I’ve pretty much been relaxing, hanging with friends. Realized I lost one pound last Tuesday, yet I didn’t exercise so I’m assuming it’s because of work that I’m losing the weight, which is great. Other then that I’ve been pretty unproductive as always. But, I’ve been looking for internships to apply for next year. My major issue is that the internships ask for letters of recommendation. First, I feel a little awkward with teachers being busy and me feeling as though I’m not a star student, to be asking for letters of recommendation. Plus, I attend a big university and though I know some teachers remember me, what if they don’t! Also, I’d probably not get the internship anyways with my grades and all. I’m looking for alternatives to enter into the science workforce also because I’m basically a senior and have not prepared early enough, plus, I can’t just expect to get a job right out of school.
Enough of my rambling whining about that. Wednesday, I woke up and my internet was off. We have a weird set up of internet in our apartment since we have two separate lines, two separate bills and one person decided to turn hers off. The issue is that they turned mine off instead of hers and I was without internet. I did the preliminary stuff like turn off the modem for 30 seconds turn it on blah blah blah. Didn’t work so I called AT&T SBC and spent what felt like forever on the phone. The guy was nice and because of the accent I had to keep asking “what!!!?”. I almost forgot my security answer to the security question of “whos your favorite singer?”. I was, uh, I-don’t-know ####### and I ended up guessing correctly, he laughed, as the way I express my uncertainty and luck usually makes people do. Then I had to wait for SBC to call me back and a guy from Missouri was so nice. He scheduled an SBC tech guy to come out that day, which is weird cause I’m never that lucky. Then he said, he might be able to come between now(10am) and 8pm. Later I found out work was canceled til the next day which is good cause I wouldn’t have been able to make it anyways. While waiting on the SBC guy to come I got the idea to make sure I erase my browser history, ya know, just in case he sees all that porn lmao, ya know during those times when I wasn’t using the private browser lol. Anyways, he came, switch the cords or whatever and I got my internet back on.
Thursday, I woke up ok, this is the first (and last) place I’ll say this. But, sometimes when I wake up in the morning and I feel deformed. Like I woke up and I swear to god my left boob looked bigger than the other one lmao. I was really worried until I moved my hand. And, I touched my nose and it felt super small, this happens a lot to me so I wasn’t that worried about my nose. I think my nose looks really big so I guess I expect is to feel big. Anyways, I wake up, brush my teeth while naked and posing in the mirror….because that’s normal. Takes my shower and everything is great. I’m done reading up on Ciguatoxin and dinoflagellates so now I’m reading up on mollusk and the research done. I also decided to do a post on general/basic molluscan identification, which will be posted…whenever I finish! Later, I wrote a blog post on my other blog, was online listening to music and on social networking sites. I have issues with Firefox 3.5 so this took me longer than usual to do. Later on I went to work and it was a cut short (thank god). btw, sorry in advance, I say/write Thank God a lot and some people are offended because-of-whatever so I stopped saying it around certain people but if you get offended let me know and I’ll write a different variation of it in the future like, Thank you Jesus *laughs* ok, how about Thank Orc. When I got back home, looked at the twitter trend topics, I realized that I MISSED Big Brother 11. It’s a reality show if you didn’t know. So, I spent most of my time back just looking for a video online of the whole show, thankfully someone posted the premier episode on youtube. Good thing is that my father has military til Monday so I don’t have to work and I can catch the next episode, on Sunday 8PM EST.
Today, it was horrible this morning. I thought I was near death. It’s so weird too, like I think I slept in the wrong, WRONG position. It’s amazing how your body can adapt/deform to change. I slept with my head bent to the left and I woke up to find that the area, I guess between the sternocleidomastoid and trapezuis muscle (neck and shoulder) had sunken in like really deep. Usually, that area only sinks in a little either if you force it or and if you’re old. Also, I had a hard time exercising my throat and it felt like something really hard was stuck in my throat and I couldn’t get it out. Also, there was a build up of *whispers* mucus in the esophagus. And on top of that, my turtles woke up and one started biting the other. I got up and put the turtle in a bucket of water (that’s my time out area for him).
