Time Machine

If I owned a time machine, now would be the perfect opportunity to use it. I would fast forward first to next wednesday at 10:31pm. The exact time finals are over and I begin to celebrate the fact that my last fall quarter is done! The next place in time I would go is 4 years from now. I could see what job I had, so that I could make decisions about where to go next or even have hope that I would be able to get into graduate school with my less than outstanding GPA. Or even to go back in time to re take all those tests that I so brilliantly F-ed up in order to give myself a chance at getting into a decent program. Until I can find said time machine or even muster up the ridiculous amount of money it would take to buy a non existent mode of time travel I will have to study for these tests, write that stupid report and attend these last few days of class.

soooo sick of school!!!

Gah!! I am so sick of my management classes. Three more weeks and I am done with them forever! But until then I am going to whine and complain till the bitter end.

On a lighter note.. In the joy of procrastination I am now on level 19 in farmville.

Also I have finally decided what to get my dad for Christmas. I picked it because when I saw it I couldn't stop laughing. I hope he will appreciate this clock as much as I do, because I would love to get this myself. Believe it or not I get my super geekyness from him.


Then to top the list I finally got a postcard from a friend who went to Bulgaria and couldn't stop laughing, between the postcard and this clock man oh man does my stomach hurt.

'Tis the season

After two weeks of educational hell, physical, mental and emotional exhaustion I am taking a day off. The past few weeks have been filled with work, papers, exams, and most of all I still have to finish some post-bacc program applications before December 1st.

Apart from all the things that still need to get done, today I refuse to do any work. I slept in after going to a party. Made yummy pumpkin waffles for breakfast. Took a 3 hour nap and woke up when it was already dark. Played a little farmville. But the best part of today has been sitting in front of the tv cuddled under my blanket watching corny Christmas movies on ABC family. Needless to say I can not wait for my favorite time of year.. Christmas. I look forward to no school, seeing friends, family, amazing food, shopping, and my birthday.

Sort Of

Sort Of
Written by Ingrid Michaelson

Baby, you've got the sort of hands to rip me apart
And baby, you've got the sort of face to start this old heart
But your eyes are warning me this early morning
That my love's too big for you my love


Baby, you've got the sort of laugh that waters me
And makes me grow tall and strong and proud and flattens me
I find you stunning, but you are running me down
My love's too big for you my love
My love's too big for you my love

And if I was stronger then I would tell you no
And if I was stronger then I will leave this show
And if I was stronger then I would up and go
But here I am and here we go again

Baby, you've got the sort of eyes that tell me tales
That your sort of mouth just will not say, the truth impales
That you don't need me, but you won't leave me
My loves too big for you my love
My loves too big for you my love

And if I was stronger then I would tell you no
And if I was stronger then I will leave this show
And if I was stronger then I would up and go
But here I am and here we go again

Tell me what to do, to take away the you

And if I was stronger then I would tell you no.
And if I was stronger then I will leave this show
And if I was stronger then I would up and go
But here I am and here we go again

Farmville

This morning I walk into work and instead of the usual "Hi Brystal" I hear from all the guys. "You need to harvest your strawberries!"

Yesterday all of the grad students including myself started playing Farmville on Facebook. It is a game about creating a farm. Getting all your and getting all your friends to build one too. Then you plant stuff, wait for it to grow and harvest it for money. With that money you can then buy more crops to grow. You can also upgrade to a better selection of crops, trees and animals to grow. The trick however is you have to time your plants. Each plant takes a different amount of time to grow, and if you don't harvest them in time you loose all your money. Thats what I did this morning. I learned never again to plant strawberries at night before you go to bed, because by the time you wake up they will all be rotten.

So right now the guys are planning what to plant, when and how to increase their Farmville value. I am completely entertained by how intense this is turning out to be.

Once again I can say, I wish every job was like this.

Compassion

I was walking downtown just now on my way to Crepeville for dinner. On the corner there was this afro-haired man standing and asking people to write down in his journal what their ideas of compassion are. I wrote something down and then proceeded to ask him why he was doing this? His response was that it wasn't for a class, but to promote awareness of compassion. I thought that was admirable and cool.

Insomniac

Sleeping has become so over rated to me lately. I can't seem to fall asleep till 2 0r 3 in the morning for the last two weeks. Then I find myself awoken around 8 am in the morning to start my day. I stay up thinking about all the things that need to get done, day dreaming or just plain anxious from stuff.

