I thought I could get out of reading if I took a lot of non-English and science classes. What a lie! I feel like I have more reading than I did when I took English, plus the fact that this science-brand of reading is so boring. hmph! I'm so bored because all I have been doing is reading dry science texts and trying to actively pay attention and ( Read more... )

I can't sleep because I am jet lagged, but probably more because tomorrow is the first day of classes. I have this problem where I can't sleep when I'm too excited, and nothing works to get me asleep, even if I try convincing myself that I am really tired. But ooh well, I know that I can always catch up on my sleep on the weekends and after being ( Read more... )

Finally, summer is over! Thank goodness. I was definitely getting sick of all this happiness, stress-free-ness, sleepiness, eatingness, hanging out-ness, and etc-[insert something really wonderful here]-ness. Plane's leaving tomorrow night and I'll be back at Vassar on Tuesday, so good bye Seattle, hello Vassar. I spent so much time at school this ( Read more... )

The last two weeks home have been really great! So far I have eaten way too much (yay!), played some frisbee, hung out with friends, hung out with relatives, taken hundreds of pictures, rode the 225ft blue dragon water slide, sat in a really hot sauna (190+deg F), and ate a lotta lotta. When I say that I ate a lot, I really mean that I ate a lot. ( Read more... )

URSI ends today! (Friday) I'm sad.

Well, but you can't be uptight while you're dancing right?

Just finished Harry Potter 6 and now I'm going to watch the last few episodes of Firefly. I also just finished a can of chef boyardee and that's making me feel a bit off ( Read more... )

I'm sad and tired. I think I am sad because I am so tired, but who knows. When we didn't have anything to do in lab I tried to convince everyone that I wasn't a slacker and that if there was work, I'd do it all. Well, now I've created work for me to do and, uh, it's slowly killing me physically and emotionally. I've been working 10+ hours in the ( Read more... )

I miss Ultimate ( Read more... )

Pictures from the weekend:

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Happy Birthday Diane! Wiipee, it's fun to be part of the 20-something (though we're just twenty). I hear we're being called the "Entitlement Generation" because we expect to get whatever we want. hehe