So one guy I met at a friend’s fundraiser, he’s a musician and in a band that has the same name as me…he thought that “meant something”.  Anyways I was standing by myself listening to a band when he came over to talk.  He typically isn’t my type…to give a brief description, he’s a white guy (almost pale), tall, very “hip hop” dressing, and he’s a RED HEAD!  I guess the only issue I had was that he’s a red head, cause I never technically cared about skin color or the way a dude dresses.  So we had a wonderful conversation…which is new for me, because I typically have a short attention span for conversation.  We talked politics, germophobia, music, his tattoos and naughty librarians.  He even wanted a picture with me.  That day he gave me his album and number, I listened and text him that I enjoyed his music.  We were actually supposed to meet up that night but his car got broken into.

After that day he kept telling my friend that he really liked me, he never actually talked to me til I saw him recently at his album release party for his solo project.  When he saw me, he kept saying how fine I was and he was really liking me.  Since it’s his party and he has other friends there, I didn’t find it weird that we only came in contact twice that night.  So on to very very recently when I text him, I decided that it’s really hard to gauge if he likes me or not, or he could think I don’t like him.  So I  asked him on a date, after I inquired what he thought about dates and ultimately it led to him asking me to ask him out.   And his response was “I’ll be in touch”.  WTF is that?  What does that even mean? Considering he’s a serious guy, I figured he was being serious.

I decided that if he doesn’t call or text me before the Halloween party that he said I should go to, then I’m not going…because I don’t feel I should waste my time for a guy that obviously either likes to be chased and coddled or doesn’t really want to tell me he doesn’t like me.

The next guy is the long distance guy who I’ve been talking to since about this time a year ago.  He was my favorite guy.  Anyways, before I made the decision to not talk to the musician guy first anymore, this guy told me he is in like with another girl.  Honestly, that’s not what hurts, it’s that he obviously stopped liking me a long time ago (sometime this year) and I have no clue as to why.  I detected a slight change in personality, but you never really know when you’re not there to physically see or talk to the person.  Anyways, I’m highly perplexed why I’ve been suddenly unliked, my only guess is that he got to know me more and apparently I’m THAT horrible person he’d not ever want to like.

I suppose another factor that made it hurt is that even if I’m into other guys, I still talked and would prefer to be with the long distance guy.  I still cared about what was going on in his life even though I knew his response would always be along the lines of “same ol same ol”.  But, I got none of that behavior reciprocated to me, instead I got a sort of blankness and not really caring to share anything like he use to.  But just like the musician guy, once again I like someone that doesn’t believe in making me feel happy or reassured in anyway.  It’s like I’m always doing the work and it shouldn’t be that way.

Now on to my cat which has caused me the most stress and money and time…and energy.  So I recently gotten a new kitten who is healthy and playing a lot….I love him so much    But my other cat that’s old yet was running around lively just days before he got ill…he has stopped eating and drinking overnight…his stomach is completely empty.  I really love this cat, he is stellar and intuitive and attentive and he likes the new kitten enough to clean him that it just can’t be the kitten causing this.  I spent nearly $500 on tests (which to me is worth it) his protein levels are high which the vet says might indicate cancer in the future, yet his white blood cell count is normal…so that’s weird.  Another thing wrong is the x-ray showed he has a slightly larger stomach and intestine.

My cat doesn’t even want to be around food when I present it to him.  Twice I’ve seen him walk  towards the water and food, but never eats or drinks it.  This is so weird, everyone else says this is normal with a new kitten and I shouldn’t worry but my cat is nearly 11yrs old.  He can have harsh consequences for not eating…so I’ve been giving him caloric medicine, vitamins and pain relievers.  I hope he gets better, I’ve been crying a lot since yesterday…I wasn’t even in the animal exam room for 1 min before I started crying at the vet.  It has been very hard on me, he is my main prioority as of now, which is probably explantatory of my attitude towards caring about musician guy (not long distance though, I’m still sad about him)

Anyways, until then…toodles…wish my cat gets better for me.

you were a nice guy.

