Finding a ride home could be difficult. At first, I was excited, because my finals are done by the eigth and I thought I'd be able to go home early. But, my dreams crashed into the abyss in a fiery burning ball of realization when I remembered that I have evening labs on Thursday that don't get over until 8:00. :( Drat. So everyone will have finished their finals by Thursday afternoon, while I'll still have labs. I've sent out an e-mail to see if anyone is leaving that late on Thursday or on Friday morning (the dorm closes at 10), so we'll see the responses I get.
The rain in Spain, must have escaped, and is no longer staying in the plain because the entire world's supply of rain seems to have found its way to Seattle!!!! Gosh dang it should not rain this much . . . Two days in a row is acceptable, three days in a row is unusual, but four days in a row is just pure ludicrisy!!!! I am very much looking forward to being back in Yakima for Christmas break where the winter weather consists of only three options: cloudy, not cloudy, and snow (where the majority of the days are the second option). ;)
Good news, people!! Ted is alive!!! :D I did not kill my fern through my gross neglect! I will have to bring him home for Christmas break, though. He may have survived Thanksgiving, but a month with no water would not be good.
And, as a closing note, my finals are next week. Gah . . .
The Frenzied Finaler (yes I made that word up, I've been known to do it before)
It's me, happy!
Monday, November 29, 2004
Monday, November 22, 2004
Comment Replies
I was thinking of just posting an additional comment in reply to all the other comments I've received on my last post, but some of these issues were just too big to be responded to in a comment-length paragraph. ;)
Number One: The ducklings picture has only been up since yesterday when the page that hosts the trillium picture I was using went on the fritz. As I have all the patience of a wet piece of bread waiting to mold inside a plastic bag, I changed it the moment I sensed even a hint of trouble. But the picture of the ducklings seems somehow more appropriate to the season (as trilliums bloom in early summer) and the setting (as ducks seem to imply rain, for whatever reason.) :D How very observant of Annie to notice so soon! ~Claps~
Number Two: Where is your tie, Kim?
And Number Three, and most disturbing of all: A hairless, starving panda?!? Fun to see?!?!?!?! Who are you and what have you done with my sweet, innocent Sally!?!?!?! ;) ~whimpers and clutches her precious panda emoticons close~
Now that that's over, on to the more bloggy stuff! Only three more classes until I go home!!! Lab tonight was fun. :D There were only eight of us total in the Monday lab section (moved from Thursday for obvious reasons) so the lab was really low-pressure and fun. :) Also, I hadn't actually already performed this lab in my A.P. biology class in highschool, so that was a plus. ;) I spent most of the lab spinning in circles on my stool and asking the biology professor funky questions like why the kernels on the end of the corn were less dimpled than the ones in the middle (he didn't actually answer that one) and what it is about naphthalene that drives away bugs (it interferes with their breathing like chlorine gas in WWI) etc. Those of you who know me well enough can picture how I behave when I'm in a perfectly relaxed environment. Kind of like I'll be on Saturday with the gang. ;) 'Cept that'll be a little more relaxed still. :D
And for those of you who are wondering, the new links over at the right are to the blogs of Emily Hoover and Steve Mast, one of Andy's room mates. :) I made them all by myself this time with no help from Laura! W00t! I'll graduate from EII! with D's yet! ;)
The Laughable Lyricist (I am a lyricist today because I have been singing songs such as Strong Bad's famous "Oh, if it's possessive it's just I-T-S! But if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's I-T-apostrophe-S! Scalawag!" :D)
Number One: The ducklings picture has only been up since yesterday when the page that hosts the trillium picture I was using went on the fritz. As I have all the patience of a wet piece of bread waiting to mold inside a plastic bag, I changed it the moment I sensed even a hint of trouble. But the picture of the ducklings seems somehow more appropriate to the season (as trilliums bloom in early summer) and the setting (as ducks seem to imply rain, for whatever reason.) :D How very observant of Annie to notice so soon! ~Claps~
Number Two: Where is your tie, Kim?
