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.