So, my life is coming to its naturally chaotic end-of-semester scream-fest. I think I may shoot myself by the time these next two weeks are over.

My p-chem test on Friday=not so good. However, I still have two drops in my back pocket that I could technically use and if I got less than an 83%, if would be a fill in for one of those spots. I made a stupid ass mistake (flipping a division, I did Pexp/Prl instead of Prl/Pexp or something like that).

Whatever.

I spent all day yesterday writing my paper for HIV. I've been reading hte literature, and we are surprisingly close to a vaccine. There are lots of promising things out there to prevent HIV. The ARTs that we have now do a pretty good job at knocking out a lot of the viral machinery, but not all of it, so that it's impossible to actually cure HIV. I made an argument in my paper that we should investigate involving other systems in immunity, such as maybe the endocrine system.

Just knowing that HIV is lurking around out there makes me ever more determined to stay virginal. Trust me, I don't choose virginity because of some religious obligation, I do it because it's damn hazardous to have sex with anybody. Who knows what kind of diseases are waiting in someone's groin? I'm not going to find out.

So as of today, I am down to 9 things left to do this semester. I have the following:

SPAN 425: Final Paper (Due Wednesday)
BIOL 383: Final Exam (Thursday)
CHEM 451: Quiz 6 (Friday)
Final Exam (Next Monday)
BIOL 481: Final Exam (Next Monday)
BIOL 409: PCR lab write up (Next Tuesday)
Final Exam (Next Tuesday)
HIST 411: Final Exam (Next Tuesday)
BIOL 391: Final Exam (Next Thursday--will try to move it to Wednesday)

Today essentially=Spanish paper. I have 1 page.....out of 10.

I definitely need to avoid televisions today, no watching anything that will distract me, like last night. I need to avoid bad distracting things.