Hello Again

So...facebook is fun. It has been a really long time since I've posted on here and I blame facebook. But I'm here again and I'm going to remind you of my extreme nerdiness. Ashley and I are designing a Star Trek game. Heck yes. We've been doing lots of research too. Ashley is researching Voyager and I am researching The Next Generation. We've also got Michael helping us. We ask him lots of questions about Deep Space 9.
So our game is like a board game, with some RP mixed in. At the beginning of the game you get to draw your crew from the crew cards. There will be separate piles for the Senior Officers to make sure that everyone has a captain, engineer, etc. You also draw a goal card that gives you a specific task to perform. Then you roll the dice and move your ship across the across the grid of the four quadrants. Neat isn't it. The RP element comes in because there are different cards that you will need to draw, guest star cards and scenario cards. These cards will present you with a situation that you have to find a solution to. The other players then vote on whether or not your solution worked. To win the game a player must complete so many goal cards. This game is going to be the best ever, but it probably will only be appreciated by a select few Trekkies.

Doctor Who

Well I'm at the library again, downloading Doctor Who. I'm so happy because the BBC took down all the new episodes of Doctor Who last week, but I found them this week. Now I wouldn't have minded much if the BBC had decided to enforce it's copyright laws a few months ago at the beginning of the season, but they started now, with two episode to go. Taking down the second of the three-part season finale is just mean. I would have had to wait about a year until it came on Sci-fi to see what happened, and even then I probably would have been on break so I wouldn't get to see it anyway. But it's alright now, because I found it on youtube. And I'm happy.
In other news I started teaching my self-defense class. I'm not sure how it is going to work out though. The first class I mostly talked and I think i scared all my students. Self-defense makes you paranoid. Anyway, I hope they loosen up next class.

Rambling

Well it's been almost a month since my last post and that means that it's time to post again. I don't know that I have much to say. I haven't been doing much really. I never found a job and I've kindof given up. I helped with the dissection lab and that was fun. I was going to teach a self-defense class starting today, but no one called me to sign up for it. I'll probably try for that again though.
I looked at the books that I need to order for school next semester and I got pretty excited. I forgot that I was going to take Computer Science Fundamentals. The book is about Java which means that I'm finally going to learn programming. Yay. This will be fun. I'm excited about my other classes too, but I have this sinking feeling that Biochem and Ecology are going to cause me much suffering. That's why I'm ordering my books so early, so I can start working on Biochem. I've been learning my amino acids at night while I watch DVDs from the library.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon is pretty good, but those long underwater sequences don't hold the same novelty as they did fifty years ago. I wish that the DVD was in 3D. That would have been exciting. The only time that I screamed during the movie was when the 'archaeologist' yanked the 'fossilized' arm out of the rock wall. That was very distressing.
I'm getting the first season of Chip 'n Dale from the library this time. It was my favorite show when I was a kid. Mom doesn't remember it at all. I guess she was getting stuff done while I was distracted. Anyway, that's a fair sized post and now I'm going to read up on the Creature from the Black Lagoon on wikipedia.

;-) (This signifies that I am tired of coming up with titles)

Yay. I'm at the library and I found a plug so I will be here a while. I had to go to a room in the library that I've never been in. The silent study room. I was all alone, but now there is a nice old man reading a book in the corner opposite me. I hope that my typing is not bothering him because I'm only assuming that he's a nice old man. Anyway. I just joined Facebook. There are a lot of people on there that I want to keep in contact with and I know that I need all the help that I can get since I'm very bad at keeping in contact. I think that everyone I know between the ages of 10 and 25 is on Facebook. Except Elisabeth and Jillian. If I don't make you my friend right away, it's because there are too many people and I'm overwhelmed. Anyway, I guess I'll get back to finding everyone.