And Number Three, and most disturbing of all: A hairless, starving panda?!? Fun to see?!?!?!?! Who are you and what have you done with my sweet, innocent Sally!?!?!?! ;) ~whimpers and clutches her precious panda emoticons close~
Now that that's over, on to the more bloggy stuff! Only three more classes until I go home!!! Lab tonight was fun. :D There were only eight of us total in the Monday lab section (moved from Thursday for obvious reasons) so the lab was really low-pressure and fun. :) Also, I hadn't actually already performed this lab in my A.P. biology class in highschool, so that was a plus. ;) I spent most of the lab spinning in circles on my stool and asking the biology professor funky questions like why the kernels on the end of the corn were less dimpled than the ones in the middle (he didn't actually answer that one) and what it is about naphthalene that drives away bugs (it interferes with their breathing like chlorine gas in WWI) etc. Those of you who know me well enough can picture how I behave when I'm in a perfectly relaxed environment. Kind of like I'll be on Saturday with the gang. ;) 'Cept that'll be a little more relaxed still. :D
And for those of you who are wondering, the new links over at the right are to the blogs of Emily Hoover and Steve Mast, one of Andy's room mates. :) I made them all by myself this time with no help from Laura! W00t! I'll graduate from EII! with D's yet! ;)
The Laughable Lyricist (I am a lyricist today because I have been singing songs such as Strong Bad's famous "Oh, if it's possessive it's just I-T-S! But if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's I-T-apostrophe-S! Scalawag!" :D)
Saturday, November 20, 2004
EII!
Hello. My name is Bonnie and I'm a member of Electronics Icompentents International (EII! Spoken as a sound of utter despair by computer technicians across the world). I learned a valuable lesson the other day. Computers and magnets don't mix. Ever. Now, those more astute than myself may already be groaning at this statement, but rest assured, my laptop suffered no lasting ill effects. ;)
I had a very nice morning today. I was awake by ten, but I didn't leave my bed until after one. Why you ask? Because I was reading. :D It was so relaxing . . . I have not read in bed for a long time. Since last Thursday, at least. ;) Naw . . . I'm kidding. It's been longer than that. :)
Is it just me or does this font make winking smileys look very . . . feminine? I mean, look at it. ;) It appears ot have very long eyelashes. But I guess it doesn't really matter what the smileys look like. I use pandas on MSN for crying out loud, and I don't much resemble one. Except perhaps when I am tired enough to acquire those huge circles under my eyes. Then I suppose some hunter in China might mistake me for a giant panda from far enough away. The illusion would be even more enhanced if I were munching on a stick of celery. ;)
Yay! My health record mystery has been solved! I received, not .5 of a full dose, but 5 ccm! :D I'm good for the next seven years on tetnis! I can now puncture myself with metal worry-free! . . . is that really such a good thing?
Two more school days left!!! (No school on Tuesday for me)
The Soon-to-be-home Student
I had a very nice morning today. I was awake by ten, but I didn't leave my bed until after one. Why you ask? Because I was reading. :D It was so relaxing . . . I have not read in bed for a long time. Since last Thursday, at least. ;) Naw . . . I'm kidding. It's been longer than that. :)
Is it just me or does this font make winking smileys look very . . . feminine? I mean, look at it. ;) It appears ot have very long eyelashes. But I guess it doesn't really matter what the smileys look like. I use pandas on MSN for crying out loud, and I don't much resemble one. Except perhaps when I am tired enough to acquire those huge circles under my eyes. Then I suppose some hunter in China might mistake me for a giant panda from far enough away. The illusion would be even more enhanced if I were munching on a stick of celery. ;)
Yay! My health record mystery has been solved! I received, not .5 of a full dose, but 5 ccm! :D I'm good for the next seven years on tetnis! I can now puncture myself with metal worry-free! . . . is that really such a good thing?
Two more school days left!!! (No school on Tuesday for me)
The Soon-to-be-home Student
Friday, November 19, 2004
Alas!
