Have not posted in ages. I point in the direction of finals and too many work shifts, of holidays and too much family time, of shoes and ships and sealing wax ( Read more... )

This morning: 8am, ORAL physics midterm - 2 questions, 5 points. Gah! Was absolutely terrified, my hands were shaking, and of course I pulled out the one theory I couldn't remember exactly how to derive. But ... somehow I managed to blab out enough about isothermic processes and thermal expansion to score a 5/5! Yahoo ( Read more... )

having a much better day.

I ... got my car back. And will survive til pay day. Which is more exciting because budget got passed and we got a raise! *cheers* a desperately needed raise in factI ... went to the fancy-schmancy hospital party on Saturday and drank wine and ate food and went out afterwards with some cool folks and played darts and ( Read more... )

UPS just stopped by and dropped off my new TIVO! Huzzah! The downside of being so awfully sick for a week is time spent shopping for goods online that I never have time to think about buying. A cool gift for my Mom's birthday this friday, a new digital camera (my first one evah!) and now, this shiny-evil-enabling machine ( Read more... )

I feel absolutely awfulThis quarter, I switched from Shoreline Community College to North Seattle Community College for my Zoology class (Zoology! So much more my style than molecular bio, but anyway). North Seattle runs their classes concurrently, and Shoreline jumps around so much that I'm constantly starting and stopping. Plus, the whole ( Read more... )

Crazy day. Too many hospitalized animals, not enough cages, pumps or people to care for them all. Rough, rough day ( Read more... )

Okay, so either I'm incredibly juvenile or I've been staying up too late and studying too much.

But my Biology final is tonight, and I've been doing all the online quizzes and of course I got a question wrong. The quiz had the following explanation for me:

No. Dead bacteria do not engage in the bacterial version of sex.Snerk! (oh, god, I ( Read more... )

You remember the teacher's pet from the fourth grade? The one always doing extra homework and volunteering for all the craptastic tasks and bringing your teacher presents for Christmas ( Read more... )