Adult Life

I am sick of gossiping. Stop it people. Cut each other some slack. We are imperfect and make mistakes, stop taking everything so personally. Either be friends with each other or don't. I need to take a stand and stop getting wrapped up into it. I want so badly to lead a life that makes me proud of everything I do.

Long Ass Time

I'm almost 21. That's kind of cool I guess. A lot has happened in the past 9 months. Nothing that needs to be rehashed or anything. Some basics are that I had a fantastic summer, a horribly hard fall semester, and a really relaxing wonderful winter break. I honestly haven't written on my blog in a really long time because there was nothing going on in my life that was worth talking about. There was some highs and lows but all in the past now. Junior year is definitely the first year that I'm starting to feel like an adult (not all the time) and really thinking about what I want to do with my life. I have thrown around ideas of going into Art Conservation, Forestry, and Culinary. They all seem to speak to certain values of mine that spark my interests. Not sure what I plan to do and being a Garbage Truck driver is still a huge possibility too. Sometimes all I want to do is crack open a beer and sit in my comfy chair and read a book and tune out all the worries. Sounds like a good idea, no? Friends have been awesome especially Jamie. Talk about my other half and my partner in crime. I love that girl so much. No one has been more of kind soul and tough lover than her. She picks me up when I'm down, dusts me off, and gives me a slight shove in the right direction. So glad that she is my roommate and best friend. We are also extremely weird together. It's cool, you don't have to be jealous. Nothing really new to report other than I met this really rad guy. He's kinda shy and a little weird (in an awesome way!), but no one gets me better than him. We share so many interests together and it's kinda cool to be able to talk to him about anything and everything. I'm pretty much super weird so the fact he thinks I'm cool is pretty incredible and almost impossible to imagine why. He might be the main reason that sparked me to write on my blog again, so I gotta give some credit to the guy.

10 Facts About Me

1. I get bruises all the time, and I always forget how I get them.
2. All four of my wisdom teeth have grown in with no pain and completely straight.
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival is my favorite band, followed closely by Neil Young.
4. I actually have a really high IQ, I am just a lazy student. I wish I had more motivation.
5. I really enjoy math, especially differential equations.
6. I love watching basketball, especially college hoops.
7. Never fuck with my family or friends, I may be a short, skinny girl, but I promise you, I will find a way to kick your ass.
8. I like to text grammatically correct, and totally judge those who do not.
9. Roasted corn on the cob, Sonoran Dogs, and Pizzookies are my favorite foods.
10. I used to want to be a deep sea diver growing up.

There you go, ten facts you probably didn't know about me. I like breaking the stereotype everyone seems to put me in under.

Oh Shit, I Forgot I had a Blog

I don't know how often people read my blog, but here is an update anyways.

School is pretty boring and really hard thanks to Organic Chemistry (no news there).I went to Disneyland with my parents and my cousins Jackie and Josh, her husband and two daughters. It was amazing and so much fun!

I've been fighting some sickness lately starting with getting food poisoning the Monday of spring break. I seriously threw everything up and couldn't move. Great way to start break. At the end of break I got a cold, and in the last five days I've been battling some viral infection. Lameeeeeeee.

I got some pretty awesome news Monday night that I was moved up from the B-team to the A-team on my college ultimate Frisbee club team. I literally jumped for joy and preceded to call my parents and wake them up at 11 o'clock at night. I went to my first Scorch Conditioning practice last night, while still being some what sick, and got my butt kicked in a good way. I am so happy to be a part of the team and the girls are all so amazing to hang out with and play with. Can't wait to play sectionals and regionals and end this season with a bang.

Austin and I celebrated our two year anniversary in style. He was really amazing and took me out to a nice dinner, got me a wonderful card and pictures, and gave me two beautiful long stem red roses (one for each year we have been dating) and we celebrated with a pizzookie. It was really awesome.

That is pretty much it!

Vegas and Beyond

So this past weekend I was in Vegas for a frisbee tournament called Trouble in Vegas. The seven hour car ride there was actually pretty enjoyable, mostly because the girls I drove with are awesome and I got to drive for a bit. The first night I slept on the floor in order to get a bed the next night because I knew I would be sore from playing all day. I scored the first goal in the first game and went on to score two more on Sunday. I had some pretty awesome deep cuts and some sweet D's.

I watched some senior teams and they were incredible, very drunk, but incredible. They made the game look so fluid and easy, like it was second nature to them. I totally want to get good like that one day. My team is the B team for the UofA women's club team. I plan on doing summer league with my dad and possibly brother and then coming back in the fall and my goal is to get on the A team.

I am pretty much a sponge at this point. Whenever the captains or coaches give me tips I soak it all up. My back hand and forehand are really coming together and I am learning how to throw out-in and in-out on both throws so hopefully I can do some more handling at Sectionals in April.

