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Almost there

samercury — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:14:49 GMT

Just realized that it's been ages since I've posted on this blog. I've kind of been stalking... uh following litnet on the side, but almost every time I try to post something, I end up feeling either awkward or get distracted :skep:. So anyways, spring's here (for the most part) and this god-awful semester is almost over. It's been hectic/crazy/weird and everything in between, but at least it was interesting.
I've spent most of it either in the lab trying to finish my experiments (waiting for plants) D:, reading sci papers (found out that I actually like them) or catching up to all the things that I missed while I was at the hospital. I'm not so sure if I want this semester to be over though. On one hand, it means that I would be done with classes, but on the other hand, a lot of my friends who are seniors are graduating this year and I'm going to miss them :(.
Anyways, here are some pics I recently-ish took:

Acrobatic squirrel

Sleeping duck

Crocuses at home

Even more crocuses

Sunset (why yes, I do love sunsets)

Daffodil (got obsessed with them two weeks ago and there are so many of them)- they're so pretty

Dandelion

My fave tree before it got cut down.

And that's it. :D

Mocha mola

samercury — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:31:05 GMT

Coolest fish ever

Mola mola (common name: ocean sunfish)

Heaviest bony fish: part of the Tetraodontiformes (same family as pufferfishes) historically up to ten feet long and up to 4927 pounds and they eat jellyfish; a medium-sized female can lay over 300,000,000 eggs most of which don't survive (obviously).

They look like giant heads, first time I saw a pic of one, thought it was a shark's half eaten lunch. Doesn't it look so cool though? And try saying its name a few times, after a while, you can't stop D:. I like fishies just not exams on them.

And I need to get more than 5 hours of sleep- soon but right now I'm too tired to sleep (and probably had too much coffee in the past few days). :lol:

And check out Big Picture

~Fall~

samercury — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:24:51 GMT

I've probably said this before, but I absolutely love fall. It's such a beautiful season, with the crisp air and the fog and the leaves changing colors and falling (except for when super-hyper squirrels throw nuts at you from 20ft up). Some pics from this fall and last fall- at home and at college :D.

Didn't take that many this year (until last week) because I left my camera at home so don't have as many of the maple trees (which are the prettiest ones). Oh well :/

Side note- wisdom teeth suck

To Do List

samercury — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:38:58 GMT

Every semester, I promise myself to take fewer science classes the following semester and every single time, it never ends up happening (ha). Either I see a class that I never knew existed before and think �ooh this looks so interesting� or I try to get the required classes out of the way or someone who took the class thinks I�d absolutely love it (which I do, but still). So, after the first week of classes, there�s this period where it�s so hard to get up in the morning: it�s the weeks after you just realized that the profs lied when they say that the classes are �not that bad� :lol: but before the time you start thinking about switching majors. |:

Seriously: why did I decide to take neurobio, orgo (and the lab), plant bio, marine vertebrates AND biochem. Oh well, at least there�s the weird/ fun ghosts and monsters class. On the other hand, they�re sooooo interesting! Except for the exams :goof:. Oh I really, really hate the exams. Last week, I had a bunch of them and it sucked. Pretty much lived on candy and coffee all week since the other classes/ labs/ homework don�t stop for exams and it�s hell managing everything but oh well. A couple of them weren�t that bad (pretty good actually), one was really� obscure- way too specific questions. The last was orgo which I�m pretty sure I did badly on OTL my thought at the end of that exam was �wow, those structures that I invented were so pretty� because I honestly just sat there trying to thing half the time. o.o

Oh and let�s not forget work. I mean, it�s really fun/ interesting and I�m learning a lot, but sometimes it takes up so much of my time- and I legit spend more time there than in all my classes for the week combined half the time. The worst part of that is the waiting-for-things-to-work part though. So my days for the past few weeks have been: wake up at 7/7:30 get ready, class, class (class), work (/lab), (class), eat/ take a break, study, read, sleep.
Anyways, I still love college (except for orgo sometimes, but I hope I never actually really need it) x__x

And what�s with everyone being sick lately? :sick: First, random people in class start coughing and sneezing their heads off, but every day, the coughs move closer and closer. Last week, my roomie was sick and now I�m starting to be (at least it waited until the first wave of exams was over) :D.

