Mallory (begins brushing teeth)
UPS Man (knocks on door)
Mallory (opens the door)
UPS Man (hands sign-box): Are you 21?
Mallory (still with toothbrush in mouth): Yes
UPS Man: Hmm... can I see your ID?
Mallory (still with toothbrush in mouth): Uhh... sure.

Seriously. I got ID'ed by a UPS guy? I barely get ID'ed in bars. And yes, I am 21. But I'm pretty ( Read more... )

i got into Duke University today!

exciting... but i'll still probably go to UofM. Nick and I are thinking about buying a house...

Sooooo i realize i haven't written in several months again but this is a big announcement ( Read more... )

[ X ] Write 1600 word essay profiling a research community ( Read more... )

Michigan beat Wisconsin. No one thought we could. I didn't think we could. It didn't look like we could then we did :-) There is hope for Michigan's future and I can actually look forward to Saturdays again ( Read more... )

being less than 200 miles away from my fiance
meijer's
my family
the lake
getting gas for under $4/gal
the friends i never seem to see
the vanity
my dogs
movie theatre's that charge less than $9/ticket
having a real life

so. i've been bitching and moaning about these eye drops i'm taking. the cost of these was $80 for a 2.5 mL bottle. the active ingredient is 0.2% by mass in this solution. using my super chemistry geeky ways... i did the math to figure out they are charging $40,000 per gram for the active chemical! and i've seen the compound, its complex, yes, but ( Read more... )

so its been a while... here's a general update ( Read more... )

i'm in michigan for the next 9 days so call me up if you wanna hang out!

So Nick and I decided to do a destination wedding and keep it to mostly immediate family. Neither of us is the big wedding type, and I've alwawys wanted to get married on the beach. So instead of a summer wedding, we choce December 30, 2009 (still might switch to the 31st). We are pretty sure its going to be somewhere on the Turks and Caicos ( Read more... )