WiFi, I love you so

Well, I'm back home again, and I miss my internet very much. Right now I'm at the library. It got free wifi which is very exciting. It seems to be working pretty well too. I just hope that Tilion's battery lasts until I can download the new Doctor Who episode of YouTube. I can't seem to find a desk next to a plug. Very upsetting. Perhaps I need to explore more...or ask a librarian. That might work. When Tilion's battery runs out that's probably what I will do.
Either this desk is a bad height, or one week of not typing has messed me up, but I'm having a lot of trouble. Sad times. Well, I'm off to spend time with my dear friend Wikipedia. Ah, I missed him.

FREEEEEE!!!!!

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin' red
Cryin's not for me
'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'
Because I'm free
Nothin's worryin' me

I'M DONE!!! I have nothing, I repeat nothing, that I need to study. That is a wonderful feeling. I can clean my room, call my parents, bathe, read a book, take a nap... anything. I am free. I don't have to think about complement cascades, or Kuhnian revolutions, or how to correct for boyency, or how to spell boyency... I refuse to worry about my summer job and packing up my room right now. I'm just going to sit here on my bed and think happy thoughts, and I can think about whatever I want to. YAY!!!!

Whine

My day wasn't going to be that bad. It started out fairly well. I took my Spanish final, aced it, then went to the grassy bowl to study Immunology. That was nice. Then I went to lunch. I thought that lunch opened at 11:00, but apparently it didn't. So I went and checked my mail, then I remembered that I needed to fill out an application for graduation. So I did that and it asked me to list the classes that I needed to take my last semester. So I did that but I wasn't sure I had them all so I went to check with Dr. Hartz. That was a bad thing. She was tallying up all the classes that I had taken and she told me that I only had 10 hours in my biology electives and I needed 16. That was not good because I'm taking Biochem and Ecology next fall and they are both very hard lab sciences. And next spring I'm taking Senior Seminar and Selected Topics in Chem to finish my minor. Squeezing in an extra 6 hours of biology electives is not as easy as it sounds. So I went to my room to get my paperwork and see if she was right. Then I ran around like a chicken with its head cut off, harassing all the professors to see if they had any ideas and if they would let me do research for them. It was stressful. Not what I needed when I still have 4 finals to go. After about three hours I finally decide to do research with Dr. Hill in the fall and take Molecular in the spring. Drs. Hill and Hartzell are haggling over what Dr. Hill can make me do that will count for biology and not-so-much with the chem, when Dr. Hartz decides to find out what she was thinking when she told me that the schedule we had planned was fine. So we go to the registrar to get my folder and when she looks at it she realises that I came in before they revamped the program so I only need 10 hours of electives. After three hours. During finals week. When I have five finals. I was unhappy. But relieved. But still unhappy. So all that stress got directed towards my Analytical ACS standardized final that I'm taking tomorrow at 8 am that I cannot study too much for. This is not going to be a good week.

I swear I do homework

If I was a bad guy I would want my theme music to be this cool. I mean, does it get much better than a full orchestra and a choir singing about how awesome you are in Latin? I think not.
Elisabeth borrowed Final Fantasy: Advent Children for me from Stephen. Now I'm obsessed with hair. Seriously someone must have spent a really long time looking at hair. The villain's hair looks just like mine except that it's white.

I would make such a good gamer nerd girlfriend. Stephen keeps trying to set me up with his friend. It's pretty funny actually because Elisabeth is dead set against the whole idea of setting up friends. This past year people keep trying to set me up, and I'm not sure how I should take this. Ashley is convinced that I should marry our friend Michael and have little trekkie babies, and when we were in England Ben was trying to set me up with a guy from his work. So what it really boils down to is whether I want a gamer nerd, a sci-fi nerd, or a computer nerd. I'm so nerdy sometimes I don't know what to do with myself.