Cheddar

samercury — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:40:13 GMT

Just realized that although art is a very important of my life, I've never actually posted any of it here :O

(not avoiding studying for chem or anything... at all)

Older stuff:
Trees (pastel)

The Death of Summer (watercolors/ pen)

More recent:
Cocoon (pencils)

Dreams (pencils/ colored pencils)

Myfailed attempt at pixel art (not including emotes)

Currently working on:
[untitled] (pencils)

I'll stop for now. Still have a lot of improvements to do, but I really love drawing (almost as much as I love reading sometimes)... that's all

Fun

samercury — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:01:37 GMT

So, I had my first exam yesterday (in chemistry). To be honest, I have no clue how I did on it- which is kind of weird since I usually have a pretty good idea on how I do on my exams. This time, I spent a whole fifteen minutes figuring out what the heck he was asking in his questions. Anyways I either did pretty well or messed up horribly; either way, I'm glad it's over with since I was stressing about it all this week and most of last. I still really like chem, but the way the prof's teaching it, if I were back in highschool it'd be one of those classes where I'd do the minimum work to squeeze by with a B+/A- (like English senior year- my teacher that year was so bad she almost made me hate reading).

Also had my first essay due today. It's so weird. At first I was really excited about it, but every time I started writing it, I ended up hating everything I wrote. Deleted it and started the cycle over again. Didn't really have much time for it the past few days, then finished it last night. Then I deleted it this morning because I realized how horrible it was. So I basically wrote it in the hour and a half between my morning and afternoon class when it was due. Oh well, at least it was better than all my other drafts combined (luckily, I work relatively well under pressure).
Oh and next week I have three exams and two lab reports due, so this weekend is going to be super fun (not).

I've been soo tired lately . More so than usual I mean. Half the time, even waking up in the morning takes so much effort that I want to cry. Worse thing is, even if I get 8+ hours of sleep- which is pretty rare- it still doesn't help a whole lot.
On the bright side, I absolutely love my dorm this year (even though it's pretty far from a lot of my classes) and my roommate's pretty nice so that's great. Oh and my genetics class in the best class ever (...along with physics). It's just so cool and I've learned so much so far and the prof- whom I had for bio- is still as awesome as I remember. And my sister started college (lucky brat, she got to stay in the city :p) and she loves it so far- even though she didn't want to go there initially. Sisters.

...I'll stop rambling now (except for one last thing- every time I see this http://iwin72.deviantart.com/art/Use-an-Emote-91756255, I start laughing so much :lol: )
How's every else being doing?

"Wait. Beijing is in China?"

samercury — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:11:53 GMT

Quote in the title from one of my darling little sisters... during the Olympics. :| Sometimes, I really do wonder.

Going back to the zoo next week (don't know whether I should be happy or kinda sad about that :/). At least my roommate seems really nice this time around, so that should be fun. So many science classes this semester though (chem, genetics, physics and envirosci +labs - at least they're not all on the same days so that's a relief) should be pretty interesting though :D.

Let's see, what else? Finally caught up with a friend I haven't seen in about what 5 years. She used to be "like my bffl" (her words, not mine), but then she moved away and then I moved away etc. It was kind of fun except that she is such a... anyways, she's majoring in nursing now- which pretty much gave me the shock of my life. I almost choked when she told me. She's pretty different now- some good, some not that great (at least she's stopped with the Avril Lavigne obsession and is no longer dragging people off to stalk random guys that she has a crush on and is a bit less standoff-ish to people she doesn't know). It's just so weird...
I officially hate the phrase "we should definitely hang out sometime". It's so annoying (especially when spoken by people who try to sound so trippy) D: Seriously.

