I forgot to write about it!

It snowed the other day.

And I took Harley outside while it was snowing :-)

She kept meowing at the sliding glass door, so I decided to take her outside to see what she would do. I figured she wouldnt like the way the snow felt on her feet, or she wouldnt want to get cold or wet.

Yeah, she totally loved it. She ended up getting totally covered in snow. It was really cute. I brought her inside when I thought she was getting too cold. Hey, I was cold and I was wearing shoes and a heavy duty snow jacket lol. She wanted to stay outside, but oh well.

Anyway, my sister took some pictures of her outside in the snow, but she hasnt emailed them to me yet. Once I get them I will post them here.

Found Magazine Item

Almost done....

So I finished my adv. inorganic take home test last night at 1:30am. Hey, that is better than 3am like the last two tests!

Now that that is over with, I get to start working on my stupid Journal Club presentation. Ugh...

I have to have all my slides done by 7pm which is when I am meeting with my partner. I havent started. I also have to have my paper for the presentation writen by tomorrow. It shouldnt take too long, but it is really hard to find the motivation to start. I think I am going to play a game for a little bit, take a nap, and then start working on it at 3pm. That will give me 4 hours to get it done, which should be plenty.

Anyway, once that is done on Friday, I get to start working on Graduate School Esasys, or my Statement of Purpose as they call it. Ugh.

Then after that I get to take the GREs.

Then I have finals.

And then I am DONE.

It is snowing!

That is all. :-)

The usual...

I am tired...
I have too much work to do...
I am sick...
I want to go to sleep...


So yeah, that basically covers it lol

Pick a game, any game! :-)

PLEASE keep your fingers crossed!!!

There is a chance that Janice might push back my journal club presentation, from wednesday until friday.

This would be WONDERFUL because I have a HEINOUS advanced inorganic chem take home test over thanksgiving that is SUPER long. She seemed really annoyed that he would give a take home test over break, and she said she woudl see what she could work out....

If she doesnt push it back until friday I will basically be working all night, every night for all of break :-/

wish me luck...

Way too cute!

Update on the recommendation thing...

So I asked Dr. Randall if he would write me recommendations for grad school.

He said yes, but that he wanted some information before he wrote it. He wants:

1. my transcripts/list of classes I have taken (he doesn't care about the grade part)
2. my "Statement of Purpose"
3. a list of all my extra curricular activities


OK, so it may not sound like a lot, but I am not too keen on people reading my statement of purpose. Most likely because I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO WRITE, and I think it might be kind of embarrassing...I haven't had them read anything other than lab reports before lol. I know I write really well, but the thing is that the statement of purpose is basically where you are 'selling' yourself to the college you are applying too. It is WAY worse then an undergrad essay, because you have to write about what you intend to do for your schooling/career/why you want to do it/why you would be good at it/who you want as your advisor and why...etc. I guess I just don't want my professors to read such a cheesy, suck-up-y thing you know?

It is also bad because that means I have to start working on it. God, I cant even finish all my hw and now I have to worry about writing my statement of purpose...ugh...

I haven't even signed up for the GREs, let alone studied for them :-/

Crap...

That basically sums it up lol

Oh yeah, and I have to start making up shit for my extra curriculars LOL

I am too tired/bored to think of a title lol

So this will be the 'random' post of the week.

* our power went off three times last night for no aparent reason...weird...it was annoying though because everytime it came back on, my printer started up, which is a VERY loud sound.

* I am sitting in my lab bored out of my mind. I am making up new buffers which is easy enough, but it is kind of boring. Oh well, I mean normally I dont actually have time to really do anything in lab because of the way my classes work out, so at least I have something I can do in a short period of time.

* Dr. Kuo decided to keep Medicinal Organic Chem at the original time: 9:40-11:10am. It isnt too bad, but if he had moved it then I wouldnt have had class until 1:50pm monday-thursday which would have been cool lol. I guess now I can T.A gen chem on Thursday afternoons, and work in the lab Tuesday afternoon.

* I decided that since I dont have class on Fridays next term I will go downtown to yoga on Friday mornings, and then do physical therapy for my shoulder friday afternoons, get all my errands done on fridays including cleaning my house. That way I will actually have a weekend and I wont waste all of friday sleeping in or bumming around.

* I havent asked anyone but Barb to write me recomondations yet. I keep chickening out which is stupid because I know they would write me recs. I guess its just that once I ask, and once I take the GREs then there is no excuse for not starting to fill out the forms...ugh...paperwork :-P

* So, I noticed that when I look at my blog from the computer in my lab, that the title of my blog "Intended to be..." is ABOVE the banner picture, instead of IN the banner picture, which is where it appears on my computer at home...WHY?! It would be WONDERFUL if you guys could let me know where the title appears on your computer screen so I can see if it is a problem with my lab computer or with my laptop. THANKS!

Ok, well I have to go finish one of my buffers so I will write more later

I want my penguin back...

Email from a professor I visited at the University of Oregon

Stephanie

I enjoyed your visit as well! It was good to see you again.

I hope things go well because I would sure enjoy the opportunity to
work with you this coming summer and the next
several years as you complete your studies!

Please keep in touch!

Best

Dave J.
***
It was really nice to get a letter like that from someone I think I may want to work with next year. It made my day :-)

I feel like a loser...lol

Ok, so I decided to change my blog template because I switched to the new blogger and I didnt want to have one of their basic templates, and if I was going ot go through all the work of customizing it, I might as well end up with something new instead of just redoing what I did last time.

So I sat down at my computer at about 4:30pm. I started looking for pictures to use as my banner. Then I spent a while altering some of the pictures. Then I scrapped them and found a new picture. Then I futzt around with that for a while, decided I didnt like that one either, and went back to the second picture I found. Then I had to customize the color scheme. Back and forth from color to color, then I forget which colors I decided on lol. Then I remembered, found the codes again, typed them all in, and hit the 'remove changes' button instead of the 'save changes' button...crap lol.

