Will it really keep you "cool" and make you cool (person)?? ??

Warm spring weather in Indiana..ahh! It has been beautiful for the last 2 days here..I love it. But I've also been seeing the worst no no everywhere on this campus. Why must people think it's warm and decide to wear sandles but then not have the guts to take their socks off? What's the point of sandles if you wanna keep your socks on? It's like wearing a swimsuit with a sweater underneath it. dumb dumb..

Suprise!

Suprise! I'm back and am proud to annouce that I am sick yet again! I guess this is the 3rd time this year school. No wait...4th time! That's a record considering I only get sick about twice a year! Anyways, I'm drugged up on dayquil. The stupid thing...I donno but I can't take the adult does and even half the dose still makes me dizzy! They gotta make the Anostica dose now! Everytime I take this thing..I'm all wooozy and can't see well...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and my stuffy damn nose. Why can't I just take my nose off for a day? And why must I get a cold when I get the worst of the worst!!!!

I tried all remedies for fighting this bitch..but it won...duh I shoulda known..I never win a viral battle..wonder what that means about me possibly joining a virology lab... :P

Spoke too soon!!

I'm tiiirreeed! Well I was on my flight back to Indy today. I guess in my previous post I had said I get stuck sitting next to 'big ol fat guys'..yep spoke too soon! Had to sit with the fattest of them all today! This dude basically pushed me against the window cause of him! And then...he couldn't even put the table down during the flight...the little table was rocking on his belly..

I didn't wanna talk to him on the plane...but gee these people really don't bring much to do..and would rather spend time chatting away on the flight! So..this guy starts out...do you go to school? And why would you wanna leave cold minnesota for 60 degree weather? well I like the snow..so I told him! N e ways...the big guy wasn't bad..he did some mechanical car engine sorta work..told me that my car is the best out there..as it never needs work to fix! My car btw is a Honda Civic. I asked him why people still opt to buy the Chevies and the Fords when they know Civics would last longer..and he said "Well it's all about the Ego!!"..he said he even has a GM and knows better that it'll soon quit working..but it's just about having a GM which is cool...he said his son when he got a Civic, the family thought of disowning him? over a car?? geee..dumb...

Oh..and another thing I noticed. At the airport and waiting once off the plane..guy in front gets a call on cell phone..he says "hello"..no answer I guess...he says "Hello" louder..no answer (I suppose)...then he's like "HELLO"...!!! ookay..okay what a dumb dork..is saying Hello louder gonna make the person on the other end talk??

err I'm too tired to write....later

Mmmm..another of my favorite things..

I suppose I'm stuck to very generic things..Yes a starbucks lover. NO..not really. But I guess you could say I do enjoy drinking stuff from Starbucks. I do like their ice cream..mmmm!

Grocery Stores: Buy food or religion?

So...I did something today which I haven't done in years....yep you guessed it, I watched the news! Well I do read the news online, so please don't think I'm that disconnected with the world!

Anyways...What I was writing about. Today I heard on the news about something from Manchester, England. They say that they've got priests or pastors in grocery stores now..preaching! Yes, they walk around while people shop, preaching and giving pamplets out trying to spread the word of christianity. They are also trying to get iman's of Islam to do it as well! How stupid and crazy is that? To think that the one place you'd go, just to buy food would become a place of worship or a place to learn about religion. Come on..

Honestly, when I go to the groceries, I go to relax, maybe to find something I like...I rarely even talk on the phone while shopping. But to have someone walk up to me and say, hey wanna know a bit about Christianity...err, he/she won't get the right answer outta me. I'd be more disgusted than anything else. But that's not the point!!!! The point is that such places should not become a place to threaten people with ones' thoughts or beliefs! Why should people purposely walk up to others and impose religion?? I think religion is something we all choose..and if you are choosing something, you go out and seek it. Why must people at grocery stores impose it on someone? And why should it be a grocery store for crying out loud? HOnestly it's a bit worse than the Jehovah's Witnesses at my doorstep!

I am not against religion at all. I just think we all should have reason to choose what we want, and when we want it. Choosing to go the grocery store to buy food is one thing...but I don't that the decision for food shopping includes choosing religion. If people must inform others of religion, put a booth maybe at the public library. Have people walk up to the booth if they choose to seek enlightenment..don't force them into it--especially when they are merely out getting some much needed chore done!

Traveling can be interesting..