Oh yeah, just recently found out that the legal drinking age is 21, not 18. Who'd have guessed?
Just realized that I can count on one hand the number of people (not including my closest sister) who actually get my jokes and most of them no longer go to the same school as me. Why? :P

Water,water everywhere

samercury — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:07:40 GMT

...was pretty... interesting- yeah, that's the word for it :D.
Finished with my first year a couple of weeks ago, but it's been one thing after another (and my cousin- my favorite person in the entire world besides my sisters- came over this week! Haven't seen her in years. So that was pretty awesome). Anyways :D

First off, a few (important) lessons I learned during my first year:
- The idea that guys growing up after high school... yea, that's just a myth
- People change. Sometimes for the good, but others, you talk to them a few months later and your first thought is "o...kay?"
- Frat parties are lame(and not that entertaining after the first time... or even then actually)
- If you have a friend who... um... changes boyfriends every week or so, don't try to keep track of their names. It really is kind of awkward to say Hey is that your boyfriend ___?" when their name is something completely different (and the name you just mentioned is the name of their roommate)
- Knock before you enter a room (even if it's your own if you come back from home/ wherever early)
- To quote one of my very good friends "high school drama ain't got nothing on college drama"
- A long drawn-out "Hey" can serve just as well as a name
- Some people really can't take a joke
- If you say that you don't like guys, most people start making assumptions (even if you're not :rolleyes: )
- Classes can be fun
- If you tell someone where you went to school and they just met someone who went there as well, they'll say "omg, do you know ___?" and if you say no, they go "are you sure?"... without even giving you a description of the person (and even if your graduating class had over 300 kids).
- There are some really strange/ creepy people out there D:
- Even if you're 100+ miles away, your sisters will still call you at random times (for anything) and your parents will too (especially where one of your sister's going to college and about eating enough).
- According to most logic, you're either an alcoholic or a straightedge :| (which is pretty stupid)
- Whenever you need a library computer the most, they will all be occupied and most of the occupants will be checking their facebook

There are actually a lot of kids from my high school class who go to my college (didn't know this until after the first week when I met a couple of them- who lived in my building). I didn't really know most of them really well at the beginning, since I didn't really hang out with them in high school, but some of them are really pretty cool. Some have changed a lot though. There was this kid I knew (well, everyone knew him really). He used to be obsessed with singing- first in the Music Wing and last to leave, in charge of the boys' group and such (really talented singer and so energetic about it too). But this year... nothing. He just hangs out with a couple of kids from school and that's it. And the twins :lol:. Just wow. They're some of the nicest people you'll ever meet in the world (well from what I remember from Junior year anyways), but one of them is trying to be such a 'bad boy' now- and it's so not working out. It's hilarious. Whenever I feel down, I go to his floor and start laughing uncontrollably (and no, I don't mean it in a mean way, it's just funny). And this one girl, she used to never, ever be alone in high school and now... it's kind of weird. Some justs haven't changed all that much though.

This year, I had a huge problem with names. Which is kind of weird since I still remember the faces and names of people I haven't seen in ten years. But really. There's this one girl, she's really nice and I talk to her all the time and stuff, but I can't for the life of me recall her name (and I know she told it to me several times). And I still feel really bad about it. Side note- I've never met a more annoying person in my life than that girl from my chemistry class. I absolutely adored that class: the prof was hilarious and the subject was really fascinating and there was actually someone in the class I could really talk to. Sounds like the perfect class, right? Wrong. There was this random girl, with a very squeaky voice and every word that came out of her mouth sounded like "1337" speak. She was really preppy (in a bad sort of way) and kept on asking random people if they thought she was a ho (I wish I was kidding with that last part). And she thought she was soo smart ^^. So now, I really want to IM/ talk to everyone I've ever called really annoying and say "hey, look, remember how I thought you were the most annoying person in the world? Well guess what? I found someone who makes you sound like an angel"... but that'd be really awkward, so I'm probably not going to do it. Speaking f which, how do you apologize to someone for something mean you thought of them?

Now, my roommate. She had as much drama surrounding her as... can't really think of anything. She was pretty nice though- well most of the time, anyways. But in a way, she was as shy as I was, except that a lot of her good friends went to college here, so she could hide it better. Never really thought of this before :/
I'm so glad I didn't go to a college in Boston though. I know myself well enough by now to know that I would have turned like one of those people by the end of the first semester. You know, just hanging out with the people you knew well in high school and not even making an effort to mingle with anyone I didn't know as well, and doing that so much that I'd make myself and everyone else completely miserable. Besides, my parents would have worried so much more if I lived so close to home (I know it sounds weird, but it makes sense in my head). Really. Oh and there are some people that I'm so glad I don't have to avoid on a daily basis. Missed a lot of my friends and quite a few fun projects though :/

