I am the worst nerd ever.
A textbook case.
Thus, I make tribute to alll my textbooks.

Textbook...

Text... book?  HEY!  Look!  Even my chemistry book knows that we live our lives in a perpetual redox equilibrium.
For those chemmy enough to understand this, K = approx. 1, and we share two hearts.
 
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Yarr.
With the halloween season, so comes the evil exams and such.
Bugger it.
And so I continue to run around, and I seriously am worried about the Park exam..
I mean, I know that, barring horrible things, I won't fail Walsh's class.
But the other two are bothersome.
Very.
Let time slow down for me so I can get in my studying, somehow..
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I had this awful nightmare that I had flunked two exams and was failing out of grad school.
It was horrible.  I remember the part where I was getting back an exam and I had just left a whole page completely and utterly blank, and it was a two-page exam...  Urgh.
Woke up wi5th a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach, and realized I had not only ( Read more... )

I felt so old when I turned 22.
That made sense.  I was a senior, and on the older side of the age spectrum.

Turning 23 really wasn't at all like that.
I am a first-year, and one of the babies of the PhD program.  Josh is going to be turning 25 in a couple weeks.  Alia is 26.  Wang-kyu is 28 or 29...  Chris is 23, but he's also married, so that ( Read more... )

I know.
       There can never be guarantees or promises
  Of what's to come
  Of what's to last
    Of a couple months, a year..
As I learn my chemistry
             And live my life.

When so many things are out of my hands..
When so many things are out of our control.
While time and voids could take their toll
       I can only hope
  With all my heart
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Well..
When things go THIS well for THIS long, I always start getting a little antsy..  waiting for the moment when life will decide to yank some or all of the wonderful things out from under my feet, leaving me sprawled in the dust, coughing and cursing my own optimism.

So how come I'm not antsy right now?
Ha, no idea.  Maybe, in losing my usual hint ( Read more... )

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Ahh...

Orientation.  Finally.
And course advising.
This will be intense.  Yes indeed.  I am a PhD student.

so..
I was finishing off my ice cream and fruit, and I chewed a chunk of something hard in half.
I spit it out, and the pieces were like white grit.
On a whim I went to the bathroom and checked out my teeth in the mirror.
Sure enough, a noticeable bit of my front bottom tooth was mising.
My teeth just keep getting trashier.

I am sore all over.  So much ( Read more... )

So.. I just made a reckless and wild and rather fun decision 2 hours ago... I invested 58$ in anti-boredom funds.  I'm traveling 9.2 cents per mile and first hitting new york, and then boston.  Tonight.  Yeah.  at 11pm my bus will take me away...  Yay for Greyhound's bizarre New York deal which allows me to round trip in less than it would take to ( Read more... )