. It tastes like alcohol+syrup. If it was real fruit, then I'd be more ok with it.
4) How much piano I learned today. Seriously.
5) How much German I've learned already... Ich heiBe Ray, mir geht est gut, as well as a LOT of vocab.
6) How soon grad school apps are due (SHIT).
7) How I need to go to bed.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Anger
Ugh, I'm mad. At various things. For one, I'm mad at the intense amount of work that is totally unrelated to school that I have to do. I mean, between my language job and my bio lab job, I'm stuck in this land of like a million things to do.
It really doesn't help that since Sunday I've been sliding downhill. Monday I kept sneezing. I counted, and I sneezed (once I started counting) 30 times in three and a half hours. Tuesday got A LOT worse, and I felt like a bus hit me. I had a seriously runny nose, fatigue, coughing, and throat pain. I went home, on my 21st birthday, and went to bed. I had absolutely no liquor whatsoever last night. It sucked seriously, but I guess it's better to be sick right at the beginning of the semester than at the end.
But anyways, I learned my lesson...sort of. When it comes to the biology stuff, I'm definitely going to take it slower. I finished my breast cancer line and one of my muscle cancer lines this week, and so now I have two muscle cancer lines that are growing, and I'm starting to experiment on one of them. It's going to require me to come in on Sunday and Tuesday, but I set them up in a way where it won't take me that long to do the work. Basically, instead of running like 60 to 100 samples, the most I should ever have to run is 50. It entails slightly more work in the long run, but I need a break from how much work I have been doing. The rest of it is something that can take time. I'll probably get another line started this coming week (maybe Friday?) just so that I can say I'm working.
I do have to say that I am ALMOST done with that water project I was working on. I give it a week and I'm done.
I'm mad about some other things...a lot of them connected to the fact that the universe conspired to deprive me of drinking privledges on my 21st. For example, I had over 100 samples to run yesterday, on my birthday, when I'm sick, and absolutely no one in the lab offers to help me. I probably would have said no because I like to be the martyr, but still, it would have been nice had someone asked me if they could help with anything.
Whatever.
I'm also kind of pissed that I'm at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to decisions being made about what kind of research I'm doing (like I have no say, and what it looks like right now is that I'm going to be moved to be a subordinate to these other two people rather than independent, like I am now). I'm pissed that the lab room I work in is the one that is gypped when it comes to stocking things.
So I should talk about something that gives me more satisfaction. Classes. So Classical Greek has already met twice and it definitely feels like an informal sort of thing, but I guess it helps when you only have 8 people in a room. I think it will be easily manageable, and I'm already adapting to the alphabet (with exception of zeta, chi, and xi). German is going to be amazing I think. I've already learned like 40 words. In a day. Granted, the vast majority are cognates, but still, it's nice to be able to say "Guten Tag" and know what it means.
Both my languages are pretty easily A's this semester.
The only other class I've had so far is History of Medicine, which, while it looks to be really interesting, is probably going to be the class that causes me the most problems. Whatever. Like my first assignment is to do a reading called "the disease of masturbation". Talk about hazing.
Alright, I need to get to more work right now so I have less of that when I get home and more wine. I've got some Arbor Mist, and Blue Nun waiting on me, PLUS, a Guiness bonus.
By the way, Bailey's is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING with coffee.
It really doesn't help that since Sunday I've been sliding downhill. Monday I kept sneezing. I counted, and I sneezed (once I started counting) 30 times in three and a half hours. Tuesday got A LOT worse, and I felt like a bus hit me. I had a seriously runny nose, fatigue, coughing, and throat pain. I went home, on my 21st birthday, and went to bed. I had absolutely no liquor whatsoever last night. It sucked seriously, but I guess it's better to be sick right at the beginning of the semester than at the end.
But anyways, I learned my lesson...sort of. When it comes to the biology stuff, I'm definitely going to take it slower. I finished my breast cancer line and one of my muscle cancer lines this week, and so now I have two muscle cancer lines that are growing, and I'm starting to experiment on one of them. It's going to require me to come in on Sunday and Tuesday, but I set them up in a way where it won't take me that long to do the work. Basically, instead of running like 60 to 100 samples, the most I should ever have to run is 50. It entails slightly more work in the long run, but I need a break from how much work I have been doing. The rest of it is something that can take time. I'll probably get another line started this coming week (maybe Friday?) just so that I can say I'm working.
I do have to say that I am ALMOST done with that water project I was working on. I give it a week and I'm done.