Things I did this year:
- Didn't do some things I could have, but didn't
- Didn't fall while giving a presentation
- Dissected a rat
- Wrote about myself for English class (that was the scariest assignment ever)
- Flirted with someone (yes, you can laugh, everyone else did :p)
- Became slightly more confident in myself
- Gave some useful advice
- Started thinking before talking
- Talked to new people (even though the first year anywhere I usually put this little shell around myself and try to avoid everyone) ;__;
- Made peace with myself with the whole God/ Evolution thing. (most happy about this)
- Had the weirdest dreams of my entire life (I seriously think I freaked out my roommate when I suddenly would suddenly wake up in the middle of the night after a dream and say "what the heck was that?"... then go back to sleep)
- Stalked the ducks and the geese to see where they go at night (good times)

Last side note- I'm going to be chaperoning my sister and several of her 'adventurous' classmates for a field trip next week. She guilt-tripped me into it ("why won't you come? Do you not like me anymore? Everyone else is busy")- so much that I woke up early this morning and signed the permission slip :(... This should be fun ._.

Sorry if that was too long
tl;dr- first year of college was pretty fun

Water,water everywhere

samercury — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:30:35 GMT

Wow, this is the first ever Mother's Day that I wasn't home. How weird is that? ):
Oh and my body hates me. I have two finals and an essay and a stats quiz this week and guess what it decides to do? Gave me a cold and have been pucking all weekend (when I've barely gotten sick all semester) . Thanks a lot. Really needed that right now.
And for the past couple of months, I keep on waking up before 7am... no matter how early/ late I go to sleep and I'm always so, so tired -__-.
On the bright side, I'm almost done with this year (10 more days left)! Can't wait to go home.
Now that's over with-

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers everywhere! =D (kids can be annoying some (most) of the time, but remember, they love you)

edit: coffee does not help

Water,water everywhere

samercury — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:34:25 GMT

Haven't written anything on here in a long time...
...today I had a presentation- yesterday now... and I'm still shaking from it. At least it's over and done with! and that's really good because I spent an entire week panicking and having nightmares about it- even better, nothing really embarrassing happened this time (well, except for my voice shaking and my saying um a lot)... yea...
Semester's being going pretty well so far, I think, except for history which I'm not sure about because I have no clue what the heck we're doing in that class. I mean, I go there every day and he just goes on and on about random stuff and then tells us we're going to have a midterm on something next month... I'll figure it out eventually.
I love my chem and bio classes so much! The labs are pretty fun too except that the bio lab's a bit icky at times and is really making me re-rethink my opinion of meat :sick:. Worst thing is, I keep on having these weird dreams that, instead of dissecting a rat or something, I'm dissecting a human and it's really kind of creeping me out...
The first chem lab was so embarrassing though- I broke 2 crucibles(!) within the first five minutes and almost set my area on fire... fun
And I also rediscovered something- I'm really bad at writing an entire essay about myself... it's so I don't know how to describe it :/
side note- everything sounds muffled (like when you're underwater for a while) and my throat really hurts from coughing, but I don't want to go to the doctor's :(

So how everyone else doing?

Water,water everywhere

samercury — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:48:19 GMT

This is what happens when I'm bored:

Still need to work a lot on the transparency of the second and third one (obviously), but that was fun and really interesting...
Happy New Year! :D
(late, but at least it's still the first week of January, right?)
That's pretty much it for today...
._.

Water,water everywhere

samercury — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:20:12 GMT

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas
---
Confusing stuff (well, one of them anyways):
My mom and boys- Every day ever since I've been little, she's said "stay away from boys" with the menacing look and dreadful stories about her sister (and my cousin who's "such an excellent example" to us). But then, every time one of her friends (who happen to have sons) come over, she's like "isn't he such a wonderful boy? You guys should go out sometime" about their sons... my reaction :lol: because um, most of them aren't 'nice' they just fake it every time they're around the aunties and stuff (I should know, I do the same thing and have been around them for a long, long time).

