So I was assaulted by a puppy today. Crazy thing! Ran right up to me and started lickin and biting me... It was perfect! Except that the owner was very female. *sigh* so much for the romantic idea of meeting mr boy in the park because of a cute dog. haha. Cant believe I'm putting this in. I'm such a hopeless romantic.
it was a beautiful day at the Commons 'tho... I meandered around and ended up walking there! bit of a hike from where I live, but it didn't seem too bad. I needed to clear my head and just, get out. You'd think that with Jo here I'd be just ecstatically going out of my mind with happiness... hmmmm we made bread together. that was fun. and we are going to an ordination tomorrow... I hope it is nice.
well, squares are in the oven. yeah! I've watched so many movies in the past few days I don't know what to do with myself. I want to go to the art gallery tomorrow, wonder how much it is... Or like, read on a beach, yeah, that would rock. oh summer where art thou?
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Friday, April 29, 2005
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
YAY
FANTASTIC News! Lesek, oh dear friend of mine, has been given a position at Ocean Nutrition Canada, as a scientist/chemist! WaHoo! this means great things for her, ANNND it means that there IS hope for all of us freshly graduated Chemists who are seeking something to do with our lives :D well, for me that wont begin until next year, but thats ok - the opportunities are out there!
It also means that I may have an opportunity to work with Dr Ian Pottie as a research assistant for the summer. Ugh. I dont know how I feel about this... it might hurt employer-employee relationship if I am constantly tempted to tell him off.... but! a Job is a job, and a research job is a million times better than anything I'd expected... oh God is so good to me, I do NOT deserve such an opportunity. .wow. AND I'm pretty sure I passed that damn exam. not with flying colors by any stretch, but i bet i knew 50% dammit. hehe, it'd be funny if I had to actually work for him and he failed me... What was that? You spent 3 weeks on that product and I WASNT supposed to add acetone?? Oh gosh, sorry - geuss there WAS a reason you had to fail me... hehehehe...
well, happy news all around... now i need to go study for Modern... or Materials... I have no ambition to study Modern, sorry Kathy.
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It also means that I may have an opportunity to work with Dr Ian Pottie as a research assistant for the summer. Ugh. I dont know how I feel about this... it might hurt employer-employee relationship if I am constantly tempted to tell him off.... but! a Job is a job, and a research job is a million times better than anything I'd expected... oh God is so good to me, I do NOT deserve such an opportunity. .wow. AND I'm pretty sure I passed that damn exam. not with flying colors by any stretch, but i bet i knew 50% dammit. hehe, it'd be funny if I had to actually work for him and he failed me... What was that? You spent 3 weeks on that product and I WASNT supposed to add acetone?? Oh gosh, sorry - geuss there WAS a reason you had to fail me... hehehehe...
well, happy news all around... now i need to go study for Modern... or Materials... I have no ambition to study Modern, sorry Kathy.
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Sunday, April 17, 2005
organic-ick
studyin! and pretty much sticking to it today... the light is at the end of the tunnel I tell you, cant quite see it yet, but you just sort of know when youre approaching it... f
funny how when i'm studying - all the online tutorials - and randomly i get these revelations, and its like 'oh! THATS why that does that rather than that... ooooh! i'm such a dummy"...
prime example: NaOH acts as a base or a nucleophile (ya, i just learned that too). whats the difference you ask? (or dont but you get to hear it anyways). well! when its a base it strips off the most acidic hydrogen. when its a nucleophile it attacks a electrophilic carbon. ITS THAT EASY. man. i really dont know how i made it through 2nd year organic.
not that i'm not smart - i really think i am (hehe) but somehow nothing clicked in this course. and as much as i can blame it on the wannabe proff's bad teaching, there is the element of my own incomprehension of the basics... like, you're never going to be able to do integrals if you cant do algebra. plain and simple. so, master the abc's before you try the xyz's.... or, in this case, better decide whats a nucleophile before you try and tackle the epoxide reaction. yeah baby yeah. bring it on dienols, BRING IT ON!
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funny how when i'm studying - all the online tutorials - and randomly i get these revelations, and its like 'oh! THATS why that does that rather than that... ooooh! i'm such a dummy"...
prime example: NaOH acts as a base or a nucleophile (ya, i just learned that too). whats the difference you ask? (or dont but you get to hear it anyways). well! when its a base it strips off the most acidic hydrogen. when its a nucleophile it attacks a electrophilic carbon. ITS THAT EASY. man. i really dont know how i made it through 2nd year organic.
not that i'm not smart - i really think i am (hehe) but somehow nothing clicked in this course. and as much as i can blame it on the wannabe proff's bad teaching, there is the element of my own incomprehension of the basics... like, you're never going to be able to do integrals if you cant do algebra. plain and simple. so, master the abc's before you try the xyz's.... or, in this case, better decide whats a nucleophile before you try and tackle the epoxide reaction. yeah baby yeah. bring it on dienols, BRING IT ON!