Earlier this week I was on a Star Trek fix, Ashley and I found a bunch of things like this. Then we found Star Trek New Voyages. Rabid fans with too much time and money on their hands.
Then I got into a gaming fix and played Final Fantasy, and read lots of OOTS comics. Somewhere in their I finished watching all the fourth doctor episodes and started in on the fifth.
I promise that I am doing my homework and getting passing grades in all my classes.
I also made Barnaby this way cool aran sweater. That was a while ago, but I like it much better now that I'm not working on it anymore. It is hard to make up sweater patterns for oddly shaped bears.

I'm going to go to bed now and then wake up tomorrow morning hopefully and study some immunology. Doesn't that sound like a great motivation for getting up in the morning?
Yay. Complement cascades.

Heck Yes!

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Love/Hate

I love/hate being a biology major. I especially love/hate immunology, though at the moment I am leaning strongly to the latter of those two emotions. I love Dr. Hartz/hate her tests. I am going to get an F on this test tomorrow.

Planes are fun

I flew back home on friday and it was quite the experience. First I am a good little traveler and I get to the airport in plenty of time to catch my flight. This time I got there a little after 1:00. My flight left at 2:44 and I was checked-in, through security and waiting at my gate by 1:30. I wasn't sure that I was at the right gate at first because there wasn't a gate listed on my boarding pass and the flight number was wrong on the little sign. But the time and the city were right and I realised that Delta only had the one gate. So I waited at the gate and read my book and it was nice. About 2:40 I began to get a little worried because I could see that my plane wasn't there yet. Sure enough, at about 2:50 they decided to announce that the flight was delayed because of maintenance or something like that. So we wait and they announce that if you have a connection before 4:45 that you need to see about later connections. My was at 4:45 so they said it would be alright. So we finally get on the plane and take off and the actually flight was fine. We get to Cincinnati and circle around for about 10 min, then we start coming in for a landing and I can see the airport and then I notice that we're not going down anymore, we're going up. A little while later the pilot announces that the tower got us a little to close to another plane. That was comforting. So we circle around for another 10 min and we make it all the way down this time. I get off and walk very quickly to my next gate. I look on the screen as I go by and it says the plane is on time (it's about 4:40 at this point). I follow the signs until I'm sure that I'm in the right place, the signs have numbers and my boarding pass has number, but lo and behold the gates have letters. So I look on all the little signs above the people and find St. Louis. This time it's the right flight number and everything. It still says that it is on time, it's not boarding yet, but there is a line of people waiting, so I sat down and waited. And then I waited some more. They announce that the plane will be leaving shortly so please stay in the area, and I start wondering if I should call my mommy and tell her what is going on. But I figure there's really no reason because I made my connection, so I wait some more. Somewhere around 4:55 they announce that the flight is delayed. Whoa, big surprise there. It was only supposed to leave 10 min ago. So I'm thinking about calling Mom again, but they are acting like it's only going to be a few more minutes so I wait. They they announce that it's delayed again, so I go to the phone and call mom and tell her that I'm going to be late. She's didn't seem very concerned because Dad was the one picking me up. They announce that they are going to start boarding soon, so I get off the phone and go back to my seat. I only had to wait a little bit and then they let us make our way towards the plane. We all get on and wait, after a bit the captain tells us that they are having some problems fueling the plane. I've got a window seat so I can see the people messing around with stuff and that amuses me for a while. I read my book for a bit and then the captain says it's all taken care of and they did the whole safety review bit. And we sit there, and we wait. The captain gets on again and he sounds a bit annoyed. He informs us that the airline won't let us take off because there is an employee that wants to go with us. So we wait. Again. I'm starting to get a little miffed. About an hour and a half after we were originally supposed to leave, the guy shows up and we finally take off. After that the all the announcements were made by the copilot. I suspect that the pilot was too miffed. The flight to St. Louis was relatively uneventful. I got some pretty pictures of the sunset and the clouds though.
When I got to the airport I found Daddy pretty quickly. He had bought a book and some gummy bears, but he had been waiting a while and was kinda miffed too, but not nearly as much as the pilot and me. I told Daddy the whole story, and then I said that I wouldn't be surprised if they lost my luggage too.
We waited for my luggage for a while and looked around a bit and then decided that they had lost my luggage. I was not surprised. I waited a long time in the line to tell them that my luggage was lost and then we went home. My luggage came the next day, but I'm still not pleased about that flight. The great part is that they kept saying "Sorry for the trouble. Thank you for choosing Delta." These people are incorrigible.