So...For spring break I came back to Minnesota. I left Lafayette early and was hoping to catch the early flight (5:14) to Minneapolis rather than waiting till my 7 o'clock flight. I got to the airport 30 minutes before the flight left for Minneapolis. I asked if I could get on it..which I've done numerous times before and gotten through. This time they said the flight was overbooked by one person..duh shoulda known..it is spring break after all. So....YES I ended up sitting at the airport waiting waiting waiting and more waiting till 7:10 for my flight..which did not leave till around 9:15..why? Because the weather was crappy in Minneapolis.!!

Usually on the plane, Ialways get stuck sitting next to some big ol fat guy whose arm/elbows basically take over any of my personal space..This time, I had a Purdue student sitting next to me. He was on his way to Seattle. A Mechanical engineer, and one who was looking to go into graduate school..and had a ton to ask me..as I had a ton to ask him. Small talk..whatever you name it..we talked! I was glad to have spent the time waiting in the plane sitting (yep for 45 minutes!--flight delay!) next to someone interesting. I did study in the plane..but the flight went well..

ahh..so as much as I hate traveling..I didnt' mind it this time. I just can't stand cramped planes..

Oh..and the worst one yet. WHY do people get mad, when the flight is delayed? NO wait, what I mean is why do people get mad at the flight info person at the counter when the flight is delayed? As if it's her or his fault!!!!! THey are merely repeating what they were told...stupid people......

A Well earned BREAK

Ahhh...I shouldnt' speak too soon. But tomorrow I've got one midterm left at 11 a.m..then I'm done done done!!!!! Yes! And will head off to my spring break! I suppose my nonstop studying since last friday from 3 p.m. till 4 a.m. each night..might may off in the end..we'll have to see!

Hope you all out there have a good break ! ;)

Learn to say NO

Yes you read it right...learn to say NO! I mean it, make it a part of your daily routine of getting up in the morning..and say NO, then say NO again...and then, and then...okay you get the point. But one has got to learn!!! When will I ever learn??? ugghh! So...here's the deal. I can't say NO..why? Cause I'm stupid. Nah, it's more the fact that I always listen to what others' say and then wonder how I'd feel in their shoes..and odds are that I help everyone out! Say for example tonight..I'm stuck doing ONE problem for my midterm since 2 p.m. today....and my friend calls around 8 needing a ride..I mean I was just in the middle of it..thinking OH I think I got it...phone rings...she needs a ride. I'm out giving the ride. Why? Cause I figured I'd rather not have her walk home...but the bad thing was that when I got home..I had lost the energy to figure the problem out fully...and basically bullshitted it. Uggh...so...I guess I'll end up spending more time another time to figure it out.

Same goes for my lab...the slave idiots lab. He says do this..and I'm like. Okay..he says this..and my natural response OK. Hahaha...but no more! I did finally tell him NO! ohhhhhhh...it feels good!! I just gotta start saying it more and more these days. Seriously!

So my proposal to all you do gooders out there..who are wusses like me and can't say no.....start out small...and then keep working on it. Because the thing is that, our lives are busy too..and not everyone elses! Why must we put off what we're doing all the time for others? I mean..I am not proposing stuckupishness but heck....critically analyze the situation, and then decide..don't just say YES to all....ohhhhhhhhhh it'll save all of us energy ;) And funny how I always meet the wusses like me who can't say NO...wonder if I've got some marking on my head saying "nice-won't say no".. : -

Rehersal: Everyone repeat after me..."Nooooooooooooooooooo" :D

Why is 4 a.m not late enough?

Okay so I finished quite a bit of my studying for my upcoming midterms..and it's about 4 a.m...figured I should head to bed. But why am I not tired? But when I'm studying, I keep thinking, hmm it's about time I sleep..but now that I've put all away, I can't seem to want to sleep! My brain plays games with me. I suppose I've got too much coffee in me..and heck I can't think of sleeping. Maybe if I just lay down, the sleep will come eventually...probably not...err, I'll give it a try..

If I stay up this late..does it make me a night owl? Gosh...I can't imagine sleeping any earlier than 2 a.m. these days...it's been like that for a few years now. I mean, sleeping any earlier than 2 a.m. is like wasting time. And heck I find that the night is so much better..when it's so quiet and nice..and you can focus and...ohh it's hard to describe....k, I'm ramblin..I'm out..

Okay so I wont' kill him afterall..

