… Microbiology style. Because I am just that amazing. And have a lab exam tomorrow. Yay! Learn with me, folks! You know you want to!
No titles. Just haiku.
What can I say, folks, it caught up with me.
I have two finals this week, both for the same course (one’s the lab exam, the other’s the lecture exam). I have two in the two weeks following.
My birthday was Friday. I’m 20. Never again will I be a teenager. That’s not such a bad thing.
I’m not even going to try to finish this NaBloPoMo thing for November.
November’s a bad month for this sort of thing, what with finals so close and all. I think I’ll refrain from these November challenges ’til I’m done school.
So, I’ll be in my thirties… great…
It’s my birthday tomorrow.
I will be 20 years old.
I will never again be a teenager. Ever.
Frightening stuff, that.
It’s sad, but true. Here are some selections from one of my favourite playlists, which I called “So I’m A Little Messed Up”. My playlist titles are very descriptive. 
“Hallelujah”. I have both the original version by Leonard Cohen, and the Shrek version, by Rufus Wainwright.
From Wainwright’s version:
“Maybe I have been here before, I know this room;
I have walked this floor, I used to live alone before I knew you
I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch, love is not a victory march,
it’s a cold and its a broken Hallelujah”
“Seein’ Red,” by Unwritten Law.
“Don’t have much time for sympathy
But it never happened to me
You feelin’ down I don’t know where i’ll be when you come around
And now it’s time to make a choice,
And all I wanna hear is your voice…”
“Lover I Don’t Have to Love,” by Bright Eyes.
“I want a lover I don’t have to love
I want a boy who’s so drunk he doesn’t talk
Where’s the kid with the chemicals?
I’ve got a hunger and I can’t seem to get full
I need some meaning I can memorize
The kind I have always seems to slip my mind”
“Hate Me Today,” by Blue October
“In a sick way I want to thank you for holding my head up late at night
While I was busy waging wars on myself, you were trying to stop the fight
You never doubted my warped opinions on things like suicidal hate
You made me compliment myself when it was way too hard to take
So I’ll drive so fucking far away that I never cross your mind
And do whatever it takes in your heart to leave me behind”
“Dizzy,” the Goo Goo Dolls
“I wanna kick at the machine
That made you piss away your dreams
And tear at your defenses
Till there’s nothing left but me
You’re angry when you’re beautiful
Your love is such a tease
I’m drowning in your dizzy noise
I wanna feel you scream”
“Shaketramp,” Mariana’s Trench
“Try a little more
a little more
a little more
They slap you like a bitch
and you take it like a whore”
I mean, there’s also some good ol’ Coldplay, Johnny Cash, and Chopin on there… Gotta mix it up!
I managed to get my Chemistry midterm mark back, and I certainly failed, but it’s not worth as much as I thought it was. Conclusion: if I study my butt off for the final, I may still be able to get a half-decent mark for the course – if I ace the final. I’m averaging about 59 right now, if I take both midterms and the first quiz into account, and work in an educated guess about what my lab grade is. When I get my quiz mark from Monday back, it will hopefully up my grade a little…
I think I’ve decided to double major with Anthropology, though. All my electives were going to go that route anyway, so I may as well. It will give me a chance to exercise a part of my brain that is seriously crying out for attention these days. I’m not a purely scientific person – far from it. Part of me is almost tempted to switch to Anthropology and Comparative Religion, and then maybe do something along the lines of archeology. Which would be awesome. But we’ll see what happens. I figure if I double-major the two, I will find out if I really like Anthropology enough to quit Micro. I think it might just go that route. But we will see.
In other news… I turn 20 on Friday. Frightening.
How can something repeat onwards? Isn’t repetition cyclic? Oh, well, I never claimed to make sense.
I realize I missed another day. Oh well. It was a long day, and I was tired. I had an appointment to get my hair cut in the morning – it looks great now! And then, I worked an eight-and-a-half hour shift, so by the time I got home and ate, I was pretty much at my quitting point.
The latest episode of Dexter has me acquiring Chopin in great numbers. Nocturne No. 2 in E Flat Major being my initial acquisition, obviously, due to its prominence in the episode. I’m kind of falling in love with him. There’s something about his music that speaks to the emo-kid in me.
And really, what self-respecting university student doesn’t have some good Chopin on her MP3 player?
Organic Chemistry, in the meantime, is ruining my academic career.
That is all!
Pushing the envelope today, aren’t I? I’ve come to the conclusion that I pretty much never have anything of interest to say, and posting every day certainly amplifies my awareness of that.
My birthday is in one week. I’m going to be twenty. How frightening.
I am exhausted, but that’s no surprise.
I get my hair cut/styled/whatever tomorrow, so that it actually looks half-decent for my birthday, yay! I also work an eight hour shift tomorrow, which really sucks, boo!
Um. I really don’t have much else to say.
How about that – I didn’t miss a day this time! What can I say – it’s been a hectic week!
Tonight, I plan to squeeze in some chemistry time before bed – even though the midterm is over, there is a quiz on Monday on the same material. YAY. JOY AND EXCITEMENT!
Um. I’m tired, I have lots to do, and My head’s exploding.
That’s all for today, folks.
(remember, NaBloPoMo is about quantity, not quality.)
I’m really not doing too great at this whole daily posting thing, am I? It’s a good thing I didn’t bother to attempt NaNoWriMo this year, I suppose.
I wrote my chemistry midterm this morning, and immediately afterwards, I felt like throwing up. It was pretty bad. There were multiple questions that quite seriously almost made me cry. I’m really not cut out for chemistry. Which is why I’m majoring in a biology subject. But they’re making me take chemistry anyway. Which makes me very, very sad.
I have a chemistry quiz on the same stuff on Monday. Woo. >.<
But! Good news is I got my genetics midterm mark, and I managed a B! Considering the last one was a C+, this is an improvement! Woo! I was one mark away from a B+, too, which drives me NUTS. It was probably a really easy question, too.
Now, I get to look forward to final exams! Woooooo!
I missed another day.
I’ll make up for it!
And this is how:
Giving you the opportunity to learn about what’s keeping me from my NaBloPoMo obligations!
Enjoy!
