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Canon Powershot G7. It is bad ass. That is all. |
So much has happened since the last time I wrote to the LJ. I started the new job in Dr Francis' lab, a PETA would have a stroke if they knew what we were doing. Kind of depressing the whole thing; I was already uncomfortable being in the new lab.
School starts next week. Part of the reason I didn't post because of last year's hell semester. And I am not looking forward to this coming semester: Biochem II, Biochem Lab, Physical Chem, Physics lab, and Spanish II. Why do I do this to myself?
I can't stop thinking about how I will never have the time to meet something. And this really concerns me. I will either be at school or at work, always coming home late. Where does a relationship fit into here? I just feel kind of empty.
I called my ex-girlfriend the other night. I still think about her, and I wanted to know how she was doing. And truthfully that was my main reason for calling. But i don't think she believed me when I explained this to her. Maybe it was too soon (to my credit, it has been one year), maybe I don't think about past relationships as other people do (we've both moved on, so the "hooking back up" factor wasn't a problem), maybe I should just abandon all contact with her (which is the end to most relationships). Truthfully, everything is so backwards now I don't really know what to think anymore.
So now I am wallowing in this silly kind of depression. And school is coming quick. And work is still new. And not a single person to share it all with. It will get better. Yeah, it'll get better... |
Stole this from a friend of mine (finally decided to post -- Hizzah)
1. Name: William
2. Middle Name: Barrett
3. State: Louisiana
4. Place of Birth: Lafayette, Louisiana
5. Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
6. Male or female: Male
7. Bus most commonly taken: 144 (Mandeville Middle through High School)
8. School: Louisiana State University
9. Occupation: Full-Time Student, Part-Time Researcher
10. Initials: WBA
11. Screen Name: AIM still exists?
-Your Appearance-
12. Hair Color: brown
13. Hair Length: Short
14. Eye color: Blue
15. Best Feature: Rock Hard Toes
16. Height: 5'10'' - ish
17. Braces: 7th and 8th grade
18. Glasses: Blind without 'em
19. Favorite Hairstyle: Jew Fro
20. Diploma: High school
-Your 'Firsts'-
22. First best friend: Corey (that I can remember)
23. First Award: Pre-School Gold Star
24. First Sport You Joined: T-Ball
25. First thing you did today: woke up and rolled back over....then went to RA training
26. First Real Vacation: Disney World
27. First thing you said when you were a baby: Food
- Favorites-
29. Movie: Too many to name
30. TV Show: Scrubs , 24
32. Musician/Band: like lots
33. Place to shop: Best Buy
34. Food:
35. Season: Fall
36. Candy: Snickers
37. Sport: Soccer
38. Restaurant:
39. Favorite Clothing: T-shirt and Jeans
40. Store: Best Buy
41. School Subject: Fiction - Cold War Lit
42. Animal: Owl
43. Book:
44. Magazine: Nature
-Currently-
45. Doing before you started this survey: Buying Textbooks Online
47. Single or Taken: Single
48. Crying about: Feeling Alone
49. Eating: Bacon
50. Drinking: Orange Juice
53. Listening To:
54. Thinking About: Work, School
55. Wanting: To get out of the house
56. Watching: Late Night With Conan O'Brien
-Future-
57. Where do you see yourself 5 years from now? Working on a PhD
58. Kids? No
59. Want to be Married: Yes
60. Careers in Mind: Biomedical Research
-Which is Better with the Opposite (or same!) Sex-
63. Hair color: Anything but blond
64. Hair length: Medium length and different
65. Eye color: Blue, Green, Hazel
66. Personality or Looks: Personality, no question
67. Cute or sexy: Both
68. Lips or Eyes: Eyes
69. Hugs or Kisses: Kisses
70. Short or Tall: Tall
72. Romantic or Spontaneous: Spontaneous
73. Good or Bad: Good
74. Sensitive or Loud: Sensitive
75. Hook-up or Relationship: Relationship
76. Harley or Car: Car
77. Trouble Maker or Hesitant One: Hesitant One
-Have you ever-
78. Kissed a stranger: Sort of
79. Smoked: Depends
80. Streaked: Once
81. Ran Away From Home: Negative
82. Broken a bone: Does a tooth count?
83. Got an X-ray: Teeth, knee, and kidney region
85. Broke Someone’s Heart: I might have
86. Dumped someone: It was mutual
87. Cried When Someone Died: Yes
88. Cried At School: Maybe when I was younger
-Do You Believe In-
90. Miracles: Yes
91. Love at First sight: No
92. Ghosts: Kind of
93. Aliens: Yes
94. Soul Mates: Yes
95. Heaven: Maybe
96. Hell: Definitely not
98. Kissing on The First Date: Not
99. Horoscopes: Yes
-Answer truthfully-
100. Is there someone you're thinking about right now?: Yes |
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Sep. 25th, 2006 @ 08:44 pm
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I honestly cannot believe this. Anyone who knows sports games knows of the Madden Curse. So it goes: anytime a player appears on the cover of a Madden football game, he inevitably gets injured or has a terrible season. Don't believe me? Since 1999, check out the stats:
1999: Barry Sanders, a week before training camp began in 1999, Sanders abruptly retired - ending his career and leaving the Detroit Lions without their star running back of the previous 10 years. Sanders' part in the curse is debated because he is not pictured alone on the box, and he had willingly retired. Dorsey Levens was also featured on the 2000 cover, but that version of the game is much less common. He was cut by the Green Bay Packers in 2001, and finished his career in 2004.
