¡Feliz Cumpleaños a mi!

Hoy es mi cumpleaños. No puedo creerlo...cumpleo 20 años. Me siento que la vida pasa tan rápida, como si fuera en un barco que viaja en una cascada. Mi mente sufre de pérdida de memoria y no creo que puedo recordar más. Por eso olvido muchas cosas que han occurido. Debo reciclar las memorías...pero no recuerdo la información para mis clases...

El partido entre Liverpool y Arsenal fue tan bueno. Cesc es el mejor futbalista ahora, y él marcó un gol importante. Esperaba que Arsenal ganara, pero un punto es mejor que cero. Pero Chivas...el equipo perdió contra KC y estoy triste...tiene que ganar o no puedo verlo. Y Sacha...lo echo de menos. Y me supí que Sacha fue entrevistado el martes por 45 minutos en "Football Fone-In" (un programa de FSC) y no puedo encontrar el audio de la entrevista. ¡Y él habló de Benny! No...

Richie, ¿por qué sigues perdiendo en la ronda segunda de los torneos? Quiero verte en la copa Master. Gana, por favor. Y Andy Murray, tú eres tan bueno. Sigue ganando y alcanzarás un puesto. Y Marin, me haces feliz que jugó en un semifinal y creo que aumentarás tus resultados pronto. Y pobre Mario, espero que ganes siempre, pero no es possible. Y Novak, ¿tienes ya el pelo de la cara? Por favor aféitate. Por favor...

Fun/Funny Things

This weekend has been surprisingly nice so far, compared to the week. After a few days stressing over applications and lab work, the good stuff started on Friday. I finally gathered that all my applications preferred online recommendations, so I emailed my profs about it and of course my advisor was on top of everything. He already wrote my letter! And my prof was cool with it too. Just one more prof to hear back from... Anyway, then we watched Space Jam and all of the extras and I was dead tired at like 11. Oh well.

Then Saturday there was the PIBS open house (U of M's biomedical sciences graduate program) so I went and it was really informative and helpful. My professor was there, actually, and so we talked a bit. Also, importantly, free stuff! I got a PIBS mug and a Chemical Biology bag and of course a ton of handouts. But the best part was feeling good about applying to Pharmacology and Biochemistry and such. Yay for something going right. Also, I might have converted a friend over from med. school to grad. school! That's also exciting. Saturday night was also awesome since I dragged my sister out to a soccer game. It was U of M vs. Northwestern and I thought it was a pretty good game. I did expect Northwestern to score, and both teams needed to do better with finishing and crossing, but the energy was fun. We sat in the very front, kind of with Northwestern fans (or at least they were behind us), and I had Jackie take photos for me! Yay stalking, sort of. I thought #11 (Steve Bonnell) was kind of hot, well at least the hottest soccer player I could really see. The sweet part was how close you could see them. And Peri Marosevic was playing, though not the whole time, and he showed flashes of awesomeness. But he wasn't really getting service. But drawing Northwestern is awesome...hopefully they make the tournament!

In terms of ATP and WTA tennis, seeds were dying at both events. Well Nalbandian decided to randomly be awesome and beat Rafa, Novak, and Roger for the title. Everyone but Henin died at Zurich, who is totally dominating the women's tour. Poor Sveta actually being injured...the others should step it up! And I was definitely happy about Mario making it to the quarters (he beat Blake!), though those yellow shorts make me want to cry. The black shirt is hot though. And Novak with his facial hair... And why did Richie lose in the first round? He needs points...he could totally make it to the Masters Cup if he could just get some rounds in...

And more soccer now. MLS playoffs start on Thursday and hopefully Chicago wins because I can't ever root for LA Galaxy to make the playoffs. Especially if they meet with Chivas! Teams like LA who push for the playoffs late always are super dangerous, so their elimination suits me just fine. After all, Chivas for the win!

This is so random, but I love Sacha's love for his hair. It cracks me up.

Marin Cilic in the top 100!

It finally happened! Marin broke into the top 100 in the men's rankings, now at 98! Yay, I am so proud of him. He's been consistently qualifying for tournaments and getting a few matches... Soon he won't have to spend so much energy qualifying! Yayayay!

