everything shines like chrome this summer;;

Why, hello there journal. Nice to see you again!

I keep meaning to sit down and write an entry, but I seem to always get distracted partway through.

Work and studying has been keeping me busy, and... I decided to change my major to just Earth Science instead of ES and chem. Long story short, I get to sell some of my textbooks which makes me extremely happy, haha. Also, I will get to graduate sooner and take... electives! Huzzah.

So, instead of taking a fun mathy chemistry course this summer, I will be taking a biology course. I registered yesterday for it, was 19th on the waitlist for the lecture section and 5th on the waitlist for the lab... this morning when I checked, I had moved up one spot in the lecture! 18th. Excellent. Still 5th for the lab, though.

I'm secretly very excited about being a dirty biologist this summer. Shhh.

Let's see, what else?

Not much else. Watching Firefly again. And now, I must study for organic chem. Erinn, away!

In news this week,

I cut all my hair off (I almost look like a boy... in the best way possible.)

and

Work is stupid.

That is all.

Dear LJ, I'm sorry I've been neglecting you. Sincerely, me.

I've been trying to sort out my degree requirements, so I know what courses I need to take. I have 2 conflicting sources: a degree planning worksheet which says it's up-to-date (2009/2010 calendar year), and the actual calendar itself. I'm sure it will sort itself out... and I need to make an appointment with my adviser anyways.

I've got it lined up so that next year, I can take the following courses:

CHEM:
- Organic Chemistry (235)
- Physical Chemistry (245)
- Transition Metal Chemistry (324)
- Physical Chemistry Lab (364)

EOS:
- Sedimentary Geology (201)
- Mineralogy (205)
- Geochemistry (240)

MATH:
- Calculus II (101)
- Introduction to Differential Equations (201)
- Multivariable Calculus (205)

PHYS:
- General Physics (102)

Pretty okay, I think. Not looking forward to all the Math! of! DOOM! but I'm sure it will be fine. After next year, I will never have to take another math course again... excluding Quantum Chemistry which is all math. Boo.

Things with the boy are pretty good, I think. Except when he doesn't turn his alarm clock off on both of our days off and it wakes me up. Grr. Oh well. ♥ I plan on dragging him downtown with me today so that I may snag some bubble tea (yuuum!).

Today is the grad photo for the Chemistry department grads... followed by a pizza lunch. Pizza which I have to go and get and carry up to the 4th floor of ELL. By myself. Not win.

I went over to Simon's place last night with Dave... good times abounded. I made spaghetti. We ate apple crumble with earl gray tea. It was delightful!

In closing, lemon yogurt is quite tasty.

Tonight, we get to sleep in a double bed... finally.

(The boy & I have been sharing a twin size bed for the past 6.5 months. It has been quite... cozy. I've gotten a few elbows to the face & fallen off the bed a lot...)

Huzzah!

Also, the current moodtheme I'm using is very disappointing. I think I will have to get a new set.

Chemistry pubcrawl was AWESOME. We went to a karaoke bar, a burlesque show at my faaavourite bar (where we did impromptu dances ourselves with given props, see above... why yes, that is a pink feather duster, and yes, I am WORKIN' IT OUUUT.), and out "clubbing". By "clubbing", I mean that we went to a club and a cute guy and I started talking about the lab we're both in and did more shots than we should've. FUN TIMES.

In other news, I was going to post a fun graph I made about things (time spent on facebook vs. time spent on lab writeup relative to due date), but I didn't. Nah nah nah nah.

Hello out there, were on the air
it's hockey night tonight!
The tension grows,
the whistle blows,
and the puck goes down the ice.
The goalie jumps,
and and the players bump,
and the fans all go insane.
Someone roars:
"Bobby Scores!"
At the good old hockey game!

Now, normally, I do not follow hockey at all.

Today is an exception.

Today is the Canada VS Germany Olympic men's hockey game. Today is the game that determines whether or not we move on to the quarter finals (to play Russia!) after the 5-3 defeat by the US (which I caught the tail end of. Ryan Miller TOTALLY outplayed Martin Brodeur, amaaaazing saves!).

Granted, it IS only a game, but it's fun to be into it for a little while. Our nation's past-time and all, right?

Plus, there will be beer and junk food involved. Win!

*scuttles away*

ETA: Also, I had my interview for my A71 lab report today! It went pretty well, I think, my marker was pretty pleased with the way I handled all the questions he threw at me, haha. I need to look up stuff on metal-ligand back bonding stuff, however. Perhaps I will do that this evening.

ETA2: Really? Really? This isn't as exciting as I would've hoped. I'm almost... rooting for Germany. Almost.

The Olympics are happening! Several of my friends have gone over to Vancouver for the week to paaaarty it up (loads of free shows = daglksjgagWANT), but I'm staying home to, you know, do, uh, stuff.

My reading week has been quite unproductive, likely due to the fact I spent most of it in bed. Oh well.

I did, however, buy myself a new wallet! It's yellow and delightful and has just the right amount of room for stashing all my shiz. Also, my old wallet was literally falling apart at the seams. There has been more than one instance where I went to grab something out of it and ended up with all my change/cards on the ground.

Today, I plan on plugging away at some organic chem and maaaaybe studying for my final in 260 next week. Probably a good plan, at any rate.

Oh, one more thing: they released the final exam schedule and summer course list. I will be done by April 15th at 5pm! Good stuff. Also, I plan on taking 2 or 3 courses this summer (calculus II and analytical chem, possibly physics) depending on how much work plans on fucking me around. Oh work. ffffffff.

Right-o, I write a midterm in 3 hours...

Time to go paint some baseboards and prime a few walls!

*runs off*

Here are some stats from today:

#hrs sleep over last 24 hrs: 3.25.
# pages lab report: 41. (handed in at noon!)
# cups coffee consumed: 1.
# ricecakes eaten: 5.

Well, at least it's done and handed in. I don't think I'll be getting an A+ on this one, but oh well. No more labs due until March 8th, I think... a whole month!

In other news, my capslock key has come off my keyboard. Now I can't just cruise through being cool; I have to actually hold down the shift key and type.

*goes to bed*

The "working" mood for this mood theme makes me sad D:

Let me see here. I did most of my B90 lab today; just a synthesis of my cobalt cage complex with chloride and further reduction to do next lab = short lab period for me. With any luck, I'll be able to plug through a good portion of it through reading break...

... Oh, by the by, reading break is next week. I have only a lab (A71, due on monday) and a midterm (math, on thursday) standing in between me and bliss (ie: sleep). Life is good.

I ended up with 101% on my 231 midterm 8-] I probably won't be able to keep that up, haha. I'm glad there were a tonne of bonus questions~~

Innnnn other news, I need to SLEEP NOW. Niiiiight!

ETA: ( I read BLEACH 391... )