I have a problem.

Wow. So today I got really bored and decided to compare the ingredients in my shaving cream to the ingredients in my brother’s shaving cream. Sometimes I just do weird things like that, but oh well. I was super bored. Anyways, I actually never even got to the comparing part. As I was examining my shaving cream, I noticed that I recognized basically all of the ingredients and I thought to myself, "Hmmm. I wonder if I can draw these". And so I sat down and tried.

This is what I came up with...



Is it a problem to be able to draw random shaving cream chemicals? Probably, but that's alright. I guess I should try to contain all my weird chemistry knowledge. But I got all their structures right so that part made me feel good.

Dragon Tales dream.

Totally had a dream in cartoon last night, which was awesome. Although, it happened to be in the format of Dragon Tales, which is probably one of the saddest cartoons for my brain to choose. Oh well though. It was still pretty sweet. I’ve never had a dream in cartoon before. Dragon Tales is this cartoon on OPB where this girl named Emmy and her brother Max find this magical dragon scale in their house that transports them to Dragon Land where they have a bunch of dragon friends and they have adventures and stuff.

So in my dream, I was Emmy and there was a bunch of stuff that happened before, but the only part that I remember was that this crazy bum and his wife tried to steal my red car. I was with my dad, and we had just finished re-parking all three of our cars in a line in front of the opposite side of our house that we usually do. Then, when our weird job was done, he went inside and I went in the garage. I think I must have forgot something in the car becaue I went back outside and I saw this bum lady and her man throwing the last of their Safeway bags of stuff in the back seat of my car. I’m pretty sure they weren’t in cartoon though… So I grabbed one of their bags through the window and bashed the bum lady in the head with it. It happened to have one of those tins of Planters mixed nuts in it and she screamed at me, “You’re bashing me in the head with my Planters Mixed Nuts!” And I was like, “Well you’re trying to steal my car, bum.” And I kept on bashing her. Eventually she got out of the car and put on these weird, square shaped boxing gloves and tried to punch me so I ran. I ran down this club for little cartoon kids by the beach and lost the crazy bum in there. When I ran out of the kiddie club, I happened to be in black ninja clothes. Haha. And I met Max from Dragontales and we walked back to my house. When I woke up, I definitely had the Dragon Tales theme song in my head.

Basically it was a really weird dream. But I was a fan.

End of sophomore year!

So I was getting ready to study for my finals today and I realized that I never wrote about my spring term classes! And in order to avoid studying for my finals, I decided to write all about them now.

This term has been my favorite term since last year, in which all three terms were tied for my favorite. I'm not sure whether to rank this term as better than last year or not, but I think I'm leaning towards the latter. My whole of last year's classes were amazing and unmarred by the tragedy of physics and other things.

I took organic chemistry lab, cell and molecular biology, intro to poetry and evolution of people, technology and society. Only 15 credits. Yes! And they were all after eleven o'clock! It was quite nice, especially because I loved all my classes, with the exception of intro to poetry. Poetry is one of my only three hates in life (Physics, poetry and ants. In that order) and I only took this class because I knew it would be extremely easy. And it was. There was only a midterm and a final and both were short essays (one page per poem double spaced). This was quite amazing, as it allowed me to devote time to my more important and far more interesting classes. My teacher was from Israel too and he had a really cute Hebrew accent. I thought he was pretty good looking as well, which was an added bonus to this class that I did not foresee...

Basically my favorite class this term was organic chemistry lab. Yay! There were 2 hour and a half lectures a week and 1 four hour lab. It sounds like a lot, but it really wasn't. I usually enjoy labs more than the actual classes they're for and this class was no exception. My lab was at eight in the morning, but I always looked forward to it, even though it was so early. And a lot of work. In order to participate in the lab, we had to come to class with a completed prelab. Now these prelabs usually took me about two hours to complete. We had to copy down the whole laboratory procedure into our lab notebooks in addition to making a bunch of extra charts and tables and adding background information. This part kind of sucked, but it was worth it. And our professor actually came to labs and demonstrated every step and talked to us and helped us, which I thought was super cool. Another plus was that I took it with one of my sciency friends. I might not have liked this class as much if he wasn't in it. But all in all, favorite class ever! I'm going to try really hard for this final. I'm aiming for 100%, but I'd be happy with a 95% I guess in the worst case scenario.

