massive update.

So I just realized that I haven't blogged since...my first time last week. Oops. I'll try to blog more often now to make up for that; now that I finally have my laptop (still bitter about the liars at FedEx and having to wait over the weekend for UCSD central mailing before getting my laptop, which is when I needed it most...>:[ ) and don't have to try cramming cluster homework in the hour, I'll be able to have time to blog more. Yay.

A lot has happened over this past week/weekend. A lot of it has already been mentioned it in other blogs though - Knott's Berry Farm was freaking awesome! Silver Bullet, Xcelerator (0 to 80 mph in 2 seconds, awesomeness), Boomerang, and especially the PONY EXPRESS (yay for awkward positions). The weird train lady was hilarious. What else...the days here are so packed and full of activities/work that the weekend feels like such a long time ago. The beach was awesome (successful jumping pictures on the first try!, "tanning", a very REVEALING ten fingers), and the jello fight was as sticky and messy as I expected but very very fun (yay for getting a mouthful of jello thrown into my face). So that's basically the quickest recap possible of the weekend. Very very exciting. OH. Also, although almost everyone else has already mentioned this, cosmolympics was totally RIGGED, but it's still very awesome that we owned the relay race by at least a good 5 seconds. Oh right, the cake decorating contest was quite amusing (second place for piling random junk onto a cake ftw). I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life. Crack. Haha.

Alright, moving to the more academic stuff. The labs have been interesting, and I am really enjoying how the labs here give us access to some top-notch equipment and resources, and that the assignments/basic environment of the labs require us to think outside the box and apply what we know with outside knowledge to come to conclusions. I'm sick of the structured, basic labs in school with lab questions that basically ask you to recap the lab. This is definitely a nice environment.

Hm..don't know what else to say. Can't wait for our boundaries to be extended - the trip to the campus bookstore was fun. Yay chlamydia! I'm pretty excited about the two final projects coming up, although they definitely require creative thinking. Playing with blood is still fun. PCR was very cool today, and the results from the Western blot were pretty exciting. Yeah. I think this is getting way too long. It's probably going to look intimidating on the blog site after I post it. This is what happens when I don't blog periodically. I tend to type too much. Okay bai.

Still missing a certain someone. But my friends here are very awesome :].

Dandelions make me laugh.

-Connie