soundtrak: john selway: shake the snow (instrumental version)

tuesday's list:

- i was stalked on the train today. it was just too early in the morning to deal with that. please don't stalk people at 530 in the morning.
- yeah... about that domain buying idea... not going to happen this month. i got my car checked and i need two new tires = $300. and then i just spent $300 on clothes the other day (which is reasonable because i never go shopping for clothes; this is the first time this year). i'm already in the hole for the month of march. geez.
- good results from my repeat experiment... holla at yo girl: i'm gonna get published!
- i'm going vegan for the next two months. and if i can last two months, i'm going til the end of summer. and if i can last til the end of summer... i can pretty much do anything.
- why vegan? i'm bored. milk is starting to make me queasy. i stopped eating eggs awhile ago. this is going to drive moms even more crazy.
- i can't wait for spring... is it spring yet?
- no tv this evening; i'm giving it a rest. anyways... there's nothing good on on tuesday.

anyways, i'm off to do very important things. more later maybe.

peace.

soundtrak: mingle: new fish

i'm feeling ill this morning. i don't know if it's something i ate or the foggy weather. i was nauseous on the train over to school. my sinuses are bothering me a bit.

dropped my car to be serviced this morning; needs an oil change. walking around rockville at 6 in the morning is not ideal; walking to the metro that is.

my new nickname should be 'the bungler'... it seems i'm been bungling alot of things lately, from relationships (don't even get me started) to exams (i should have just waited to take the cell exam when i was not sick). this weekend, i backed my car into a concrete pillar... in an empty parking lot. the funny thing is, i told myself, "don't back up into that concrete pillar" like 10 minutes before i did just that. chi has bungled again.

my fast likes to cut in front of slow people. my fast likes to win.

i am such a picky eater. i haven't eaten pasta in 5 months... that's the new thing. i hate soup (it's like... liquid...eww) and don't like tomatoes in my sandwiches... i like eating them alone. i hate white rice. i hate red sauce... you know the kind that you put on pasta...can't stand it. i'm trying to convert to veganism, but that's proving to be more difficult and expensive that just being a vegetarian.

anyways, off to class. pathogenesis... yay.

peace.

soundtrak: rahsaan patterson: you make life so good



(if you know me, you know i have a pharmacy in my room. just the latest addition of pills, since my last cold... tylenol works great for my sinuses, sudafed just makes me sleepy and nyquil just knocks you out)

it's almost the end of the month, which means i'll soon have to check my credit card bill and see the damage i've created this month. *shakes head* it's horrible, i can't stop buying stuff i don't need. now i'm thinking about shoes since my new balances are starting to peel. maybe pumas. arg! i'm out of control.

just one of my many purchases (there are so many, i can't take pictures of them all):


books that i've purchased in the past three months (and you know the ones behind them, i haven't read either)

1. the constant gardener: john la carre: i always wanted to read this book, but i never got around to it (when i checked it out from the library), so i bought it, with the expressed condition that i would read it before i watched the movie... man, it's like the count of monte cristo, five years later i finally finish the book and watch the movie, which left me horribly disappointed.
2. sightseeing: rattawut lapcharoensap: i kept on seeing this book when i would go into the bookstore... they're short stories, which i don't like too much, but i bought it anyways.
3. bleak house: charles dickens: yes, i'm watching the current pbs masterpiece theatre production, which ends this month... thank pbs for this one...
4. invisible man: ralph ellison: this book came today... wee! i actually tried to read it before, but i couldn't wrap my head around it (it was summer... my mind needs to be lazy sometime), but then i was watching pbs (again...) and they had this program on the life of mr. ellison and i just had to get the book.
5. the sari shop: rupa bajwa: cute story set in india. i like stories set in different countries.
6. one hundred years of solitude: gabriel garcia marquez: i love this author and have been a fan for years
7. encyclopedia of an ordinary life: amy krouse rosenthal: i was in the bookstore browsing and i leafed through this book.. and found it rather amusing... everything about the author's life is written in lists (and you know how much i love lists)
8. the twentieth wife: indu sundaresan: a compelling beginning to an epic story (which stretches to a sequel) of a woman's life in 17th century india
9. the book of secrets: m.g. vassanji: i bought this author's other book (which of course i haven't read yet), but his stories are set in kenya and i like that

i didn't even get to the DVDs yet... *shakes head*

so i work in the clinical center on campus. it's a hospital, but not really (there's two on either side of campus; one that the president goes to and another more normal one). anyways, i left school today, hopped on the train to work. i was lazy, so i decided to take the shuttle. usually, i'm an unaproachable person (to keep those greasy men away... eww), with earphones blazing and 'don't even' look on my face. but that didn't stop this guy from talking to me... actually, he was a vistor trying to find his way around (which i don't mind helping), but apparently that was all he needed to get started and he just started talking to me. we were both going to the same place; the clinical center. "tomorrow, i'm getting a new kidney," he smiled. i smiled back, somewhat bewildered. why was he telling me all this? but he was a really nice guy; i hope his transplant goes well.
work today was 'whoa'. i didn't get a chance to talk to dr. a on friday, so went i came in, i didn't know that they prepped cells for me... i just threw my stuff down and got straight to work. it was exciting and i got some good repeat results. fabulous.

i think that women should be allowed to have a fast; heck, i know i have one. my fast doesn't like to slow down for slow people. my fast also likes to crash into things (i have the dings on my car to prove it).

someone said to me once that for a grad student, i sure do watch alot of tv. i ain't gonna lie; i really do watch alot of tv. but i also watch alot of pbs too... does that make me nerdy? but i especially love commercials... they're so funny.