Must’ve caught you at the right time,

I swear you were fly.

You said nice things, sweet things,

I swore you were truthful.

Thought we’d never keep secrets,

even if the truth hurt one of us.

Foolish me, to think, I trust any guy.

The misleading and lies, accumulated.

You didn’t care about the confusion,

and you misconstrue.

Taking me for granted, yet I stayed true.

Victim of your pessimism.

I was the ego booster,

the boredom ridder,

The person that cared.

Not wasting my time or waiting around.

You’re not trying hard for me.

So today I decided to take ya beats out my mp3.  The music isn’t that good anyways.

First is a top….looks 80s, I got from a cute small resale shop in Midtown Det.  I plan on wearing it with a purple tight skirt I also got from the same shop.

Up next is an Asian inspired coat from a vintage shop in Hamtramck.  Then a yellow top that I got at a resale shop.  I plan on wearing it to a party with the green skirt I got from a separate thrift shop.  Then a sleeveless striped shirt that can go with anything.

My next favorite find is from a spectacular vintage shop in Det.  This is a Ralph Lauren shirt for $30…which I typically don’t wear buttoned up, but instead wear it open with a white tank top underneath.  Then there’s a red jacket with patches on it.  It’s definitely not summer material, but I can’t wait to wear it in fall/winter.  Then there’s an 80s jacket with shoulder pads that I got.  I like it because of the black and white plaid print, plus it’s really comfortable to wear.

The next jacket will be very fun to wear in public and get people’s reaction lol.  It’s a late 80s to early 90s jacket that was actually popular at one point.  The sleeveless shirt is unexplainable, I pretty much only got it because of the ridiculous quote and the fact that it will be a conversation piece.  The last two skirts I got from salvation army in Ann Arbor which I plan to wear with black tights under.  They are pretty short skirts so I wouldn’t feel comfortable without tights on ;p

So those are the finds so far…well some of them.  Many of my other finds are less interesting, just t-shirts with some funny sayings and more practical clothing.  I plan on making a separate post for the shoes and accessories which, I think, are somewhat nicer than the clothes.  Oh and another upcoming post will  be about the goth night I’m going to, which we will dress gothish and go to a popular goth club.  I plan on making a gothic tutu to go with my outfit and will have plenty of pictures to show on the process of making it.  Until then, toodles

Being just an undergrad working in the lab where most my training of procedures didn’t come from my actual (very busy) adviser but rather others in the lab.  It probably didn’t occur to her, that I don’t know whatever tricks or trades that she knows, seeing as how I’m still learning, and I hardly ask her to go over the details of most experiments I do, with me, I thought asking a simple question would get a direct answer.

I simply asked about how long to wait after the degradation process to do analysis on samples.  This coming after a few days ago when she suggested something opposite of what the procedure said, which made me think that the procedure was being way more conservative in the allotted time for degradation than what was necessary.

Again, seeing as how I have the procedure outlined and rarely had to ask her questions, it should probably be assumed that I’ve read the procedure 5 times, looked up other procedures, read the EPA standard procedure, even read articles doing experiments comparing if it was necessary to wait for the degradation process to complete overnight versus a few hours.

Upon doing all that research (which all had conflicting results), I attempted to finally email her to just see what she would actually do.  At last, I get a response to “re-read the procedure, and I’ll see you tomorrow”.  After that I did in fact re-read the procedure another 3 times.

Yet, there it is, a simple response that not only suggest I can’t read a procedure and do what it says.  It also suggests, I haven’t looked into this before asking said question.  I suppose if I had mentioned that I’ve researched this before asking then I might have gotten a different response.

