I beat my first final today. I did decently well, and I managed to identify the diisopropyl ether from the NMR and MS spectra. Okay, the professor gave us the molecular formula, we just had to figure out what the structural formula was. But it would have been hard to figure out that the thing had an oxygen in it from just the mass spec in the ( Read more... )

In case you haven't noticed (people outside the northeast exempt), there's a freakin' blizzard. Not very long after it all began, I averaged 12 mph getting home ( Read more... )

Going to JFK airport. My brother is home from Iraq for a couple of weeks.

That lonely feeling is haunting me again. I hate it.

This Winter (January), I will be taking Introduction to Exceptional Children and Physical Chemistry I, for a total of six credits ( Read more... )

Iraq

On November 14th, I posted an entry titled Blemish. This entry is in response to badoingdoing's comment to that entry.

While the tvte may not be the best thing for me, it is indeed Judgment on my Character and Abilities in the larger scheme of my Life that I Failed at the task. I had all the Opportunities and mental Faculties to earn my degree from the ( Read more... )

I do not post many quizzes, but I liked these. I am satisfied with the results, as they reflect where I think I fit.


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is considered a foreign language as far as NYS teacher certification is concerned. I've wanted an excuse to learn ASL for a while now.

The Institute haunts me in dreams and in the waking hours. It taunts me, ridicules me, picks at scabs and open wounds. It sits mockingly on my record of life: two years. And then I left. For whatever I can say about leaving, it torments me; it is my blemish ( Read more... )