Closing in on 200

I have right now 189 posts in my blog (once I post this one). Soon, I shall have 200 posts in my blog. One, which I feel no need to discard at the moment, however, I normally get rid of them after one year. I don't know where I would go. I haven't had the kinds of dramatic changes that I have had over the last few years, so this blog might last me a while into 2008.

Today is going to be a long day. Five and a half hours of work this morning, followed by my P-Chem test, and ultimately by another 5 hours, at least, at the hospital tonight. Fridays always seem to be my good day for burning through calories like crazy. I think though that I might get some lunch on my way to work if I can find someplace to stop.

This weekend has a couple of good things and some bad ones going for it right now. I have a TON of Methods, Spanish, and Genetics to get caught up on. TONS. Theyll probably take most of my weekend. Fortunately, I have absolutely no P-Chem to do this weekend, nor do I have any immunology to do this weekend, so that gets me down to 19 hours about which I have to worry this weekend. I'm going to try to read all of my history for this weekend while I'm at work this morning, so that I can finish that homework for Tuesday, thereby making my worry hours to 16.

But seriously, Spanish is going to kill me this weekend. I have to come up with some kind of thesis for this essay, which is going to be a 8-10 page one (freaking easy). We all know that 8-10 pages is generally a better range than anything less than that. Less than 6 definitely throws me into total chaos. I think I've only had one or two papers assigned that were by design, not by my excessive rambling, more than 10 pages. Next semester is going to be freaking nice with my philosophy thesis, as I get to do at least 30 pages, and I don't think that there is a lower limit there. I think we have to have a student peer sort of person with us, and I'll definitely be working with my LTC coworker if she's ok with it.

Anyways, where was I? Oh, yes, HW. On top of coming up with a thesis, I need to write a composition, which means obsessive editing, and read the rest of this chapter. I keep getting the feeling that we have an exam coming up, but there's nothing in the syllabus about it. She said we're going to have one when we get back to chapter 8. (We started with CH 8 and 9 and then went back to 1). Then for my methods lab, I have a worksheet to work on, my flow cytometry/cell staining post lab and then my metabolic staining pre-lab. All of this ammounts to about 25 points in a class of over 700 points. But I can never be too oversightful (if that's a word) about points, especially at such an early point in the semester. Hard work now may mean that I get to slack a little bit later, but that slacking has gotten me into some serious trouble. I have to stay motivated.

Guaranteed grades are slowly moving up, and starting today, things start poking through into the 30% range, which is about parallel to the progress of class. Over the next month, I march towards the 60% range that everyone pretty much wants to guarantee at least passing. Of course, we know what passing means to me. Unfortuantely, I won't get anywhere near passing for about two more months.

So finals week looks to be much simpler than I thought it would be. Initially, I had two finals Monday, three Tuesday, two Wednesday, and two Thursday. Obviously, that would have killed me. Well, the genetics class, since it's an online one, can have the final whenever the teacher wants, and so she moved it to the Thursday before finals week. Dropping A-Chem saved my life. So seven finals. History is just a paper that we turn in (thank God), so six. Spanish now apparently is going to be done the week before finals so that we can just not go on finals week. Five. The immunology ones are going to stay, but I'm going to try to convince them to let me take it on Tuesday. Which would be awesome. I would then just have three on Tuesday (409, 391, FR 101) and two on Monday (B-Chem and P-Chem)., and I can be done on Tuesday, giving me a few extra days off where I can work here at the LTC or something like that. I could really use some extra dinero. It's not like I can really go anywhere though, since I am going to be taking that flow cytometry class and I have the GRE on January 5. I also have a biology GRE coming up, which will pretty much determine the rest of my life. Chingada.

So, now what should I say? Mairead's Raining Up is seriously calming. I feel much better this morning than I did last night, partially thanks to this. The Jeopardy test sucked. At best I got 35 right. Out of 50. It was so hard and fast. I mean, it was over in less than 10 minutes, that's how fast it went. I got 15 seconds to read the question and come up with an answer. I missed a really stupid one about a chemical that explodes in water, but is good for the heart (potassium). I originally had Lithium, and then went to change it to calcium, and I ran out of time, so I had CX. They're seriously going to think that I'm stupid.

Oh well, it was worth the shot I guess.

Ok, I'm going to do something productive now, I suppose.