So, I’m assuming my sleeping position, the pressure from neck applied to the area between my neck and should has cause the sinking. This in turn has made the esophagus close in causing a building up of mucus allowing little movement of the adam’s apple area making it feel as though theres something hard in my throat. That’s probably a totally off diagnosis, but hey, it makes sense from my point of view. After putting the turtle in “time out” I laid back down, with my head bent a little to the right as to stretch out the left side of my shoulder and everything got back to normal position, thank orc god! Though it still feels a bit awkward. This is the earliest I’ve woken up in a long time, it was around 730am when I watched TV and got online and left at 8am to walk to the grocery store, it was like an empty world out there and a nice un-crowded grocery store where the workers aren’t busy enough to say Good Morning. I just got some cereal (off brand fruitloops), milk, Brisk Ice Tea, Vitamin Water (dragonfruit flavor), pizza and Starbucks Ice Cream (caramel macchiato). My first time trying out the new Starbucks ice cream. It was good, but the caramel macchiato frappuccino taste better and the ice cream flavor only made me more thirsty afterwards, which is probably intended if you think about it and the type of business Starbucks is. Today, I’ll just be roaming the interwebs and reading about mollusk. If I’m done early or don’t get distracted then maybe I’ll work on Blender again or work on a new blog design. This time I want to go more simple with the blog design, it won’t be a design that I’ll use but just for fun. And today I feel like being alone (actually, that’s most days) but I’d really prefer to be without another physical being in the same room with me, so I’ll be alone and enjoy my time. Oh, and my music page has been updated if anyone besides me cares!
Have a great day and week!
I actually didn’t realize this until last night when I looked at the monthly stats and saw that I started this blog last July! July 1st to be exact, so I’m many days late on this. Anyways, so this blog has a looong way to go as it’s not nearly as popular as other personal/science blogs but to be honest, I kind of like it that way. I think I view this blog as my home away from the rest of the web. This post will be wrapping up this blog’s year online. First, here’s my lackluster progress with stats,
The first post was the Welcome All post. I read it last night and I completely laughed as this blog has went in a completely different direction. Not only was I attitude-y in the welcome post but a liar. I wrote, “…Im not just some jibber jabbery person” lol I didn’t realize it then but I kind of am, though technically I’m not that way when I talk, just when I type. I actually stayed on the subject of science until around mid-January(ish) then I turned it into a part personal blog. Which, kind of still stayed on science because I was taking science classes and described what I was learning.
I must admit, I feel a little guilty about this but my most popular blog post is, Catching Aquatic Insects and Surviving The Punishment Of The Greek Gods. The reason I feel guilty is because most people are visiting that blog using search terms like, “pond insects”, “aquatic insects”, and “insects”. I keep telling myself that I’ll eventually write an elaborate post about aquatic insects, but I never gotten around to it! But, here’s some search engine terms to be proud of, but I highly doubt people found what they were looking for:
- sex on the trail camping trip – too bad I didn’t write a how-to post or something!
- laughing caddis gif – no laughing insects on this blog, that’s weird
- being a pushover mom – looks like someone was looking for parenting advice
- greek insect monster – no words to explain this
- pokemon gameboy color case – unless this person looked at the comments section or something, then theres no way this person found info on a pokemon gameboy case. But, for what it’s worth, I had the Pokemon Gold Gameboy color case.
- thinking of gay people for bible – wut??
- stuff to eat when stomach hurting – sorry, for whoever searched for that, cause the only advice I remember giving was to eat something warm or not drink Pink Lemonade!
Some blog achievements was…getting lots of visits from Digg and Reddit…I don’t know if that’s an achievement but I’ll call it that! Also, being on Stumble Upon, again, not really a blog achievement and I should give credit to Doson for actually Stumbling this blog. I can’t fabricate any other situations where I made blog achievements, so I’ll leave it at that!
I think everyone knows by now my favorite part of a blog is comments. My typical annoying blogger friends, T3ck, Omar, Doson, Suprarationality (or Gemma), and Peter P visited at first to comment regularly (kind of). Definitely provided some comments and screw ups where I giggled. Like “PlaySation“, was funny, cause I started off reading the comment as serious and then once I realized the typo I started giggling & smh. Also, I swear I needed a translator for half of Doson’s comments, but eventually I figured it out once I obtained the Doson translator! And I think he insulted my blog content and made an innuendo type comment. Then I kept getting criticized for my long blog post by him and Gemma, so I triiied to shorten it down some…didn’t work all that much. Then someone besmirched my bookshelf, soooo lucky the comment was hilarious. I’m used to jokes but sometimes jokes don’t work out, especially if you make typos and duplicate comments lol.