However, I think it’s worth noting that what if she thinks I just ask her things to get a simple answer instead of first trying to figure out things on my own.  I think it’s interesting, because my whole life I have always preferred to find things out on my own rather than asking anyone that can simply tell me the answer.  This is mainly because I’ve also spent most of my life preferring not to talk to anyone to begin with!  In this case, I’ve done the research, there’s conflicting answers, and she suggested the opposite of the procedure she is now telling me to re-read.   Not only is it annoying, and it’s not that she’s annoying, because she is not, it’s just annoying that I let myself be perceived as something I’m clearly not.

But, who knows! I could have asked the question in way she misunderstood…maybe she was busy with something else (which really isn’t my problem…)….or maybe she doesn’t remember what she told me (and another girl in lab).  I don’t know, I just know that if I don’t get an answer by tomorrow then the person I’m training to do analysis of her samples will have it done the way I have always learned how to do it, which is keeping the samples in the refrigerator overnight I have too many experiments to do this summer, I work two jobs, and am taking one class.  I don’t think I should waste my time on continuing to research something like this.

So last year, September(ish) I was talking to this guy, he was long distance.  On paper, from what I knew, he seemed rather swell nice.  He was funny, smart, and more importantly respectful and sweet.  Anyways, so I guess that was during the whole, “bullshit to get you to like me” phase, cause it certainly worked.  Though since it was long distant, it was always understood that, we’d never be anything serious.  To be honest I never wanted it to be serious.  So right around December(ish), things suddenly changed.  No more being nice and sweet or trying to impress me or make me in the slightest way happy.  Instead I got the serious guy, only occasionally funny and shares very little with me.

Through this whole time, I was still content and willing to say this is a guy I still talk to.  As the months went on, it was very obvious that he was not into me anymore.  Could be because I’m pretty much an open book, and he probably decided that he doesn’t like me as much after getting to know me more.  At least that’s how it is from my perspective.  How do I know otherwise if he is unwilling to tell me how he feels about me?  Anyways, there’s other obvious reasons why but I won’t get much into those reasons.

So I’m pretty much pulling the plug on any hope of us ever meeting.  Which is most likely for the better.  Ever since we’ve been talking, it’s pretty much been me saying that I want to visit him and not vice versa.  Based on circumstances, I accepted it, but at least an acknowledgment of wishing he could see me would have been nice.  And I’m always giving him compliments, not because I’m hoping for something in return, but because it’s true.  I don’t even get compliments…which is weird…not even an adjective….or sign of appreciation for anything I do.  And everything is a secret, he doesn’t even tell his friends about me or anyone that we’re talking.  Ultimately, I never get this much lack of respect from a guy friend or “friend“.  Anyways, we still talk but I no longer have any desire to care to meet.  Things can always change, which I doubt will ever happen…I was probably just a fad.

Now that the summer has started, I’m actually getting a lot more propositions and getting noticed by guys a lot.  One guy who is a student in the lab I’m in is really swell nice.  He’s a hockey fan and even though I don’t like hockey, I really like guys that like sports.  He works two jobs, one as a waiter and the other for the DNR.  He’s kind of cute, he could be cuter but looks were never that important for me.  I’ve had my fair share of gorgeous guys, but their personality sucked.  However, I don’t know if he would ever be into me.  He does spark a lot of conversation with me.  Since I’m very socially awkward at times when meeting someone new, we’ve had a lot of awkward silence moments.  Which is fine, cause I usually rebuttal with something geeky and random in which he responds with laughter.  He also mentioned his ex-girlfriend twice.  That she listened to country music and he hates country, and that he was going to hangout with his ex-girlfriend’s family for an event for his sister.  All that seems innocent, but it’s weird kind of.

Another issue is that I think he’s shorter than me, which is fine cause he’s not THAT short.  However, I hate that people would call us a weird, or unlikely couple cause he’s so short okay well I’m 5’6″ and he’s probably 5’55″ or something.  He has very little visible muscles and he’s like a typical white guy.  He hasn’t given any obvious signals that he thinks I’m cute.  So we’ll see how this goes, but I typically lose interest fast in guys when I don’t think they like me.

