When vacuum filtrating acetaminophen for the purpose of creating dulcin, I have to get rid of the starch that binds the phenacetin together.  When I filtrate the starch, the carbohydrate will clump together and slow down the filtration process to a high degree.  I must not use the faucet with low water pressure (CURSE YOU, SECOND FLOOR LABORATORIES ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I don't really know if I'm still realistic, optimistic, or crazy.  Or maybe I'm a combination of all three.  I've heard of things like "responsible gambling," "responsible smoking," "responsible drinking," or even "calculated risk."  To me, semantics doesn't take away the thread that unites all of them: risk.  I do understand what they ( Read more... )

I'm a day late in my "Post Everyday" Challenge, but it's okay.  I sat in my classes, didn't think that the harder classes were too bad at this point.  I think I should conserve all of the calm that I felt today and unleash the calm when I am stressing out.  The stress isn't doing good things to me.

I got 2 pairs of shoes for $20. Very happy with ( Read more... )

I really wish I can tell my Physics professor "What'd I say? I said I'd handle it, right?"

Done. Will do it again, thank you very much. Too bad if I actually did say that to him, I'd sound like an arrogant berk.  Now I just need to improve my Genetics performance.

I realized that when the schoolyear started, my entries became really boring. It ( Read more... )

...that when someone gives up on something very important to them -

"It's too hard, I can't do it."

quitting things and justifying the surrender will become a lot easier in the future.

I've loved the Harry Potter series not because of the fandoms, but because of its various easter eggs.  This one from dear Dumbledore, in particular, is near and dear -

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cordately , I totally missed your birthday. I hope you had a good one!

Crunch time because I have heavy hitters back-to-back this Friday.  Am playing this tracklist in my head (just so I don't get too down on myself):

"The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World
some gregorian chants (yes, I know, a little odd)
"The Kill" by 30 Seconds to Mars
"Try Again" by Aaliyah
Final ( Read more... )

So has anyone else gotten for themselves a copy of Sims 3?

It's freakin' amazing. Sims 2 has been around forever and we have decent Expansions now, but it is time to move on.  I played the first Sims game and kind of fell out of it (okay, I fell out of it alot) because there weren't as much options to customize things.  I doubt I'll ever build a ( Read more... )

The new LJ handle's taking time getting used to, but I needed to let go of the other one.

So I was able to prove something to myself w/ my short-term goals because I met them.

Math used to be an impossible subject to me and I understood Science when I studied hard. That's why at the time, I knew that I would be okay w/ my chosen field. But it seems ( Read more... )

Almost done tweaking w/ the color mix of the stylesheet. Thanks mai@colourlovers (cue dissing on the pretentious British spelling of "color"). I'll finish the rest of the coloring when I'm done w/ life ( Read more... )

A little lyrical, but more descriptive than anything really...

( i. five )