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Saturday, April 16, 2005
aaauggg
i'd just like to say that rather than studying for this one crucial exam, that i loath the concept of writing, and have thus decided to Ace so that i can prove to myself once and for all that i AM a genius... rather than studying so that i can shove my A+ up toilet-face's ASS... rather than being the smart intelligent person that i pretend to be...
I've spent the entire day dicking around and not studying
ya. thats me. the quantum chemical loving advanced chemistry major. I SUCK ASS
*sigh* you can blog really fast through the google toolbar... i think that my down-fall was planned before my birth.
I've spent the entire day dicking around and not studying
ya. thats me. the quantum chemical loving advanced chemistry major. I SUCK ASS
*sigh* you can blog really fast through the google toolbar... i think that my down-fall was planned before my birth.
Exams!
Woo! Its exam time again! and can you guess what that means?? yup - Laura is going to be posting blogs again. This is one of the best forms or procrastination you know.
so today was absolutely beautiful - and I stayed inside *sigh*. I cant even say that I was studying all day. I was pretending to be studying, but it didn't really work out... to easy to be distracted here. I've got msn, and the phone, and the fridge (hehe) and the computer and bed. oh bed is a really bad distraction. I actually fell asleep in my chair this afternoon. *my chair - I should say nikkis chair because I borrowed hers, thought it would be better for studying, boy was I wrong!
I did get a bit done.. I'm onto reactions of aromatics/benzene. I've decided its not so much that I hate organic, its just that I didn't bother to learn it all properly the first time, so when it comes to applying the knowledge, I'm lacking. but I've got 3 solid days to study! well, 2 now. the exam is tuesday morning. so I have all of tonight at least to learn the background, so I can start on the rest. the other problem, of course, is that I have to memorize a lot of reactions and names etc. boooooring. I'd rather memorize quantum mechanics. funny to think of it, beause theres memorization involved in both, I just don't LIKE organic chemistry.
Mr Wannabe-A-Professor doesn't help a whole lot tho... grrr... Insensitive incompassionate stupid arrogant bastard... AAAAUUGHHHH. wewf . that was building up... aha. he wont even tell us if the exam breakdown is even or more weighted on the last stuff. you know why? BECAUSE HE IS A LAZY ASSHOLE. wewf again. hes afraid of making it not quite what he said and then.. and then what? what the hell are WE gonna do? man once I finish this I'm gonna be sooo happy.
organic. modern. materials. I can do it I know I can
the 22nd baby I'm going to crawl into several bottles of gin and I'm not coming up for air until sunday morning, I swear. mmmmmgin... I hereby forfeit all responsibility for stupid things I do. I'm allowed. I will be done 4 years of school and on my way to recieving my advanced major in chemistry.. providing I can afford to pay off my library fines, hehehe...
well.... reactions of substituted benzene awaits *gag me*
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so today was absolutely beautiful - and I stayed inside *sigh*. I cant even say that I was studying all day. I was pretending to be studying, but it didn't really work out... to easy to be distracted here. I've got msn, and the phone, and the fridge (hehe) and the computer and bed. oh bed is a really bad distraction. I actually fell asleep in my chair this afternoon. *my chair - I should say nikkis chair because I borrowed hers, thought it would be better for studying, boy was I wrong!
I did get a bit done.. I'm onto reactions of aromatics/benzene. I've decided its not so much that I hate organic, its just that I didn't bother to learn it all properly the first time, so when it comes to applying the knowledge, I'm lacking. but I've got 3 solid days to study! well, 2 now. the exam is tuesday morning. so I have all of tonight at least to learn the background, so I can start on the rest. the other problem, of course, is that I have to memorize a lot of reactions and names etc. boooooring. I'd rather memorize quantum mechanics. funny to think of it, beause theres memorization involved in both, I just don't LIKE organic chemistry.
Mr Wannabe-A-Professor doesn't help a whole lot tho... grrr... Insensitive incompassionate stupid arrogant bastard... AAAAUUGHHHH. wewf . that was building up... aha. he wont even tell us if the exam breakdown is even or more weighted on the last stuff. you know why? BECAUSE HE IS A LAZY ASSHOLE. wewf again. hes afraid of making it not quite what he said and then.. and then what? what the hell are WE gonna do? man once I finish this I'm gonna be sooo happy.
organic. modern. materials. I can do it I know I can
the 22nd baby I'm going to crawl into several bottles of gin and I'm not coming up for air until sunday morning, I swear. mmmmmgin... I hereby forfeit all responsibility for stupid things I do. I'm allowed. I will be done 4 years of school and on my way to recieving my advanced major in chemistry.. providing I can afford to pay off my library fines, hehehe...
well.... reactions of substituted benzene awaits *gag me*
<>< peace
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