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Life, the Universe, Everything

Blah. That is how I feel right now. I am sick and stuffy. It doesn't help that I am taking Immunology right now, so I know exactly what and what is not happening in my body right now. I can't get a break from studying. Anyway I already told some people but, this is what I did last weekend:














Ashley, Katie and I decided to do this a while ago. College is really the only time you get to do crazy stuff with your hair. So we all dyed the ends. This way, we can cut it off later. I'll probably get mine cut over Spring Break (which is Mar 4-11). After I explained the logic of it to Dr. Hill he said it made him regret not dying his hair in college. It was pretty funny.
I pretty much ran out of room on my flickr, which is sad. So here is a picture of me and my friends at the Valentine's banquet this year:
Heck yes. We are cool. I have to go to Spanish now. I will add to this post later.

edit: So, yeah. We decided to go Goth to the Valentine's Banquet. I think it's really funny. I was looking at the picture and wondering why I make such a good goth and I realised it was because I am so pale. Look at me. I'm like the whitest white girl that ever lived. I look like I'm dead. Oh well. I have fun wings now. I made them the day of the banquet. Hot glue is my friend. I think that I'm going to have to bend them back or something because I've got like a five foot wingspan and I had to go sideways through all the doors. It was a problem. But I like them anyway.

Hiya

Well, it's been a month since I posted and that is the limit that I like to set for myself. So here is a post...I have some pictures from England on my flickr. I shall now tell on of the more amusing anecdotes from my trip. It happened the first night in our hotel at bath. I was very tired. We left Dayton the day before at noon, drove to Atlanta, flew in a plane for ~9 hours, got to London between 7 and 8 am, drove to Stonehenge, toured Stonehenge, drove to Bath, toured Bath, went to our hotel, and then we were told we had to stay up until our meeting at 8 pm was finished. I was very tired. I had a bit of time before dinner, but I was afraid that if I took a nap, I would never get up again. So I decided to explore the hotel (it was a pretty old Victorian house that had been converted to a hotel). So I came down the stairs and was deciding which way to go next when an elderly gentleman passes in front of me on his way to the lounge. The conversation that ensued went a little something like this:
Elderly Gentleman: *something unintelligible*
Me: *looks blankly at EG from within jet-lagged stupor*
EG: *repeats unintelligible query*
Me: *continues to stare blankly* "Hello?"
EG: "You don't speak Brazilian?"
Me: "No..."
EG: "You really should learn."
Me: *blank stare*
EG: *Stream of unintelligible words*
Me: *blank stare*
EG: *More unintelligible words"
Me: *blank stare*
EG: "Blush prettily and say 'Obligada senor'"
Me: "Obligada senor."
EG: *laughs* "I told you that you have very pretty eyes."
Me: *blushes uncertainly* "Thank you?"
EG: *walks off chuckling to himself*
Me: *left in confused jet-lagged stupor with burning cheeks*
To flee the scene of awkwardness, I continued with my original plan of exploring the hotel, ducking into random corridors whenever I heard someone approaching. Later that night at dinner I told the people at my table what had happened. To which Ben's response was something along these lines: "You've been in this country less than 12 hours and you are already getting hit on by strange men. That's it, we're not letting you go off by yourself anymore." So after that I pretty much hung around Ben and George all week. George goes to our school, (he's my new roommate's boyfriend) and Ben is his brother-in-law. Ben didn't know anyone besides George before this trip. When Mr. Bernie expresses concern about this, Ben's wife replied "He'll be fine. He's a people person". We all had fun times.