Updates: Bits and Bobs

It's been...a rough semester. Not so much rough, as in "I hate life and want to drop out of grad school" rough, but more like the "I'm so busy when will I have to breathe" rough. In fact, it's been really awesome, and I've had a ton of adventures, and I've worked really hard, and as a result, my body completely broke down this past weekend and I have been quite laid up in bed with what can only be described as a chest cold. My throat has decided it's going through puberty and I sound like an adolescent boy, my lungs are all phlegmy, and my body is just exhausted. But through a strict diet of soup, ice cream, and rom coms, I have pushed past this weekend and in a few days, I'm sure I'll be in tip top shape again. Let's take a breeze through the past couple of months and see what I've been up to.

January:
- CB Bootcamp. *snore* Some cool moments, like seeing E again, but mostly...>.>

-CB Bootcamp Happy Hour. Much better.

- Lab holiday party: Fish, gift exchange, and a new shark best friend.

- SF's housewarming party. That was a hoot and a half. Definitely some memories from that night, including the massive game of Cards Against Humanity and decorating the place with post-it notes.

- Brunching at Craigie on Main. DELICIOUS.

- Winter Luau. Shorts under snow pants is the way to go.

- Grafton Street Rum and Food pairing night. Also delicious.

During this month also existed the coldest week of winter. It was so cold! The river froze over!

Oh also, I got new glasses.


February:

- Dumpling Day! Success.

- Chinese New Year in NJ with family, friends, and Captain America. Success.

-Heard James Watson talk about Oxidants, Anti-Oxidants, and Incurable Cancers. Kinda a hot mess.

- Recruiting weekend. Major success.

- Milken Alumni Event in NY. Also, success.

Also, I learned to, you know, clone genes, grow bacteria, and get protein, and...stuff. Also, there was the giant blizzard that buried everything and almost made it so that I couldn't get back to Boston from NJ. Bad blizzard! Bad!

March:

- Ended my rotation.

- Started a new one.

- Celebrated my spring break/anniversary (3 years!!) in San Francisco, doing amazing things and having an amazing time. My favorite picture of the bunch was our post-Challenge Nation picture. We got 57th/215 and it was an amazing journey of running and leaping and exhaustion and afterwards, we sat in a food court and watched Downton Abbey until our phones ran out of batteries and then saw Foodies: the Musical. What a great day with my best friend.

There really are so many more memories from March and this trip but I'll keep them for another time

Also, EASTER!

April:

- Pulled pretty much my first working all-nighter ever. Napped for an hour from 7 AM - 8 AM and then went to class. ALL THE RAGE TO THE MATLAB.

- ChemBio retreat. Interesting...could be longer....

- Started the process for finding an apartment to settle down in! 

And that brings us to....now. There's been a lot of work involved and a lot of fun and I'm getting ready to recharge for the day. So....here's to the cool things that are happening in just a couple of weeks and....I'll leave you with this delicious specimen:

BEDUS Day 13: SNOW!

I am currently sitting on the couch wrapped in my periodic table blanket, drinking hot chocolate, and wearing Kelsey's marching band SAX hat because it makes me feel cozy. Cause it snowed all morning and the outside looks like it's coated in fluffy marshmallow whipped cream.

The side of the head belongs to him.

I haven't gotten to reading The Fault in Our Stars yet because I've been reading a bunch of other things that I need to read (like folktales and information about maps!), but I'm super excited to read it. Likely, it will be  spring break before I get a chance to read anything that doesn't have to with chemistry or children (though it can be argued that The Fault in Our Stars is young adult lit, but we actually have a surprising large amount of reading pagewise for the Literature for Young People class I'm taking...) so I will definitely be reviewing it sometime or another. 

I realize that the end of last night's blog was a bit scattered because by the time I finished it, it was well past 1:30 AM, I had just had my brain melted by Black Hawk Down, and the conversation in the common room had taken a very political turn which just made me want to go to sleep. I am much more rested today, having spent most of my time reading folktales and analysis of tricksters. I'm now going to spend some time reading about maps. Yay.

It's been a while since I've written a daily theme, I know (which is why I'm glad I'm not taking the class) but I haven't been quite inspired to do the creative writings these days even though I love blogging every day. I've been pretty busy figuring out my class schedule, figuring out my traveling schedule, and, in general, enjoying life. My first trip will be to San Francisco next weekend, which I'm super excited about, and I find myself surprised that I'm at this point in my semester. January 30 seemed so far away during winter break, but it's 2 weeks into Spring semester already and I feel like almost no time has passed at all. It's finally feeling like winter with all the snow that's fallen today and it always takes me 5 extra minutes to get ready in the morning with all the layers I have to put on, but I feel more than ever that I'm grasping at the last bits of college life. I'm not ready to let go. It seems like just yesterday that I was high strung and neurotic about Science Bowl and about classes and couldn't let myself relax even though I had already gotten into college, but now, I'm content just sitting on the couch with my boyfriend, blogging when I could/should (you decide!) be reading, and getting distracted by Youtube videos.

Ok signing off now. Got lots of emails to send that should have been sent a while ago. Wah!

BEDUS Day 8: Snow!

Kelsey and I went out to dinner tonight to celebrate some things belated and recent, and ended up going to Thai Taste, our favorite Thai restaurant in the area. We've been there quite a number of times (the first time we ate out together was at Thai Taste, though let it be known, it was not a date), and though we've explored other Thai restaurants around here, it remains the best one we've tried.

Tonight, we had yellow curry (we almost always get curry, but rarely yellow curry, which is interesting because I love yellow curry. I think I don't get yellow curry too often because it has baby corns, which I don't really like...) and drunken noodle (I don't like drunken noodle as much as pad thai, but I also don't like the pad thai at Thai Taste as much as the pad thai at Win's Thai 2 back home, so whenever I get pad thai at Thai Taste, I can't help but be sad that it's not from Win's Thai 2.) and, because we're being fancy today, siam rolls (which Kelsey calls spring rolls because they are). We demolished everything in about 15 minutes because we were hungry hungry hippos.

This blog isn't really an insightful one because pretty much all I did today was tidy up my room and eat and read, but the fact that Kelsey is awesome at chemistry kinda deserves a props and a food entry since I really can't associate Kelsey with anything other than good food. :D

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OH YEAH. IT'S SNOWING. Feels like winter.