So, I like to thank everyone that has come to this blog. It’s my place to be, I actually hang out here a lot since I’ve added my music page. Thank you, and I hope you have or will enjoy the blog. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some other blogs to read and some Salmon to eat. The Salmon has bones in it so I have to be extra careful. Oh and I saw Transformers 2 today. Loved the movie, two hours well spent! Bye-Bye 
Wait, I have to have a song for this post since I did it on my other blog. This song is called Banquet by Bloc Party,
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Yeah, well I couldn’t think of the common term for it. It’s technically called a “ThickBox” in the CSS code. Anyways, every free wordpress.com blog has the Thickbox in their CSS (edit: it only appears if you’re using the Social Vibe widget) it’s just not viewable in the CSS editor. I saw the “lightbox” code in the CSS a while ago but wasn’t sure how to get it to
work. Then today, I visited Devblog’s new anime blog in the wallpaper section, looked at his links and saw the class “class=”thickbox” and then I found out how to do it!!! So, here goes how to add it. First, here’s what it looks like, just click on the picture.
The picture will only get as big as the original size of the picture from my understanding. Anyways, just make sure you link to the actual image url of the picture and not an attachment page. Looks something like,
<a class=”thickbox” href=”http://sensicology.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/obama-platoon1.jpg”><img title=”obama-platoon” src=”http://sensicology.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/obama-platoon1.jpg” alt=”obama-platoon” width=”68″ height=”80″ /></a>
The same thing will work if you’re just linking to an image. For example, MY CAT!! You can see the difference to how large the image is. The first picture has the thickbox class and the second picture just links to the original image url. In my opinion I like the second one but I know theres a lot of wordpressers that would love to have a pop-up box.
Don’t know how to do this with galleries, text or videos, yet! But anything is possible….kind of…but I kind of have a headache now, so it’s best I not think a lot right now…
oh, and if you have the CSS upgrade, the appearance of the box can be changed, I just recommend getting the firefox addon, Web Developer, so you can make changes in real time and access code you wouldn’t see in the CSS editor on wordpress.
Went over my aunts on July 3rd to celebrate Independence day over there. Early obviously as Independence Day is on the 4th. Anyways, 1am in the morning my friends called me and we were up talking about random things until 3am. Woke up at 10am, not willingly, to go to my other aunt’s house and from there we’d ride to my aunt’s house. Hope that wasn’t confusing lol.
We got to my first aunt’s house, her husband wasn’t ready. So after a little while of chasing the cat around their house and making sure the dog stayed in the basement, we decided to ride to the grocery store to get some food to take over my 2nd aunt’s house. We get to the grocery store and they go overboard buying sides of food that I knew wasn’t necessary for our small (5 but supposed to be 7 of us). Once we got there back to the house, my aunt’s husband was ready to leave. Right when we were about to leave, the dog got out and started hopping/running all over the place. The dog is a beautiful Boxer and it’s a puppy still learning. My aunt’s husband started playing with the dog and showing us the tricks he can do, which annoyed my aunt cause we were already late! He eventually took the dog in. We got lost on the ride there and it was great because others not driving where being backseat drivers lol.
Once we got there, we did the usual, sit around and talk. My 2nd aunt, the house where we gathered to celebrate, got poison ivy and is healing well. She told the story about how the doctor misdiagnose her and how she thought she had shingles but when on vaca in San Fransico, blah, blah, blah, anyways, she also showed us the poison ivy in her yard and how she has to get it removed yada, yada, yada. Actually, the story was more interesting I just don’t want the post to be longer. Then my uncle couldn’t come because his wife was in the hospital for something. So, it turned out to be only 5 of us there which was another reason why so much food was unecessary. Then they started talking about “lady issues“. I know I’m immature, but I don’t wanna hear about those things, I don’t have to go through any of those issues because I’m really not human ahem, *codevilugh* so I rarely care to hear or talk about it.
Eventually, we decided to leave and go for a walk. I was TOTALLY hoping we’d go for a walk in the park, see some nature on the trail. Since my mom and aunts like looking at gardens and houses, and my mom and 1st aunt is set on moving, we had to go walk in a nice neighborhood at houses. We walk through the neighborhood and I’m just walking behind them as they talk about decorating and stuff. I was content though, got some exercise. Then my 1st aunt and mom had to use the restroom. Apparently Arbys didn’t have one so we drove back to the house and then left out again to walk a different neighborhood. Got out the car and my mom slams the door on my 1st aunt’s finger. We took her to urgent car, to me it was rather unnecessary but smashed finger but whatever. We had fun, my 2nd aunt called my uncle, grandma and husband to tell the story about her finger and every time it was hilarious. She’s like yeah, she [my mom] smashed her [my aunt's] finger in the door. Her finger was stuck for a while cause I had to unlock the door so she could get her finger out. THEN, I had to find something to wrap her finger in, cause I wasn’t using my good scarf. After 5 min I found a new shopping bag to wrap her finger in and now we here at urgent care. Everyone she tells the story to on the phone starts laughing.