I'm mad about some other things...a lot of them connected to the fact that the universe conspired to deprive me of drinking privledges on my 21st. For example, I had over 100 samples to run yesterday, on my birthday, when I'm sick, and absolutely no one in the lab offers to help me. I probably would have said no because I like to be the martyr, but still, it would have been nice had someone asked me if they could help with anything.
Whatever.
I'm also kind of pissed that I'm at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to decisions being made about what kind of research I'm doing (like I have no say, and what it looks like right now is that I'm going to be moved to be a subordinate to these other two people rather than independent, like I am now). I'm pissed that the lab room I work in is the one that is gypped when it comes to stocking things.
So I should talk about something that gives me more satisfaction. Classes. So Classical Greek has already met twice and it definitely feels like an informal sort of thing, but I guess it helps when you only have 8 people in a room. I think it will be easily manageable, and I'm already adapting to the alphabet (with exception of zeta, chi, and xi). German is going to be amazing I think. I've already learned like 40 words. In a day. Granted, the vast majority are cognates, but still, it's nice to be able to say "Guten Tag" and know what it means.
Both my languages are pretty easily A's this semester.
The only other class I've had so far is History of Medicine, which, while it looks to be really interesting, is probably going to be the class that causes me the most problems. Whatever. Like my first assignment is to do a reading called "the disease of masturbation". Talk about hazing.
Alright, I need to get to more work right now so I have less of that when I get home and more wine. I've got some Arbor Mist, and Blue Nun waiting on me, PLUS, a Guiness bonus.
By the way, Bailey's is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING with coffee.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Twice, in a 24 hour period? NO WAY!
It's so hard to believe that I'm actually going to make a posting effort today, after making a post last night. I think this is the first time in over a month I'll have had consecutive posts also occurring on consecutive days.
So the semester starts tomorrow, and I don't know if that means fewer hours of work or more. I've been kind of overwhelming myself with the bioenergetics stuff because I'm anticipating that they'll want a lot of work on the project I'm on done by the end of the year. If I can finish 4 drugs with all 20 cell lines, I'll be happy. Right now, I can get one cell line done a week. This week will be the exception as I'll be doing two this week.
These are the lines I will have done by Tuesday:
3 leukemias
1 breast
1 muscle
2 lymphomas
These are the ones I have left:
2 muscle
2 lung
3 melanoma
2 brain (these can actually be dangerous, so I'm going to do them last)
1 pancreatic
1 cervical
2 more that I can't remember
I've already thawed my two other muscle lines, so they'll be next on the docket. After that, I'm planning on doing the pancreatic one.
Whatever.
Anyways, I was thinking about it yesterday after I finished posting, and I've been seeing so many relationships forming in the last few months and then I went through my momentary lapse in judgment and REALLY wanted one for some reason. Nowadays, I can't stand the idea of being with someone. i can't stand the thought of holding someone's hand, or kissing someone or anything like that. I can't stand the vulnerability.
We're supposedly stronger when we have support, from family, friends, religion, and relationships. If there's anything in this world I've ever learned, I'm strongest when I'm on my own. It's probably why I have no one I can be frank and open with. I have friends, sure, but I never ever voice anything intensely personal with them. Part of that is that there is very little that is intensely personal about me. But those things that you kind of share with people are the things I really like to keep private. I feel some kind of accomplishment when I can say that I solved my own problems.
That's why I'm essentially agnostic now. Years ago I thought I couldn't live without some kind of supernatural support, and I figured out that the support I most needed was my own. I figure that if there is some supernatural being out there who is eventually going to judge me, I want to be judged on what I have done and what my actions were, and not what my beliefs were.
I turn 21 on Tuesday, and I've had people ask me out for a drink. I honestly am not sure that I want to go with anyone, because I've already learned that if there's something alcohol does to you, it's the breakdown of social inhibition. Social inhibition is basically my crutch in life. In order to distinguish myself, I have chosen a publically monastic life, refusing food, rest, sleep, or any kind of luxury whatsoever. I actually have tried to persuade one of my employers to avoid giving me a raise, because the less money I make, the more I have to work. Alcohol is the antithesis of this inhibition, my wish to become totally other. I got a little tipsy on rum (from too much tiramisu) before, and I acted like an idiot. I also have that whole issue with Brandon weighing on my mind. my impending birthday prompted me to pay my first visit there in like 2 years.