Alas, alack it has happened! I have not blogged in a week! Oh shame, shame on one who scoffed at others for not posting often enough! Woe! . . . Shame and woe! . . . Yeah . . . Anyway, apox upon me I'll try and post more often. ;)
SPU just recently put up their Christmas lights. Now, I know it's freakishly early to be putting up Christmas lights, but it just seems right, somehow! Most of the trees around campus have lost all their leaves and are now looking pretty bare and uninspiring. The twinkly white lights on the buildings around Tiffany Loop just make it so much more cheerful. :) Plus, Moyer is the only hall worthy of Christmas lights apparently, so nyah! :-P They were blocking our front door with a giant manlift as I came home from class one day. It took me awhile to figure out what was going on . . . I wish I had a digital camera so I could take pictures of the lights and upload them here on my blog. Maybe I can induce Laura to do so . . . Hmm . . .
I have a chemistry midterm on Monday. I feel a lot more confident going into this one than I did going into the first one. Unlike my latest biology midterm . . . yeah . . . Respiration has never been my strongpoint. Thankfully, Dr. Ridgway (the missing "e" always throws me off there . . .) allows us to make up a third of the points by doing a remedial assignment, so I should be okay and still hopefully get a good grade in the class.
I am also registering for my classes next quarter and I've been able to get into Biology 2102 (glee!) a bio lab on Thursday evening, a chem lab on Thursday evening, but here's the catch . . . I wasn't able to register for Chem 1212 . . . It would be interesting to be in a lab for no credit while I wasn't in a class that coincided with it . . . Anyway, I've e-mailed my professor about it, and I should be okay by tomorrow. Oh! And by the way parents, if you're wondering how I'm registering with a health record hold, Professor Peter was nice enough to take it off for me so I could register today. But we still need to figure out the tetnis shot thing!
Okay, I think that is a long enough post to satisfy my lack of posts for the last week. I am so looking forward to Thanksgiving! I'm wondering if I could hold off laundry for long enough to do it for free at home . . . probably not . . . ;) But maybe I'll just do one dark and light load this weekend and pack some stuff in a suitcase for takin' down to Yakima! A penny saved is a penny earned and laundry up here is stinkin' expensive! Oh well. :) I'll figure it out.
The Cheerful Chica
SPU just recently put up their Christmas lights. Now, I know it's freakishly early to be putting up Christmas lights, but it just seems right, somehow! Most of the trees around campus have lost all their leaves and are now looking pretty bare and uninspiring. The twinkly white lights on the buildings around Tiffany Loop just make it so much more cheerful. :) Plus, Moyer is the only hall worthy of Christmas lights apparently, so nyah! :-P They were blocking our front door with a giant manlift as I came home from class one day. It took me awhile to figure out what was going on . . . I wish I had a digital camera so I could take pictures of the lights and upload them here on my blog. Maybe I can induce Laura to do so . . . Hmm . . .
I have a chemistry midterm on Monday. I feel a lot more confident going into this one than I did going into the first one. Unlike my latest biology midterm . . . yeah . . . Respiration has never been my strongpoint. Thankfully, Dr. Ridgway (the missing "e" always throws me off there . . .) allows us to make up a third of the points by doing a remedial assignment, so I should be okay and still hopefully get a good grade in the class.
I am also registering for my classes next quarter and I've been able to get into Biology 2102 (glee!) a bio lab on Thursday evening, a chem lab on Thursday evening, but here's the catch . . . I wasn't able to register for Chem 1212 . . . It would be interesting to be in a lab for no credit while I wasn't in a class that coincided with it . . . Anyway, I've e-mailed my professor about it, and I should be okay by tomorrow. Oh! And by the way parents, if you're wondering how I'm registering with a health record hold, Professor Peter was nice enough to take it off for me so I could register today. But we still need to figure out the tetnis shot thing!