We spent most the time in there. We took cell phone pictures of my aunt’s bandaged finger to send to grandparents and family lol. Then, I try to make it better by saying at least we are together celebrating independence day and be thankful you’re in a country with a good health care system and urgent care centers. Yeah, that didn’t work, especially after what I said 5 minutes later. My aunts and mom are obviously sisters so they were teasing my mom blaming my aunt’s finger on her. I was like, well, who in the world puts their hand inbetween the door area when you know car doors are being slammed. Then my 2nd aunt jokingly said, it’s not the time, lets wait til a few hours from now to mention this. We were in there for a hour she even got an x-ray on the damn finger. Then she comes out and say that she has to go the emergency room to stop the bleeding. We talked her out of it. First, she only smashed her finger in the door the bleeding will eventually stop!
In the car my 2nd aunt said I should go to grad school & get a job in California rather than Florida with the “old people and hicks” (her words) granted though, my grandparents do live in Florida though our family isn’t from there.. She said something about free love, sun, fun, and you’re either rich or poor but at least you’ll be ok poor out there lol. I get where she’s coming from and whenever I think of Cali, I do think of the 70s free love thing, which I love.
We eventually got back to my 2nd aunt’s house where we ate dinner and had desert. Yeah, and all that food we got before at the grocery market, didn’t get touched and we ended up taking it home for leftovers that technically weren’t leftovers as the container of mac & cheese, salad and others weren’t opened. All in all, it was a great, fun, interesting day. We laughed a lot and were together. I love being around my family more than anyone else and that’s what makes me happy.
It’s time for a lot of things. First, it’s that time again for me to say, “I can’t believe I’m writing this post 3am in the morning”. Next and most importantly it time for July 4th weekend again thus, Independence Day!!! Not only do we celebrate America’s independence from Great Britain but also the freedoms and privileges we have as a nation. America is built on principals that have kept us strong and our constitution has essentially been relevant for so long. Look at the American flag, it represents the union of 50 states. When the flag is at half stance, you know that a man or woman has died defending this country. The thirteen stripes on the flag is most important on this day. The thirteen stripes represent the thirteen colonies that banded together to fight against the British. We should all be happy they were successful, no offense to the British lol. It’s from there that we declared independence and created the union that has developed into what we have today. It’s also from this independence that we are a place where people from all over come for a better life and to be successful. So, lets all eat whatever we want, we can call it, celebrating our freedom to eat our hearts out lol. Lets also remember that, though America’s history isn’t perfect, we’d all be worse off elsewhere we have made progress and still, at least I, can’t think of any other place to spend the rest of my life.
Now, off of my love of country and on to my next thing. It’s kind of that time again for me to change my avatar. I really can’t choose. The picture you see in the header is the avatar on most sites I’m registered with. Today, I got out my webcam and for some reason the pictures didn’t come out good at all, so I started making random silly faces towards the camera. And, my cat jumped up and interrupted my photo shoot(?) I didn’t take a lot of pictures cause I gave up. Only one picture I like but, I’m not smiling since it wasn’t a planned but moreso, fixing my hair. And theres another one I like only because I was actually able to take a picture of my eyes kind of showing my natural eye color, but the overall picture is ugly, but I’m hideous looking. With that, I have decided I really like my current avatar better. It’s very smiley and cheesy and me! The color version of my avatar distracts me from focusing on me in the picture so I’ll keep it black and white, or maybe I’ll decide on another picture that’s better but until then, even though I really want a new avatar, I’ll have to keep this one til something better comes along.
It’s also that time again, with it being the holiday and all, to go over my aunt’s house and eat. Yep, just celebrating the freedom to eat my heart out. Also, I like her house because she has bowls of candy and chocolates everywhere, you can never go hungry or without a sugar high lol. Have fun on your holiday weekend. And for those that aren’t celebrating I hope you have a fun weekend, but you aren’t allowed to eat a lot because you’ll just be practicing gluttony and apparently god doesn’t like that Have fun!