If there's anything that I have to be, it's seperate. In the world of science, people are almost totally incompetent with words. So I speak 3 languages and am in the learning process of 5 more; plus, I'm a total grammar Nazi. Everyone I know takes breaks for lunch or whatever, and I explicitly don't take breaks just to make myself different. It's stupid, I know, but it's the only way I can exist. Without having that distinction from everyone else in the world, then I get sucked in.
Once I hit grad school, I imagine that I'll be even more siphoned off. My plan is to work about as much as I do now (last two weeks I worked 100 hours), continue my language studies, and completely isolate myself socially. Wherever I go, I have no intention of making friends. I'll have coworkers and acquaintances, but right now, what I desperately want is to be alone.
I'm going to go to bed since I need to be at school at about 7 tomorrow.
So the semester starts tomorrow, and I don't know if that means fewer hours of work or more. I've been kind of overwhelming myself with the bioenergetics stuff because I'm anticipating that they'll want a lot of work on the project I'm on done by the end of the year. If I can finish 4 drugs with all 20 cell lines, I'll be happy. Right now, I can get one cell line done a week. This week will be the exception as I'll be doing two this week.
These are the lines I will have done by Tuesday:
3 leukemias
1 breast
1 muscle
2 lymphomas
These are the ones I have left:
2 muscle
2 lung
3 melanoma
2 brain (these can actually be dangerous, so I'm going to do them last)
1 pancreatic
1 cervical
2 more that I can't remember
I've already thawed my two other muscle lines, so they'll be next on the docket. After that, I'm planning on doing the pancreatic one.
Whatever.
Anyways, I was thinking about it yesterday after I finished posting, and I've been seeing so many relationships forming in the last few months and then I went through my momentary lapse in judgment and REALLY wanted one for some reason. Nowadays, I can't stand the idea of being with someone. i can't stand the thought of holding someone's hand, or kissing someone or anything like that. I can't stand the vulnerability.
We're supposedly stronger when we have support, from family, friends, religion, and relationships. If there's anything in this world I've ever learned, I'm strongest when I'm on my own. It's probably why I have no one I can be frank and open with. I have friends, sure, but I never ever voice anything intensely personal with them. Part of that is that there is very little that is intensely personal about me. But those things that you kind of share with people are the things I really like to keep private. I feel some kind of accomplishment when I can say that I solved my own problems.
That's why I'm essentially agnostic now. Years ago I thought I couldn't live without some kind of supernatural support, and I figured out that the support I most needed was my own. I figure that if there is some supernatural being out there who is eventually going to judge me, I want to be judged on what I have done and what my actions were, and not what my beliefs were.
I turn 21 on Tuesday, and I've had people ask me out for a drink. I honestly am not sure that I want to go with anyone, because I've already learned that if there's something alcohol does to you, it's the breakdown of social inhibition. Social inhibition is basically my crutch in life. In order to distinguish myself, I have chosen a publically monastic life, refusing food, rest, sleep, or any kind of luxury whatsoever. I actually have tried to persuade one of my employers to avoid giving me a raise, because the less money I make, the more I have to work. Alcohol is the antithesis of this inhibition, my wish to become totally other. I got a little tipsy on rum (from too much tiramisu) before, and I acted like an idiot. I also have that whole issue with Brandon weighing on my mind. my impending birthday prompted me to pay my first visit there in like 2 years.
If there's anything that I have to be, it's seperate. In the world of science, people are almost totally incompetent with words. So I speak 3 languages and am in the learning process of 5 more; plus, I'm a total grammar Nazi. Everyone I know takes breaks for lunch or whatever, and I explicitly don't take breaks just to make myself different. It's stupid, I know, but it's the only way I can exist. Without having that distinction from everyone else in the world, then I get sucked in.
Once I hit grad school, I imagine that I'll be even more siphoned off. My plan is to work about as much as I do now (last two weeks I worked 100 hours), continue my language studies, and completely isolate myself socially. Wherever I go, I have no intention of making friends. I'll have coworkers and acquaintances, but right now, what I desperately want is to be alone.
I'm going to go to bed since I need to be at school at about 7 tomorrow.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Maintaining some degree of respectability
My professional blogging life has taken a major downturn. Perhaps it's the 10 hour work days that are actually also weekends and basically every day of my life now. Perhaps it's that I'm so damn exhausted that I don't know how I'm supposed to survive four months.
Does anyone want to guess how many days I've had off in the last three months? Including weekends?
Five.
Know how many I'll probably have in the next three?
None.
