loukoumades

This guy waiting at the same bus stop as me had very beautiful, nicely trimmed blonde hair. So I followed him, only because he was coincidentally walking in the same direction towards my apartment. Turns out, he lives right around the corner from me, on the same block. Yes I know I have an unhealthy obsession with blondes.

I got a free cheesecake today! Even though I don't like cheesecake. After lab, I went to Jack in the Box to get my 2 tacos (for $1.49 now?!) and a sourdough jack, but I was waiting 10 minutes while everybody else after me was getting their order. Eventually, the workers there just gave me a slice of cheesecake for free for causing me to wait.

It's been fun with the Spanish rotation student. And she likes menudo too! Another newbie will be joining the lab on Monday. Mmm!

Went to LA over the weekend, hung out with Poorneel. HUGE place. Had fun with his lab mates- very attractive postdocs, but all the grad students there wear more makeup than at other places. Also more bottle blondes- not so attractive.

Also got free money in the mail today! I don't know why!

Will post pictures of grandparents' birthday celebration later. Gotta prepare a lab powerpoint presentation for tomorrow ughhhh.

Probably should return to blogging more than twittering. My readership has also decreased, so now I can resume talking shit about everyone, return to my comfortable niche of cynicism.

New goal in life: to be a better chef than Thomas Keller.

soshite

Walking to the bus stop this morning, and a lady in front of me was doing her early running with her dog. A few minutes after looking at her, she immediately slipped on something and fell on her ass. I guess my mojo's back? Cloud of bad luck is growing around me mmm.

In any case, I asked if she were okay and offered my hand- to help her up, NOT in marriage. Never marriage BLEGH!

Gotta do laundry tonight and the pack before heading to LA. Apparently Poorneel's lab- which I didn't think he'd choose this early in the game- is having a happy hour, which I hope doesn't involve me embarrassing myself. It's a huge lab. 20+ people. Ahhh. But it'll be nice to talk to lab members, ask about UCLA's graduate and medical schools.

Gramma's house is gonna be crowded this weekend. My cousin's family (4) is already taking up the pullout couch and one bed. Although, my other cousin, who usually sleeps in that bed, is coming back from San Diego, and I'll also be there. Oy. Hope I don't have to stay at my brother's place.

Why am I breaking out again?! What's the stressor this time...

Sometimes I feel like petting my PI on the head. Is that weird?

Finished inoculating a culture this morning (the flask is cloudy, Janey!), centrifuged the cells (there's a pellet, Janey!), and emptied the liquid/froze down the cells in the -20 C fridge to isolate/purify plasmids later. I do recall getting a pellet even last time. I wonder what happened?

Anyway, off to Parnassus to learn confocal microscopy! Mmm.

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Asking all my friends if they've done plasmid purifications- how is it that everyone's done that technique during college except for me?!

December 29th... a Tuesday... in Alabama. Inconvenient? Somewhat. Clare suggested that I take a few days off work for this shindig, but I only get 10 days off in the year. Advantages: seeing everyone in a big reunion. Disadvantages: seeing everyone for a big union. Maybe I'll just drive over from Texas- that way I'll get to go to Houston first and pick up good food on the way over. Ugh attending a wedding to support 2 friends. This goes against everything I stand for.

Ok, writing my essays tonight. For realz. One a day before I fly off to LA, proofread them over the weekend, and submit it by the end of this month.

My new goal has been to tackle one new restaurant each night before I leave SF possibly. Places I've tried in the past 2 weeks: 2 Indian, 1 Korean, 3+ Chinese, 2 Vietnamese sandwich shops, 1 Donut shop, 1 Taqueria, and 2 more Korean restaurants tonight.

I'll let you know when one place blows my mind. My general feeling for best Vietnamese sandwich shop is most likely the place I frequented along Taradise. $3.25 for one combination banh mi (I usually order 2- 3 on a good/bay day).

There are 3 French places in town I'd like to try- I only hope I don't have to order 5 times as much in order to get full.

sangrecilla

So there's a graduate student visiting from Spain in our lab, she'll be here for about 2 months. I like staring at her lips- maybe it's the lip gloss she puts on them that attracts me, or the fact that they're perfectly proportioned. She's also fun to be around.

Mantis will be in Denmark for 3 weeks. She's also fun to be around. Like that the lab's not just all guys anymore. It also provides unhealthy competition for me.

Hyperventilating every time I log in to the MCAT testing history. Rechecked the score release schedule- my scores were NOT going to be released today.

Janey bugging me about turning in my application. Kaiser bugging me about emailing her my personal statement, and that she'd fire me if this were a job. Aye.

Lab work is picking up! Learning confocal microscopy, immunohistochemistry. Mmm...

I think I enjoy working relationships. Social situation relationships, not so much. Love relationships, definitely not. All work, no play.

Tired. Still getting over my cough. Night.

savory

Ate dinner at KFC. The guy who ordered after me was also named Drab. Drab is too common a name.

