Please, please, please guys.  Pay attention out there.

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Yes, it's a fun little video.  And yes, I failed it the first few times around, too.  But last Monday I received what what is likely the most terrifying phone call of my existence: "Your dad was in an accident and they are flying him to the hospital."

My dad has been riding motorcycles since ( Read more... )

You know how sometimes you're having a really bad day, and then some wonderful, touching, inspiring song comes on the radio and makes the world just a little bit brighter? Yeah, that happened to me yesterday.

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Sooo, I went to see Avatar last night. It was epic. The plot was predictable and a little cheesy, but there were some interesting twists. And the effects were simply stunning. To continually fool my artist’s eye and biologist’s brain into believing that a movie that is almost entirely CG is “real” - for over three and a half hours, no less - is ( Read more... )

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OMGIMADEABINCHEMISTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*ahem* Yeah, that was pretty much the extent of my summer.  I also made an A in Public Speaking, which friends and family (and myself) find amusingly ironic, considering how much I like to talk.

Went to the beach (Navarre, because PCB has gone waaaay downhill) and it rained 98.7% of the time.  It ( Read more... )

Well, that should be obvious.   To elaborate on my profile page :

I'm actually pretty boring and unfriendly. No, seriously. Really, I'm not particularly outgoing, but if you're nice to me then I'll be nice to you.  I have a small circle of close friends, and my main reason for joining LJ was to keep track of them - and maybe meet some new ones, too ( Read more... )