I'm really frustrated with a lot of my work stuff, because they keep telling me "oh, we don't want you to be stressed Ray" but then they come and say "the moon exploded, and we were wondering if you can do this entire extra set of experiments" or "I am totally incompetent when it comes to doing anything with this place, can you do this list of fifty meaningless tasks?".
I'm so pissed, it's not even funny. It looks like I'll have about two hours of work in the lab tomorrow, setting up breast cancer. Yep, you heard right, more experiments to set up. Know what that means? It means that on Tuesday, instead of doing something entertaining, like having a Guiness or something like that, I'll be working. Again. I'll probably be working past 7 PM.
That's what's so irritating. The expectations are totally unspoken, but they're really high.
Anyways, that's my minor rant. For now. I'll probably have more tomorrow.
If it wasn't 11:30, I would have more. But I am SO FRUSTRATED with my jobs right now, that I am ready for school to start so I can have fewer responsibilities.
Things to do in 48 hours:
1. Update LTC website
2. Update everything left in the LTC for Monday
3. Run A-204 Cell Surface stains for methotrexate, trimetrexate, and fluorouracil.
4. Set up MCF7 for cell surface and metabolics (108 samples on Tuesday)
5. Get all my biochem data together.
6. Find the rest of my school books (UCCS doesn't have them and they have like CD's and crap that I need).
7. Sleep?
Does anyone want to guess how many days I've had off in the last three months? Including weekends?
Five.
Know how many I'll probably have in the next three?
None.
I'm really frustrated with a lot of my work stuff, because they keep telling me "oh, we don't want you to be stressed Ray" but then they come and say "the moon exploded, and we were wondering if you can do this entire extra set of experiments" or "I am totally incompetent when it comes to doing anything with this place, can you do this list of fifty meaningless tasks?".
I'm so pissed, it's not even funny. It looks like I'll have about two hours of work in the lab tomorrow, setting up breast cancer. Yep, you heard right, more experiments to set up. Know what that means? It means that on Tuesday, instead of doing something entertaining, like having a Guiness or something like that, I'll be working. Again. I'll probably be working past 7 PM.
That's what's so irritating. The expectations are totally unspoken, but they're really high.
Anyways, that's my minor rant. For now. I'll probably have more tomorrow.
If it wasn't 11:30, I would have more. But I am SO FRUSTRATED with my jobs right now, that I am ready for school to start so I can have fewer responsibilities.
Things to do in 48 hours:
1. Update LTC website
2. Update everything left in the LTC for Monday
3. Run A-204 Cell Surface stains for methotrexate, trimetrexate, and fluorouracil.
4. Set up MCF7 for cell surface and metabolics (108 samples on Tuesday)
5. Get all my biochem data together.
6. Find the rest of my school books (UCCS doesn't have them and they have like CD's and crap that I need).
7. Sleep?
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Trying to catch up, and not just on my blog
So this week looks like an amazing opportunity to do exactly that. Partially because I worked, get this, a grand total of 60 hours. I pulled 7.25 on Sunday, 6 yesterday, 11.5 on Thursday, 6 on Friday, 8.5 on Wednesday, 9.5 on Tuesday, 9.25 on Monday, and today I worked 2. This is 60 I think...
Anyways, regardless, I am required by law to only work 20 hours this week, otherwise the university has to pay me overtime, and they HATE it when they have to do that. I'll probably end up getting stuck working between 50 and 60 this week anyways though...
I figure with the extra time, I can get caught up on my lab notebooks and my biochemistry data.
So, here's my thing with next semester:
January 22-February 12 --> Ireland (there's the possibility of a side trip to Edinburgh or the Isle of Mann when I get there because there's this huge festival thing in Dublin right when I get there)
February 28-March 4 --> Boston , Biophysical Chemistry society meeting that I'll probably be going to
March 22-March 26 --> Salt Lake City, American Chemistry Society meeting that I might go to if Boston doesn't work out.
Somehow in the midst of all of that, I'm supposed to be available for interviews for graduate schools. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Whatever. I'm going to go get caught up on something....maybe?
Anyways, regardless, I am required by law to only work 20 hours this week, otherwise the university has to pay me overtime, and they HATE it when they have to do that. I'll probably end up getting stuck working between 50 and 60 this week anyways though...
I figure with the extra time, I can get caught up on my lab notebooks and my biochemistry data.
