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Thursday, April 25, 2002. 12:30 a.m.
I'm quite excited that my paper was extended to Monday. Of course I also have a lab report due Monday. But whatever. I'm just glad I got to take a nap today.
I saw an excellent Spanish film tonight. Generally I have not been impressed with SPanish movies. I mean, I like listening to Spanish but the movies I have seen have been kind of... dumb. There is lots of gratuitous sex and nudity and very little substance. But this movie, Fresa y Chocolate was wonderful. It was so intelligent and poignant and had only a very little gratuitous sex/nudity in the very beginning. The movie is about a communist student in Cuba who befriends a gay poet. The gay poet, Diego, falls in love with the communist, David, despite some serious political differences... and the fact that David isn't gay. It's a little sad but very good. I highly recommend it, expecially if you have any interest in recent Cuban political history.
Wednesday, April 24, 2002. 08:42 a.m.
I am so screwed for this paper. Sooooo screwed. Why do I let myself get into these situations? And WHY DOESN'T THE BOOKSTORE HAVE ANY BLACK INK CATRIDGES!?!?!?! The universe obviously objects to me completing this paper.
I went to an In-Service on the closing of the residence halls yesterday. Bascially our big, scary Director of Campus Living gave a very detailed, but concise run-down. He isn't actually a scary person but he is big and has a loud voice and if he told me to get the hell off campus I certainly wouldn't argue. Parts of the in-service were highly entertaining, especially hearing about the storage company that went bankrupt one summer so all of the stuff it was storing for Brandeis students was seized by the bank as part of the company's assets and no one could get any of their stuff come the fall. Actually that's not very funny.
I think I'll go to class now.
Tuesday, April 23, 2002. 01:09 p.m.
Well, my congratulations go out to Drew Bledsoe. I will be sad to see him playing on a different team, but it would have been depressing to watch him sit another season on the sideline. And Buffalo is preferable to some uptight dome-team or some pansy midwest team like Cinncinatti. The Bills have sucked for a long time but they have the same "rough-around-the-edges" feel as the Patriots. And they're tough.
So. It will be interesting to see what happens next year. The Pats have a pretty tough schedule, it should be full of drama and hype especially when they face the Packers and Terry Glenn. (What a coincidence!). Now there can be even more drama and hype when the Pats play the Bills.
I think this may be why I find football so entertaining. People get so serious and dramatic about things and all the announcers start arguing and ragging on different players and coaches... "This guy isn't good enough for this team" "The QB just can't seem to communicate with his receivers" "That WR has a serious attitude problem and hits his girlfriend" "Yeah, well this guy is married to the daughter of the guy who sold drugs to the trainer who got that DT addicted to crack"... and so on... the actual game itself is just a catalyst for a sports-related soap opera. It's funny.
Saturday, April 20, 2002. 11:03 p.m.
Just saw Ice Age with Tasha and Luda. Very entertaining. It is a pretty standard kids' movie with some pretty corny lines but there is this one part that makes up for EVERYTHING. It was SO funny. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it just for this one scene... you'll know it when you see it.
The voices were pretty good. I don't think Denis Leary was given enough creative license with his character. He didn't swear once. I'd like to see a PG-13 version of that movie, give my man Denis a chance to really show his stuff. :) Jack Black made a small, bizarre appearance as a saber-toothed tiger named Zeke. It was weird.
Anyway, I could go on about this movie but instead I think I will kick back and write in my story all night (since a large cup of coffee I had around 8:30 will prevent me from getting any sleep).
Saturday, April 20, 2002. 01:49 p.m.
Happy 4-20 everyone. Today at Brandeis, not only is everyone geared up for the National Smoke-Up Day, we are also having a large outdoor concert this afternoon (which, if you're stoned, could be mistaken for a micro-sized Woodstock... but only if you're stoned), and the biggest dance party of the year. There will be more blatant pot-smoking and alcohol-drinking on this campus tonight then there has been all year.
I pity the RA's on duty. :) I'm going out to dinner.
Wednesday, April 17, 2002. 01:45p.m.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAA!!!!!
I just read Karen's latest blog entry.
Heh heh.
Wednesday, April 17, 2002. 01:35 p.m.
So far today I have spent three hours in class, one hour interviewing a Quad Director applicant and half an hour sending a card to my uncle (I had trouble finding a sufficiently large envelope). I have a nice break in here now for about half an hour when I can cool off and change before I go spend an hour and a half greeting prospective students touring Renfield and then two hours at work in the library.
Have I mentioned that it's almost 90 degrees out?
