Studying for biochem makes me realize that, if I had paid attention and studied the first time around, I wouldn't be in the boat I'm in now.
The good news is that my laptop is getting fixed (yay!) and will be back in my possession monday afternoon (after biochem). That will also be when I start liking life again.
Back to Michaelis-Menton kinetics
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
things
So I haven't been able to write a blogpost about the things I've been up to this week because SHIT HAS GONE DOWN. Some good, some bad. At first, mostly bad. Here's a list of some stuff I've been up to this week.
-freaked out because I thought I was going to fail biochem. For realsies. I calculated the end result of my test scores and the grade was...bad. Aka failing bad. So I had some breakdowns and then decided I was just going to study HARDCORE. Cue "eye of the tiger" montage. I studied my ass off for that test, and the good news is that I did better on my test than I've been doing! So all I have to do now is study EVEN HARDER for the final and then I'll pass! Yaaaay!
-submitted that short story to Quarterly West for a contest. If it gets published, that would be coooool.
-had a family emergency in that my dad had back pain, which led to doctors believing he may have had a heart attack (which he didn't, thank the lawd), but his heart tests DID come back irregular, so he had to go to a cardiologist to get a bunch of tests done. This was the same day that I was doing my final research symposium, so I was a mess the entire time, despite being surrounded by friends. He is okay though, yay! The symposium was splendid, and now I'm done with them for the semester! Perhaps foreverrrrr (but not conferences. Never conferences).
-went to Rachel's 21st birthday party! It was being held at Martine Cafe, a fancy shmancy restaurant that sells tapas and million dollar entrees. We convened for fancy times in fancy outfits to eat fancy food and drink fancy sangria (I truly cannot use the term fancy enough). There was talk of cloacas at the dinner table, which you know means a 21st birthday (or a birdnerd is at the table). After dinner I couldn't go out with them because I had to go home and read papers for the next day, so I instead returned to my car, went home and did my homework, and then played STARFOX! (p.s. my brother bought my Starfox! Did I already say that in my last post? Quite possibly).
-The papers I read for my behavioral ecology class were hilarious. They were about how nightclubs could be lekking grounds for males to display their dancing skills in front of females and thus gain female approval, and also about female competition with one another and their likelihood in attracting a man based on their clothing choices. Amazing. Also it talked about how dancing is a signal of male and female fitness because bad dancers have more fluctuating asymmetry, meaning their face and body is less symmetrical and thus less pleasing to the opposite sex overall. Seriously, from now on I'm just going to look at all male-female interactions as completely biological because a) it's funny and b) it will make me hate everyone less I think.
-Friday night was spent going to Plum Alley with Rachel, where we had delicious pork and duck buns and ramen, discovering an epic man cave down some random alley, and then going to a depressing as all shit play. I had to go to All My Sons for my theater class, which I wrote a paper on today, but GOD IT WAS AWFUL. So upsetting. I ended up going home and drinking away my upset feelings, watching Mission Impossible 4 and new Archers with my parents, and then playing Starfox and drawing for the rest of the night.
-More on the man cave: it was so weird and funny. I was just walking down this alley trying to find the restaurant I was supposed to meet Rachel at and suddenly BOOM there was an open garage door with some huge room filled with guys inside. There were ping pong tables, snowboards lined up along the wall, foozeball tables, man couches, and just tons of manly SHIT. It was hilarious. I later learned it was a design firm called SUPER TOP SECRET. I looked at their hiring page and it is asking for a senior taxidermist. I think I'm going to apply.
-Saturday was spent working on grad announcements, laying out in the sun, going to the park for a picnic with Lisa where we ate DELICIOUS salad, drank beer and Mike's, and she read her book while I worked on grad announcements still, and laying out in the sun some more. It was such an awesomely lazy and deliciously sunny Saturday. It was so much fun, I think many more picnics are in my future. The evening was spent having a pizza party at Raphael's house and watching two really shitty movies, Sweet Karma and The Perfect Student. The first one was about a mute girl trying to get revenge on the people who sold her sister into the underground sex trade of Toronto. That's right ladeez and gents, apparently Toronto has a huge underground sex trade that tricks people into joining it by making them believe they're signing up to be housecleaners. Coooool. The second was about some girl who kills her roommate who tries to make everyone believe it was some guy when really it was her ALL ALONG WHAT. So unbelievable, jesus.
