Lump Sum

There's something oddly exhilarating, relaxing, and refreshing about standing on the roof of a building in the middle of a chilly night. It's like the world is at your feet - in one direction there's the uniform lights of lower campus; in another, the lights of the science complex, and in yet another, the faint skyline of Boston in the distance. It reminded me of sitting up on a dome in Boston during the summer on a similar night. In the cool summer night air, from way up high, the world seemed a little bit perfect. Everything becomes little dots of light, seemingly scattered in a haphazard chaos. But in reality, everything is exactly where it's supposed to be. A sense of calm washes over me, and I can just breathe. There's just something about about being on a roof that makes me smile uncontrollably.

Fallin' For You

Now that the adrenaline that was propelling me through that shit show of an orgo lab exam is wearing off, biomedical ethics has become less interesting that usual. To the point where I'm about to pass out in the middle of this libertarian debate. But it's the end of the week! Thanksgiving! Hooray! I'm almost done, just one late night class to go and I will be home free, literally. I actually can't wait until I go home, I haven't been home is uch a long time, especially with spending the entire summer away from home. I can't wait to see my dog, eat good food, sleep for hours on end, share stories with my friends at the diner, and.....ugh, write my monster of a biology lab report, study for two lab exams, and all the associated assignments for the next week. Really? There goes my vacation. It's not actually going to stop me from savoring every moment. I can't wait until this class ends :)

Lions!

After mending some consequences of my stupidity, completing my orgo exam, watching two episodes of Top Gear and downing some Odwalla Strawberry C Monster, I am in an incredibly good mood. It's almost inexplicable, except that I did just explain it...I haven't been in such a good mood in a while. I'm basking in doing no work tonight, a reward for living through this weekend and surviving my very first organic chemistry exam. But tomorrow, it's back to work! I have the rest of the week planned out, with specific tasks to complete each day. As long as I keep to my schedule, I'll be ahead of the game for next week, which I will sorely need. The amount of schoolwork has already stressed me out quite a bit, and the worst is yet to come.

I'm proud of myself for balancing everything on my plate so far. I made a good bit of progress done at the lab, running a colorful column for my postdoc, concentrating the suspected products and then bringing the samples down to NMR. Not bad for 3 hours of work. However, I have switched my hours at the lab from Saturday to Sunday, thereby making my Sundays full of lab and archery. There goes my homework day! I think I can do it though, I need to stop putting off my extracurriculars to do study - I can do both! Or so I hope. In any case, I'm excited for what's to come. My posts have been rather dull of late, as my life has been consumed by schoolwork and stress, but hopefully I'll find some time to write something interesting. :)

The Mirror-Blue Night

Sitting on the bed munching on cheddar bunnies (they're like goldfish, but better) chatting with the roomie being ridiculously happy. After a super stressful week full of late nights and freak outs, I can't think of a better way to start off the weekend! Good Thai food, good Boston movie and good company :) And tomorrow is Dessert Showcase - basically I get to be a fat ass and eat a ton of free baked goodies. Now it's bedtime, maybe I'll actually get the recommended 8 hours of sleep!!

Ready? OK.

So, it turns out I have a lot more work than I thought. A couple of prelabs and questionable readings turned into large, confusing and time consuming projects. Thus, for the past hour I have been reading about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Not how I pictured spending my sunny Saturday. How is it that I've had only two days of classes, and I'm behind on the work already? Gah, what a great start to the year. The three straight nights of partying add to that start. In other news, as I was procrastinating and contemplating the nutritional value of honeydew, I discovered a website that has the nutritional facts for virtually every food out there, fast food included. So I paroozed that a bit, and was able to enter in everything I ate today to see what my intake of certain vitamins and such was. And of course, I had way too much sat fat and sodium, and not enough of basically all the vitamins except for C. It's a pretty awesome website, and a very good way of keeping track what I'm putting in my body. In any case, I have got to stop procrastinating and return to my reading before I go out with B tonight. Work work work, then party!

What a Wonderful Day for Daydream

Despite the heavy heat, today was a glorious day. Everything made me smile, and I was as giddy as a schoolgirl. From talking to old friends to stealing a boxed lunch from some Jewish camp event at the campus center, I could not wipe the silly grin off my face. After such a hectic weekend, today was just what I needed. I spaced out at work, daydreaming about concerts and cute faces. And even though I was so utterly exhausted, I did some serious working out at the strangely empty gym before hiking to Hannaford's for some much needed food. Dinner was deliciously simple - chicken and cheese ravioli in alfredo sauce. And now I've created this blog! It's the little things in life that I've forgotten to appreciate. This past weekend was such a blur of faces, places and events I barely had time to think. Every night someone was sleeping on my futon - I started to feel like a cheap motel - and work was actually piling up on me at the lab, threatening to drown me in a sea of toxic chemicals. But today reminded me of those small pleasures in life, and how enjoyable they can be. One email, a stolen turkey wrap and easy dinner was all it took to take this day from drab to fabulous.