Le weekend

At last, the weekend. My first opportunity to digest this first week of the semester and then have the chance to really maybe get something done. Unfortuantely, I have not taken great advantage of the time off of school, as I have only finished a few of my resources for my thesis and a bunch of meh homework. I still have Spanish to do this weekend and I have to get caught up in my lab notebook, at the least. If I can get further ahead on my thesis, I should relish at the opportunity.

Tonight, I absolutely have to get caught up on my lab notebook for work, lest I fall behind and incur the wrath of my superiors. I also, at some point, need to print the Flow-Jo tutorial so I can work with an interpret the Flow Cytometry data that we get in the lab. I've read some of it, but I need to read stuff on paper rather than on a computer for stuff to sink in.

Tomorrow is answering my Spanish homework questions and working on my thesis a little more. I should hope to finish my outline completely. Interestingly, I have a more than 3 page outline for a 50 page paper.

This first half of the semester is going to be absolute hell. With so much coming in, I might just kill myself before I even make it to Spring Break. Really, that's how I'm going to have to treat this semester: as two mini ones. Hopefully, I can do well enough to finish everything, however, I fear that I may have to take an incomplete in my thesis work if I hope to do well.

Democrats are voting in South Carolina right now. I have a sneaking suspicion that Hillary is going to make it a lot closer that we think. I still think Obama will win, but not by a huge margin. I think the Democrats are actually starting to do serious damage to their possibility of getting elected. The Republicans are starting to close ranks around a couple of candidates, and with it ever increasingly likely that Giuliani is going to have to drop out after Tuesday, it looks like it's down to two main horses, Romney and McCain with a lagging couple of horses in the back. I seriously doubt that Huckabee or Paul will quit any time soon, but I just don't think they have enough to stay in the race long after February 5. I think by the 5th McCain is going to pull ahead by quite a bit. He leads in 4 MAJOR winner-take-all states, including New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. If he gets at least those three, and a 2nd place or better in 2/3 of the Super Tuesday states, I think he'll have enough momentum to win the nomination within a few weeks.

The Democrats though are continuing to grow increasingly divisive, and the blatant attacks that Hillary and Obama throw at each other are enough to cause serious concern in the party. At least, I would think so. It could smear each other enough that in comparison, the Republicans look dandy. I think we'll see such results in the short-term starting to occur.

TO WORK. Ugh.