Cell Bio. Also a fun class and the textbook for it was the prettiest one I've ever seen. It had all these pretty bright colors and abstract cartoonish pictures of cells and cell parts. It also had cool swirls and dots and stuff. It was so cool! And it came with this cd that I only recently started using that had these chapter quizzes and movies on it which were also really cool. When you clicked on an answer for the quizzes it made this really satisfying clicking sound. I don't even know how to describe this properly, but I actually took all the quizzes in order to hear it. Yeah, I'm kind of nerdy, but I really liked that sound. I watched all the movies too... Haha. But the class was also really cool. I realy liked my teacher and I learned a lot of things about cells. I'm probably never going to use any of the information that I learned in my actual real job that I'll get one day, but I guess it's cool to know stuff like this. I can pull cell communication pathways and cancer mechanisms out at cocktail parties and stuff.

Lastly, my evolution of people, technology and society class... I took a class from this same professor last term as well and knew coming into this class that he was prone to telling personal stories and going off on tangents, but still, I learned a lot from this class. I might even want to go into some kind of evolutionary human paleontology one day or something. And yeah, I thought this class was that cool. We learned about all our human ancestors and went into human evolution and some of its causes and stuff like that. We didn't really get into the evolution of technology and society, but that's okay. I don't think that stuff is that importat anyways... Bones are way cooler. Not going to lie. I think it would be really fun to go out in the desert or somewhere in Siberia and go looking for fossils every day. One of the coolest things I learned in this class is that I could go out into nature and kill a deer or something without any weapon whatsoever. All you have to do is keep running after one animal and it will eventually get so tired that it will stop and you can bash it in the head with a rock and kill it. That's one of thee earliest ways our ancestors hunted. I thought this was super cool. And my techer said that he actually tried it one day with a friend with a deer in some national park in Washington. He did it and it actually worked, but he got a ticket from a game warden for harrassing the wildlife. Haha, I thought that was pretty funny.

So those were my classes this term. All in all they were pretty much amazing.

Chemistry Burn.

Yeah. This happened to my arm on Tuesday morning in my organic chemistry lab. It was basically the easiest lab of the term, but my partner and I somehow had more trouble on this lab than any of the other ones. Basically all we had to do was boil some instant milk, add some acid a couple of times and then remove any chunks that formed. Simple right? Well not for us.

The first time we boiled our milk and added the acid, we ended up cooking it for too long or something because we got an enormous amount of congealed milk chunkage with not enough liquid left over to extract the next substance. We asked our TA what our problem was and he was like. "Hmmm. I don't know what you guys did wrong, but you have to do it again." So that's what we did. However, this is when the most disastrous episode of the day occured, namely my poor burnt arm.

We were successful in the first and second extractions of milk chunkage, but as we were removing the remaining liquid from our hot plate to cool, disaster struck. As I was removing our precious beaker, my partner moved the hotplate and it touched my wrist. Oh no! I kind of screamed and dropped the beaker. It shattered on our lab bench and our precious milk liquid mixture spilled all over. It was terrible. Then, all the TA's and our professor rushed over to make sure we didn't spill anything dangerous like hydrochloric acid or something. (luckily, we had just finished adding some sodium bicarbonate to our liquid, effectively neutralizing the hydrochloric acid that we had previously added...) But needless to say, it was pretty embarrasing. Everyone heard my funny scream and the shatter of our poor beaker. It an especially sad day because we had previously dominated every other lab. But oh well. Nobody's prefect I guess...

