Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Things Going on in My Life

So I am going to work my way backwards describing the week I just had. I just finished my best lab report I have ever written for organic chemistry. I would seriously frame it, that's how proud I am. I got my ear checked out because it ballooned to twice the size it normally is and was red hot and super itchy. Totally lame and totally unattractive. I learned several possible ways to wear my hair with hats, bandannas, etc so no one had to look at my grotesque ear. Seriously folks it is bad!

My ear got infected for a couple of reasons. Apparently my run of zero accidents or incidents occurring in ochem lab has never lasted longer than one week. I was working with four harmful very irritant chemicals that were as follows, DMF (N,N-dimethylformamide), chloroform, cobalt (II) acetate, and benzaldehyde. Yes folks I am a royal idiot, a complete klutz, and a buffoon. Even though I was wearing all the safety precautions known to man (i.e. gloves, lab coat, clothing that covered my skin, and goggles) I managed to forget I was working with irritating chemicals and I touched my right ear several times to adjust my goggles through out the lab.

Yes. I got chemicals on pretty much the only exposed skin I had. My ear is pissed the fuck off at me. I had to remove my newly pierced Rook (RIP favorite piercing ever) because my ear got so big and so angry that it decided to hate my earring too.

Wait folks, me being an idiot does not stop here. I touched my ear loads of times to scratch it, then changed my belly button piercing. Yup. My belly button is infected now too. Remember? I am a huge buffoon???

Anyways, I have been to urgent care and my dermatologist, I am on a fuck load of antibiotics and have to rub cream in hopes of not having to *gasp* undergo a painful procedure of draining my ear.

I have learned my lesson. Do not touch harmful chemicals and then touch my ear. Clearly this will be embedded with me forever because it has been such a painful, miserable, sleep deprived week which I am so glad is over. (I base my weeks off of labs obviously, I know that Wednesday is not the beginning of the week).

Lastly, the best part of my week is owed to my mother. She walked me through every step of the way, and when I called her crying in pain at six o'clock in the morning, she got up straight away and drove the hour and forty-five minutes from Phoenix down to Tucson. I can honestly say, no matter what age I am, having my mom hug me and take care of me in my time of need was the greatest feeling in the world. That woman makes me so incredibly honored that I am her daughter. I hope to be a mother just like her. She is amazing and really special. And mother, I know you are reading this because you always do, I love you so much from the bottom of my heart and words cannot express how happy I was that you came to my rescue.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Just Stuff About Myself

I want to go sky diving someday. I love living in Tucson because there are cute bunnies everywhere. Lobsters creep me out. I don't like bugs unless they are rollie pollie bugs. I am a damn good chef. I think people are genuinely good. I am very social and love getting to know new people. I love to dance, whether it be at a party or in my room alone. I like to paint my nails a new color every week because I like to be a colorful person. I don't really like baseball it is too boring to watch. I love watching ultimate frisbee, though it wasn't until recently I discovered how much I love to play it. I like to build legos and solve puzzles. I love to read for fun but only books that interest me. I love both Star Wars and Star Trek. Lord of the Rings is a great book and movie series, one of my favorites. I am a Harry Potter fan for life. I choose adventure every time. I've lived in Arizona my entire life and not once have I been to the Grand Canyon. Spain is my favorite country to visit. I am not cynical, nor do I have ulterior motives; I act out of curiosity. I love art and wish I was an art history major sometimes. I have seven piercings and no tattoos. If I were to ever get a tattoo it would be of the Eye of Horus because my grandfather's name was Horace and one of the last places he visited before he died was Egypt and we used to joke that the Eye of Horus was Grandpa's eye. He was one of the kindest, most amazing people I have ever had the chance to know. I want kids and dogs and cats and a big house with a pool. The human body fascinates me and I have never been shy of blood or serious injuries. My brother is my best friend, but annoys me a lot sometimes. I love roller coasters a lot, but water slides kind of freak me out. I learned to swim before I could run. Polar bears are the best animals ever hands down. I care for people more than I care for myself sometimes. I cannot stand to see anyone sad or upset. The majority of the pictures in my photo album on my phone are of my dogs and it will always be like that. I like playing board games and Beetle Adventure Racing on the N64. I used to be really good at guitar hero. I used to play the violin, the piano, and the oboe. Outer space fascinates me and I dream of one day exploring it. I am pretty much a nerd at heart. I'm short but I run really fast and I read people very easily. I wonder what it would be like if I was a cowboy on my own ranch. I like corn on the cob the best. I am unpredictable, wild, sensitive, bossy, caring, compassionate and passionate, and confident. I am not afraid to learn new things and to accept when I am wrong.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Woohoo!

Nothing really new to report. So here is a great picture of my favorite animal. It pretty much looks like me when I drink hahaha.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Garbage Truck Driver

Every time homework or studying gets hard, I wonder what my life would be like if I was a garbage truck driver. How menial and simple yet vastly important for our society to run properly. I wouldn't have to take anymore Organic Chemistry exams, or work on anymore scientific papers, or even lab reports to write and review. Homework would become nonexistent, studying would be pointless, and my brain would melt away.

As soon as I think about it very hard and long I know that I can't be a garbage truck driver. Even though I am lazy, kind of clumsy, and pretty much a slob, I feel like I would never want to let my mind go. I let my muscles go after high school ended. I used to be toned and incredible athlete now I am just skinny and ordinary with some muscles left. I just can't let my brain go. I love to problem solve and explore the unexplainable. Some of the work I do now bores me and leaves me wondering what I actually am interested in.

I didn't know my favorite subject was math; until I stopped having to take it in college. The last math class I took was my senior year and it was Vector Calculus (Calc 3) and Differential Equations. I didn't know that I wouldn't want that to be my last math class. I didn't know that I actually like solving math problems. I like how numbers and equations are all interconnected and that almost everything can be solved or even explained by math.

Mathematical Biology. That was my first choice of a major, but I screwed myself out that chance. Very few colleges and universities offer mathematical biology as a major, and the ones that do are very expensive. I hope I can pursue that in grad school, but we will see.

Anyways, I think about being a garbage truck driver to help me think about what I want to do with my life. That I want keep learning and growing. I am not saying it is a bad job or even an unimportant job, I am saying it's not the job for me.