New guy alert! So last Friday I went to the gym and it was rainy and my hair was down being blown in the wind like out of a magazine….so I think.  Anyways, as I walk in this cute sexy dark chocolate guy with an awesome smile at the front desk stops talking to others and says, “hi”.  Because that’s what they’re supposed to do is greet people as they enter the gym Anyways, so, we made eye contact when I said “hi” back to him and we made eye contact again cause as I passed him, I looked back at him   Anyways, so when I left the gym, I wasn’t feeling entirely cute to be able to pass this guy with confidence.  I mean, look at what I was wearing……..one, I don’t typically wear attention seeking tights, and two, my shorts were 2 sizes too big and three, my hair didn’t look nice.  So when I did leave the gym, he again stopped to say “bye” to me.  This time, I just glanced at him and said, “bye” as if I was busy and rushing off to some place important.  This may all seem trivial and like nothing important, but I’m laying the groundwork for more interactions

So for right now there’s no boys, but that doesn’t mean I don’t possible options to pursue.  It’s summer! My options are always plentiful Toodles, til next time!

I wanted to update you on my current status longer than 140 characters and longer than a facebook status.  My current situation is that I’m in the middle of trying to do my own research project.  The issue is that I haven’t been able to start it because of a lack of zebra mussels closer to the lake shores.  I mean, we know they’re in the lakes, they are just in too deep of water.  So the current plan has been to find lakes or streams that have them easily accessible.  The past harvesting location has been contaminated, I’m assuming with some type of metal, specifically iron.  A month ago we went back to the site and the water was all reddish/orange(y).  This is a problem since more metals increase conductivity and mussels cannot survive in a high conductivity environment.  The other issue is finding a non-private location.  Somewhere, where we don’t need permission to collect and wade in the water.

This is actually really strange to have this issue in Michigan, mainly because this is where the peak of the invasive mussel population happened, and two of the main mussel invasions are experiencing lower than usual population numbers.

Next is that I’ve been looking for a job over the summer since the money from my research grant wasn’t enough.  My adviser was kind enough to re-hire me as a student assistant part time over the summer.  Which is perfect since I’m in the lab all the time anyways helping with any projects I can.  This summer will be very fun.  I expect to be very busy, in addition to the research and one summer class, I’m currently busy trying to make contacts for grad school, I’ll be studying for the GRE and partaking in other activities aside from school related.

Like, I recently bought a graphite pencil set.  I’ve always wanted to try it and it was only $7 on Amazon so I have it and I’m ready to practice.  Then whatever turns out good I’ll consider selling the prints on Etsy.  I also have a couple of books I want to read.  And, I have much exploring and pictures and to take.

So, I know I’ve said this a lot before, but I really do think I’ll be blogging more this summer.  So much is going on, so many things are happening and I’m sure I can find things to complain about.  Anyways, farewell til next time, blog and blog viewer(s).

Once we arrived to the airport and found a cab…wait, I wanna say that the cab driver was a cutie Anyways, we told him which hotel but there were two and he seemed like he didn’t know which hotel we wanted to go to.  I think he was messing with us, but on the way there we took the freeway and the main thing that popped out was all the advertisements, everywhere.  I’m sure it’s the equivalent here in the states, but there, the advertisements seem more effective at getting my attention. Especially those Claro ads for the TV, internet and phone package deal.  Eventually we got to the right hotel, and it was very…discoteca(?) it also has a casino in it, so maybe that’s why the hotel was so…in your face.  Very bright with techno music playing and expensive restaurant and bar.  But overall, it was a nice hotel.  After we checked in, it was late so the first thing we did was go to bed.

