I am alive and posting again...though not here. For updates on my random thoughts/happenings go to marinabythesea.blogspot.com .

It's amazing how a few words from a freind can just make you suddenly feel better. Something as simple as a joke can make a really shitty day seem pretty awsome. Just taking stalk of life's tiny blessings...while a bit tipsy. What the hell...It's my last week in Philly!

Gripe 1: Class gap ( Read more... )

The human heart is incredibly resiliant. Some of you may say its girly of me, but two months ago I didn't think I could meet someone else who inspired in me the kind of love I had for him. No matter how cliche this fear was, it was real because I did genuinely love. The past two months haven't been easy because I was forced to deal with heartbreak ( Read more... )

I've been looking at grad schools today during the incubation times in my experiments and let me share this fact...I AM SOOO FREAKED OUT! The majority of the really well rated schools in my field are either places I will shoot myself before going there because they are so insanely competative (Berkeley undergrad was plenty...thank you very much. I ( Read more... )

It's Saturday and I sit working in lab (or taking a break currently). Despite the fact that it's the weekend, I don't mind being here because for the first time in a long time I feel like I'm actually part of a lab. Up until now I have always been "the undergrad", which in essence was true but out of 3 labs I have worked in until this one in 2 of ( Read more... )

I got pink-eye from a mouse! This blows major balls because eventhough I feel fine I was banned from my lab for two days and have to be bored at home since I'm really contageous! So apparently now I catch diseases from rodents, I'm not getting payed for the next two days, and I have to sit at home with my white supremisist roomate for two days! ( Read more... )

In the spirit of remembering last year I would like to share a very special and particularly annoying song ( Read more... )

9:38 am...Just woke up - STILL DRUNK!!! WOOHOO!

Hate is a scary thing. It's one of the fundamental emotions - Love, Hate, Fear, Happiness, Dispair...we all experience them to some extent. Yet I have never in my entire 21.5 years come into contact with such pure and deep rooted fear and hatered as I have in the past few days. Growing up in California...in the Bay Area, which is mostly a hub of ( Read more... )