I have recently rediscovered a gem of music in my itunes. Yes, The Rocket Summer. All should listen to them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DPNGGiZxVI
Also, I've been out on break for a week+ now and I miss my chemistry lab. Oh Organic Lab we will soon be reunited!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Thanksgiving eve
As I sit on the floor of my brother's apartment with my boyfriend curled up behind me in a chair I began to muse about the day and holidays. It didn't get me very far as my head began to wander to high school friends.....
Today is the eve of Thanksgiving. This is my favorite holiday. (and why shouldn't it be?)
I get everything with this holiday....
family, friends, good food, more good food, reason not to do homework, etc.
The trip up and back is always interesting as well.
One of my elder brothers, my boyfriend, and I drove up today from PA. The three of us are staying in another brothers apartment....(I have a bunch of brothers)
Tomorrow the whole family (including the crazy extended family that's far too complicated to explain the relationship) will be at in a church eating turkey, mashed potatoes, and lasagna and watching the parade. This year is especially great because my boyfriend is meeting the whole family. I'm not sure he fully understands why this action is so important to me but he gets it enough to have traveled the 4.5 hours with me to make himself incredibly uncomfortable with strangers for me. (and currently he's asleep in the chair behind me.) He's so good to me.
Like I stated my brother and I normally leave on Thanksgiving and head for our parents house for the rest of the weekend..that normally ends in an 8 hour trip back to our lives. (The turnpike is hella crazy during Thanksgiving weekend.) The two of us made the decision to not go to northwestern PA this year and forgo all of the hellish traffic.
Sadly, this means I won't see some of my friends. I miss them and I know they miss me. It's difficult for me to make it up to the area to see them though so normally we count on holidays to see each other. Hence, why I've decided to make a special trip home after finals to see them. Sometimes I wonder if it's practical keeping these friendships alive but I know that the one doesn't have many friends and really misses me and I miss her. It's difficult to leave her behind...I've known her since first grade...it's an very long time to be friends with someone. I know eventually we're going to have to go our separate ways but I'm unwilling to burn the bridge before its time.
Today is the eve of Thanksgiving. This is my favorite holiday. (and why shouldn't it be?)
I get everything with this holiday....
family, friends, good food, more good food, reason not to do homework, etc.
The trip up and back is always interesting as well.
One of my elder brothers, my boyfriend, and I drove up today from PA. The three of us are staying in another brothers apartment....(I have a bunch of brothers)
Tomorrow the whole family (including the crazy extended family that's far too complicated to explain the relationship) will be at in a church eating turkey, mashed potatoes, and lasagna and watching the parade. This year is especially great because my boyfriend is meeting the whole family. I'm not sure he fully understands why this action is so important to me but he gets it enough to have traveled the 4.5 hours with me to make himself incredibly uncomfortable with strangers for me. (and currently he's asleep in the chair behind me.) He's so good to me.
Like I stated my brother and I normally leave on Thanksgiving and head for our parents house for the rest of the weekend..that normally ends in an 8 hour trip back to our lives. (The turnpike is hella crazy during Thanksgiving weekend.) The two of us made the decision to not go to northwestern PA this year and forgo all of the hellish traffic.
Sadly, this means I won't see some of my friends. I miss them and I know they miss me. It's difficult for me to make it up to the area to see them though so normally we count on holidays to see each other. Hence, why I've decided to make a special trip home after finals to see them. Sometimes I wonder if it's practical keeping these friendships alive but I know that the one doesn't have many friends and really misses me and I miss her. It's difficult to leave her behind...I've known her since first grade...it's an very long time to be friends with someone. I know eventually we're going to have to go our separate ways but I'm unwilling to burn the bridge before its time.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
First
This is my first..
unless you want to count the silly things I use to do...but I don't think they count.
So..
what does one talk about in their first message to the internet at large?
...world hunger?
...poverty?
...global warming?
nay nay good reader...I prefer to talk about matters that I understand.
So, my first talk....chemistry.
Lovely topic, eh?
I love chemistry. I'm not always the best at it but I love everything about it. Lab work, graphs, lab reports, balanced equations, titrations, mechanisms (seriously, I do these for fun), spectroscopy (hooray NMR!!!), conversion factors, extractions, etc. You name it I probably love it. I wouldn't want to do anything else with my life. In high school it was a toss up with all of my teachers as to what I was going to major in. I was good at everything. But my chemistry class as a junior was the class that I enjoyed the most, much to my science teacher's delight. (hears to you Mr. Bullman.) The end to the story is that I went to college and majored in biochemistry...and I couldn't be happier. I loved my organic classes, my gen. chem classes, my biochemistry class, and I even enjoyed my analytical class. I love this major so much that I'm taking a chemistry class that I don't have to take.
Some may call me odd, really who would want to put themselves through something as difficult as chemistry?
I would. And I know at least 30 other people who have put themselves/putting themselves through the same crazy that I'm going through.
The moral of the story readers,
...Love what you do....if you're not mad excited about what you're doing...maybe you shouldn't be doing it. If you're not excited to wake up and do your job...find a new job. Find something you love to do and do it.
Happy hunting.
AlICe
unless you want to count the silly things I use to do...but I don't think they count.
So..
what does one talk about in their first message to the internet at large?
...world hunger?
...poverty?
...global warming?
nay nay good reader...I prefer to talk about matters that I understand.
So, my first talk....chemistry.
Lovely topic, eh?
I love chemistry. I'm not always the best at it but I love everything about it. Lab work, graphs, lab reports, balanced equations, titrations, mechanisms (seriously, I do these for fun), spectroscopy (hooray NMR!!!), conversion factors, extractions, etc. You name it I probably love it. I wouldn't want to do anything else with my life. In high school it was a toss up with all of my teachers as to what I was going to major in. I was good at everything. But my chemistry class as a junior was the class that I enjoyed the most, much to my science teacher's delight. (hears to you Mr. Bullman.) The end to the story is that I went to college and majored in biochemistry...and I couldn't be happier. I loved my organic classes, my gen. chem classes, my biochemistry class, and I even enjoyed my analytical class. I love this major so much that I'm taking a chemistry class that I don't have to take.
Some may call me odd, really who would want to put themselves through something as difficult as chemistry?
I would. And I know at least 30 other people who have put themselves/putting themselves through the same crazy that I'm going through.
The moral of the story readers,
...Love what you do....if you're not mad excited about what you're doing...maybe you shouldn't be doing it. If you're not excited to wake up and do your job...find a new job. Find something you love to do and do it.
Happy hunting.
AlICe
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