So, here's my thing with next semester:
January 22-February 12 --> Ireland (there's the possibility of a side trip to Edinburgh or the Isle of Mann when I get there because there's this huge festival thing in Dublin right when I get there)
February 28-March 4 --> Boston , Biophysical Chemistry society meeting that I'll probably be going to
March 22-March 26 --> Salt Lake City, American Chemistry Society meeting that I might go to if Boston doesn't work out.
Somehow in the midst of all of that, I'm supposed to be available for interviews for graduate schools. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Whatever. I'm going to go get caught up on something....maybe?
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Why do I even try to have a blog anymore?
So, I'm yet again a terrible blogger. Frankly though, it's not that much my fault because I have been so ridiculously busy with school and work. My French class ended on Sunday night, and I know I got an A in it, based on the fact that I got an A on pretty much everything, except the final (83%...ick) and one assignment that I missed.
My biochem research is sort of coming along. I've figured out what's wrong with the program that I was running, and now I'm submitted so many calculations to the comptuer system that I've got it backed up for at least two or three more days. I'm hopeful that I can finish with the data collection before the semester starts.
LTC woes are still taking their toll on me, mainly because there are so many dinky ass things that I have to do over the next two weeks...tomorrow I have to be there ALL DAY LONG. Ugh.
By the way, I also have to be there all day long on Tuesday too. I hate being in one place like that that long, but at least I'm getting paid almost $11 doing it. Saturday also is orientation time (last one ever, hopefully...), but I'll spend the time I'm basically going to spend sitting on my ass working on getting everything ready for the orientation.
Bioenergetics stuff is a mixed bag. I finish two cell lines on my water project this week, and so I should have some time to catch up on everything. I'd like to finish one more cancer line for my metabolic chart before the semester starts, but these things are never guarantees. I am SO FAR BEHIND though on lab notebooks that they'll take me at least a week to catch up. That's a week of doing nothing but notebook notation.
I decided to quit at the LTC come Jan 1, partially b/c I'll be in Ireland for three weeks, and partially because I don't want the stress.
Over the horizon comes the semester and the need to start applying for graduate school. SHIT....
My biochem research is sort of coming along. I've figured out what's wrong with the program that I was running, and now I'm submitted so many calculations to the comptuer system that I've got it backed up for at least two or three more days. I'm hopeful that I can finish with the data collection before the semester starts.
LTC woes are still taking their toll on me, mainly because there are so many dinky ass things that I have to do over the next two weeks...tomorrow I have to be there ALL DAY LONG. Ugh.
By the way, I also have to be there all day long on Tuesday too. I hate being in one place like that that long, but at least I'm getting paid almost $11 doing it. Saturday also is orientation time (last one ever, hopefully...), but I'll spend the time I'm basically going to spend sitting on my ass working on getting everything ready for the orientation.
Bioenergetics stuff is a mixed bag. I finish two cell lines on my water project this week, and so I should have some time to catch up on everything. I'd like to finish one more cancer line for my metabolic chart before the semester starts, but these things are never guarantees. I am SO FAR BEHIND though on lab notebooks that they'll take me at least a week to catch up. That's a week of doing nothing but notebook notation.
I decided to quit at the LTC come Jan 1, partially b/c I'll be in Ireland for three weeks, and partially because I don't want the stress.
Over the horizon comes the semester and the need to start applying for graduate school. SHIT....
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
UGH
I think I might be dying. Something about my heart is still fucked up, but I wore my Holter monitor, had my echo done, etc. and now I need to go in on Monday to have the doctor tell me what the hell is wrong with me. Based on what I saw on my echo and how the symptoms match up, I have two guesses, first, mitral valve prolapse, second would be a heart rhythm disorder caused by something.
My last two days have been absolutely terrible. Yesterday, because I felt like shit all day, tired, wornout, all kinds of heart shit, whatever. Today is all the pounds of stress heaped on me. I've already worked three hours in the lab and I probably have about that much left to go tonight, at least. Tomorrow is going to be a bitch too, I have a meeting that'll last all morning, and then I probably have about 4-5 hours of lab work to go through. Friday=about the same.
Sunday is going to be disasterous. I am probably going to have 120 samples to run (at least, maybe as many as 200), and then on top of that, I have to update the ENTIRE Cryo log system, which equals 8 racks * 10 boxes *25 positions= 2000 updates to make in a computer.
I have a meeting in ten minutes that may make me pull my hair out.
By the way, I have this French final tonight that I need to do. I was hoping to do it earlier today, but that's not happening. FUCK.