I'm sad for Vania, though, because she's cutting her season off a bit early because of her back injury. She was doing well in Bangkok too... Well, she's fallen out of the top 100 in singles but she's been doing well in doubles...best of luck to her recovery.

Elena Dementieva won the final of the Kremlin Cup against Serena Williams yesterday. Good for her. Too bad Sveta didn't continue her awesomeness against Serena and lost to her in the semis... Oh well, what can you do.

There's nice tennis on this week (just not on TV, unfortunately). Madrid for the men and Zurich for the women. Mario is in Madrid and could meet James Blake in round 2. Sveta and Ana are part of the awesome field in Zurich. I guess too bad for Maria Sharapova, since she's out with injury again. This is really a tough year for her fans...thankfully I'm not one. I mean, it's been quite sad waiting for Mario to come back, so I didn't need to wait for anyone else.

Lindsay Davenport update: she's ranked 123. She's going to be seeded for the Australian Open next year, I hope!

Woot Rainbows!

Today is National Coming Out Day. I made myself a crappy-looking "rainbow" paper bracelet using highlighters, so red = pink and indigo doesn't exist. And the yellow is blinding. I guess I am not the stereotype at all, since I have NOTHING colorful or rainbowy at all. So bracelet = desperation. Since I came out post-10/11 last year (I don't think I really had a date...but it was somewhat close but not the same, I don't think =>check old blog, duh), I wanted to celebrate this year. I wonder if people will even notice. I don't even have class with like anyone today...and it's cold so I'm not going to let my wrist fall off just so I can show the world.

Now of course I'm not your typical coming-out story. I have friends who accept this, siblings who accept this (and give me the highlighters, yay), and I go to a pretty liberal institution. So basically it was pretty easy. And there was no tension nor drama since it wasn't from any built up sexual thoughts or anything (no crushes at that time). Yes, I haven't officially told my parents, but I really don't think it matters because they only care if I get married or not...and I don't know if I would get married anyway even if I were straight...

So if you don't know after reading my blog (for some reason) what I am, I am BISEXUAL. I love you all! Now get me some rainbows!

Eventually I'll get something done.

I finally got those letter-writers some stuff so they can start writing good/bad/whatever recommendations. Frankly they just have to say something better than horrible...I don't really care. After getting that off my chest, I feel relieved. Now on to those real applications! Fall break = application start time. I'm going to be spending quite a bit of money too...damn score-sending fees, application fees, etc.

So yesterday at lab I basically accomplished nothing despite being there for like 6 hours. That is because I am too stupid to follow directions and I was, at that time, too distracted by studying for that test, which I think I did alright on (I definitely passed woot). Basically I messed up making minimal media + uracil plates twice. The first time I put 1000x the amount of uracil I needed, so it obviously wasn't dissolving. The second time I allowed the gel to cool too much so it hardened before I poured the plates. Hence I get to do it again today! I better get it right or I'll have to make more 5xM9 salts too...

Despite everything, I'm kind of happy to go back to doing experiments like stop-flow. I don't like molecular biology and it doesn't like me either. Though I hope the experiment isn't bitchy and I can stop having that weird "steady state" thingy going on. Or something.

Wish me luck on my biophys test this morning!

I want a redo.

This past week has been shit, but it is all my own fault. That is because I forgot to bring my HW with me to Chicago so I spent like 4 days trying to do my inorg HW. Then I had one night, that began at 8:30 PM, to finish my biophys HW and my lab report. So I was up until 1:30 AM, but stupid me can't sleep past 8:30 because of the sunlight in my room. And my incompetancy at NMR doesn't help either. Neither does an autoclave that takes forever to purge. Piece of shit.

I also had the "horror" of spilling some hot water on Professor Ninfa while I was trying to remove something from the autoclave today. I want him to write a recommendation for me too, though I don't think he remembers me at all. I guess I should have visited him or something, but come on, he sees me like all the time when he walks through our lab. Perhaps I pass off as being a graduate student because I do my own stuff now? Doesn't make sense.

I think I am gaining some weight recently, probably because of my horrible eating and sleeping schedule. I need to stop eating Cheez-its, but they are so good...