Okay, I think that is a long enough post to satisfy my lack of posts for the last week. I am so looking forward to Thanksgiving! I'm wondering if I could hold off laundry for long enough to do it for free at home . . . probably not . . . ;) But maybe I'll just do one dark and light load this weekend and pack some stuff in a suitcase for takin' down to Yakima! A penny saved is a penny earned and laundry up here is stinkin' expensive! Oh well. :) I'll figure it out.
The Cheerful Chica
Friday, November 12, 2004
Coffee + 2 hours sleep = XP
My body is no longer on speaking terms with me. I've messed its biochemistry up too much. It all started with my overactive brain. Last night, I got about two hours of sleep. Not from lack of trying, trust me. I went to bed at 12:30. This would normally give me about eight hours of sleep. I believe I finally fell asleep around 6:30. Yeah. That's right. Two hours. Total. Needless to say I was a bit tired this morning, and slept through the first twenty minutes of my USEM. Why did I not get to sleep 'til 6:30 you ask? Well frankly, the answer is, I have absolutely no idea! My brain would just not shut-up for some odd reason! I was literally counting my breaths to try to get myself to stop thinking! I would be lying there counting, "26 . . . 27 . . . 28 . . . " when I would feel a thought starting. It wouldn't be an actual thought yet, just the beginnings of thinking, so I would stuff it down as hard as I could mentally and count as emphatically inside my head as I could, "29! . . . 30! . . . 31!" so I could try to keep my attention on the numbers alone and not other thoughts. Man, it was frustrating!
So this morning, I took the only possible sane course of action that I could, and got a grande white chocolate mocha from Academic Perks. Well, this actually turned out to be not such a good decision. My brain was sending out such strong signals of "Sleep now! Sleep now! Sleep now!" at the same time that the caffeine in the coffee was giving off signals of "Stay awake! Stay awake! Stay awake!" That my body freaked out. I was fidgety, moody, and just overall crazy. I was breathing so quickly I was practically hyperventilating. There were even a few tears squeezed out of my eyes. I felt like I was on drugs, and if you think about it, I guess I was. Caffiene is a legal addictive stimulant. ;) Now I have learned my lesson. Coffee is not a good idea on so little sleep.
Something cool happened today. :) I had just finished getting my mocha and was walking along the sidewalk on my way to class. Tiffany Loop is full of huge deciduous trees. While I was walking, a breeze came along at just the right speed and height from the ground that it was knocking yellow leaves from the trees in a steady flow that looked like rain. It just kept going and going until you felt that the trees must have dropped all the leaves they contained. It was so great. I just stood there for a few minutes holding my coffeee, enjoying the quiet spectacle in front of me. Even though I am still a stubborn summer baby, I have to admit fall is beautiful here at SPU.
And now for the boring stuff. The girl who trained me for my ILL job at the library will not be working next quarter because she will be doing an internship instead. This means that I have quickly become the senior afternoon ILL student, and will be training the new student next quarter. Yikes. I hope I do alright. Oh, and parents? I went to Marston to find out what the health record hold on my registration is, and they don't have a record of a tetnis shot for me within the last ten years. Now, as I've gone on a mission trip within the last ten years, I'm fairly certain I've had a tetnis shot in the last five years. So, if you could fax a copy of my immunization record to (206) 281-2674. I am not sure what they will need as far as information, so go ahead and go stir crazy and send my name, student ID number (990396893) (oooh . . . wavy numbers . . . ) and anything else you think might be useful. ;)
Sorry for the long hiatus. Heh. Long for me anyway. ;) Some people don't post for a week or two and think nothing of it. ~Cough cough! andyandaaron! Cough!~ And tell Adam I will be giving him his birthday present at Thanksgiving. I forgot I bought him one before I left and hid it behind my door . . .
The Buzzed Biologist
So this morning, I took the only possible sane course of action that I could, and got a grande white chocolate mocha from Academic Perks. Well, this actually turned out to be not such a good decision. My brain was sending out such strong signals of "Sleep now! Sleep now! Sleep now!" at the same time that the caffeine in the coffee was giving off signals of "Stay awake! Stay awake! Stay awake!" That my body freaked out. I was fidgety, moody, and just overall crazy. I was breathing so quickly I was practically hyperventilating. There were even a few tears squeezed out of my eyes. I felt like I was on drugs, and if you think about it, I guess I was. Caffiene is a legal addictive stimulant. ;) Now I have learned my lesson. Coffee is not a good idea on so little sleep.