Oh and this weekend, Venus and Serena Williams play against each other at Wimbledon. My dad thinks Serena will win. I’m betting (figuratively speaking) that Venus will win, she’s my favorite. I even buy clothes from her clothing line lol, so I’ll wear my Venus William inspired clothes and hopefully she’ll win. Not saying I don’t like Serena, but Venus will kick her ass is my favorite and she’s more focused to me 
So, my stomach hurts. I don’t know why and I don’t care to know why. But, I did have pink lemonade for three days straight. I figured the other day that it could be the pink lemonade. Unfortunately, I wasn’t fully done with the final two liter of pink lemonade and since I refuse to waste something I paid for, I drank the rest of it today. My stomach still hurts and I also had three bowls of cereal today and I’m sure that didn’t help! That’s all I ate so I probably need to eat something warm to help my stomach.
That’s the reason why I’m unproductive. My stomach hurt so much that I couldn’t work or do anything requiring a lot of physical movement. Most of my activities were online and offline talking on the phone. Yesterday since I couldn’t work, I spent most my night tweeting about the horrible BET Awards, but it was fun to make fun of the BET Awards for being lame. I didn’t watch last years BET Awards but I still feel that I’ve seen enough to judge that this years was horrible. With that said, they did have to revamp the show so that more time went to paying tribute to 
MJ, so I’ll cut them some slack as I’m sure it’s not easy to turn around a show in 3 days. I am worried that the MJ death has taken media attention from the Iran election protest, I’d rather see that coverage on the news rather then the media constantly covering the controversy of MJ. I also have to prepare to move and I only have one box packed, and it’s full of purses. I would say my stomach is preventing me from packing but honestly, I don’t want to move, our apartment is great and also, I was supposed to pack some more before my stomach started hurting and the empty boxes haven’t been filled yet lol. I hate moving, I can’t wait to get my own place so I can stay in one spot for a long time. There’s no point in me getting my own place until I graduate but I might move out earlier.
Middle of last week I was playing with the flash on my camera and guess which one is done with no flash and which one is done with sync flash. I love guessing games Now that I look at it, it’s not that hard to figure out. Also, last week I made a cooking breakthrough. I was able to cook cornbread. Granted I did only have to follow the directions on the back of the box, but the cornbread came out so good and I was happy cause I rarely cook or know how to cook. Here’s some pictures or the momentous event. I know right, I have to take pictures of everything lol.
I don’t live in Florida but, the cup I got from either Jacksonville, FL or Disney World. Also, being bored as usual I took pictures of my cat. His name is Koki. In the first picture he’s just waking up and btw those are breast under my dress which I couldn’t hide from the camera while taking a picture of him. Btw, theres apparently cookies that claim to enlarge breast size, I say don’t do it ladies though I love my breast, they get me things & make me look hot, the downside is that they get in the way sometimes. Anyways, the other pictures is of him climbing up my leg treating my like some object he can use to stretch on.
As far as online related things are concerned. While my stomach was hurting I thought it’d be a perfect time to Blender up me a new header for this blog. It actually didn’t take a long time to do it, but it did take me a long time to figure out what font I wanted to use. So, I downloaded a lot of fonts from this site and then tested them all in Blender and came up with the font you see now. Also, I redid the sidebar a little bit. My other blog was approved today by BlogBurst. I have no idea how it will help my blog, but the fact that they have to approve you first makes it seem important lol. I also updated my Google Reader to add more science, geek, and personal blogs. Which, took longer than I thought it would cause then I had to organize them and crap into folders. Oh, and I love videos featuring a creative way to use Post-Its so, heres one that came out a few days ago.
So, hope you enjoy your lives and try to prevent stomach aches and be more productive.
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Whether you’re in a physics, biology or chemistry laboratory these are some basic rules or optional tips you should use. And below that are also some mistakes & weird things that I’ve seen in lab. This advice is based on my experiences and observations as a current student.
At least scan through the lab procedure before attending class. This is obvious but if you’re really busy it’s very hard to do this and not just wait til you’re in lab. This is key because you never know what your lab instructor is going to do. Some instructors don’t lecture before lab because they might expect you to know this and have read the instructions. So you could be going into lab not knowing what to do, wasting precious lab time reading the procedure and asking other students for help. It’s also important because your lab procedures may build off the previous procedures you might not know or remember how to do. Not scanning through the procedure before wastes time, annoys instructors and other students.
Pay attention to your lab instructor. May seem really obvious to say this but believe it or not a lot of people do not do this. I don’t even do this sometimes, but most of the time you end up regretting it. You may think you know what to do but anything can happen before hand behind the scenes. I attend a large university so there could be 10-20 lab sections that are doing the same experiment or using the same materials. Students f-up, spill or waste materials. If you’re not paying attention and your lab instructor announces a change somewhere in the procedure either with lab equipment or chemicals used, you’ll be lost and have to prove you weren’t paying attention by asking the instructor or other students. btw, I recommend asking students first because the teacher usually is busy helping other students that didn’t pay attention.