-Sunday, this day, has also been deliciously sunny and lazy, but also productive! I slept in, hung out in my jim jams outside, wrote my paper for theater class while drinking wine coolers and honey beer (also outside), finished up grad announcements and started addressing them to peeps (I have a nice stack to send out tomorrow morning, and I just need to figure out two more people to send them to), started sketching out my resume, and watched a lot of Archer and Southpark. Also Gabi and I have planned a conjoined party at Poplar, one of our favorite bars, for graduation after our ceremonies! It's going to be so fun :D
This weekend has been a good one for sure. This next week it's time to STUDY, go to Red Butte Canyon to band some birds for conservation biology (and sign up to volunteer for more banding opportunities), take Rosemary and Lori out to lunch on Wednesday, and study some more. BREAK!
Now for a picture of a bird to make this post seem more interesting.
p.s. my laptop is dyinggggggg
-freaked out because I thought I was going to fail biochem. For realsies. I calculated the end result of my test scores and the grade was...bad. Aka failing bad. So I had some breakdowns and then decided I was just going to study HARDCORE. Cue "eye of the tiger" montage. I studied my ass off for that test, and the good news is that I did better on my test than I've been doing! So all I have to do now is study EVEN HARDER for the final and then I'll pass! Yaaaay!
-submitted that short story to Quarterly West for a contest. If it gets published, that would be coooool.
-had a family emergency in that my dad had back pain, which led to doctors believing he may have had a heart attack (which he didn't, thank the lawd), but his heart tests DID come back irregular, so he had to go to a cardiologist to get a bunch of tests done. This was the same day that I was doing my final research symposium, so I was a mess the entire time, despite being surrounded by friends. He is okay though, yay! The symposium was splendid, and now I'm done with them for the semester! Perhaps foreverrrrr (but not conferences. Never conferences).
-went to Rachel's 21st birthday party! It was being held at Martine Cafe, a fancy shmancy restaurant that sells tapas and million dollar entrees. We convened for fancy times in fancy outfits to eat fancy food and drink fancy sangria (I truly cannot use the term fancy enough). There was talk of cloacas at the dinner table, which you know means a 21st birthday (or a birdnerd is at the table). After dinner I couldn't go out with them because I had to go home and read papers for the next day, so I instead returned to my car, went home and did my homework, and then played STARFOX! (p.s. my brother bought my Starfox! Did I already say that in my last post? Quite possibly).
-The papers I read for my behavioral ecology class were hilarious. They were about how nightclubs could be lekking grounds for males to display their dancing skills in front of females and thus gain female approval, and also about female competition with one another and their likelihood in attracting a man based on their clothing choices. Amazing. Also it talked about how dancing is a signal of male and female fitness because bad dancers have more fluctuating asymmetry, meaning their face and body is less symmetrical and thus less pleasing to the opposite sex overall. Seriously, from now on I'm just going to look at all male-female interactions as completely biological because a) it's funny and b) it will make me hate everyone less I think.
-Friday night was spent going to Plum Alley with Rachel, where we had delicious pork and duck buns and ramen, discovering an epic man cave down some random alley, and then going to a depressing as all shit play. I had to go to All My Sons for my theater class, which I wrote a paper on today, but GOD IT WAS AWFUL. So upsetting. I ended up going home and drinking away my upset feelings, watching Mission Impossible 4 and new Archers with my parents, and then playing Starfox and drawing for the rest of the night.
-More on the man cave: it was so weird and funny. I was just walking down this alley trying to find the restaurant I was supposed to meet Rachel at and suddenly BOOM there was an open garage door with some huge room filled with guys inside. There were ping pong tables, snowboards lined up along the wall, foozeball tables, man couches, and just tons of manly SHIT. It was hilarious. I later learned it was a design firm called SUPER TOP SECRET. I looked at their hiring page and it is asking for a senior taxidermist. I think I'm going to apply.
-Saturday was spent working on grad announcements, laying out in the sun, going to the park for a picnic with Lisa where we ate DELICIOUS salad, drank beer and Mike's, and she read her book while I worked on grad announcements still, and laying out in the sun some more. It was such an awesomely lazy and deliciously sunny Saturday. It was so much fun, I think many more picnics are in my future. The evening was spent having a pizza party at Raphael's house and watching two really shitty movies, Sweet Karma and The Perfect Student. The first one was about a mute girl trying to get revenge on the people who sold her sister into the underground sex trade of Toronto. That's right ladeez and gents, apparently Toronto has a huge underground sex trade that tricks people into joining it by making them believe they're signing up to be housecleaners. Coooool. The second was about some girl who kills her roommate who tries to make everyone believe it was some guy when really it was her ALL ALONG WHAT. So unbelievable, jesus.
