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.

4 Hour Chem Lab = Goggle Marks Etched Into My Face For Equivalent Amount of Time.

So today I had my four hour organic chemistry lab. This is actually my favorite class of the week. It does start at eight o'clock in the morning, but still. Favorite class. We get to wear nice smelling, powder-free, latex-free purple gloves and do cool experiments. For four hours! Anyway, today was the first time that I actually utilized all four of my allotted hours. Basically before this, I had always completed my lab work in about three. However I found that the extra hour makes all the difference in terms of the goggle marks. Every week as soon as I finish my work, I go directly to the bathroom and check out the damage. Today was particularly terrible. I don't care if that sounds vain or whatever. All my lab friends do it too... I always feel really awkward leaving that class and walking back to my co-op. It's like a 7 minute walk and I always have to walk past like a bunch of people. It's really bad.

I didn't make any weird mistakes this time though. Last week, I swear, my TA probably thought I was retarded or something. First, I connected my condenser tubing backwards and then some of my glassware got stuck together when I was trying to pull it apart. Apparently, I didn't put enough glycerin on the joint or something. My TA lectured me on this for like three whole minutes. It was terrible. I attribute my lack of awareness that day to not being able to drink coffee in the morning. Obviously it was detrimental to my lab performance. This week however, one of my lab partners kind of screwed up. First, her condenser tubing shot out of the condenser and shot water in our whole group's faces and got our fumehood all wet. Hopefully we didn't inhale any weird carcinogens or anything, so fingers crossed. Then, she put in another piece of condenser tubing and it blew up into this huge bubble thing. It was like there was this big old water balloon stuck on her tubing. It was so weird. And then, she got the wrong sized heating mantle thing and our reaction mixture was taking forever to distill. So then we had to get another one and re-heat up. Oh man... I asked her if she drank any coffee that morning and she said no! She is usually pretty smart too. We made a pact to always drink coffee before chem lab. Always.

All in all, it was a pretty eventful action packed day of lab. I was a fan. And we got another TA helping us instead of the one I had last week. He was much nicer and was a native speaker of English. He was pretty funny too. Also, he was quite cute, which is never a bad thing.

Yay!

Yeah! Alright. So, spring break has just ended and tomorrow I go back to school and I am so excited! The last two terms were basically like death for me. Death and hell. I almost died. Several times actually. But now, Things are definitely looking up. No more stupid physics, no more stupid roommate and fun classes, nice people and cheap coop-style living... Oh man. I'm made right now. This term is going to be freaking amazing. Woohoo.

So today, I walked into my new room and discovered that I am going to be sleeping on a bunk bed. On the top bunk bed, I might add. I'm pretty excited about this actually. Never before have I done this. Also, I I noticed that my ethernet plug-in is super far away from my desk. My dinky little 4 ft long cable was not going to cut it, so my dad and I went to the bookstore and bought a 25 ft long cable. Really long. I taped said cable up and over my walls and over to my computerdora. So now I am officially hooked up to the internet. Yay me.

There is also a shelf right above my bed which I am absolutely certain I will be bumping my head on all the time. This is not okay. Tomorrow I decided that I'm going to find a scewdriver and fix this problem. Hopefully I don't get a concussion or something between now and tomorrow, but I'm going to look on the bright side.

So yeah. That was basically my day today. Pure awesomeness. I woke up, ate breakfast, talked to my familia, packed up all my stuff, ate a cupcake, drove to college, unpacked my stuff, bought my cell bio book, (which I'm really excited about...) wrote this blog and now I am going to explore my new living environment and eat dinner. Oh yeah!

Wow. Haven't done this in a while...

Yeah. So I pretty much decided that I am a loser and need to start this whole blogging thing up again. I had it going pretty well there for a while. Then I guess I just got lazy or something. Not really sure. Oh well though. Main point is I am back! Haha, oh man...

Now I'm going to talk about my week, which was pretty much the suckiest week of my life by the way. I had an archaeology midterm on Monday, a physics midterm on Wednesday, an ochem midterm on Thursday and two major projects due Friday. Basically I almost died. I stayed up all night last night and right now I am kind of shaking. Quite unfortunate really. I'm not used to pulling these all nighters. This was the second one of my whole life. And hopefully the last if I might add. Not really a fan.

But...One good point! I picked my classes for next term and I am so excited! Only 14 credits and no physics!!!!!!! Man, the days of the gpa killer are over. No more C's for me. Ever. So, I'm going to take cell biology, organic chem lab, a poetry class (I hate poetry with a passion, but this is an easy, you can't fail type of class...), and an anthropology class. And none of my classes start before 11! This has never happened to me before. Previously, I have always started my day at 9 (this term at 8 because of stupid-kill-me-I-want-to-die physics). So,I'm pretty happy to get to finally sleep in.

Well, that's it for now. I have to clean my side of my room. It is probably the nastiest it's ever been right now, as a result of me studying too much and not having time to clean. Haha, I have papers everywhere, books everywhere, clothes everywhere. Oh man. It is terrible. Time to fix.