The slave herder professor whose lab I am currently workin in..yes in my previous post I had said I had wanted to kill him..and I did. But I have changed my mind. I got the guts to talk to him..odd isn't it? I would never talk to a professor the way I did..but I had to! And I had quite a few professors supporting me. So I told this slave owner that he needs to give me some time off next week because I have two midterms. And I can't study once I get home..if I come home everyday at around 8:30 and then must be in lab the next day at 8 a.m. So....he I guess sorta understood and is givin me time off...odd isn't it? I never thought he'd do it. But he did..awesome awesome awesome. So no more killing him ;) Now...the weird thing is that I find myself with TOO Much time...I'm not used to it anymore...heheheh....

Funny!!!

Okay okay maybe I just saw this now...as I hear most of my friends have already seen it. Anyways, I'll share on here for all those who have not seen it. Though I'm sure most of you have gotten an e-mail from me about it...but I'll share for any surfer visiting this blog (hahah..umm yahhh). Anyways my brother sent me the following link, and I think it's hilarious!

The kid's hilarious..I donno it makes me laugh, and I can't stop watching it!

so check it out..

http://www.funpic.hu/swf/numanuma.html

Oh I just want to kill him..that's all!

Icck icck and more icckk! Why am I still up today studying till 2:22 a.m. and don't feel tired? Yah..it's more that I've drank enough Chai and Coffee to keep me up this late! Why? Cause I don't get home till 7:30! Why? Cause of the idiot whose lab I"m working in? Why? Oh shut up!

This idiot man..why did I choose his lab. I musta been retarded back in August when I made the stupid mistake of putting his name down on my list of rotations to do! Each day I go into his lab, is another day I realize that he is totally NOT the one whose lab I want to join..NO not at all! Pulleasse..I can't stand him! I had a ton to do today..so I woke up after 6 hours of sleep...went to school at 10..and worked in the lab till 1:30. Dorky idiot prof. walks in and says..so can you do this this and this? I was like...is this a part of my project....yes a little bit...(whatever!)..and he's like, please come back at 3 after your class so we can isolate DNA out of a gazillion samples...I told him I'd stay till 4:30 max...well, I get there at 3..start the DNA crap...he made me go up to step #11 on the protocol..which took me till 6:10 to finish..I got home...tired as heck. Had to cook for a potluck tomorrow. Then my friend called, and she needed for me to pick her and her husband up because he was coming into town..OK. Did that...got back..tired tired tired. Drank enough caffeine and here I am working. Why? Cause I can't seem to think I should sleep when I have so much to do...do I get anything done? Well some..but I spend more time fretting over what I haven't done..and how inefficient I am !!!

Uggh...I'm meeting with the grad studies chair tomorrow..or soon to discuss my current lab rotation with the slave herder. All I know is that maybe I've got it all figured out...and this last dude is OUT of the question..he can sit there and work on his crap forever..cause I'm leaving leaving leaving..and never will I ever walk into his lab again..as soon as I'm done (or even earlier if I can get out of it)!!!

I think I found the lab for me...

Okay okay I guess I'll say it here..but yet I change my mind almost every two weeks! I've been doing lab rotations since August and soon by the end of this month or mid april I need to sit down and decide which lab I'd like to basically join..and then devote the next 6+ years of my life to. It's a HARD decision..yet my rotations have made some of it a bit easier..yet yet yet...I make a decision every week and then back down from it...So....today I'm feeling lucky and thinking YES I know what lab I want to join (from the 4 lab rotations I've done)..but let me see how I feel 2 weeks from today.

Uggh..that really wasn't the reason I was writing this post...It's about my current lab rotation! It's through a professors lab (well duh, who else could it be through??)...this guy is new. He just got here this August. And he's very ambitious, and very annoying. I got to lab around 1:45 today..and he put me to work...originally working on my project. So I figured out how long it'd take me to do this or that..so I worked fast. I was done by about 4ish..so then he realizes he's not feeling well (he looked soo sick!), so he gave me all his work to do! Yah his work entailed isolating DNA out of about 20 samples! The boogers took me forever!!! It wasn't the isolating part..but the part of constantly opening and closing small dinky tubes and then every now and then getting a new fresh batch of tubes to transfer the DNA into...so all in all..I got done at 7:10...That was the time I got done last week on monday too!! I can UNDERSTAND that if I was in his lab doing my PhD I would not mind spending the 5+ hours working...but if I'm ONLY rotating through his lab..he should be nice to me, and only make me work on my project. If he thinks he's gonna get me into his lab..he's not..all he's doing is scaring me away..and making me hate him...

I guess one thing is for sure...he may be off my list for potentials whose lab I want to join..yet his research is still a bit interesting...uggh, will I ever stop second guessing myself!

icck..almost 3 a.m...time to sleep.