Something cool happened today. :) I had just finished getting my mocha and was walking along the sidewalk on my way to class. Tiffany Loop is full of huge deciduous trees. While I was walking, a breeze came along at just the right speed and height from the ground that it was knocking yellow leaves from the trees in a steady flow that looked like rain. It just kept going and going until you felt that the trees must have dropped all the leaves they contained. It was so great. I just stood there for a few minutes holding my coffeee, enjoying the quiet spectacle in front of me. Even though I am still a stubborn summer baby, I have to admit fall is beautiful here at SPU.
And now for the boring stuff. The girl who trained me for my ILL job at the library will not be working next quarter because she will be doing an internship instead. This means that I have quickly become the senior afternoon ILL student, and will be training the new student next quarter. Yikes. I hope I do alright. Oh, and parents? I went to Marston to find out what the health record hold on my registration is, and they don't have a record of a tetnis shot for me within the last ten years. Now, as I've gone on a mission trip within the last ten years, I'm fairly certain I've had a tetnis shot in the last five years. So, if you could fax a copy of my immunization record to (206) 281-2674. I am not sure what they will need as far as information, so go ahead and go stir crazy and send my name, student ID number (990396893) (oooh . . . wavy numbers . . . ) and anything else you think might be useful. ;)
Sorry for the long hiatus. Heh. Long for me anyway. ;) Some people don't post for a week or two and think nothing of it. ~Cough cough! andyandaaron! Cough!~ And tell Adam I will be giving him his birthday present at Thanksgiving. I forgot I bought him one before I left and hid it behind my door . . .
The Buzzed Biologist
Monday, November 08, 2004
Those Were Good Days . . . Good Days . . .
College is definitely a great environment. :) Right now there is a guy playing and singing "Sweet Home Alabama" on his acoustic guitar in our hallway. He started out by walking up and down our hall singing and playing "Johnny Be Good." He's very talented in both the singing and playing areas and he provides a nice backdrop for my writing. He played "The Day the Music Died" a while ago, and all I was hearing was the Weird Al Star Wars episode. There is currently a group of girls sitting around him singing along. :)
I had my biology lab tonight because Thursday is Veteran's Day. My chemistry class went in the opposite direction and all labs were cancelled for the week. I liked the biology lab tonight. It was on plants. I'm realizing more and more just how much I like plants. They are SOOOO awesome! I mean, they are the ultimate source of all our nutritional energy, they are some of the only organisms on the earth that make their own food, and they are just spiffy in general. Maybe I will become a botanist. :)
I am seriously enjoying that care package that you sent, Mom and Dad. :D I haven't had candy since I came to school! I'm so looking forward to Thanksgiving! I miss you all so much. Plus, the food is going to taste incredible!!! ;) I enjoyed having a home-cooked meal at Andy's apartment even if it was just spaghetti. I haven't figured out a ride yet, but I'm hoping to get a few more e-mails back.