-Sunday, this day, has also been deliciously sunny and lazy, but also productive! I slept in, hung out in my jim jams outside, wrote my paper for theater class while drinking wine coolers and honey beer (also outside), finished up grad announcements and started addressing them to peeps (I have a nice stack to send out tomorrow morning, and I just need to figure out two more people to send them to), started sketching out my resume, and watched a lot of Archer and Southpark. Also Gabi and I have planned a conjoined party at Poplar, one of our favorite bars, for graduation after our ceremonies! It's going to be so fun :D
This weekend has been a good one for sure. This next week it's time to STUDY, go to Red Butte Canyon to band some birds for conservation biology (and sign up to volunteer for more banding opportunities), take Rosemary and Lori out to lunch on Wednesday, and study some more. BREAK!
Now for a picture of a bird to make this post seem more interesting.
p.s. my laptop is dyinggggggg
Monday, April 16, 2012
weekend update with Otter
These have been some busy, productive, and fun past couple of days. I went to the Senior Sendoff on Thursday night because I was desperate to win Disneyland day passes that you could win if you pre-registered for the event. It was a dinner/speaker event with really crappy food and no booze, BUT I did make some new friends (to sit with, since I knew NO ONE THERE. I seriously know no graduating seniors that are not bio students. Welcome to the U of U) and the punch was pretty good. I did not win the Disneyland passes, unfortunately, but I did end up winning a super comfortable U sweatshirt and a hilarious Huntsman Center (aka the giant boob) figurine. So in the end, worth it. Also I finally talked to the career center and got signed up for their job-finding and resume writing services due to the dinner, so it sort of forced me to continue planning my future.
Friday night I went to the Benefit El Salvador silent auction at the 15th St. Gallery. It was a super fun event that Lisa was volunteering at, whom I adore and hadn't seen in forever. Natal came with me, and we were soon joined by Gabi and Bree. Basically the evening was spent being fancy with our wine and beer, eating delicious food and desserts, and perusing the items for sale. Natal and I bid on a year's worth of Color Me Mine painting, but were outbidded, unfortunately. At one point I asked the guy at the bar to give me their classiest beer and they gave me an Ipa, a semi-locally brewed beer from the Moab Brewery. So I learned about a new beer, got drunk, ate bananas and chocolate, talked to a lot of friendly peeps, got to see my franz, and was fancy. Then I ended up going home early instead of going out with everyone to watch Candyman and go to bed. WOO!
Saturday was spent making graduation announcements (or at least writing on them, since I don't have the prints of the pictures I'm putting in them yet), playing Starfox Adventures (which my brother bought for me at an independent gaming shop, yay!), drawing bird pokemon, trading a Seel to my HeartGold game to train, doing bird care, and ultimately just relaxing (except for the bird care part). OH MAN I forgot how fun Starfox is! I love the dinosaurs. Except for parts of it make me want to MURDER SOMEONE and I'm still not good at them, like the racing part at the beginning when you're trying to save Tricky. My brother did it for me after I failed four times in a row.
Goddamnit, Tricky
Today was spent trying to go to a play I need to attend for my online drama class, but the Internet LIED to me and so I ended up at a completely locked theater. So instead I did bird care and just played more Starfox Adventures all day (completely logical) until my friend's birthday party at the park! It was a surprise birthday party so we all yelled, "SURPRISE!" when she was still 200 feet away and then we awkwardly waited for her to actually arrive at the designated party site. I got to see Coopers Hawks and Brewer's Blackbirds, we played frisbee (Ale's dad is a BEAST at frisbee), ate cookout foods, got into a cake fight, played kickball, and I hung out with this guy who has the same dslr I'm pretty sure I'm going to get for graduation (fingers crossed) so I asked him for photography tips. I was originally only going to stay for an hour and then head to a play I have to attend for class, but I ended up staying until sunset, which is when apparently a bunch of little kids infiltrate the park without any adult supervision. At one point I wondered aloud what they were doing here and if they were wild and the guy who was with us was like, "They're ours now" so I tried to lure them in with soda. Aka not really because that's creepy. I just pretended to. To be funny.
After park shenanigans, I watched 20/20 with my mom while I did homework (on time this time, since I keep forgetting to do my online homework on sunday night) and revised a short story I wanted to submit for a creative writing contest (which I submitted half an hour ago, woo!) and then I watched The Simpsons forever. The end.
And that was my weekend!
The best picture from this weekend (also one of the only ones) is this picture of graffiti I took near the theater. It reminds me of in Super Mario Sunshine where you can spray a graffiti O or an X somewhere and a blue coin will pop out of its counterpart on the other side of the island.
