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This week was bizarre. It's like it allowed me to be as lazy possible. Well first the weekend: my parents have been very happy due to my acceptance into Northeastern (my dad in particular has been uber-pleasant and wow it's just a nice feeling...i'm so used to him constantly miserable). So randomly on Friday they decided to come up for Saturday for a celebration at my aunt's. Haha but my aunt really wasn't aware this was all going on...so her place was a WRECK. Like wow it was almost beyond the conditions of a back alley bomb explosion...I'm not even gonna go into details. So...after Dave had work we went to her place (well first a pit stop for a haircut from some very insane unknown race (like Eastern European + Indian?) haircutter) and pretty much Dave really impressed me and my aunt with how he handled Sean and got him to work. Makes me think consider more about if I really would mind having kids in the future...but my lack of patience/Dave's random rage would need major work if that were to happen (in a VERY long time). Anyway, we (mostly Dave) cleaned the house for a long time...parents eventually showed up...picked up lazy Erin...and we ate and drank and were merry. It was REAL nice and touching actually. I don't remember anything like that in a long time....just everyone happy and proud and celebrating my accomplishment...it wasn't like a forced thing like a birthday or holiday where people feel obligated or something (I think a MAJOR cultural problem in our society). So...happy Brendan! Parents took me out to lunch on Sunday...they left for LI...and so ended the random family-oriented weekend.
Had two tests this week...protein folding and medicinal chem. I def plan on taking protein folding pass/fail so I can't say I care much about it. And I'm glad I don't have to care because WOW his teaching methods are horrible and the only people that seem to care are the grad students so whatev. I passed the test (barely) so I have to make sure I keep it up or I'll eventually drop it. Medicinal chem test was today and was slightly bizarre in that you couldn't tell if things were easy or not or if you were answering questions correctly. I enjoy the subject material greatly so studying for it isn't bad and if I do poorly I'll get over it.
Boston University actually got back to me...but a bit annoyingly in that they want me for an interview like sort of when Cornell-Weill wants me. Cornell is a Wednesday night-Friday type of thing and BU is Thursday night-Saturday deal so I'm not sure if it can work out or not. I definitely want to give both of them a chance though. On top of that is this deadline from Northeastern of like a week from now for comitting to them and I haven't gotten a response back if that can be ammended or not. Ugh. So hopefully that all gets straightened out this week. I also haven't gotten back one reimbursement from any place I went to yet...so I'm pretty broke. Sad inner jew.
The main event this week was this HUGE snowstorm. Like we easily got 18" and school was cancelled Wednesday (WHICH IS SO CONVENIENT SINCE I HAVE WEDNESDAYS OFF ANYWAY >:O) but I took Thursday morning off too because with the insane wind blowing the snow it was just as horrible and screw walking in them at 7:45 AM for freakin' Bioinformatics. Troy also SUCKS in plowing anything or using any form of salt or sand or whatever. Troy sucks at most things except sucking. The extra laziness meant sort of skipping my time in the lab and doing any form of Bioinformatics work = happy Brendan! So much Buffy: The Vamp Slayer time and other happiness. I pretty much have one season left...Willow's been mad but wow the sexy powerful witch stuff gives me goosebumps. The show in general is beyond underrated and I think it's because watching one episode at random doesn't clue you in to so many things going on and the stories build one each other. There's not just pointless demon kiling every episode. It also is hugely monumental in terms of showing main gay characters showing real love unlike pointless Will and Grace and I'm VERY surprised I was not made aware of their impact nor do I think they are given as much as credit as they should be...again. Wow but seriously it is excellently written and I could watch it all day/night and I pretty much do. :END BUFFY TANGENT:
Me and Lauren couldn't do our annual Valentine's day "get lots of goodies and condoms" because of school closing. So instead me and Dave relaxed and we made a sexy-sounding dinner from this random Rachel Ray recipe for like an exotic chicken dish...haha but it wound up tasting like death (probably since we used scotch instead of bourbon?) but wow good ice cream and lots o' love. We both have been kinda blah lately...and I kinda realized it's because we sort of just want to start our chapter together in our own apartment in Boston (or possibly NYC) and are sort of just waiting for the semester to end. Soon enough babe.
Had two tests this week...protein folding and medicinal chem. I def plan on taking protein folding pass/fail so I can't say I care much about it. And I'm glad I don't have to care because WOW his teaching methods are horrible and the only people that seem to care are the grad students so whatev. I passed the test (barely) so I have to make sure I keep it up or I'll eventually drop it. Medicinal chem test was today and was slightly bizarre in that you couldn't tell if things were easy or not or if you were answering questions correctly. I enjoy the subject material greatly so studying for it isn't bad and if I do poorly I'll get over it.
Boston University actually got back to me...but a bit annoyingly in that they want me for an interview like sort of when Cornell-Weill wants me. Cornell is a Wednesday night-Friday type of thing and BU is Thursday night-Saturday deal so I'm not sure if it can work out or not. I definitely want to give both of them a chance though. On top of that is this deadline from Northeastern of like a week from now for comitting to them and I haven't gotten a response back if that can be ammended or not. Ugh. So hopefully that all gets straightened out this week. I also haven't gotten back one reimbursement from any place I went to yet...so I'm pretty broke. Sad inner jew.
The main event this week was this HUGE snowstorm. Like we easily got 18" and school was cancelled Wednesday (WHICH IS SO CONVENIENT SINCE I HAVE WEDNESDAYS OFF ANYWAY >:O) but I took Thursday morning off too because with the insane wind blowing the snow it was just as horrible and screw walking in them at 7:45 AM for freakin' Bioinformatics. Troy also SUCKS in plowing anything or using any form of salt or sand or whatever. Troy sucks at most things except sucking. The extra laziness meant sort of skipping my time in the lab and doing any form of Bioinformatics work = happy Brendan! So much Buffy: The Vamp Slayer time and other happiness. I pretty much have one season left...Willow's been mad but wow the sexy powerful witch stuff gives me goosebumps. The show in general is beyond underrated and I think it's because watching one episode at random doesn't clue you in to so many things going on and the stories build one each other. There's not just pointless demon kiling every episode. It also is hugely monumental in terms of showing main gay characters showing real love unlike pointless Will and Grace and I'm VERY surprised I was not made aware of their impact nor do I think they are given as much as credit as they should be...again. Wow but seriously it is excellently written and I could watch it all day/night and I pretty much do. :END BUFFY TANGENT:
Me and Lauren couldn't do our annual Valentine's day "get lots of goodies and condoms" because of school closing. So instead me and Dave relaxed and we made a sexy-sounding dinner from this random Rachel Ray recipe for like an exotic chicken dish...haha but it wound up tasting like death (probably since we used scotch instead of bourbon?) but wow good ice cream and lots o' love. We both have been kinda blah lately...and I kinda realized it's because we sort of just want to start our chapter together in our own apartment in Boston (or possibly NYC) and are sort of just waiting for the semester to end. Soon enough babe.