yay hooray!

my rna gel is running beautifully!! finally! and i'm so happy about that.

i'm sitting here at work on the computer because everyone else is helping piaynin with her thesis presentation in the kitchen and the other side of the lab where all my stuff is-- including my keys-- is locked sadly. i have a few things that i need to do over at my bench. plus my bag and everything is there. i will just wait until they are done and unlock the door. i don't want to interrupt right now. so i will just keep checking my gel to see how wonderful it is and sit here and play on the internet for a bit. how unproductive.

i'm excited about the big huge party tonight. it will be good to party with bio people and miklos and phil and a few random snsers. i never get to hang out with snsers much anymore. poop.

i'm also excited about the projection for bat boy. i watched la jetee yesterday in the library and it was amazing. i think the story of the bat boy projection is not going to be as poetic and amazing, more like a b-movie horror flick. but that's ok too. it will still be awesome. i already have lots of cool ideas. i would be working on that right now except that my script and my notes are all locked in the other room. poop.

i fixed my skirt last night and now i am wearing it again. it ripped because either my butt is too big or the skirt is too small and stupid or some combination of the two. it fits when it's on me, but not while i'm trying to put it on. silly skirt made for people with no butts. everybody has a butt; skirts should be made to accomadate them. whatever.

doot doot doooooooooo! unlock the door please, i'm bored.

fluffies!!

priceless

applying to grad schools is insanely expensive. i'm going to be spending over $1000 on application fees, taking the gres (general and subject test), sending out transcripts, and sending my gre scores. rediculous. good thing my parents agreed to pay for my housing this semester and let me keep my little scholarship as spending cash instead of it going towards tuition like normal.

in other news, i am now in charge of the projection for bat boy. as soon as i agreed to do it, i realized that i'm stupid and don't know anything about anything, nor do i have any ideas for things yet. and i should come up with at least a photo shooting plan/script by board preview. it would be nice to have photos to show at bp, too. i'm dumb.

and the weeks of school-craziness begin next week, with two papers due and three exams in my two weeks, plus all the insane time i spend working in lab.

for those of you who i never see because we are all so busy, i got into counterpoint, which i'm really excited about, i joined the pulse as a photographer-- my first photos should be posted soon; i took photos for the student spotlight feature-- i volunteered to help with dlists for the photo club and maybe help coordinate a gallery showing for the club members. i don't kmow how much of the photo club stuff will be happening though, because right now only one guy is running the club. sad. also, i'm a ta (fake) for the undergraduate lab course, i'm a peer tutor for chem and bio (already a night of walk-in plus two standing appointments each week), and i spend the rest of my time in the woolford lab so that maybe i can have something to write about when i do an honors thesis next semester. and on top of all of that, i'm still the sns historian. and i'm applying to ten grad schools and an nsf grant to fund my research. have to write four short essays for the nsf grant. at least my personal statement is in the rough draft form. that gives me one less thing to worry about. and 7 out of 10 applications are almost complete-- just a few more details to fill in.

and everybody (or maybe just a few people) wonder why i'm never around! all that and i tend to go to bed early :p.

i'm looking forward to a weekend filled with bio with another bio phi bar friday and the bio sac retreat to dr. brown's cabin this weekend. i like having very little to do on the weekends work-wise. fantastic.

fluffies are still doing well. they like living in my windowsill and on my bed. there hasn't been as much good food, like cookies and pie, this semester so far. hopefully that will change because i like cookies and pie.

my birthday is in a little more than a month!! actually 5 weeks from now! yay! buy me presents! and make me pie! cute little pies with eyes and smiles and good smell lines coming out of them like my shirt today! woohoo!

yay fluffies.

epilogue

understand that i'm only out of the loop because no one will let me in it.

or maybe i don't want to be in it.

either way it's sad.

sorry.

random encounters

i went to the bio phi bar friday tonight. it really was a lot of fun and i had a rather good time hanging out with people. but i randomly ran into none other than BRIAN NAMEY at phi bar!! how crazy is that?? the former president of the student body and vice president of sns is in the same bar that i am. we said hello and how are you doing and that was about it, but it was still so random.

then i went to a party for someone's 21st bday. that was also fun, but more awkward because i knew less people there. so i called a bunch of people who had said they might be doing fun and exciting things tonight and talked to them and they all said that they were having fun and that i should come over later, but that things weren;t too terribly exciting at the moment and things were ok instead of great.

i hung out at the party for a little while longer and then went over to miklos and phil's place. that turned out to be an odd mistake. it was partly good that i went over and i think some people (or at least one person) were glad that i did. but while there i was also informed that i am a terrible horrible person and also a terrible horrible friend. now, i'm not trying to say that i am a wonderful person, and i don;t always have good excuses for not being around, but i really don;t think i'm that terrible. at least i hope i'm not. but apparently i treat people like piles of poop and don't deserve to hang out anymore. in general i just suck. i don't know what to say or do about that anymore.

yay

i got into counterpoint!
i get to sing this year!

yay!

fluffies!

yay!

dear catherine

it's ok. i forgive you.

just stop worrying about things that you have no control over. it'll make life easier and make you a lot happier.

love,
the world

ps. i hope you enjoyed your movie! you should make an awesome broadway mix cd because it would make you happy. and hug some fluffies, too.

dear world

i'm sorry if i annoyed or offended you this morning, and i'm sorry for sucking so much today. i will try to be better in the future, and i will keep my awful and sometimes hurtful thoughts to myself. please forgive me.

love,
catherine

ps. cheer up. things can't really be that bad, now can they. there are always fluffies to hug!

i joined the facebook

and then it proceeded to eat my life for several hours. how sad.

so everyone should add me as a friend. because i said so.

fluffies!!

catherine's movie night

the real post got eaten by the internet. here's a summary:

first week of classes was good, not too stressful or crazy, still fun although busy.

i went to squirrel hill late on friday night to go to the geagle to get ingrediants for cookies and stuff. as i walked past the movie theater, i saw that "the golden age of broadway" is playing. it's a documentary and i think i'd like to see it.

in fact, i'm going to go see it at 10pm this wednesday, either by myself or with people, i don't really care.

also, i get to tutor chemistry on thursday nights in donner 8-11pm this semester as a coordinating tutor. and i make $11 an hour! so for every week of walkin tutoring i will make $44... and usually no one comes. i will be getting paid so much money for doing my homework! fantastic! (anyone is welcome to visit me during tutoring as well)

there were so many bbqs this weekend and i ate so much food, it was disgusting.

bat boy auditions were also this weekend. that was ok. and now i await the call back list that comes out sometime this evening.

and i don't have any homework left to do tonight so i am bored. if anyone wants to entertain me, please feel free to do so!

fluffies say hello.