I never asked, did I cause your distress?
Just in case they said yes

Oh and the whole keeping in touch with people thing... yeah, I'm really bad at that. I mean, there are some people, right, you don't see them for years and then you meet them again and you start yapping away for hours. And then there are some people that you're glad you'll never see again (even if you pretend otherwise). And then there are the people that after you don't see them for a few months, the conversation goes a bit like this: >.>
Her: "So... how's college?"
Me: "Pretty cool so far... you?"
Her: "Me too..."
Me: "Yea..."
Her: "..."
and it's a bit awkward... forgot what I was going to say so I better stop rambling.
Anyways
There are so many songs that are stuck in my head right now, it's like a meli-melo up there... probably because the concert last week. I was actually pleasantly surprised because so many of them were pretty good (well, they usually are really good, but since so many of the old members aren't there anymore, I was a bit worried, but anyways).

Who'd ever think it?
Such a squalid little ending
Watching him descending
Just as far as he can go
I'm learning things I didn't want to know
Who'd ever guess it?
This would be the situation
One more complication
Should be neither here nor there
I wish I had it in me not to care

It was pretty fun
Sidenote- I've been listening to these pretty much all afternoon

...that was a bit long

Water,water everywhere

samercury — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:22:36 GMT

Finally done with this semester! My math final was um... actually let's just skip over that part <.< ... I think I did pretty well on my bio final though (I'm going to miss that class so much- it was my favorite one)
Glad to be back home for a while (well, kind of) I'm going to end up being so bored by the time class restarts again though... should still be fun maybe...
Gosh my sister's really, really annoying! :flare:

Water,water everywhere

samercury — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:48:14 GMT

Every time I think about starting one of those, I always procrastinate. Since I'm now procrastinating studying for my math final, I'll write something... yea... um... :idea:
A few more days and then I'm done with this semester! Learned a very important lesson though: I never want to take calculus again -__- I mean, it was interesting most of the time (well, kind of) but... anyways, that sucks because I can't major in ES without the second semester of it, which is kind of stupid if you think about it: you can major in bio with one sem of calc and one of stats, but you can't do that for enviro-sci. Why? Oh well, it was just a passing thought anyways
One thing that really ticks me off: "Stop global warming!". Jeez, you can't bloody stop global warming- it's a natural process. Sure humans may have made it go faster (yaddah, ya) but the best you can do is slow it down! It's really starting to make me really annoyed when random people keep on saying that...
I love that song so much- well, should really be those songs because there's more than one of them. Another thing- why are there so few guys in most choirs? Take my old highschool for example: the only choir that has even 1/3 of the members that are boys is CC (and that's because they meet during study and not after school). I mean, singing is cool(!)- especially when the people singing have beautiful voices (which I know a lot of them do). The shortage of boys is especially bad because there are so many awesome songs that have a heavy tenor/ baritome part and it's kind of a strain for most girls to sing that low for a long time :sick:. A couple of months ago, I went to this show choir festival and *gasp* there was this one group with extra boys! I swear, that's the only thing everybody noticed at first and I was so impressed- I mean, do you know how rare that is?..
I'm kind of sad that my bio class is ending though :(. My teacher was so cool- I want to have another one of her classes again and I learned so much... it was mindblowing I tell you... I'm not looking forward to Mondays next semester (pretty much have classes from 9 to 7- fun stuff)... on the other hand, the classes sound so... interesting
Only a couple of days (and finals) and then I'm home for slightly more than a month! yay! I really hope my cold doesn't get worse before and during my finals though. It'd be really bad. Bah- I hate finals, they make me so nervous and scard and panicked and I'm always afraid I'm going to forget something! Oh and the math final's early in the morning. Whose bright idea was this? :rolleyes:

That was relieving in a way... guess my psych teacher was right

Water,water everywhere

samercury — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:41:18 GMT

Go out, walk, go to school
Return home, homework, sleep
What have you done during your day
During your Life

Have you done anything, really
Achieved any dreams
I think not
Go out, meet a Phoenix

Walk, school, returning...
You meet the Phoenix again
He asks you if you want to
Fly with it and go away

Far away, to another planet
Home, homework
Leave everything behing and
Go live where you want

Sleep, sleep, sleep
No responsability
No choice, nothing, at peace...maybe
Would you accept the Phoenix's gift

Sleep, sleep, RING
The bell wakes you up
And find out that it's a dream
But there's a feather on your head

And at night you can see it
It's in your room, watching you...
Waiting until the day you choose
Would you accept its gift

Just remember, Every gift has a string