This is one of the nights that I wish I could just go drive up the coast, and sit out and look at the stars and NOT THINK. Granted, I would still be sneezing and hacking up stuff, but it would be away from buildings. I just want to go away and NOT have work, internship, studying, labs etc. to do, and really missing people at this moment. SIGH. Need ( Read more... )

Vivian helped me finish my coatehardie!! Thank you Vivian!! That I promptly wore the next night, and spilled red wine on. Luckily red wine comes out of linen easily thanks to magical ZOUT! I love my stainremover. I then tried to surge coatehardie and preceeded to rip a hole in it. Hmmm...we'll see if it survives to the Isles Feast, I still need to ( Read more... )

Thank you to all the awesome people that have been so welcoming and excited about me being back. It really is making this transition SO MUCH easier and it feels like coming back home ( Read more... )

Why is UCSB gray right now? Which is why I'm sitting in the library, instead of enjoying the sunshine. Having a 1 hour and 45 minute break between classes sucks, just because I'm too lazy to go home and then come back to sit home for no good reason. So in recent news, JOB, must find paying job fairly soon cuz I'm getting back to real life after ( Read more... )

So in the days and weeks before Yom Kippur (Jewish holiday where one asks G-d for forgiveness), one is supposed to ask anyone they have wronged for forgiveness. I seem to have developed this habit of trying to forget the things I have done to wrong people and push it to the back of my mind. I am beginning to realize what a humbling process it is ( Read more... )

YAY! Home from Israel! And the first night I got back we went to a wedding...less of a stupid idea than David's plan for getting back, but still it impeded jet lag recovery. It does feel really good to be able to see people again, six months was a long time, AND to be able to cook my own food!! WHEE No more getting sick off of MSG riddled food, and ( Read more... )

Waiting for dinner, doing a little more relaxed post. So I've come to terms with the fact that some of my data just won't get in the first submission. But to summarize the past week ( Read more... )

So research was going well...data collecting was (is) fun. The problem is that the paper is due Wednesday morning (I think) and I'm currently working on the intro and...data collection. OH, AND daydreaming about plans for Israel?!! VERY PRODUCTIVE. I should be trying to analyze my data, but instead I'm still kindof (still no idea how to measure ( Read more... )

homemade star fruit and pineapple juice is really amazing but not a good substitute for chocolate.  WHY does all the chocolate here  taste like crap? Answer: everything is made with crappy hersheys chocolate you  can taste. This is dangerous, I´m going to be staying in zurich for four hours after having a three month break from chocolate. I really ( Read more... )

So this week is going pretty well. My project is happening...more than I can say about other people who are still waiting for their equipment. Part of what I'm doing required me to take a machete to small portions of the forest, I kindof got the hang of it after a while and it was fun, although Eric made fun and when he went with me did it for me, ( Read more... )