Chemical Embarrassment
I’m taking a Chemistry course this semester. Why? Well I haven’t had chemistry since high school and even then it was my worst grade from all the four years I endured. My basic biology knowledge fares pretty well and I want to continue into Organic Chemistry later on, which is pretty much required to cover all your genetics studies (I think), and for that, yup, need Chemistry. So it begins… Why you ask again? Because I like Biology and want to learn more of it. Effing pre-reqs.
My first class is tonight, wish me luck, pray to your gods (Norse preferably, they’re cool) that I don’t embarrass myself in front of other students, who will mostly be undergraduates.
Carded
Went out with some friends last night to some lounge/bar. It was fun, hung out, had some caffeine, caught up with some folks, the usual. Almost.
There was this tarot card reader there, I totally got my future spilled out to me. First time, was fun, even though I think it’s all total bull, but hey, it was only $15, who cares. She shuffled the cards, then I shuffled them a bit more, asked two questions, and made two wishes (one internal, one out loud), and then the show began. Here’s what my future (and present) holds:
- I have very positive energy, which is good.
- I put up a front of smiles and happiness, but I’m actually pretty hurt and sad on the inside and nobody knows it.
- I have two friends (a couple) that are stressed and will need my help to sort things out.
- I’m going to get in a relationship soon, but I have to put forth an effort to begin this because I’m not getting any signs or feedback from her end, it’s tough for her.
- She will break my heart in a year or year and half. I need to get over this because…
- I’m going to meet a girl younger than me (who will be intimidated by me and my age) in a group of friends in a year and a half and she will bring me true happiness and we’ll happy for a long time together.
- I will live a long healthy life and will die at an old age, not at home, but in a hospital, peacefully.
- Money comes and goes easily in my hands, I earn it, but spend it away as well.
- I will find success in my work and will be well off.
- I have two close people around me who are jealous of me and will stab me in the back.
- There will be a major misunderstanding (possibly at work) during communication and this will cause temporary, but major issues for me.
- I will be traveling somewhere big soon, life change big.
- I have a major disappointment coming up before the end of the year.
I think there were a few more things, but that’s all I remember from last night. I don’t really believe any of this, but you can’t really quantify fun, so no regrets on my end.
Squash Butt
Played squash for a couple hours with a buddy a couple days ago, we’re not amazing at it, but it was still fun. Haven’t done anaerobic exercises in a while, thus me being sore.
Soreness is fine, I like being sore sometimes, feels good… in a pain sort of way, if that makes sense. But today my butt is sore, yeah, my freaking butt. I sit down and think “why the hell are my cheeks sore?”, it’s a strange feeling.
So for future reference, bad squash playing = sore butt.
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Hug09
The 2009 Hugo Awards were announced recently, Neil Gaiman got best novel for The Graveyard Book! He’s my favorite author, but I still haven’t read that book, yeah, sad, I know. I’m trying to catch up on his short story collections first, plus I’m kind of procrastinating on reading it too, just because that’s the only novel of his I haven’t read (or only thing left after the short stories?) and I’d rather take my sweet time getting to it.
I haven’t read anything else on the winning list, but that’s OK, I’ve done a back catalog reading of some of the Hugo winning and nominated works in the past… hit or miss, very miss in some cases (I’m looking at you Little, Big), so goes to show that it’s still better to read review or recommendations from others (or from LibraryThing or GoodReads, or even better: what should I read next?).
Wall-E and Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog both deserved winning by the way, they’re both perfectly done, if you haven’t already, buy em or Netflix em.
Well congrats to Neil Gaiman (even though since he’s gotten “popular” he’s become writer people love to hate so that they can sound like snobby readers, quite stupid) and others. I was slightly hoping Cory Doctorow would’ve won for Little Brother since he gives the ebook versions of his works away for free, but then again, he was nominated and that’s a pretty big deal.
In: Books · Tagged with: cory doctorow, goodreads, hugo, librarything, neil gaiman
I’m Living In Austin, TX
I finally installed Firefox 3.5 yesterday, it’s a bit snappier, overall a good upgrade. I wanted to give one of its new features a try, Geolocation. The browser can tell a website where it’s located, thus allowing that site to pinpoint where you actually are. Great in theory for say Google Maps.
I tried it in Google Maps, multiple times. Apparently I’m living in Austin, TX and not Boston, MA. No wonder it’s so freaking hot out today.
In: Tech · Tagged with: firefox, geolocation, google
New Skipland
Lame! I sent off a couple mobile posts while in New Zealand, you guys should’ve gotten some updates. Ah well, I’ll see if I can post them again, with the correct/older timestamps.
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Quakers In New Zealand
So two nights ago we had an earthquake (7.8 on the Richter Scale) here in the South Island of New Zealand. It happened at night in the city we were staying in, Queenstown. Well apparently the city (and our hotel) shook, What was I doing? Sleeping. Didn’t even know there was an earthquake until we came down for breakfast and wondered what the hell everybody was talking about. People outside the hotel in the middle of the night in their robes and some of us were oblivious, sound asleep with dreams of living in San Francisco (no joke on that one, how weird is that?).
In: Moblog · Tagged with: earthquake, new zealand, travel
Late Kiwi Update
New Zealand is absolutely breathtaking. We just traveled via the Tranz Scenic train in South Island…mouth wide most of the ride. Then we arrived in Franz Josef and took a helicopter ride to the top of the Franz Josef glacier, hands down the most beautiful view I’ve seen so far. Nothing like standing on top of a glacier, staring down into a valley, watching the sun glare down at everything. I honestly didn’t even feel any of the bitter cold.
I’ll try and send off another update of my previous days later. I wish I could share this with all of you, honestly.
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Youngest Country
Two more days, two more days. Well the time is finally here. My younger sister and I planned this about a year and half, maybe two years ago, a trip in the summer after she graduates. We solidifed the plans about six months ago and now we fly out this Sunday.
We’re headed to New Zealand for two weeks… it’s the winter over there, no more heat! Our plan is to arrive in Auckland, go up hitting four more cities, and then fly back via Christchurch. The entire time eating (a lot), sleeping (a lot), and reading (a lot). I can’t wait! Got a many many hour layover in Los Angeles, but I booked a hotel room, so at least that’ll be a good pit stop pre-Trans Pacific flight.
Gonna bungy jump (that’s how New Zealandars spell it, they invented it you know) too. Dunedin has Cadbury World, so we’re definitely going to stop over there (US Cadbury is still junk btw), buy a lot of chocolate, check out the chocolate waterfall (I kid you not!), and end up in the hospital because of too much sugar. Will try and get a Lord of the Rings tour in too if we can. Maybe hit on some Maori girls and see my sister laugh at my rejections, good times…
I’ll try to keep my Facebook and/or Twitter uptodate, but we’ll see how often I can get access to the net over there. Personally I just wanna take a video of the coriolis effect, I bet it’s way cooler over there.
In: General · Tagged with: chocolate, travel
Hair Follicy
Got a haircut yesterday. Took a shower. Took too much shampoo in my hand.
Rookie Mistake!
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