Eventually I got most of it worked out. I am going to let it sit for a day or two to see if I still like it.

PLEASE let me know if you like the color scheme, or if you think one of the colors sucks, or if you cant read the font...etc etc etc...

Anyway, now I am tired, my back hurts, and I am starving! I figure it is time to call it quits at 10pm...holy crap...I need a life lol. j/k I acutally have quite a busy life for this weekend, which is why it was nice to spend some time in my room just chilling out.

Well, my food is ready! :-)

Not looking forward to it.

This weekend is going to suck.

Yay!

I got a new pair of shoes :-) they are like the pair below but they are red. They are like non-tacky dorathy shoes lol. They are really fun! There is nothing like a brand new pair of red shoes to make you happy :-) lol

** Site Is Under Construction! **

So I finally switched over to the beta blogger...I am not sure if this was a good idea or not. I am in the process of re-customizing my blog to look the way it used to. I am also adding some new things which I am excited about. The new way they have it set up will make it really easy to update things like the "currently watching" section. Instead of having to actually edit the html coding all I have to do now is click a button and add a picture and it will add it to where I want it to go.

The problem with all this is that now I will be wasting a lot of time fixing it up lol. I have been working on it since 4:30...and its ummm...like 6pm now! lol

The other nice thing is that they still let you change the html coding. Which means I can still change the banner at the top, and I can customize the coloring of my blog. So...I am on the look out for a new banner and a new color scheme! If you have any ideas, or you come across any banners that you think would look cool PLEASE LET ME KNOW!

Well I think I am going to go clean my room a little bit before erich and I go get stuff to make dinner...now that I think about it, I am freaking hungry!

Time flies when you are wasting it by customizing your blog huh?

A wonderful website to waste time at!

Erich sent this link to me the other day. Ever sence then I have been wasting my time watching "Dexter" and "Desperate Housewives" :-)

Some of the videos are really small, others have japenese subtitles, but seriously...WHO CARES! lol

CLICK ME!

Bad parenting has gone too far with finding excuses for their mistakes

Apparently the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street is no longer allowed to eat cookies. Apparently cookies are only allowed to be a 'sometimes' snack, while fruit and vegetables are 'always' snacks. So the Cookie Monster goes around eating fruits and stuff. WHAT THE FUCK!? Apparently PARENTS are no longer responsible for their kids health...it is now Sesame Streets fault that kids are fat and wont eat anything but junk. I am sorry but I have had it with shitty parents blaming their bad/lack of parenting on things like tv and stuff. What are your kids doing watching tv all day anyway? Maybe the Cookie Monster wouldnt be a problem if your kids also went outside for a change and exercised. I'm sorry but this is just a mini rant about a topic that really really pisses me off. And just so people dont go ape shit on me...I do not have a problem with teaching kids to eat healthy, and I dont have a problem with Sesame street doing that. I have a problem with people BLAMING Sesame Street for their kid being overweight. End of mini rant. :-P

Yet another night where I wont be able to sleep.

I am so fucking tired.

All I want is one fucking night where I can sleep.

Nothing has changed

Good to know that I instantly become invisible the second someone else shows up.

good to know thats how much you care about me.

who gives a shit that I have a horrible couple of days, culminating in an absolutly heinous and long evening test, and all I wanted to do was to come home to someone who cared.

you had something better to do.

hope you had fun in your room with the door closed.

didnt you say 'I dont ignore you when someone comes over'

funny. I didnt know you could pay attention to me and include me when you are in the other room with the door closed.

why dont you let me know how that one works.

thanks for reminding me what it feels like to be invisible and ignored and excluded. god knows you had years to perfect making me feel that way. good to know you havent lost your touch.

lol

No right to be annoyed at me.

It only takes driving home drunk one time to lose the right to be trusted when it comes to not drinking and driving. It is a huge mistake that will and should follow you around for at least a good chunk of time before people trust you again. You have lost the right to drive off to a party with a couple of beers in your pockets, and expect me not to say something. It is one of the more idiodic and pathetic things anyone could ever do. There is no excuse for it. It is not 'cool'. It is not something that you can just pretend never happend. I only give a shit because, oh, I dont know...I give a shit about you and everyone one else that happens to be on the road between the party and the house. I dont trust you when it comes to this. And I shouldnt. I shouldnt for your sake and everyone else on the road's sake. If you grow up for one second you would realize that.

Ok, now I dont feel so bad about having my cat, Harley, on a harness :-)

New Cuteoverload.com cute-catagory: "I shall leeeck you"

hahahahahahaha

This is SOOOOO funny!

Unrested...

So I woke up in the middle of the night (4am) totally freaking out and sweating like crazy...not fun...

I vaugly remember it having something to do with grad school, and whether or not I would be moving to the middle of texas by myself, or if my best friend would be going with me...

great...

maybe next time I wont research grad schools right before I go to bed.

Well, as of now the list of places I may be appling is as follows:

University of Oregon
University of Southern California
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Dallas

The list might continue to grow or it may shrink. After all it is around $50 to apply...ugh...

Now I just need to ask people to write recommondations, I need to take the GRE generals, sign up for the GRE chemistry test, round up all the information I will need for the application forms, ask my parents for a couple hundred dollars for application fees, and try not to throw up at the thought of not getting into schools lol.

Weird...

I just watched like an hour of football (dallas vs. washington)...

Like I said...

Weird...

This is how I feel right now...

TIRED!!! lol

anyway...

it is so dark and gloomy outside that it DOES NOT feel like 12:50pm...
oh well, I like it :-)

Happy November 1st Erich...

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