I think tomorrow is going to have to be a very boring day. :-\ I have some serious laundry needs and my homework is building up (USEM research paper on nuclear reactor due the 12th!). So I'll just have to wait and see what happens. I'm also going to head over to Marston tomorrow to see what exactly the "health record" hold on my registration is. I certainly hope I'm not missing an immunization . . . :-
Oh, I had a great time at Andy's house, by the way. ;) We watched Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within or something like that . . . and Andy and I made spaghetti. I missed my bus on the way back, but Andy came to the rescue and called me a cab! It was pricey! :-\ But I have made him let me pay for half, so I feel better at least. ;)
Did you guys know that the first 100 Strong Bad e-mails are now out on DVD??!?! How awesome is that!?!??! Someone PLEEEEEAAASE buy me this for Christmas! ;) :D
The Pathetic Pleader
I had my biology lab tonight because Thursday is Veteran's Day. My chemistry class went in the opposite direction and all labs were cancelled for the week. I liked the biology lab tonight. It was on plants. I'm realizing more and more just how much I like plants. They are SOOOO awesome! I mean, they are the ultimate source of all our nutritional energy, they are some of the only organisms on the earth that make their own food, and they are just spiffy in general. Maybe I will become a botanist. :)
I am seriously enjoying that care package that you sent, Mom and Dad. :D I haven't had candy since I came to school! I'm so looking forward to Thanksgiving! I miss you all so much. Plus, the food is going to taste incredible!!! ;) I enjoyed having a home-cooked meal at Andy's apartment even if it was just spaghetti. I haven't figured out a ride yet, but I'm hoping to get a few more e-mails back.
I think tomorrow is going to have to be a very boring day. :-\ I have some serious laundry needs and my homework is building up (USEM research paper on nuclear reactor due the 12th!). So I'll just have to wait and see what happens. I'm also going to head over to Marston tomorrow to see what exactly the "health record" hold on my registration is. I certainly hope I'm not missing an immunization . . . :-
Oh, I had a great time at Andy's house, by the way. ;) We watched Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within or something like that . . . and Andy and I made spaghetti. I missed my bus on the way back, but Andy came to the rescue and called me a cab! It was pricey! :-\ But I have made him let me pay for half, so I feel better at least. ;)
Did you guys know that the first 100 Strong Bad e-mails are now out on DVD??!?! How awesome is that!?!??! Someone PLEEEEEAAASE buy me this for Christmas! ;) :D
The Pathetic Pleader
Friday, November 05, 2004
Today is finally almost over!!!
This has been a strange day. There have been things on the extremely good end of the spectrum and things on the not so extremely good end of the spectrum. The good things are as follows: I finally picked up a package that my mom and dad sent awhile ago! Yay! I got my term paper done and I think I did pretty well on it! Yay! But the best thing about today isn't really something that happened persay . . . the best thing about today is that it's the last day before I visit Andy!!! Hooray!!!!! I'm goin' to be making spaghetti for all the boys (with a little hlep, of course) and we're going to have a great visit. My bus schedule is set and I'm ready to go! I think I've been ready since two weeks ago though . . .
The bad thing(s) that happened today were as follows (heh. I like it that I put the good things as "are" and the bad things as "were". Totally shows you my personality there . . . ): I pretty much flunked a chemistry quiz. No, I don't just think I did badly, I think I totally flunked. To begin with, math has never been a favorite of mine, but on top of that, I forgot to transfer my calculator from my lab bag to my school bag last night, so I was flying solo for the first fifteen minutes of the twenty minutes alloted for the quiz. Koh . . . So yeah, that'll be a bad grade. I'll have to get 100% on every quiz from now on to bring that score up . . . Plus, Sally was in an accident in Yakima the other day. She's okay as far as I know, but her car is totalled. I don't think you knew that yet, parents. Please pray for the Grahams and that they'll be able to find a new car for Sally.
I am getting up weeeery early tomorrow, and there was candy in the care package my parents sent me and I'm done with my research paper and I'm seeing Andy tomorrow so I am very tired!!!! By the way, thank you for the care package, parents!!! I thoroughly enjoy it already! :D
The Ecstatic Epiphanist
P.S. If you are wondering what epiphany I've come up with to warrant that sign-out name, I'll let you know! ;)
The bad thing(s) that happened today were as follows (heh. I like it that I put the good things as "are" and the bad things as "were". Totally shows you my personality there . . . ): I pretty much flunked a chemistry quiz. No, I don't just think I did badly, I think I totally flunked. To begin with, math has never been a favorite of mine, but on top of that, I forgot to transfer my calculator from my lab bag to my school bag last night, so I was flying solo for the first fifteen minutes of the twenty minutes alloted for the quiz. Koh . . . So yeah, that'll be a bad grade. I'll have to get 100% on every quiz from now on to bring that score up . . . Plus, Sally was in an accident in Yakima the other day. She's okay as far as I know, but her car is totalled. I don't think you knew that yet, parents. Please pray for the Grahams and that they'll be able to find a new car for Sally.