The next morning we had to sign in to register.  The convention center was nice but the food was expensive.  I just ended up getting cold cereal for $2, but everything was $2…even a plain bagel.  My attempt to get cold cereal particularly Rice Krispies was a feat on it’s own.  I asked for cold cereal and the lady didn’t understand and then I said, frio cereal and she didn’t understand.  Then finally a lady that spoke English got me cold cereal.  After we got everything we needed, we ate and a couple other scientists that my labPI knew came over to talk to her.  We also looked through the schedule to see any talks we wanted to go to.  I didn’t have a preference in the talks I wanted to attend other than the talk my labPI was giving later that day.  Most the talks we went to was about Phosphorous in lakes…I think I learned a lot about phosphorous this whole conference…

Later for lunch we went to the rooftop outdoor pool area for lunch.  Where we first encountered our first but not last time where the service is sloooow.  We waits well over 45min for food.  Partially because the cook was late.  Also, partially because they only had one waitress. Nonetheless my Reuben sandwich was good…little cold…but good.  We also encountered these cute little birds.  One in particular was really cute, then I looked at the photos I took of it and now I think the bird looks evil…and ready to attack at any moment

Then later we went to more talks.  Then for dinner we went downtown for dinner at La Raices in Old San Juan which was crowded.  We were meeting with another scientist and his wife.  The wait was 20 min and it was still light out so we walked around and went to some stores.  The restaurant was nice, the staff were dressed as maidens and whatever the guys were supposed to be…anyways, and it was packed because it was Valentine’s Day.  I had one of the best cooked Salmon ever, and they put strawberry sauce on it which I wasn’t particularly fond of on it’s own, but it went well with the salmon.  Another thing throughout my stops this whole trip is that I’m not fond of the mashed potatoes with crushed plantain(?)…they always served too much of it when only a small amount was needed to fill you up.  I however do indeed love plantain on it’s own. Anyways, after the restaurant, we rode back to the hotel.

The next day we didn’t really go to the conference….instead we asked the hotel concierge about places to go in Old San Juan for breakfast…and we didn’t go to any of her suggested spots, we were too hungry so we went to the first place we saw with was CafiCultura…hands down the best place to eat in Old San Juan.   I had the Cafi Coco and a croissant breakfast sandwich and it was all to DIE FOR!

Ahem, so on with the day from when we got to Old San Juan.  My favorite thing about Old San Juan for this trip were the beautiful buildings and architecture.

On the way to searching for a breakfast spot I saw the above artist station.  There’s a guy that makes things out of leaves.  During my trips to Old San Juan I’ve only seen him in the evenings, so I wonder if he just leaves his stuff out there all day til he comes to work.  I guess he doesn’t have to worry about people stealing his leaves.  Eventually that’s when we picked CafiCultura.  After that we wondered around the city til we were ready to take the trolly…so we could take a ride around the city.

While wondering before catching the trolley we stopped by an awesome antique shop and I get an antique book. It’s 1949 “La Gran Aldea”.  The book had a lot of character so I decided to buy it, plus I’ve heard about this book before so I thought it’d be a great addition to my antique book collection.  After that, we explored a small church and I sat in the *confessional*…very nice…now I know why the confessional is popular.

So eventually we got on the trolley and randomly decided to stop by the Fort museum.  Oh, Oh! I have more pictures!

After the Fort walked to the other Fort museum.  This post is way too long, I’ll just stop here and continue with part 2 next.  I hope you enjoyed the pictures, I tried to get good shots.  See you next time

Now, I’m actually more social but still running into the same issues.  Either a guy is too social and talks too much for my liking or he is social and can do no wrong, but doesn’t have the patients to deal with me.  Or I suppose there’s the social guy who is too shallow that wishes for me to be something I’m not.  And, I can’t have a quiet guy because that’s boring and/or we’re both too quiet to want to talk to each other.  I typically don’t like someone that’s like me, unless their only commonality is that they’re weird and awkward…I actually like that trait…a lot.

