Finally filled out the work term agreement form. Just under four months late. Now I just need to get it signed and hand it in. I wonder what the new coop coordinator will say. And I have no idea what is going on with the final report, presentation, and evaluation ( Read more... )

Beautiful. I've been very worried about whether I should take Dr. K up on his offer. Just before I left work today, I asked Mark how many assignments I would be missing out on. Apparently, I'd only be missing out on a presentation. And MMMMAAAAYYYBBBEEEE one essay. This is hardly worth the work required to run weekly experiments (quite frankly, it' ( Read more... )

'Twas Phillipe's last day in the lab today. He's going back to France on Monday (and not coming back... ever.) Although he is not the most helpful person in the lab, I was a little sad to see him go. It was also a little awkward. I was in the middle of an experiment today, and couldn't leave the small growth room. Phillipe basically poked his head ( Read more... )

A strange thing happened this morning, that has only happened once before. I woke up, not all-out bauling, but tearing enough that I would definitely call it crying. For me, simply crying is, in itself, kind of odd. This morning would be the first time I've cried in... over ten years, if my memory serves me correctly... with the exception of the ( Read more... )

Lately I've been reading more. Shortly before, and after reading Harry Potter, I continued reading the Icewind Dale trilogy, which I had started long ago, and sadly stopped in the middle. After finishing that in a few days, I immediately went on to read the Legacy of the Drow trilogy, in the same night that I finished Icewind Dale. I haven't gotten ( Read more... )

Arg, so much I want to post about, but so little drive to do it. This includes a weird add-on to my experiment two weeks ago, where Mark got me to first load two pencils in radioactive solution, and experiment with them as if they were plants, and then made me do the same thing with two bundles of dead plants (boiled, and then exposed to sulfuric ( Read more... )

Always feel like posting during the day. Never feel like posting when I actually sit in front of a computer. Maybe I'll actually post something about something eventually.

For the majority of July, I'm not doing any experiments. Mark is utterly dominating the lab's resources (not by choice), and the last time I did my experiments, the whole growth room, where we do our experiments, was virtually unusable for all the radioactivity. So, Mark is pushing through his experiments, hammering away one a week, with a ( Read more... )

My parents are gone for the week. They went to this inn/cottage place, I think it's called a silent inn or something. Basically, there are no TVs, radios, children, pets, or motors. It's by a lake, and it is purely for relaxing. They'll be there until Friday, when they come back ( Read more... )

I don't believe I've ever had one weekend (granted it was a long one) begin so horribly, and end so wonderfully. I can't recall at all how angry and sad my wisdom teeth were making me on friday and saturday. I would almost wish for another weekend like this one. I'm sure I shouldn't though ( Read more... )