Know the lab safety procedures. Extremely important as much of the equipment, chemicals and bacteria can be very harmful. Also wear proper gear like lab coats and gym shoes. Remember, no scandals or shorts in the lab. Though, some teachers are going to be lax on the “no shorts” rule, they are rather strict on the “no scandals” rule, at least at my school. This tip also goes along with paying attention to your instructor because they will often tell you lab safety rules that aren’t listed in your textbook. Oh, and also be careful not to bump into any students, it freaks us out. Also, be careful with flames, which I’ll mention later but the girl is lucky I didn’t catch on fire.
We all make mistake, keep a positive attitude and lighten up. As students it’s expected that you’ll make mistakes. When you do make a mistake, especially one that requires you to do the whole experiment over again, don’t whine about it. Just let your instructor know what you did, clean up and start over again. Then, don’t have a pissed off attitude about it, lighten up. Also, if you make a mistake, don’t try to rush through the experiment again because you could not only make a mistake, but you could hurt yourself and miss something. Also, laugh and joke with the instructor in an appropriate way and don’t be rude, cause they’ll just kick you out of class. Don’t be too playful cause it makes for awkward moments.
Don’t be a prude and/or don’t annoy other classmates. This could go under the previous rule but it needs it’s own category. First, don’t be a stuck up prude. If you’re asked a question by a fellow student, answer it. Don’t blow people off because it makes for bad lab atmosphere and it’s just common respect. If you have an extra flame loop in your drawer, and the student next to you doesn’t have one, then tell them they can borrow it. It’s extremely annoying to see this type of behavior in lab whether you’re an onlooker or involved. Second, don’t be an annoying person. If you come to class completely unprepared, don’t follow another student around the lab asking them what, why and how they’re doing something. I mean it’s ok a few times but if you’re asking a student for help the entire lab period then that’s annoying as hell.
Quick observation is that prude types are usually the really smart students. Smart students get asked a lot of questions from inexperienced students and the cycle of annoyance on both sides just continues. So, it’s best people neither be smart ass prudes or dumb ass peers. My advice is just be cordial and reasonable. I tend to play it low. I try not to come off as a smart ass because, well, I’m not but also because I don’t want to be that one of the 1-2 students that most people go to when they don’t want to ask the teacher a question.
Now on to more important stuff. Write everything down in your lab notebook. This is very crucial as things can go by quickly in a lab. This is part of being a scientist, which is recording your observations. If your chemical turns yellow, write that down. Even though the lab data is for your understanding so you can write a lab report, try to use accurate terminology. Colorless and clear are not the same thing. If you’re working with a lab partner then terminology is important so no one gets confused and you don’t receive a phone call asking to explain your lab data. Also, to avoid the dreaded lab partner phone call, make sure both of you get each others information before leaving the class and ask questions if needed. If you’re observing under a microscope, draw, draw, draw, I cannot stress this enough. If you can’t draw at least, decent, then eventually learn how to especially if you’re a biology student. All you need to do is be able to distinguish certain organs or bacteria under the microscope. So, a only a rough sketch would be needed. Seriously, write everything including your lab instructor notes. Remember, lab notes don’t have to be perfect, make sure you write in pen. If you make a mistake it’s best to strike the mistake out but not completely, and don’t use white out, some professors will mark you off for that. Plus, if you have to turn in your lab notes then you most likely get the benefit of the doubt if you make a mistake and the teacher knows what you did wrong.
Don’t be a pain in the ass. Everyone hates that student that’s always saying “ew, I don’t wanna touch or cut open a bug”. This is self explanatory so I’ll leave it at that.
Remember you are on a schedule. Basically, don’t be a slow ass. You don’t want to be that last student in lab still trying to finish their experiment. Remember, your lab instructor is most likely a graduate student which means they also have $hit to do. Don’t go too fast but remember to watch the time. If you at least follow the first two steps then you should be ok. But, I have known someone that did read and pay attention but they were unsure of themselves and kept asking questions. Which takes me to the last tip…
Be confident. If you know you’ve read the instructions and everything is going well, don’t second guess yourself. Granted, if you see the person next to you is using HCl and you’re using NaOH then double check with the person because that person could be about to screw up. But, if you’re constantly second guessing yourself even on experiments you’ve done before then it’s going to waste time that you don’t have and you could make a mistake. Also, it can be rather annoying if you’re constantly asking your instructor “is this right? Am I doing it correctly?”. Just be confident in the work you’ve done.