It’s very frustrating at times, but what’s more frustrating is that I care about this now.  I went all the way up to the last year of High School without an actual boyfriend and didn’t care at all.  I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting older and the more life is becoming busy for me, the more I want to share.  Unfortunately, no guy that I’ve been talking too even cares about what I’m doing or bothers to inquire about the details of my work.

To a certain extent, I enjoy not fitting into the stereotypical role of 20-something college student.  Anyone who knows me couldn’t even conceive of the notion of me going to college parties, drinking, having random sex and whatever else they do.  Life has meaning and I generally don’t intend to spend it doing meaningless things.  However, I assume that’s also why I’m alone…but that will have to be a reason that remains.

Some people like to throw out the idea that I’m “picky” when looking for a guy.  That is far more from the truth since my general philosophy is that we’re all different and our flaws make life interesting.  I don’t expect to find the perfect guy so I really don’t expect much as far as physical looks are concerned and all I really want more than anything is someone attentive and calm.

So I guess I don’t know why I’m meant to be alone, but this is the beginning of a brainstorm exercise that will keep me occupied.  Now if you’ll excuse me, I have Robin Eggs to eat, Milo to drink, homework and an Astronomy quiz to take online.  Oh and I came back from Puerto Rico last Sunday so I’ll be doing a series of post, with plenty of pictures…which is why it’s taking me longer to post…but I’ll post soon.  Toodles.

1. I learned that if you want something, just ask.
2. As a result I got the opportunity to work as a research assistant over the summer.
3. I also learned that getting into grad school will be hard, because my grades suck.
4. I just don’t put that much effort into classes that I don’t deem relevant to my goals.
5. I learned how to read a map! Believe it or not but it’s not that easy.
6. I learned how to work with different people and different personalities.
7. I solidified my past thinking that I deal with disappointments and failures very well.  I just keep moving on, because you can’t change what happened.
8. I learned that I like to shop….not a good thing actually
9. I learned that I like to take pictures of myself….is a good thing…for some people.
10. I had somewhat of a social life this year and I enjoyed it.
11. I learned what beer taste like…it taste disgusting.
12. I learned that I need to learn how to juggle research, school and family/friend life.
13. I got to do my own research project and nothing bad happened.
14. I forgot another important birthday.
15. I learned to always take an opportunity when it’s presented to me.
16. I learned how to make my weird and awkwardness a good thing for me.  Now I’m happy that I’m weird and awkward, I feel cool and more like I can be myself.
17. I learned that I have a lot of work to do next year if I wanna graduate.
18. I get to go to Puerto Rico next year!
19. I realized how much it means to me to have someone to talk to other than about sex and stuff
20. I learned how to make cookies shaped like dinosaurs…
21. I learned that I’m not a bad writer but my skills could be improved
22. I won a research grant for next semester!
23. I learned that no matter how isolated I act, my parents will still spoil me with their love and niceness.
24. I realized, I do indeed have a pretty nice life and everything bad that happens to me is because I do stupid things ^_^ which is ten times better than having other people do bad things to you.
25. Hence, I have a lot of control on what goes wrong in my life lol
26. I learned I’m extremely more clumsy than I thought I was.
27. I learned how to exercise and life weights so now I can have a healthier life!
28. I realize eating healthy and working out isn’t as big of a hassle and it’s actually fun.
29. I can be impatient.
30. I’m willing to travel across the U.S. just for “some guy” that might not even like me.
31. I learned I will do anything to get laid haha, just kidding, he’s smart and sweet too.
32. I learned, I need to make more money cause my screwups keep costing me hundreds.
33. I really want my ass to get bigger.  I mean, it’s pretty small now.
34. I realized I FOR SURE want to go into aquatic research. It’s the perfect field for my interests and personality.
35. I realized, I sort of freakout when I’m supposed to be getting an important email but I don’t because the person or department forget to send out the email lol
36. I learned that I learned a lot this year and in the end, this is the best year ever!

And well, that’s it, that’s my year.  I’m sure I probably learned more but I can’t remember everything   Well, have a happy new year everyone!

