So we meet again, Monday
This weekend was fantastic for social/relaxation stuff. Not so great with the working. I left the exam on Friday and lay on my couch watching the teevee until going to sleep. Then Saturday I drove down to Righteous Housing and hung out with 
cmshaw,
uschickens, and
lightgetsin. We actually lured cmshaw there under false pretenses of beer and White Collar. Which naturally devolved into shooters + American Idol/Adam Lambert/Lady Gaga clips fest. Like it does.
When I inevitably fell asleep, we declared it a party and went to bed. I woke up early, completely unaware of the time change, and hit the road so I could get some work done at home. En route I decided to defy a certain direction from the GPS. After making this rash decision, I checked the estimated time of arrival and was shocked to see what should have been just a few minutes away was now over an hour away. Initially I assumed that I'd made a really stupid error. (This is actually not an unreasonable assumption for me to make.) Then I passed a familiar landmark and new w/o question that I was twenty minutes from home, max, and realized that it must be time for Daylight Savings.
And then I sent up a little prayer of thanks that my med school interview is next week and not today, because you know if it was today I'd show up an hour late and not know why.
Speaking of, today I have a mock interview w/ the director and co-director of my program. I've got to wear the suit and basically be prepared like it's the real thing, and then they'll give me feedback. I've channeled ALL of my anxiety about the interview into the most ridiculous thing: getting the suit dry-cleaned after my mock interview. What if Something Happens, I think to myself, knowing full well this is irrational. What if Something Happens and then I have to go to my real interview in PAJAMAS?! (An actual dream I had earlier this semester: In it I'm wearing pajamas and sporting bedhead and actually on my way out the door to the interview when I ask my roommate 'do you think I should wear the suit?' and she's all O.O YES I DO OH MY GOD. That's...pretty much the whole dream right there.)
Anyway, after the mock interview this morning I have to write an orgo paper. Like, all of it. Because it is due today. I did work on it yesterday, but that work turned out to be interpreting NMR and IR data to figure out what the hell I'd made in the first place (it was a grignard reaction using an unknown ketone and an unknown alkyl-halide), looking up boiling points and densities and calculating mass, moles, millimoles and equivalents. Then when I was ready to really dig in and get started I couldn't find the program I'd used to draw the chemical equations last semester. I have a dim recollection of deleting it, so I went to download it again and it was having none of it. There's something wrong with how it downloaded and I couldn't draw *anything* in the program, when I could get it to load at all. I tried a bazillion different times, tried unloading and reloading, and tried to find other programs with no success. So today I'm going to go to the library at school and use their computers to draw the thing.
And now I've got to go get ready for the mock interview. Won't do to be late.
cmshaw,
uschickens, and
lightgetsin. We actually lured cmshaw there under false pretenses of beer and White Collar. Which naturally devolved into shooters + American Idol/Adam Lambert/Lady Gaga clips fest. Like it does.
When I inevitably fell asleep, we declared it a party and went to bed. I woke up early, completely unaware of the time change, and hit the road so I could get some work done at home. En route I decided to defy a certain direction from the GPS. After making this rash decision, I checked the estimated time of arrival and was shocked to see what should have been just a few minutes away was now over an hour away. Initially I assumed that I'd made a really stupid error. (This is actually not an unreasonable assumption for me to make.) Then I passed a familiar landmark and new w/o question that I was twenty minutes from home, max, and realized that it must be time for Daylight Savings.
And then I sent up a little prayer of thanks that my med school interview is next week and not today, because you know if it was today I'd show up an hour late and not know why.
Speaking of, today I have a mock interview w/ the director and co-director of my program. I've got to wear the suit and basically be prepared like it's the real thing, and then they'll give me feedback. I've channeled ALL of my anxiety about the interview into the most ridiculous thing: getting the suit dry-cleaned after my mock interview. What if Something Happens, I think to myself, knowing full well this is irrational. What if Something Happens and then I have to go to my real interview in PAJAMAS?! (An actual dream I had earlier this semester: In it I'm wearing pajamas and sporting bedhead and actually on my way out the door to the interview when I ask my roommate 'do you think I should wear the suit?' and she's all O.O YES I DO OH MY GOD. That's...pretty much the whole dream right there.)
Anyway, after the mock interview this morning I have to write an orgo paper. Like, all of it. Because it is due today. I did work on it yesterday, but that work turned out to be interpreting NMR and IR data to figure out what the hell I'd made in the first place (it was a grignard reaction using an unknown ketone and an unknown alkyl-halide), looking up boiling points and densities and calculating mass, moles, millimoles and equivalents. Then when I was ready to really dig in and get started I couldn't find the program I'd used to draw the chemical equations last semester. I have a dim recollection of deleting it, so I went to download it again and it was having none of it. There's something wrong with how it downloaded and I couldn't draw *anything* in the program, when I could get it to load at all. I tried a bazillion different times, tried unloading and reloading, and tried to find other programs with no success. So today I'm going to go to the library at school and use their computers to draw the thing.
And now I've got to go get ready for the mock interview. Won't do to be late.