(I tried to find a picture of it in the game but failed so I GUESS YOU'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT)
Friday night I went to the Benefit El Salvador silent auction at the 15th St. Gallery. It was a super fun event that Lisa was volunteering at, whom I adore and hadn't seen in forever. Natal came with me, and we were soon joined by Gabi and Bree. Basically the evening was spent being fancy with our wine and beer, eating delicious food and desserts, and perusing the items for sale. Natal and I bid on a year's worth of Color Me Mine painting, but were outbidded, unfortunately. At one point I asked the guy at the bar to give me their classiest beer and they gave me an Ipa, a semi-locally brewed beer from the Moab Brewery. So I learned about a new beer, got drunk, ate bananas and chocolate, talked to a lot of friendly peeps, got to see my franz, and was fancy. Then I ended up going home early instead of going out with everyone to watch Candyman and go to bed. WOO!
Saturday was spent making graduation announcements (or at least writing on them, since I don't have the prints of the pictures I'm putting in them yet), playing Starfox Adventures (which my brother bought for me at an independent gaming shop, yay!), drawing bird pokemon, trading a Seel to my HeartGold game to train, doing bird care, and ultimately just relaxing (except for the bird care part). OH MAN I forgot how fun Starfox is! I love the dinosaurs. Except for parts of it make me want to MURDER SOMEONE and I'm still not good at them, like the racing part at the beginning when you're trying to save Tricky. My brother did it for me after I failed four times in a row.
Goddamnit, Tricky
Today was spent trying to go to a play I need to attend for my online drama class, but the Internet LIED to me and so I ended up at a completely locked theater. So instead I did bird care and just played more Starfox Adventures all day (completely logical) until my friend's birthday party at the park! It was a surprise birthday party so we all yelled, "SURPRISE!" when she was still 200 feet away and then we awkwardly waited for her to actually arrive at the designated party site. I got to see Coopers Hawks and Brewer's Blackbirds, we played frisbee (Ale's dad is a BEAST at frisbee), ate cookout foods, got into a cake fight, played kickball, and I hung out with this guy who has the same dslr I'm pretty sure I'm going to get for graduation (fingers crossed) so I asked him for photography tips. I was originally only going to stay for an hour and then head to a play I have to attend for class, but I ended up staying until sunset, which is when apparently a bunch of little kids infiltrate the park without any adult supervision. At one point I wondered aloud what they were doing here and if they were wild and the guy who was with us was like, "They're ours now" so I tried to lure them in with soda. Aka not really because that's creepy. I just pretended to. To be funny.
After park shenanigans, I watched 20/20 with my mom while I did homework (on time this time, since I keep forgetting to do my online homework on sunday night) and revised a short story I wanted to submit for a creative writing contest (which I submitted half an hour ago, woo!) and then I watched The Simpsons forever. The end.
And that was my weekend!
The best picture from this weekend (also one of the only ones) is this picture of graffiti I took near the theater. It reminds me of in Super Mario Sunshine where you can spray a graffiti O or an X somewhere and a blue coin will pop out of its counterpart on the other side of the island.
(I tried to find a picture of it in the game but failed so I GUESS YOU'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT)
Friday, April 13, 2012
friday the 13th sale
Hey guys!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/OtterlyCharming
For this Friday the 13th, I'm having a sale in my shop for the entire weekend.
Just enter in le coupon code superstitious to get 40% off any order YOU WANT!
I make charms and watercolor paintings (mostly of birds). Remember, I am definitely open for custom charms and paintings! Just message me on etsy or leave a comment here.
I also have Adventure Time charms in the making (Beamo, Jake, Finn, and Gunther).
K WELL SEE YOU GUYS LATER, I GOTTA TAKE CARE OF PIGEONS.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/OtterlyCharming (do it)
http://www.etsy.com/shop/OtterlyCharming
For this Friday the 13th, I'm having a sale in my shop for the entire weekend.
Just enter in le coupon code superstitious to get 40% off any order YOU WANT!
I make charms and watercolor paintings (mostly of birds). Remember, I am definitely open for custom charms and paintings! Just message me on etsy or leave a comment here.
I also have Adventure Time charms in the making (Beamo, Jake, Finn, and Gunther).
K WELL SEE YOU GUYS LATER, I GOTTA TAKE CARE OF PIGEONS.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/OtterlyCharming (do it)
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Saturday, April 7, 2012
how it's done
I saw this picture on weheartit.com and it made me laugh because it reminds me of the last time I tried to battle pokemon with the aid of Gameboy Colors and a cable.
Alice and I had gone up to her cabin with an excitable yellow lab and our gameboys (and a trading cable) with the sole intent of night hiking and pokemon battling.
It was amazingly hilarious. Overall though, I am pretty into the wireless system. Plus this way I get to battle people (and kick their asses) all over the globe!
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