The ecology department where I have been working and doing research most of the time is a very small portion of the entire biology department.  Everybody has gotten to know everybody.  The means, we have all been going out for drinks and eats, getting to know each other more.  And the more they get to know me, the more I’m either a brat, I do strange things, or I’m spoiled, yet I’m still fun to hang out with.  Now, don’t get me wrong, I am proudly all of those things.  But when I am, it’s usually with the intent of laughter or an ironic joke in which I’m usually successful.  Also, being around them has greatly opened my eyes as to what other people do and it’s a growing experience that I probably needed.  Ya know, to open myself up to others more, learn how to communicate, reinforce that age old theory about me that I am cool once you get to know me, and to also know how others perceive me.

With that has come my status of “like family“.  I dread this now, as an only child who has been happily left alone most my life, I don’t think I like being the little sister.  Don’t get me wrong, I actually love being around them.  But lately, I have been texting a lot (to a guy) and it was always, “Sooo, who you texting?” and I’d say, “no one important” or “None ya business“.  As one of the grad students said, “It’s like blood in the water“…referring to my uncomfortableness about people asking me intrusive questions.  Eventually, I let my guard down and he saw who text(ed) me on the phone and now the new questions are “So hows the guy you’re talking too?“, knowing that I hate those type of questions!

It’s not like I want to be like that, I just like having the option of people not trying to be in my personal life.  Which is weird, cause I don’t care if people online know my business except from pin and social security numbers…  On to boys…besides the one I text a lot, there has been one other.  He works in the lab across from me.  I don’t know how to describe him as…basically (I’m assuming) not interesting in me.  I don’t know why.  We went on a class trip up north and he was totally staring at my boobature and we actually get a long very well.  Anyways, he’s very shy, and I saw his chest up north on our ecology trip and I didn’t really like it…I mean, I could do better.  If I’m going to settle for guy with a lackluster chest, he better be exciting and meet my personality requirements.  Also, our ecology teacher thinks he looks like Gumby, so that also kind of puts a nail in whatever chance I would try to get with him LOL

So, in the lab I’m looking at the tolerance levels of two invasive species of mussels.  The main method is checking mortality…so far….none are dying ;p  Which sucks because I’m going to …. PUERTO RICO!! to present my research in the form of a cool science poster at a conference and I will have virtually no results.  The experiment is still running.  Currently the mussels are surviving in the toxic sediment except one and only one…ONE has died in the toxic water at an increase temperature!  So…I don’t know what will happen next.

On to actual classes…so basically I’m not doing good in any class pretty much failing my evolution and population and community ecology class.  In evolution, the teacher writes ridiculous questions, like WTF? Why even ask this? type questions.  And in my population and community ecology class, the exam questions are ridiculously hard, the class average of graduates and undergrad students are in the 54% range give or take 1%!  This sucks because this is my second to last semester and I should be doing good.

Another thing to mention is that I finally finished my project proposal.  I was the first to submit it before the deadline of Nov. 26th.  Then, they announced they are extending the deadline for the late comers due to the holidays.  I think it’s rather unfair, I worked really hard to get it done early.  It already sucks that I was the first one to submit it.  They weren’t even ready for my submission, I’m scared it’ll get lost in the office somewhere!

On another note, because I’m sick of writing this post, if you’re wondering about squirrels…here’s my crazy ass squirrel story.  So I was clearly minding my business going to the garbage to throw out trash (my god given right to do so).  Suddenly, I didn’t even start to put the trash in the bin when this squirrel just started going crazy.  I was scared for my life.  It was jumping towards me multiple times and jumping backwards multiple times….like a ninja squirrel.  Anyways, when I went on the other side of the bin  it actually ran away.  Kind of ironic this ninja squirrel couldn’t turn around to fight me! Anyways, garbage in garbage bin, Mission Accomplished!

So that’s the end of my post.  Toodles!!!