now, i'm counting down to spring break. less than two weeks and counting. i'm not really doing any work and that's bad of me, but ehh. i need to take a break from classes though.

anyways. good week everyone.

peace.

soundtrak: tv

new radio.blog up. i would go through it and say why i picked the songs i did, but ehhh... but i did add rashaan patterson's the best from his new album. i bought it, but i haven't listened to it yet. i shuffled on this song the other day and i can't stop listening to it.

anyways, i got things to do this three day weekend.


peace.

soundtrak: rashaan patterson: the best

i wanted to, but didn't get around to blogging about how much this week sucked, especially today. but i was surfing just now and just found out that dr. c, our old biochem professor passed away yesterday.
i mean, you either loved him or hated him... but you mostly hated him cos he was hard as hell and he didn't care if you failed. but man, he was a great teacher. i feel honored to have been taught by him.

dag. i still can't believe it. makes my week seem less crappy.


peace.

soundtrak: dZihan & kamien: smile (eddy & dus kontrapunkt mix)

on sunday, while studying, i got horrendously sick. does my body not understand that i don't have time to get sick? monday, i took my exam (it wasn't that bad) and went to work where i couldn't hold off running my big experiment again (same results, so i'm stoked! publication here i come!) i was going to analyse it that day, but that was all my body could take. i was done. i think in the past two days, i've slept a combined total of 27 hours, more than i usually get in a work week. wednesday i woke up feeling much better. it's amazing how much the body can take but then jump right back up again.
this week has been hectic. with my exam, work and prospective students coming by (you know what that means: free food... i ain't even gonna lie... that's all us graduate students live for). yesterday, i was well enough to go out with abbs, the second cohort (names forthcoming) and about 9 out of 15 prospects (out of the 100 that applied... wow). it was cool. we ate in friendship heights and i got to bond with the second cohort some more (which is good i guess since i still take classes and they're in most of them). i almost wished that i didn't skip out on last week's meeting, but you can't change the past.anyways, took the red line home and returned calls from well wishers wishing me good heath (i was really that sick... i don't know what i was thinking, trying to go to class and work...). i called T, who was busy. he always seems to be busy; we don't talk anymore. our friendship is changing with distance, i can feel it.

anyways. off to class in a little while. it's so sad that it seems that i can only blog in the morning now; that's the only time i have time. i'm still trying to buy a domain (any suggestions), probably by next month. i always waste my money on books i haven't read yet or crap i don't need... and next month is spring break (praise the Lord!), so i'll have some time to work on it. radio.blog coming up soon too... it is a three day weekend.

peace.

soundtrak: handsome boy modeling school + jack johnson: breakdown

i'm getting ready to study some cell this saturday evening. i haven't started really and the exam is this monday. why?

in short, i did not go to the graduate meeting, because i did the 'running away' thing that i always do when i'm extremely anxious.. i already emailed all the people that i disappointed (because they did reschedule that meeting just for me... and then i still didn't show up). i proceeded to get lost in bethesda (how, i am still asking myself), got home and had myself a mental breakdown (crying and snot and 'why me?!')... mg called me at 2 in the morning and consoled me somewhat. woke up 12 noon the next day, emailed said people, went out and got my car washed and picked up my dry-cleaned coat. cooked chappati (moms says the best i've ever made), went grocery shopping, then vespers til 1am in the morning.

and i still haven't studied. lets see how this week goes.. more at the end of the week.


peace.

soundtrak: dZihan and kamien: stiff jazz

the funny thing is that i write nearly every day... i just don't have the time to sit and post it up. i'm surprised that i haven't had a mental breakdown or collasped in exhaustion; i'm surprised how resilent the human body is.
this week has been... special. i had my first pathogenesis exam on tuesday. it wasn't bad ("what the hell are they asking?!"), but it wasn't great either ("i know all the fungi by scientific name!"). i think i was more comfortable with the material than other people were. hopefully that will give me the edge. went into work yesterday and ran a big experiment... of course the train was delayed to work (like it always is when i have something important to do), so i went i got there, i delved right in... 5 hours later, we got some interesting results that will hopefully lead to a co-author for me (finally! i can't be waiting on that other paper that they still haven't written). soon, you'll be able to find me on pubmed. i'm excited about that. because of my good work (and because i have my crucial cell exam on monday), i have the rest of the week off.... but there's still so much to do. i have class then i need to run some serious errands (you don't even want to know when the last time i washed my car was... you don't... let alone oil change...), then i have a graduate program meeting in bethesda. some of the other graduate students want to go out to celebrate one of their birthdays (we seem to have forgotten mine though... i'm not bitter...), with drinking and game of pool... i'm so tired but dammned if i'll screw it all to play some pool. i'm still trying to decide what i'm going to do. talking about graduate programs... me and them are having some issues. i mean, it's typical that my papers and stuff are just all over the place. so now i have all these meetings that i have to go to... to deal with said issues... on top of work and classes.. ugh!

last friday was such a great day, that would have been better if i blogged about it sooner. ehh. went up to work after class, taking the train with one of the other graduate students in my program (i need to give these people names already). we had good conversation. ran into MT who, of course, was just getting in (at 11.30am... man, i still hate that he can get away with that). of course i love my new lab, but i miss MT's kookiness.

new radio.blog up when i get the chance. i just can't stop buying new music... i can't help that i'm a drums n' bass girl too...

anyways, my mind is jumbled; it's too early in the morning for this... i've already been awake for 4 hours... off to class i go. will i blog later.. i don't know (ha! it rhymes...*sigh*)

peace.

soundtrak: mingle: the fuzz

this is the birthday post. i think i'm gonna stay 25 this year. more later when i'm not at class or work.

peace.