FML.

i started this blog on my ipod (which turns out to be very difficult when your fingers are fat and you're trying to use some sort of puncuation) when i was TRADING AND GRADING my final exam in genetics. the list as to why i think this should be illegal at the university level could go on and on forever. (if we ever run out of things to talk about, ask me what i think about trade and grade and then let's go!)

BUT! DRUMROLL, PLEASE! I GOT AN "A" IN GENETICS!

My semester is finally over. I'm now going to the bar! It's 11:46 a.m.! Yeah, braahhh!!! (but on the real i really am going to bw3's and i really am getting a beer before i make peppermint mochas which i will not hate as much as my previous post)

If you're still in the school mode: God speed!
If you are finished: I understand why you're smiling about because some things really are funny.

i like that train song, too

things finals week has made me realize:

1. i do not smile when i only have 2 hours of sleep. even if something's funny i'm laughing through a straight face.

2. i hate brewing coffee....more specifically, i hate making peppermint mocha's with no sleep. The peppermint syrup was actually making me nautious (sp? wanting to throw up?) and freshmen kept coming in wanting to spend the rest of their meal plans...in turn making me nautious they had that much m$$ney.

3. i have really bad posture while i study, or take tests, or sit in uncomfortable chairs.

4. population genetics is actually worse than genetics alone, because they had to go get all specific with it.

that is all! i miss molly dull! that sort of rhymes! oh boy, i wish i had more tiiimmmeee!

Prime-Time TV

So my skimming of YES! Magazine today informed me that the average American watches 4.5 hrs of TV each day. I am almost POSITIVE that my semester total was under 10 hours, but today I decided to be as close to average as possible.

Thus, I just watched 2 hours of "Sing-Off" and .5 hours of "Scrubs" and these are the best lines of the night from US Prime Time:

Some girl from SoCals: "And so when we go out there, we wanna just...rock everybody's faces off."
(I only like this one because I said in my last post that I was going to be "journaling my face off." I think this means that random chica reads DGCW regularly...)

JDurk (the sum of JD + Turk): "Ka-BAM-- we just dropped a KNOWLEDGE BOMB on your asses!"
You can count on me employing that phrase sooner rather than later.

That's all. Only 100 pgs left in book #1 of break, so I'm hoping to cruise through it tonight! ;)

So Gangster, I'm So Thug; You're the Only One I'm Dreamin' Of

Welcome back, Cotter!!!!! (I'm going to go watch that Scrubs episode as SOON as I finish this post....)

So it's been a while. I quit when the going got tough, and then once again, the men of apt212 inspired me to get back on my horse. (katelyn's desperate cry for help on my facebook wall also worked in this way)

It's WINTER BREAK!!!!!!!!! It feels soooo good. Only 1 semester left. Looking forward to that. So in the spirit of list-making (Santa, Kate, and apt212 are all doing it), I have a list of things I am planning on doing over the next 4 weeks of down time:
-Reading 5+ books
-DM QT, including lunch with Shep
-NYE in Chicago
-Looking at summer internships
-Looking at full-time jobs
-Prowling for a 3rd roomie
-OASC coffee talks with old friends
-Luchita's margarita's with M. Smola
-Journaling my face off
-SEEING MY OLDEST SISTER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1.5 YEARS!!!!!!!!
-Missing Loyolacappella like mad (youtube channel-- check it out)
-Writing all my overdue penpal replies (thanks for your patience, yall!)
-Re-learning French by conversing with Ed, reading books en francais, & buffing up on my vocab

Pretty ambitious break when it comes to tackling leisurely activities. I am so up for the challenge.

Quick thought of the day:
There is no wilderness so terrible,
so beautiful, so arid and so fruitful
as the wilderness of compassion.
It is the only desert that shall
truly flourish like the lily. --Thomas Merton

It feels so good to be back, friends.
Peace and love!

To wear leggins' as pants: appropriate or not?

so today i changed my facebook default to be a picture of Firefly luciferase because it looks cool. and because it's what makes them light up, which not only makes the structure cool but the function cooler. i'm not sure if this is a side effect of finals week or i'm losing friends...or both.

so is it appropriate to walk around with what essentially is just a pair of tight long johns? i once thought: "do not do this, you are obnoxious, you are either too skinny or have much too much to love to be wearing that" but then i bought a pair of leggins' for halloween (to be the bottoms of my tetris block) and i put them on this morning. shawn was not impressed, but he was also in a terrible mood so i wrote that one off. two girls looked at me sort of weird, but one of them couldn't get her car door unlocked so who's the real idiot? basically, i think i'm making a poor ensamble decision, but they are bright purple and they are on and they aren't coming off until to(night)/(morrow). i just didn't know if other people had opinions about this topic. am i the only one that is reading this anyway? is anyone out there???

i know you were totally wondering about my saturday night...i crumbled under peer pressure and went out to a christmas party (and then to kami's). and i only ordered water at the bar (added to my coolness, see "firefly luciferase" at the top) so i woke up feeling great! glad i did that, little stressed now, but at least i can remember latoya spilling chocolate syrup down her face trying to take one of those ridiculous peppermint-mouth-shots instead of my desk chair and butt together.

g'bye!

reasons why I have no business going out the saturday before finals:

1. the girl that was going to "keep me in check"'s self control just kicked in and she is no longer going out.

2. i have $5 to last me for 6 days, and i have no: milk, bread, peanut butter, crackers, little coffee, and i know this isn't a food product but i only have 1 pair of clean socks left.

3. i have not showered nor do i have a weather-appropriate outfit (even by sorority girl's standards it is too cold to wear simply a black-north-face-fleece to power walk uptown)

4. i had a dream i was on the disney channel's original t.v. show "bug juice" last night so i woke up exhausted from being a camper. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_juice)

5. i will be the last person to shower tonight, therefore i will have no warm water.

6. see #5

7. see #2, section 6: "little coffee" (this will soon prove to be a problem)

the fun has arrrriiivvveeedddd (thank you, thank you very much)

well, after spending the evening shopping at the toledo mall i have come to a couple of realizations! there is a lot of blogging material wandering around a shopping mall at this time of the year. and ironically enough, they don't even know how blog-worthy they are. the little kids on leashes that don't know they are tagging along getting presents bought right under their very eyes, the mom jeans, the tweens, the little boys that be thinkin' they thugs. it was a very fun night though! my roommates (andrea, katie, latoya, + a friend molly) piled into the jetta and we spent a few hours buying presents and eating!! finally starting to feel a little more like christmas time and a little less like 40 mph winds with no snow to show for itself.

finals week is here! i'm not sure why bowling green is so behind everywhere else, but i'll be done thursday and then i have to brew coffee (no one is getting starbucks on friday morning at 7 am when i have to get there...) and then i'm going back to the e! everyone is going to a party tonight (it's saturday). do they know that it's finals week? who am i kidding, i'll probably go and regret it while i'm there and regret it more tomorrow. pray for my self-control to kick in at any time here.

genetics is the worst class i have ever taken in my life. so i fill out my evaluation and i actually give the teacher bad scores (which i never do) and then she announces "well, some people read these but i've been on tenure for the past 15 years so what's it really matter." i hate her!!!! whyyyy are you wasting my time? you can't tell me about hardy weinberg or post-translational modifications a eukaryotic cell makes, AANNNDD you aren't even going to read my evaluation!?!? that was a lot of complaining, SIGH! maybe she's a good person. i better get an A.

g'bye for now! i did not proofread!