Laughter Through Tears

One of my nerdycookies posts has gotten a lot of action. I opened my e-mail sometime this morning (I think) and I had about fifty new messages, almost all of which were notifications for this one post. A bunch of new followers, too. :) They are pretty awesome cupcakes, but I think it was the multi-nerdity that did it. I mean, Daleks and the Mad Hatter in one sugary post? Hell yeah.

This week I did a bit of frog dissecting. It was gross and fascinating and a little exciting. And very funny, because everyone who stayed in the lab to watch the gory bits was passing around all sorts of weird jokes. School-wise, the thingamajig that simulates and measures the nerve was more interesting, because I am not really going into zoology or anything. But the most interesting thing by far was that the lab was full of old taxidermies, mostly birds, with one enormous, terrifying-looking dolphin that sort of lurked on top of one of the cabinets waiting to catch the looker unawares. It freaked me the fuck out. I will never believe the myth of dolphin cuteness again.

Oh! I forgot follow Friday as usual but some people need to join pose_as_a_comm so that I don't feel like I'm talking to myself.

Tonight for supper I made rice with onions, carrots and zucchini, and I cooked the vegetables as little as possible with the hopes of avoiding the mushiness that is often their lot. It actually came out awesome and I have enough for (some of) the week. Shopping plus cooking success! I win at being a grownup!

OMG you guys I haven't posted (almost) all week! Life ate me. Then Thursday evening I crashed. Friday I was at the doctor's for my autumn allergies. Then I did absolutely nothing for most of the weekend and it was cleansing.

School! The biochem quiz wasn't as scary as I, um, feared. I think I did okay. Molecular biology went worse, I apparently need to go over the whole topography thing again. Wah. Lab was boring as shit, we didn't get to do the wet lab (which involves radioisotopes OMFG yeah) but instead we got an excel sheet of randomized results and got to make about 20 charts, and extract the linear regression, and use the slope to extrapolate shit. This was made even more exciting by having to work in pairs (for most) or in my case, a group of three. Fuck no.

Next comes the lab report, in addition to the three assignments a week I have to hand in, one of them also in pairs. D: I am not sure when I will go shopping, now that I've committed Monday afternoons to statistics. I have no fresh fruit in the house and that always leaves me cranky, even though I am otherwise well-stocked.

Whatever. It's only two days until Monday, and Monday nights are improved x100000 by new Lost Girl eps, and LG continues to be the squishy lovable fandom of my wildest unicorn dreams. The only way it could get more squishy is to have an actual unicorn, but of course the SFX budget cannot allow. Oh, and they also need to let Hale do more interesting things than being Dyson's wingman; quipping with Kenzi is delightful, but I want MOAR.

I'm actually... pretty relaxed. This despite developing a sudden and inexplicable sore throat sometime last night. Why? I don't know.

I went to the doctor and he told me that my arm is much worse, which on the face of it is bad news, but the fact that he sees it and not just me is good news, sort of. He gave me a shot, which hurt a lot for a few hours but now is making me feel much better. He'll see me again in August and if I don't improve he'll change my meds, which may be either good or bad news. Most of the other issues I wanted to bring up didn't make it, even though I wrote a list and everything. I still haven't gotten an answer re: G6PD deficiency.

After the doctor, I worked on my genetics for a few hours. I finished and submitted the last exercise and scored 85, which ought to bring my grade up a bit if it substitutes for the 50-something I got a few weeks back. I also only made two mistakes, and one of them was reading comprehension *headdesk* which means I know the material pretty well. There's a bonus exercise for extra points I'm working on. Then there's the lab report, which I'm fairly certain I can finish Saturday/Sunday, then hand in on Monday morning.

Most of next week will be preparing for two tests the following week. I have a lot of time and resources, so there's no excuse not to study whole days. I'm thinking social psychology in the morning (= early afternoon) and cell to organism in the afternoon (= early evening). I should actually be able to get a decent amount of studying in (= minimum 20 hours per test) without half killing myself. Woo! {o/

The weather's been downright chilly (25 degrees C, really?) which was a welcome reprieve from that one long hellfire and damnation stretch we had. Also, my hair is so short that it's constantly confusing me. I ran a comb through it yesterday, just to see if I could. The comb is still in one piece. Is this what hair is like for most people?

Here is a list of things that will have to wait until I've finished my bacteriophage lab report:

1. Blogging against disablism day, reading and relinking thereof.
2. My Dreamwidth bloggaversary, which is either today or tomorrow.
3. Posting to pfc, which I have been putting off for about a week and a half.
4. Pants. I seriously need new pants.
5. Reading comics. I am sadly behind and don't have time to catch up.
6. Replying to comments? I don't even remember if I'm behind or not.
7. Going to the market to stock up on fresh fruit and vegetables, not to mention other non-approximate food.

Here is a list of things that can't wait until I finish my lab report:

1. Statistics homework, due Monday afternoon. Pairs assignment.
2. 3/4 page summary of an article about "anger and the behavioral approach system", due, as a presentation, in two weeks. Group assignment.

I swear I will post about something more interesting than school, someday soon.