Considering shifting my diet into one more Mediterranean, but do I really want to live longer?

Why is it easier to tell a stranger your personal thoughts than friends?

For the first time saw a homeless couple today. The man was trying to empty groceries/garbage into the trash can by the bus stop, but he inserted the bag bottom first, so everything on top spilled onto the ground. He had to reach down and grab the trash with his bare hands, and then push the food into the garbage can. He then walked back across the street to the stoop of the church where he and his significant other stayed. Why am I feeling sorry for another person? Why am I having feelings as of late?

Why is it difficult for me to tell someone I miss them? Who exactly am I missing at the moment?

My lab mates and PI get so excited about some of the results I've been generating. Either I'm not getting the significance of the data, or I'm just so desensitized/mellow that I can't generate a human emotion/reaction to particular events.

I want to... direct my blog topics toward my path into science. But I know that my attention span won't last long enough to concentrate my writing into one specific theme.

cocoberry

Received a message from Klean the other day about wedding invitations. SO weird, and yet SO grossed out at the same time, someone from my graduating class getting married. Of course, Yoshi/the whole world knows already how I feel about marriage/relationships in general.

Rewatched some episodes of SATC yesterday. Why did I ever find whiny women interesting enough to capture my attention for half an hour?

Ahhhh! I've gotten back into the bad habit of impulse shopping. Just purchased a pair of those Vibram shoes which are supposed to mimic real feet, even the toes.

Getting another impulsion to buy a Redline 925 bike.

Had a dream about some of my cousins last night, but can't remember what we were doing. I really must want to see them? Traveling down south next week for my Gramms' birthday. 71 years.

uighur

UGHHHH why am I being such a slacker?!?!

Would it be wrong to wish that my roommate keel over?

Research is picking up again! Mmm.

Ever since work started, I've been getting checks in the mail, some that aren't even related to work! Mmm, money in the bank!

Feeling a little deja vu, maybe I should check my previous posts to be sure I'm not talking about the same thing.

This pretty lady turned her head to the side to cough- she ended up coughing on me right as I passed her. She apologized and then started laughing with her friend.

Would it be weird to stay at Kaiser's place when I visit Houston? I need a place to stay while I do my exit interview, as well as visit old profs... I'm hoping it won't turn into one of those awkward moments that people laugh about if they see it on tv, only I'm hoping it doesn't become like that.

Personal Statement. Start!

... start?

polyposis

Canceling class today.

Any other news to blog about... been sick for the past week, gulping down generic NyQuil to suppress my coughs so that I can get a full night's sleep.

Found out my roommate has cataracts, or he had cataract surgery. It's difficult to comprehend him sometimes.

About to start cooking again. Starting with spaghetti, since I have a case of materials leftover from the old apartment that my mom never made, even though she had planned on it.

Writing my personal statement, other essays, finishing them this week, handing them over to Kaiser for review/revision. Turning them in before the end of this month. HAHA, yeah yeah I've been procrastinating. I blame it on summer school.

28.

Oh right, had another dream about Drab last Thursday. The only thing I remember now is me being alone in a room with him, and him taking off his shirt to make me even more uncomfortable around him. That hobag needs to respond to his emails quicker.

glocke

Do you ever feel like your body is disconnected from your head? I'm having one of those days.

It could be the illness that I have, or the generic NyQuil consumed to get rid of the coughing symptoms.

Finished my Astronomy final tonight. Got back kinda early (9 PM...).

Planning on canceling the rest of my summer classes to focus on my application for MSTP. And possibly retaking the MCAT. Also want to focus on my research.

Still, undecided about fall classes. I'd only be taking 3, they would only be one night per week so it would seem more manageable than one class 4 days per week. Actuarial math, Strategy and War, and Web/Database for Biologists.

Planning a trip back to the ole TX, to get my exit interview over with, meet my old PI and Chinese teacher, and maybe see Kaiser, see how fat she's gotten.

Going to bed early tonight (10:30, 11?). Bon soir.

Oh right, funny experience of the day. Two cars were stopped at the intersection, one behind the other, waiting for the red light to turn green. The adult girl in the car in back yells over to the adult guy in front, "You need to go potty???" The guy abruptly yells back, "NO!"

grandfather paradox

27.

Yes. Another dream about Drab. Don't be surprised.

It was late at night, I was getting ready to go home, and right in front of me is Drab walking towards my direction with a friend of his.

I try to hide my face, looking away, so that he wouldn't be able to recognize me. Once he passed by me, I turned around to make sure he kept walking. He turned around with this large smile/grin on his face.

So I start running, he starts chasing after me, and suddenly it transitions into me fleeing on roller blades, with Drab on his bicycle pedaling after me.

Terrible. Also felt like shit today.

Had dinner at 10, in public, by myself. Interesting scenario. Would elaborate, but I feel like crap, have to take a shower, and knock myself out with NyQuil.

Nighty.