Now, here’s some things that I’ve seen in lab.
- Girl leaves her experiment running while she leaves the class and goes to get something out of her car. Her experiment boils over and she has to start over again. Good thing is that she kept a positive attitude but that’s basically not following lab safety procedures, don’t leave running experiment unattended.
- Microbiology, a girl behind me knocks the flame off her desk nearly burning my hair. She didn’t even need to turn on the flame as the instructor was still instructing. Wasn’t being careful and thus not following lab safety rules. I didn’t freak out though, so I was VERY much keeping a positive attitude lol.
- Guy in chemistry wasn’t following the procedure, used the wrong chemical and when it spilled on his hand it started bubbling up. Apparently, didn’t read the procedure or pay attention to instructor.
- Girl is holding beaker filled with some chemical. She wasn’t wearing her lab glasses. She goes to wipe the sweat off her forehead with the hand that she’s holding the beaker with. The chemicals spill on her face and now a pretty dumb girl is now an ugly dumb girl. Do you wanna be an ugly dumb girl?? No, well make sure you first, follow the lab safety rules and wear safety glasses. And also don’t be stupid cause that was pretty stupid.
- I break my mercury thermometer and me and my teacher can’t find the mercury on the floor. There’s supposed to be some special procedure done when a mercury thermometer breaks but I guess cause my instructor was new, he didn’t know and the girls in the science store room called him stupid. I wasn’t paying attention and my instructor didn’t follow the rules so we both broke the lab safety rules. But, I’d like to note that my instructor was really cute/sexy and just came here from Japan so I was willing to overlook this.
- My lab partner in biology kept complaining about her fear of bugs. I had to dissect every bug. Also, when it was time to dissect worms and star fish, she kept saying “ew”. It was annoying as hell and no one cared about her damn gross outness. she was definitely being a pain in my ass.
- My lab partner was copying off someones lab notebook and I playfully closed the notebook. He kindof yelled at me saying “why did you do that?!” and then rolled his eyes. Kind of awkward even though I turned to my friend and started giggling, I’m sure he was still pissed. Anyways, this is an example of not lightening up.
- Boys in the back of the lab kept goofing off in the back of the class and even at one point throwing those poppers on the floor making it sound like a test tube popped. Rest of us were complaining about their high school behavior and we thought the teacher should kick them out of the class and she was being a pushover. Little did we know the whole time she was taking points off of their lab grade and they all had to repeat the course. They weren’t paying attention to the instructor, not following safety rules, being pains in the ass, and annoying other classmates. And guess what! They all wanted to become doctors, lol
Well, thats everything I can think of and remember to help you have an easy going lab session. Hope this helps or prepares you in some way. If I left something off, leave a comment.
Me and friends went for brunch a few days ago and during that, we did the usual, kept talking about boys, who’s with who, who’s breaking up with who, who’s annoying or did something stupid with who. So, me and friends were chatting about guys. Then the conversation turned on where we’d be 5-10 years from now. I of course made the joke that I’d be flying to our 10 year high school reunion in a fabulous helicopter…yeah, that’ll happen. We basically planned it out that we’d become our own version of the no longer on show called, “Girlfriends” only in theory and without the sitcom(ish) drama. It’s kind of like Sex in the City except it lasted longer, there’s comedy and no nakedness. Here’s appropriate clip from the show,
So, my friend got the idea from the show and that we should write out what our perfect man would be. So, here’s the list I presented to the group of my perfect man.
- Has to make me laugh
- Not smother me with attention & give me space
- Must know that I’m not into cheesy romance stuff (ex: poems & songs)
- Have a job & be good at managing his own money
- Common sense
- Outspoken
- Makes me feel safe
- Should have a hobby or sport
- Willing to do things I want to do without complaining
- Not be condescending towards me or arrogant (should be modest)
- Should be adventurous with a little touch of riskiness
- Has to like animals
- Not expect me to be his housewife or have lots of kids
- Be respectful and love me, Should absolutely adore me (obviously)
- Smart and Handy
- Be a realist…and therefore not freak out when I ask for a prenup lol
- Sexually compatible but not a freak, but must be in the mood most the time…and at any place.
- Not care about looks too much or make fun of fat people
- Should not be gross and make weird bodily noises or spit on the ground lol
- Have a good immune system
- Should NOT be a “mamma’s boy” (annoying as hell), oh, but should still love his mother.
