Monday, February 10, 2003

How do you like that little quizzie? I'm down to earth? Eh, I guess that's true. Well, today I had a fun day. I met a guy interviewing from Pearl City (okay, Waiau). He went to Damien but is dating a girl I went to high school with but can't really remember her. He was nice, I hope he makes it in since he'll fit in here just fine and dandy and besides, the T1 class is hawaii-free. What else...oh, today we had our first microbiology lab and despite my retarded nervousness about burning myself with the bunsen burner or dying my fingers with the crystal violet gram stain process or just plain contaminating the entire lab group, it was fun. I don't quite care for preparing my own slides but I enjoy looking at stuff under the microscope with the oil emersion lens. And I have found my favorite gram positive cocci...Staphylococcus aureus!!! It stains purple-blue and looks like grape clusters. Very attractive bacteria I must say. And I prepared that slide (shakey hands will not hold me back!) so I'm even more proud of myself despite accidentally dropping the slide into the basin of various chemicals that we had to fish the slide out of...I think I need some inderal...I'm such a freak but you love me anyway!
~me~ at 6:45 PM

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Sunday, February 09, 2003

Well, I had a nice relaxing weekend. Celebrated Sara's birthday on friday with a bunch of my classmates (and of course, with sara) just hanging out at her place and playing Cranium. That game is awesome! The best is that my partner, Dan, and I decided at the beginning that our goal was to lose miserably and we kicked everyone's asses!!! Not to be mean or anything, but I usually find victories more enjoyable when I (or my team) beat someone who is so intent on winning and so sure that their victory is a shoe-in. It just makes winning that much sweeter. After the game, we hung out drinking wine and other drinks (I tried sake and didn't really care for it and patrick gave me beef about it since I couldn't tell it was sake when I sampled his drink...well, if I've never had it before, how was I supposed to know the gross drink I tried was sake). And we had conversations about astrology and whether or not we believe in it. I personally don't hold too much stock in it but I like to look at my horoscope for the previous day to see if it was accurate or not. And Chris and I have read various different books at Powell's to see what our signs had in store for us (I'm apparently prone to have a psychological breakdown just because I was born on the 22nd) so it's interesting but I won't be planning my life around it. I definitely fit the homebody cancer profile because I do enjoy just hanging out at home reading or watching a movie with my friends downstairs (we watched K19 last night). It's so low key and I don't end up stinking like cigarette smoke. Oh and there was also a story about girls in India who were married young as is the custom and right below these little vignettes, there's a statement that kind of annoyed me. It said that if you want to learn more or help fight for children's rights, contact UNICEF. Why is it that our country can't just accept the fact that not all countries and cultures are like the US and that those differences aren't bad. Sure it sucks that most women do not get an education but if we lived in a country that educating women wasn't the norm, we wouldn't think, "oh those poor women" but instead, "oh look, another similar culture." I support UNICEF's goals to help provide food for starving people but to try to change anything that is not like the US or Christianity based countries seems more in the realm of those Church sponsored NGOs. Anyway, Ben seems to think that marrying off a 13 year old girl was too extreme because most 13 year olds he's known wouldn't have been ready for marriage at that age...well, then I pointed out that most 13 year olds he knows grew up in this country where adolescence is a new segment in growth and development. Previously it used to be you went from childhood to adulthood whether it was a male undergoing a rite of passage or a girl passing that threshold by getting married. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against educating all women but I think cultural values need to be respected. Well, I need to sleep. Tomorrow is the first day of microbiology and my goal is to get up early enough to get to the first class since important stuff will probably be said. Goodnight!
~me~ at 11:20 PM