This week was pretty hellish, but I am glad I get to fly to Cali tonight and spring break is next week. Austin was pretty awesome and planned a two day stay in Sedona during next week to celebrate us dating for 2 years. Damn, that guy is awesome; pretty stoked he planned it all and it all came together nicely. Can't believe we have been dating for two years, it's been awesome and wonderful and tough at times but through it all he has stood by me and been my rock.

Till the next update.

PS: I broke my phone and I am actually kind of in love with not checking it or texting people. It's sort of freeing

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.

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.

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.

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.

Update

I went home to phoenix last week to visit my family and friends. My dad plays Ultimate Frisbee and has been dying to get me to start playing. My mom used to play and she was amazing. She won a lot of titles including a national championship title. She stopped playing after she had my brother and me. My dad still plays and never ceases to amaze me at his skill. 50 years old and still going strong. He throws incredibly well and has amazing disc talent. I was glad I was able to see him play at New Year's Fest in Phoenix and wish I had stayed for the finals since his team went undefeated and won!

I got back to Tucson, and emailed one of the coaches of the U of A woman's team. She has played ultimate for a while with my dad and was happy to hear I was interested in playing with the team. Hopefully I start playing soon. I know my parents will be pretty psyched to hear that I finally gave in and decided to play Ultimate Frisbee. Plus I forgot how many hot guys there are playing Ultimate Frisbee!

Any ways, here is a bit of an update for what I have been doing. I am currently studying my ass off for two major exams next week (Organic Chemistry and Genetics) so if my mother is reading this she should know that am not procrastinating by writing this post. Ochem lab is alright pretty boring just working on the building of benzene rings by nitration and oxidation. Plus I learned how to perform a benzene reaction that ends with it being Tylenol!! My classics classes are really fun and not so hard so its a great break from science. Since I got bull horns on my road bike I have been riding a lot more and I hope someday I could compete in a triathlon or maybe just ride around for fun. I am starting a running program to train for a 10K and then a half marathon in the fall (at least that's my goal).

I am an officer for one of the clubs on campus called the Cardiovascular Outreach Organization and am working with my friend and fellow officer Jamie, in hopes of coming up with a system and trying it out on elementary school kids to teach them how to be more heart healthy. Also through the club I do lots of volunteer at the Sarvar Heart Center at the UMC, and hopefully will be shadowing a Cardiothoracic Surgeon with in the next couple of weeks. My goal is still go to Medical School and I think with all the work I am doing I will definitely be able to tell if that's what I want to do with my life.

My night will consist of watching lots of TV and finishing up my Diels-Alder Reaction Lab report which I am dreading.

Yes I'm Frank

I turn twenty in 2 days!!! JUST 2 DAYS!!! Don't worry, I will still be an immature child at heart. For instance, my best friend, Erin, and I talk about pooping constantly. It doesn't make us blush or upset us, it is just fucking hilarious to us. Here is our conversation so far of the day. This is over text of course.

Erin: To poop or not to poop

Claire: POOP! I pooped in the Physics and Atmospheric Sciences Building the other night, I feel smarter already!

Erin: hahahahahaha I think I will go in the Library

Claire: Ooooo you are getting a plethora of good subjects

Erin: I don't wanna goooooo. And I forgot to mention something awkward.

Claire: Honey, I promise that if you don't poop you will regret it later. Then sometime during your next class you will start farting and wish you had pooped. Ok what's the something awkward

Erin: And this might be a long one

Claire: YAY! Wait the poop or the story?

Erin: Guess who is in my human sexuality class?

Claire: Ummm Ethan?

Erin: And yeah you are right about pooping now. Noooooo not Ethan

Claire: UMMMMM John?

Erin: The poop is now complete. And no. Think one of Sarah's old guys

Claire: Ok good. Phew. Ummmmmm Joe?

Erin: Nooooo

Claire: Ummmmm Taylor? Or the Taylor kid from Marcos?

Erin: They didn't date but you are super close. and noooo

Claire: Uhhhhh Brett

Erin: Nope. Oh and some girl in the bathroom who knew I was pooping is in my class!!!

Claire: Shawn? Oh my gosh ahahahahahahaha. Avoid eye contact

Erin: YES!!!!!!!!! (To Shawn) Ewww haha its weird.

Claire: Wait what is weird? Shawn or the girl who knew you were pooping?

Erin: I already have another story for when we talk on the phone again.

Claire: YAY stories!! I don't have any because my life is boring.

Erin: Shawn hahahaha. And this girl is sitting by me in class!!

Claire: Oh dear. This is a dilemma. Quick turn to the girl and stare at her creepy and twitch your eye and then she will never sit by you again!!!

Erin: Hahahahha Claire you weirdo

Claire: Hey it's a full proof plan.


This is what 20 year old college girls talk about, in case you had some fantasy, this should pretty much kill it. I don't claim to be mature. Duh.