- Be a free spirit, open minded & go with the flow
- Support my goals
- Be able to compromise
- Must NOT be a metrosexual or care too much about his looks
- Should not try to spoil me with gifts
- Not a party type, drinker, smoker, druggie, criminal, or obsessive profanity user
- Should care about the environment
- Willing to try new things but not be weird about it
- Be respectful towards other and not a fighter
- Should not be sarcastic
Well, that’s my list. All my friends put something down about how the guy should look. When being with someone, I notice if they’re cute but I prefer personality. And, I find guys that are too hot, to be arrogant and only like girls for their looks. Like I had this one boyfriend that always made fun of fat people and it was rude, and not funny to me. My friends said I was expecting too much but this is the perfect list for me, I think…actually I might have left one or two things off. Anyways, I’m willing to compromise on some of these also, I mean I can live with the fact of a guy freaking out because I want a prenup…but we’ll still get one 
So, I was over at, When I Write and saw this video of a gay exorcism, in Connecticut,
First, I think it is in fact an exorcism and there’s no question about it in my mind. Next, why the hell are people still doing exorcisms in 2009. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for people practicing their religion/faith but this goes beyond that. The woman in the video, Robin McHaelen was right when she said, “What saddens me is the people that are doing this think they are doing something in the kid’s best interests, when in fact they’re murdering his spirit.”. These people did think they were doing something right and thinking behind this is very disturbing. That teen is going to remember that horrifying day when someone thought he was overtaken by some demon just because he’s gay. I really hope that kid gets proper treatment because that must have been a traumatizing experience. This is definitely under the category of child abuse.
Another question why do people think exorcisms work? Besides the mere thought of exorcism being real is more-so a joke but there’s no proof of success. There’s more science behind the notion that people are born gay then there is science behind exorcism. There has and still is continued research on the “gay gene”. This would explain that people are born gay with genetic research. This involves research of the genome of homosexuals and their pedigree to draw conclusions. For example, from WebMD reporting in 2005, the work that scientist have done when studying male sexuality,
In the study, researchers analyzed the genetic makeup of 456 men from 146 families with two or more gay brothers.
The genetic scans showed a clustering of the same genetic pattern among the gay men on three chromosomes — chromosomes 7, 8, and 10. These common genetic patterns were shared by 60% of the gay men in the study. This is slightly more than the 50% expected by chance alone.
It’s actually very interesting research to read, but the point is that being a homosexual can very well and is most likely then not, something you’re born with! This is not to be confused with a couple of drunk party girls that decide to…well, you know. I’m no expert on the bible, but there’s a lot of things the bible condemns yet we do it anyway, if it isn’t harmful and that’s acceptable. When will people accept that being gay isn’t harmful. According to people of faith, everything on earth is created by god so, assuming one can be born gay, then it must have been in god’s will. Even if there is no such thing as a gay gene, there’s still no evidence/scientific proof that exorcism works or praying the gay away. And, even if you think being gay is a sin…what hell does that have to do with you?! Go about your business and be ignorant.
These people performing the exorcism aren’t prevalent throughout America but they do represent a small part of America that put their faith before science and common sense and believe in such practices of stupidity. These people belong is a mental institution. Nothing wrong with practicing your faith but this goes overboard. People need to grow up and realize gay people aren’t going anywhere and the world isn’t going to end.
Perez Hilton, according to him, was assaulted by Will.i.am’s manager outside of a nightclub in Toronto. Here’s Perez Hilton’s some video that he made about the incident. You can watch the whole video here.
oh, and sorry but I thought the cat was a great added touch. Anyways, the whole 12 min response is on his site. Kind of blah, blah, god knows what happened, blah blah blah I can’t believe this happened, and so on. Anyways, Will.i.am released his version of the story.
My opinion is that Perez is a drama queen. If anything this has more to do with the manager of Will.i.am and he should be releasing a statement. According to TMZ, Polo, the manager is being investigated by the police. Perez is most likely being an attention pig and over-exaggerating the situation. I don’t like the Black Eyed Peas music either but if Will.i.am was to beat up Perez Hilton over that, then Will.i.am and/or his manager has a lot more people to beat up because they don’t like his music. Then, Perez admittedly called Will.i.am a “fucking faggot”. Very stupid to say that, especially since Perez is obviously gay. One thing this is, is great celebrity drama. Perez is a whimp and needs to get over it. Not saying it’s ever right to hit someone, but shouldn’t he have prepared for this day(?)
On another note, Tila Tequila has a string of twitter updates bashing Perez Hilton in the wake of the assault against him.
UPDATE: Gay rights group GLADD wants Perez Hilton to apologize for usage of the term “faggot”.
