Nothing to do but carry on

I’m A Survivor, 

Reba McEntire

I was born three months too early 
The doctor gave me thirty days 
But I must've had my mama's will 
And God's amazing grace 

I guess I'll keep on livin' 
Even if this love's to die for 
'Cause your bags are packed and I ain't cryin' 
You're walkin' out and I'm not trying 
To change your mind 'cause I was born to be 

The baby girl without a chance 
A victim of circumstance 
The one who oughta give up, but she's just 
Too hard headed 
A single mom who works two jobs 
Who loves her kids and never stops 
With gentle hands and the heart of a fighter 
I'm a survivor 

I don't believe in self-pity 
It only brings you down 
May be the queen of broken hearts 
But I don't hide behind the crown 
When the deck is stacked against me 
I just play a different game 
My roots are planted in the past 
And though my life is changin' fast 
Who I am is who I wanna be 

The baby girl without a chance 
A victim of circumstance 
The one who oughta give up, but she's just 
Too hard headed 
A single mom who works two jobs 
Who loves her kids and never stops 
With gentle hands and the heart of a fighter 
I'm a survivor

A single mom who works two jobs 
Who loves her kids and never stops 
With gentle hands and the heart of a fighter 
I'm a survivor 

But I must've had my mama's will 
And God's amazing grace

Always a pleasure

I just wanted to state that when I put my micropipette tips in the autoclave, what I ACTUALLY wanted was to fill the cases with condensation to increase the potential for contamination, which is why I was ever so pleased that this plan worked so perfectly.

In other amusing news, last night I was totally in the mood to just give in to my nerdy side and enjoy a few hours of shamelessly nerdy Star Wars movie goodness, when it dawned upon me that I, personally do not own ANY of the Star Wars movies. None. Not even the OLD ones. When I sent a distressed text message to friends conveying this sad reality, I received comforting messages such as, "I remember when ypou used to be cool." Oh, the power of friendship.

Major roadblock

Midway through a productive day at work, our heroine reaches for her chocolate stash, as it dawns upon her that she left her bar of dark chocolate with sea salt at home.

Can she prevail through this time of hardship??! Stay tuned....



Update, 3pm: Not to worry, our heroine weathers this crisis like a champ, organizing mandatory, lab-wide hot chocolate break. She triumphs over evil once again!

I find myself hilarious, so shut up :)

me: claire
wuick
how many cookies is too many cookies to eat while editing your uailifer????
I THINK I HAVE GONE OVER THE LIMIT



There are kind of a lot of edits.

All the crazy

me: See. SEE!
this is why couples have trouble when they are apart

Sarah: yup

me: bc the girls lose patience with putting up with them
then we let allllll the crazy out

Sarah: its true

me: and then they re all, "oh, you're crazy."
WELL ONLY CAUSE U ARE STUPID!

Sarah: its totally true

me: i hate them

Sarah: and then you just spiral

me: yes
exactly

Sarah: and its like why cant you stop being stupid and making me crazy?
how did I even get here?



How DID we get here?


PS for your amusement, Actual Names of Documents:

Its for real-my qualifier.docx
Its for real-my qualifier (new).docx
Its for real-my qualifier (newer).docx
Its for real-my qualifier (newerer).docx
Its for real-my qualifier (edit).docx

On top of everything else...

So as if it's not bad enough that I only have 2 hrs a day to work on my document and it's due on Thurs, Netflix has decided to be a big ol jerk.

	Dear S We are separating unlimited DVDs by mail and unlimited streaming into two separate plans to better reflect the costs of each. Now our members have a choice: a streaming only plan, a DVD only plan, or both. Your current $9.99 a month membership for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs will be split into 2 distinct plans:    Plan 1: Unlimited Streaming (no DVDs) for $7.99 a month    Plan 2: Unlimited DVDs, 1 out at-a-time (no streaming) for $7.99 a month Your price for getting both of these plans will be $15.98 a month ($7.99 + $7.99). You don't need to do anything to continue your memberships for both unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs. These prices will start for charges on or after September 1, 2011. You can easily change or cancel your unlimited streaming plan, unlimited DVD plan, or both, by going to the Plan Change page in Your Account. We realize you have many choices for home entertainment, and we thank you for your business. As always, if you have questions, please feel free to call us at 1-888-357-1516. –The Netflix Team

Fuck you Netflix!! That's like a 50% price increase! I'm going back to effing Blockbuster.



9/19/2011 Update:

The CEO of Netflix has sent customers an email both apologizing and outlining the changes back to (more or less) the way things used to be. I commend them for stepping up and apologizing for their mistakes rather than trying to spin the poor decisions with some annoying marketing scheme. Way to go, Netflix!

A few I forgot...

Add to the list:

• Having to use the men's bathroom because the woman's is out of order
• The fact that the sky is pouring out rain right now and I don't have an umbrella
• Sporting venues ending with the suffix -dome (ie Astrodome, Metrodome, etc) (actually I rather liked the Metrodome, I just really hate the name.)
• Giant stress pimples that take over your face and suck all the goodness out of the world
• The fact that I've devoted an additional three minutes to this list

Things I hate

Writing at cafes today and being constantly annoyed by.... well, everything. So here is a list:
**please note that the author reserves the right to be completely ridiculous and contradictory in this list

• Loud people
• Rude people
• Bossy people
• Children
• Men
• Women
• Coffee
• Chai
• Tea
• Water
• Having to pay for water 
• Salt
• People who are not me
• Me
• People with jarringly loud ringtones who constantly get phone calls
• 40 year old women who make multiple phone calls and leave messages solely consisting of the sentence, "They broke up." (wtf??)
• Men who talk down to everyone, including other people's voicemails
• Men who leave voicemails at a vocal volume significantly greater than normal converaational levels
• Spell check and lack thereof
• Science
• People who I think I vaguely recognize but not enough to decide to say hello
• Bad covers of Buddy Holly songs (WTF Starbucks??!!)
• Social constraints against bringing cuddly kitty friends to cafes
• Short people who live too far away to have anti-stress dance parties with me
• Guys who give me the eye
• Guys who don't give me the eye
• Time
• Too much AC
• Parking meters
• Cashiers who ask me for my student ID when I ask for my student discount, when I am carrying a backpack and am across the street from campus
• Jim Morrison's pretentious look in the vintage concert poster facing me
• The fact that I spent 10 minutes making this list instead of writing my qualifier

The next entry....a few I forgot

QUALIFIMICATION

So from now until the accursed date of July 21st this blog will be the outlet for my anxieties, musings and general desperation leading up to my qualifier. In the case that I don't pass then the authorities will have ample  evidence that my death was indeed a suicide and not any case of foul play carried out by some failed online first date participant.

An email sent to my mother, sister, and best friend:

To those held most dear in my heart,
It's extremely sad but I have to inform you that I have lost all hope and welcome insanity as paranoid detachment from this world will be blissful indulgence. Seeing as my qualifier is on the 21st and I am spending the entirety of next week at a conference, you should be expecting daily emails of this sort, becoming increasingly frantic and less coherent, until that date which shall not be repeated.

Thank you for your attention.

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