So, in the end we were unable to successfully complete the experiment and were forced to use the data of the group directly across from us. That being said, they are not quite as good at doing labs as we are, so I hope they ended up making a good milk liquid mixture. We will find out next week I guess... And I hope I get a really cool scar. I could tell everyone how I got it one day in organic chemistry lab. And it would be amazing.

Lions don't eat rabbits. Come on.

So I was playing Family Feud today on Facebook, and one of the questions it gave me was, "What do lions eat?" Of course, because I know everything about lions, I thought to myself, "Yes! I'm going to kick this question's butt!!" However, this was not to be the case. My zoologic expertise was not enough to win. Not nearly enough. Apparently, lions do not eat zebras, water buffalo, wildebeast, or impala. I got super mad after I got my three strikes and only got one answer two of six answers. It turns out that in addition to gazelle and antelope lions eat deer, bugs, rabbits, and turtles.

Hello! Lions do not eat any of these things!!!! First of all, "rabbits","deer" and "turtles" do not have very high populations in the savannahs of Africa, where real lions live. A real lion would probably never encounter any of these animals in its day to day life. I'm sure if they saw one just standing around, they would try to kill it, but this would probably never happen. Second of all, the bug-filled diet of Simba from the Lion King does not accurately represent the diet of a real lion. Real lions don't eat bugs.

This question made me really mad. Like I actually got pretty upset. It makes me really sad that people actually think lions eat bugs, deer, rabbits and turtles. Oh well though. This question only cheated me out of my Fast money round. No big deal I guess.

Loud Breathers.

I was having a wonderful day today until right about seven minutes before my Cell Bio class started, when Mr. Loud Breather decided to sit down next to me. I was reading my slides before class and the next time I looked up, there he was. Now I sat by him once before during the first week of class and I swore that I would never do so again. I never leave an empty seat next to me if I get to class before this guy. I don't know why I did today, but it was a mistake that I hope to never repeat.

This particular guy is the loudest breather I have ever heard. In my entire life. Period. My jaw literally hurt so bad after class today that I couldn't even move my mouth for like an hour. I clenched my teeth so hard that much. It was ridiculous. And I broke my pencil in half because I was sqeezing it so hard too. I could hardly even concentrate on what my professor was saying. And Cell Bio is one of my favorite classes, so this made me really sad. I tried really hard to ignore the loud breather, but I just couldn't do it. I tried moving my head as far away from him as possible, but that didn't work. I tried moving my body as far away from him as possible (I was basically sitting on top of the person on my other side, but I'm sure they understood - they looked pretty miserable as well), but that didn't work either. I could still hear the breathing. I don't even think my feeble attempt to get away from him made his breathing any less loud, but it made me feel better that I tried to escape it. I even tried breathing loud myself to the pattern of his loud breaths, but that didn't work either because I still couldn't reach the caliber of his nasty loud breathing.

Basically, I was super miserable for 50 whole minutes. Grinding my jaw off, breaking my pencil in half... Oh man. I'm sure I was giving off really annoyed, unhappy vibes too. Oh well though. I was taken advantage of in my one moment of decreased vigilance. And it will never happen again.

Momentous Occassion.

Today marks a very momentous moment in my life. I finally removed my old creepy screen saver from my computer! Now whenever I am away from my screen for more than ten minutes, it shows a nice display of the Norther Lights. Before today, it showed all these creepy pictures of me from my old Youcam days. Whenever I was bored, I would go to Youcam and take weird pictures of my face. I don't know quite how or why I programmed these pictures to appear as my screen saver, but appear they did. And some were really weird. Youcam is a program where you can take pictures of yourself and they get deformed in various ways. I made a photo-collage to demonstrate a small sampling of my strangeness. And this is only some of what pops up on my screen saver too...



You can clearly see that I can no longer have these pictures out for the whole world to see (mainly my new roommate...) To tell the truth, they're a little embarrassing. I felt kind of weird when I would come back to my room after like taking a shower or making food or something, and my wonderful screen saver was playing. I hope my roommate doesn't think I'm a weirdo. Haha, oh man. But now I feel a little better.