2001: Eddie George. Although he had the best year of his career, rushing for 1,509 yards, catching 50 passes for 453 yards and scoring 16 total touchdowns, he was cursed by bobbling a pass in the playoffs.
2002: Former Minnesota Vikings star quarterback Daunte Culpepper. The Vikings struggled to a 4-7 record until Culpepper was shelved with a season-ending knee injury.
2003: Running back Marshall Faulk of the St. Louis Rams suffered an injury and had a bad season overall. He never broke through the 1,000 yards rushing mark for the rest of his career.
2004: Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was injured during a preseason game, suffering a fractured right fibula.
2005:Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens. He had an injury that kept him out of the last game of the regular season. It was also Lewis' first season without a single interception, after posting a career-high 6 the previous year.
2006: Donovan McNabb, in the first game of the regular season, McNabb took a hit to the chest from the helmet of Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Chad Lavalais. After the game, it was revealed that McNabb had a 'sports hernia' that needed surgery.
The newest 2007 Madden game has Shaun Alexander on the cover. Think he's safe? Think again. During his game against the Giants, Alexander sustained a broken foot and is benched indefinitely. The curse strikes again! I'm beginning to believe in this voodoo. Madden, that stuttering witchdoctor. |
Has anyone seen the new iPod Shuffle? It's silly.
And the new colored iPod Nanos have up to 24 hours of battery life. Incredible. |
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Christopher Nolan is in the works of a sequel to the prequel, Batman Begins. The Dark Knight will star Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Caine (again), and has one more questionable signed on (at least to me). Heath Ledger as ... the Joker? I think he may be able to pull it off, though he's not exactly Jack Nicholson (who if he weren't so old, I thought they should bring him back. Maybe as a cameo - the Joker's father or something).
Hmmm...
Aug. 26th, 2006 @ 09:57 am
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So I spoke to the LSU representative about going abroad, and she said that the chances of me being accepted into the program are near 100%. I then went and spoke to the College of Basic Sciences dean to see if there would be any scheduling conflicts. And since they fully support student travel, she said they would waver any problems with residency or course conflict.
Now, here I am, without a doubt in my mind, knowing that I WILL, most definitely, be traveling to a country of my choice to study for almost the same price as LSU. And now I have a choice.
What school should I go to? Sweden has a guy who is pretty big in the Virology field, and is actually studying cancer therapies using HSV-1. He is a professor that teaches classes like "Gene Technology" and "Tissue Culturing". Right up my alley. Heather (the LSU ISEP representative) tells me that this campus also has a beautiful lake separating the two campus sites, and a ski resort a few minutes away from the campus. Competition, as you can imagine, is pretty high for this place.
Number two is Finland, where they apparently love exchange students. They teach similar courses to LSU (Immunology, Advanced BioChem, and the like), but have nothing significantly close to my research field of interest. Finland, they say is culturally hot, and the cost of living is fairly low, unlike Sweden.
Number three is Turkey. Istanbul, not Constantinople, has a pretty campus right next to a river, and the courses offered are almost exactly the same as LSU. This is a bilateral program, where Room and Board is taken care of. But I ust am not that interested.
If you have any suggestions, drop a comment. My ears are open.
Aug. 25th, 2006 @ 08:54 am
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Call me crazy, but I had the craziest idea. I want to study abroad my senior year. I know, I know, absolutely nuts. But I started researching, and the crazy scheme made more and more sense. The International Student Exchange Program (ISEP) allows for me to exchange with another student from another country for the same price (supposedly) as it would cost to go to LSU! And where would I go? Well, only a few programs/universities offer a BioChemistry heavy study. The most intriguing? Malardalen University... in Sweden. Uh oh! I may just fall for another Swedish whore and never come back! So tomorrow, I'm going talk to my biological science advisers about the necessary course load I have to take to make this happen as well as the LSU ISEP people. More on that later.
Aug. 23rd, 2006 @ 12:13 am
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For some reason, this made me laugh. As I was reading it, I couldn't help but to think of Orwell's 1984 "double-speak".
Conformist Rebellion
Aug. 9th, 2006 @ 04:29 pm
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I picked up Sartre's Nausea from Middleton Library recently. I just love looking at used books and what everyone else has written in them; it's a kind of mosaic of thoughts from extremely different types of people, and what lines/passages are important/profound to them. Well, again, this book did not let me down.
In the last book I read (The Buddha of Suburbia), the last page had the following after the number 258 for the page number: "more like 5432!" So I again decided to look at the last page of this book (238) as I always do, and found the following:
238 = 8
27
Apparently, the person before me had 27 days to read the book, and, being progressive as they were, determined how many pages per day they needed to complete it. Or at least, that's my interpretation.
On the pages next to the date of return, a poem was written by someone whose gender, age, and name I do not know:
"I am a doctor
I help people
I am a doctor
I help people
I am the only
swimming doctor
in the world.
I am a doctor
I fix up people
but not if they're
stuck on a mountain
then I wouldn't help them.
I am a doctor
I help people
I have to relax every day
or I can't help anyone.
I am a doctor."
Made me laugh, to think that some young adult thought this profound or funny or something enough to include it in a book every existentialist will see.
Aug. 6th, 2006 @ 03:45 pm
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