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So I haven't updated in like years. I should make this the world's largest entry with no lj cuts. Mostly because I don't know how. Lame, I know.
So school ended like a long time ago, and now all I work, take a Calculus II class Wednesday nights and do undergraduate inorganic research, more specially artifact analysis. Ooohhh ahhh. Not really, but it's cool. We analyze coins from the fourteenth century and later. Then we make spreadsheets and compare the coins. Right now we're working on a Japanese set from the early fifteenth century. Supposedly, we have this one coin that's not like any of the other ones and it has been said that it is a coin made from the first Buddha statue in Japan. How cool would that be? We haven't gotten around to putting it in the X-Ray defractor yet, but that's because we have to get all the other coins data twice first so we have something to compare to, and there are 239 coins. 10 coins take about 45 just to go through the machine once, so it's very tedious. Anyway, in November we'll be going to Chicago to present our research in front of a bunch of chemists and next year there'll be a book published that we'll be a part of, which I thought was cool.
My calculus class is four hours long and it's excrutiating. I think I might die in there.
Work is going pretty well. They cut my hours but it's cool, I guess. BUT, they are in the process of building a coffee kiosk with real coffee, non of that "We proudly brew" crap. REAL HEARTSTOPPING COFFEE. I am so excited. I'm at work right now and I would love a grande non-fat no foam latte. Sadly, the kiosk is not built yet.
Suva came home yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited.
I don't think anything too exciting has happened to me lately. I've seen a bunch of movies. I saw the DaVinci Code (awesome), the Break-Up (Don't see it), last night I saw The Lake House, and I feel I need to expand on this:
So, rarely do I get to the point where my head actually starts hurting because I'm thinking too much (unless organic is involved) but there is just one topic that I had the hardest time wrapping my head around. Two movies have challenged me on this: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and The Lake House. And this is time travel. I mean does it stop for everyone while the people go back, or no? I had so many questions, but last night after the movie Mel and I sat down and figured it all out for both movies. There are a few kinks that I could mention but would ruin it for everyone who wants to see the movie so I won't. But it was REALLY good. I would definately say whoever wrote that screenplay deserves an oscar. I mean it was so well thought out, for me to just see where he was going was a challenge, to actually come up with it and put it on paper is no small feat. Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are good together but their performances weren't award winning. The screenplay speaks for itself. The acting is predictable. Although, I don't know how it could have gone a different way, had the acting been more dramatic it would have been too much. Anywoo, it was good. Go see it.
I went to the Chaldean Festival on Friday: the theme was Spiritual Awakening. It was interesting let me tell you. And after growing up in an islam home, Jen is giving me theology lessons once a week. Weird, but if I don't believe in Islam I have to believe in something. I just need time to figure that out. The task will be keeping it from my father. Ooh, he's a nosey man. So anyway, a Christian Rock band played and there was a Eucharistic procession which was interesting. They flew Nabiha Yasbeh in from Lebanon which was awesome because she's such an amazing singer. Then there was all night adoration, but we were tired so we left at midnight. All-in-all I had a good time.
Yesterday I went to my 11 year old cousin's dance recital which was sooo cute. It was 3 HOURS long, but really cute. There were 51 numbers and she was in four, but that's ok. The rest was good too. They had older dancers too so that was fun to watch. In fact, after we saw The Lake House I had to go rent Center Stage for some reason. That movie and Blue Crush are gay but for some reason they put me in a good mood.
Oh, and after Thursday night the world is in a bacon shortage so when you go to the store it's normal that you won't find any bacon. SO I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce everyone to what I grew up on when we wanted a good ol' fashioned American Breakfast: Turkey bacon. It taste's like cardboard, dogs probably wouldn't eat it but at least it's KOSHER! Enjoy!
I think that should be all for now. My break is almost over.
So school ended like a long time ago, and now all I work, take a Calculus II class Wednesday nights and do undergraduate inorganic research, more specially artifact analysis. Ooohhh ahhh. Not really, but it's cool. We analyze coins from the fourteenth century and later. Then we make spreadsheets and compare the coins. Right now we're working on a Japanese set from the early fifteenth century. Supposedly, we have this one coin that's not like any of the other ones and it has been said that it is a coin made from the first Buddha statue in Japan. How cool would that be? We haven't gotten around to putting it in the X-Ray defractor yet, but that's because we have to get all the other coins data twice first so we have something to compare to, and there are 239 coins. 10 coins take about 45 just to go through the machine once, so it's very tedious. Anyway, in November we'll be going to Chicago to present our research in front of a bunch of chemists and next year there'll be a book published that we'll be a part of, which I thought was cool.
My calculus class is four hours long and it's excrutiating. I think I might die in there.
Work is going pretty well. They cut my hours but it's cool, I guess. BUT, they are in the process of building a coffee kiosk with real coffee, non of that "We proudly brew" crap. REAL HEARTSTOPPING COFFEE. I am so excited. I'm at work right now and I would love a grande non-fat no foam latte. Sadly, the kiosk is not built yet.
Suva came home yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited.
I don't think anything too exciting has happened to me lately. I've seen a bunch of movies. I saw the DaVinci Code (awesome), the Break-Up (Don't see it), last night I saw The Lake House, and I feel I need to expand on this:
So, rarely do I get to the point where my head actually starts hurting because I'm thinking too much (unless organic is involved) but there is just one topic that I had the hardest time wrapping my head around. Two movies have challenged me on this: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and The Lake House. And this is time travel. I mean does it stop for everyone while the people go back, or no? I had so many questions, but last night after the movie Mel and I sat down and figured it all out for both movies. There are a few kinks that I could mention but would ruin it for everyone who wants to see the movie so I won't. But it was REALLY good. I would definately say whoever wrote that screenplay deserves an oscar. I mean it was so well thought out, for me to just see where he was going was a challenge, to actually come up with it and put it on paper is no small feat. Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are good together but their performances weren't award winning. The screenplay speaks for itself. The acting is predictable. Although, I don't know how it could have gone a different way, had the acting been more dramatic it would have been too much. Anywoo, it was good. Go see it.
I went to the Chaldean Festival on Friday: the theme was Spiritual Awakening. It was interesting let me tell you. And after growing up in an islam home, Jen is giving me theology lessons once a week. Weird, but if I don't believe in Islam I have to believe in something. I just need time to figure that out. The task will be keeping it from my father. Ooh, he's a nosey man. So anyway, a Christian Rock band played and there was a Eucharistic procession which was interesting. They flew Nabiha Yasbeh in from Lebanon which was awesome because she's such an amazing singer. Then there was all night adoration, but we were tired so we left at midnight. All-in-all I had a good time.
Yesterday I went to my 11 year old cousin's dance recital which was sooo cute. It was 3 HOURS long, but really cute. There were 51 numbers and she was in four, but that's ok. The rest was good too. They had older dancers too so that was fun to watch. In fact, after we saw The Lake House I had to go rent Center Stage for some reason. That movie and Blue Crush are gay but for some reason they put me in a good mood.
Oh, and after Thursday night the world is in a bacon shortage so when you go to the store it's normal that you won't find any bacon. SO I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce everyone to what I grew up on when we wanted a good ol' fashioned American Breakfast: Turkey bacon. It taste's like cardboard, dogs probably wouldn't eat it but at least it's KOSHER! Enjoy!
I think that should be all for now. My break is almost over.