I am getting up weeeery early tomorrow, and there was candy in the care package my parents sent me and I'm done with my research paper and I'm seeing Andy tomorrow so I am very tired!!!! By the way, thank you for the care package, parents!!! I thoroughly enjoy it already! :D
The Ecstatic Epiphanist
P.S. If you are wondering what epiphany I've come up with to warrant that sign-out name, I'll let you know! ;)
Monday, November 01, 2004
Singin' in the Rain
Sarcastic's Warning: Contact with this blog may cause spontaneous sarcasm eruptions. If you are a recovering sarcastic, do not read this entry!
I felt kinda crappy this morning, what with being sore and having a scratchy throat and an upset stomach (possibly just the results of a long weekend) so I intentionally slept through my USEM. I felt better after sleeping for a bit longer (I think I totalled about 13 hrs because I went to bed early last night.) So I attended my Chemistry and Biology classes. I'm going to ask Danielle at our meeting tomorrow what we did yesterday.
We watch some very low-tech, and therefore humorous videos in Biology whenever Dr. Ridgeway goes over a point that he thinks needs a bit more kinesthetic visual aid. So far we have had the "Pac Man" resembling polymerase (the enzyme that reassembles DNA for replication) that gobbled up nucleotides, a jerky visualization of myosin heads "walking" down actin filaments, and that brings me to the best one, which was also in the video about actin. The video was showing the myosin-actin structure individually, then the shot zoomed out and showed several pairs of myosin and actin working together in sync, and then zoomed out even more to show the myosin and actin in several cells working together to produce a contraction, and finally zoomed out so much that you could see the cells contracting through a little window cut-out in the finger. Then, the icing on the cake. A band-aid flies into the picture, and covers up the window showing the actin and myosin! The whole class just burst out laughing! It was so cheesy! :D
Christi and I twirled in Martin Squircle after dinner tonight. It was great fun. :) I had my umbrella, so I did Singing in the Rain impressions. It accidentally flipped inside-out and scared me so Christi and I were making umbrella CPR jokes on the way back to Moyer. There are many crazy "kindred spirits" here at SPU. :)
The Pun-Pleased Pupil
(oooh . . . triple letter score)
I felt kinda crappy this morning, what with being sore and having a scratchy throat and an upset stomach (possibly just the results of a long weekend) so I intentionally slept through my USEM. I felt better after sleeping for a bit longer (I think I totalled about 13 hrs because I went to bed early last night.) So I attended my Chemistry and Biology classes. I'm going to ask Danielle at our meeting tomorrow what we did yesterday.
We watch some very low-tech, and therefore humorous videos in Biology whenever Dr. Ridgeway goes over a point that he thinks needs a bit more kinesthetic visual aid. So far we have had the "Pac Man" resembling polymerase (the enzyme that reassembles DNA for replication) that gobbled up nucleotides, a jerky visualization of myosin heads "walking" down actin filaments, and that brings me to the best one, which was also in the video about actin. The video was showing the myosin-actin structure individually, then the shot zoomed out and showed several pairs of myosin and actin working together in sync, and then zoomed out even more to show the myosin and actin in several cells working together to produce a contraction, and finally zoomed out so much that you could see the cells contracting through a little window cut-out in the finger. Then, the icing on the cake. A band-aid flies into the picture, and covers up the window showing the actin and myosin! The whole class just burst out laughing! It was so cheesy! :D
Christi and I twirled in Martin Squircle after dinner tonight. It was great fun. :) I had my umbrella, so I did Singing in the Rain impressions. It accidentally flipped inside-out and scared me so Christi and I were making umbrella CPR jokes on the way back to Moyer. There are many crazy "kindred spirits" here at SPU. :)
The Pun-Pleased Pupil
(oooh . . . triple letter score)
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