The only bit of good news I have:
January 21-February 12. Mark it. Ray's going, for sure, no turning back, plane ticket bought, to IRELAND.
My last two days have been absolutely terrible. Yesterday, because I felt like shit all day, tired, wornout, all kinds of heart shit, whatever. Today is all the pounds of stress heaped on me. I've already worked three hours in the lab and I probably have about that much left to go tonight, at least. Tomorrow is going to be a bitch too, I have a meeting that'll last all morning, and then I probably have about 4-5 hours of lab work to go through. Friday=about the same.
Sunday is going to be disasterous. I am probably going to have 120 samples to run (at least, maybe as many as 200), and then on top of that, I have to update the ENTIRE Cryo log system, which equals 8 racks * 10 boxes *25 positions= 2000 updates to make in a computer.
I have a meeting in ten minutes that may make me pull my hair out.
By the way, I have this French final tonight that I need to do. I was hoping to do it earlier today, but that's not happening. FUCK.
The only bit of good news I have:
January 21-February 12. Mark it. Ray's going, for sure, no turning back, plane ticket bought, to IRELAND.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Is there such a thing as progress?
I am so fucking tired it's not even funny. I seriously in this moment want to completely shut down.
Can you guess how much caffeine I've had today? I've had a grand total of 50 milligrams. 50 MG!!!!! That's like a 95 percent reduction of my normal amount. Last night I was so desperate for one of those 32 oz things of coffee (yes, I buy 32 oz of coffee) that I was starting to shake.
I dropped a little more weight. I now weigh a whopping 149 pounds. Well, after what I just ate for dinner, that's probably up to 155. Apparently I have very cute arm bones. So my sister says.
So I finally decidedthat I really need a vacation and that I'm going to take one in January-February. I have three choices that I'm down to based on how much money I have:
1. San Juan, Puerto Rico
2. San Jose, Costa Rica
3. Dublin, Ireland.
I'm going to buy the ticket on my birthday.
Speaking of purchasing, I just cleaned out my credit card. I have a balance of 0.00! For the first time in almost two years!!!!
I desperately need to get caught up on my lab data. That's on the docket tonight--get something done.....
I'm spastic tonight.
Tomorrow isn't going to be fun. Unfortunately I can't say why. Basically, the whole thing is that I said I would do this thing tomorrow that I really don't want to do right now. I don't know why I said I would, but whatever. I'll get it over AQAP.
So I'm a little conflicted on what I want to do after I finish my two vacations in December/January. I'm considering the following:
1. Work for a year, save money
2. Go straight to grad school.
3. Get my master's in immunology in a year, then do peace corps for two years, then get my Ph.D.
Ugh, decisions.
These are the things I want to get done in the next 48 hours:
1. Get all my work done for chapter 6 in French
2. Get caught up in my water notebook.
3. Do all my biochemistry data so I can get published (AT LAST!!!)
Can you guess how much caffeine I've had today? I've had a grand total of 50 milligrams. 50 MG!!!!! That's like a 95 percent reduction of my normal amount. Last night I was so desperate for one of those 32 oz things of coffee (yes, I buy 32 oz of coffee) that I was starting to shake.
I dropped a little more weight. I now weigh a whopping 149 pounds. Well, after what I just ate for dinner, that's probably up to 155. Apparently I have very cute arm bones. So my sister says.
So I finally decidedthat I really need a vacation and that I'm going to take one in January-February. I have three choices that I'm down to based on how much money I have:
1. San Juan, Puerto Rico
2. San Jose, Costa Rica
3. Dublin, Ireland.
I'm going to buy the ticket on my birthday.
Speaking of purchasing, I just cleaned out my credit card. I have a balance of 0.00! For the first time in almost two years!!!!
I desperately need to get caught up on my lab data. That's on the docket tonight--get something done.....
I'm spastic tonight.
Tomorrow isn't going to be fun. Unfortunately I can't say why. Basically, the whole thing is that I said I would do this thing tomorrow that I really don't want to do right now. I don't know why I said I would, but whatever. I'll get it over AQAP.
So I'm a little conflicted on what I want to do after I finish my two vacations in December/January. I'm considering the following:
1. Work for a year, save money
2. Go straight to grad school.
3. Get my master's in immunology in a year, then do peace corps for two years, then get my Ph.D.
Ugh, decisions.
These are the things I want to get done in the next 48 hours:
1. Get all my work done for chapter 6 in French
2. Get caught up in my water notebook.
3. Do all my biochemistry data so I can get published (AT LAST!!!)
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