I'll be done with all of this stuff by 6 but then I have to spend the evening reading an entire book and writing a one page response to it.
Tomorrow is more of the same. Friday is still more of the same. I may as well just cancel my birthday for this year.
Monday, April 15, 2002. 09:08 p.m.
Happy 20th Birthday to Kate!!! :)
Wow I'm tired. I got less than four hours of sleep last night and I swore to myself I would not take a nap this afternoon so as to get myself back on a normal sleeping schedule. I have been doing everything I can think to stay awake (without using drugs of any kind including caffeine). In another hour or so I think it will be safe to go to bed and I should sleep through the night. God willing.
I had my last bio lab of the semester today. :) It was a very boring lab but we did get to listen to the Red Sox beat the Yankees on the radio. Unfortunately my TA is a Yankees fan so he got pissed off and wouldn't let us listen to anymore radio after the game ended. (We eventually got him to turn it back on... it was an exceptionally long lab).
I want to SLEEP!!! :( Oh well. I guess I'll have to watch this Chuck Norris movie to stay awake. Missile-launching motorcycles should keep me sufficiently occupied for at least an hour.
Monday, April 15, 2002. 08:48 a.m.
Show me your Pasodoble!!!
Sunday, April 14, 2002. 01:02 p.m.
I love warm weather! :)
My parents and Kali dropped by for a brief visit yesterday afternoon. It was a very pleasant surprise, although it reminded me that I would not be seeing any of my family before the end of classes... then I was reminded that that was only four weeks away... I think I'm getting dizzy. I have so much to do in a very short period of time...
On that note, I am now going to lounge around in bed and write in my story. :)
Oh and a certain sibling of mine, who isn't Kali, had better call me sometime tonight because leaving random, bizarre phone messages at times when I have explicitly said I would not be in my room... doesn't count. :P
Saturday, April 13, 2002. 11:42 a.m.
The fact that people often lose touch during the long transition from high school to college has often been a blessing for me. I like not being constantly bombarded by people who know my entire life story, although sometimes it was very comforting.
But I don't like losing friends. It doesn't feel good at all particularly when my efforts to maintain some kind of contact go repeatedly ignored. Then I have to make the decision to conserve my dignity and stop trying. Which is annoying.
So I have decided to say, forget it. This person has been a jerk to me more than once, not to mention to other people, and I have plenty of friends who do value my conversation. But it still feels lousy.
Friday, April 12, 2002. 01:43 a.m.
Miraculously, the bio exam wasn't as excruciating as was expected. I may have actually pulled off a decent grade... but then, maybe not.
No matter. I can no longer worry about it because I have to write a big-ass lab report and study for a big-ass Spanish test for tomorrow. I think I'll be up all night. But hey, that's okay, cause I am a COLLEGIATE WARRIOR!!!
Heh, heh.
Wednesday, April 10, 2002. 11:56 p.m.
I hate bad people. :(
I am so glad I am not Chilean or Argentinian... I would have been born during two of the most atrocious and oppressive military regimes in Latin American history... or maybe I wouldn't have been born considering what these people did to pregnant women... EW!!!
I am so traumatized. I actually need to read about DNA to reassure myself that there is some logical order to the world...
Wednesday, April 10, 2002. 12:44 a.m.
Well.
Okay so I STILL don't know enough about DNA. I do, however, know that if I don't get sleep tonight I am going to have mental breakdown. So I think I am going to give up on DNA for tonight.
But I leave you with this...
"Competence is usually induced by starvation or stress"
The story of my life actually (although this particular quote is referring to gram positive bacteria).
Gute nacht!
Monday, April 8, 2002. 11:20 p.m.
Okay, so I don't really have anything to say but the "Happy Birthday Dad" entry looked very lonely all by itself.
I'm watching Innerspace at the moment which is a ridiculous 80's movie about Martin Short having a miniaturized Dennis Quaid floating around inside him (of course, you all knew that but it was fun to say... write... say... whatever).
I should not be watching this silly movie, I should be learning about all of the enzymes involved in DNA replication as well as the different mechanisms for DNA mismatch repair and whatnot.
Did you know that DNA polymerase, the primary enzyme in DNA replication (the one that actually puts the new nucleotides together) occasionally "gets confused and falls off" the DNA strand??? It's called (you'll never guess) REPLICATION SLIPPAGE!!! And THEN. The polymerase "falls back on" the strand but is usually "disoriented" and adds extra nucleotides for no good reason. This happens naturally. It's happening RIGHT NOW!!! Does this bother anyone else?
Monday, April 8, 2002. 03:54 p.m.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!
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