This week has also been bogged down with exams, reports and just plain school work. I didn't get home from campus till 1 am last night. I think I am liking this whole nocturnal thing though. I wake up early, work out, go to class and then go to work and stay there till the wee morning hours. Come home and do it all over the next day.

I already miss summer.

The best things about summer

1. No endless amount of school work

2. Sleeping in/ having a good night's sleep

3. Vacations/ getaways

4. Hanging out with friends because you have all the extra time in the world

5. The beach and pool

6. Davis is nice and quiet because most of the students are out of town

7. Late nights out

Man I am already bogged down with so much work. I am starting to have problems sleeping because I can't stop thinking about all the things I didn't get done and need to do in the morning and next day. Now to bed because 6:30 am comes early.

A little goes a long ways

This week has been truly blessed. It has been so wonderful going to church and bible study regularly. It really does change my attitude about things. We are going to start going through Hebrews and so far all morning this week I have been reading a chapter or two and reflecting upon The Word.

It is so good and refreshing to get complement from guys. Today at I got two complements on my hair today from the guys at work. It most definitely made my day.

Tips make Sex on Fire

Today was the second day of classes. Oh boy was it filled with many awkward moments.

First I ran into a guy a dated sophomore year. I hadn't seen him in over 2 years and thought I would never see him again. Awkward!!!!

Then I get to lab and we had "Founding Day." A day to celebrate the lab being running for 4 years. We gave away free ice cream cones to all the people in the building. Meanwhile we all got to hang out and have a good time. Then we were all assigned name tags that were made out of Petry Plates and included a name and title. Mine was "Brystal Lab Dancing Queen." To my surprise I was volunteered to dance every time someone gave us a tip. Most embarrassing of all I had to dance to the Kings Of Leon "Sex on Fire." Not only did my entire lab get to see the dance, but all kinds of people I did not know. Including one of my old professors that I was going to ask for a letter of recommendation from. I am not quite sure if I will be able to get that letter anymore. And to think, I did all of that for just 2 pennies.

I still can't believe today..

Now I am going to try and steal the game room for an air hockey tournament.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHhhcKxflMY

Ready for School!

Thanks to Michael Scott I am now fully prepared for class. Yep.... these are my new notepads.

It's Wednesday!

It's official. Tomorrow I start my last fall quarter. I start classes on Thursday. Well at least it's the first day of class. All the faculty and staff are having a walk out for budget cuts and furlow days. So most classes won't start till next week. Apart from that today is the last day of summer. I am taking advantage of this day to chill, veg and do all the last minute things I want to get done before school.

The best part about fall: All the tv shows start up again.

Shows I will try to follow:

-Glee (Awesome)

-The Office (Hilarious)

-Fringe (Hands down the best show on Television)

-Grey's (It will follow just because I have watched it from the beginning)

-Private Practice (I can remember the season finale being ridiculous)

- How I Met Your Mother (I will try to watch because it is funny, but might not have the time)

The time is now, and I can't help but freak out!!

My oh my I can't believe school season has arrived for me. I am one week from starting college for the 5th year. I want to start and just finish already, yet am scared to death to graduate. I have so many classes still to take as well as my internship in the lab. So far I have tallied up the units and I am sitting at 17 for the fall. Mind you a full course load is 13 and it maxes out as 19. There is no possible way that I can hold down another job. It is going to be quite the quarter. But still the end is in sight.

I have also contacted the local state school about taking a Hematology course. It is the final pre-requisite to the Clinical Laboratory Scientist program. On top of that I have to have most of my applications in before February. I am starting to panic. I mean is it worth the effort? Do I really want to do CLS for a few years? Do I really want to go to graduate school? Is Medical school still lingering somewhere in the future? Needless to say I have been freaking out. And thats only my school life. My personal life seems to get more and more confusing by the minute.

500 Days of Summer

Last night I Finally saw "500 Days of Summer" it was incredible. It was very well written and hilarious. A definite must see.

Favorite Quote: "Honey.. There is something I need to tell you..... There's a Chinese family in our Bathroom"

Here is just a little taste of the wonder..

Genomics and A Taste of Brazil

This week at work my PI put together a pilot bioinformatics workshop. It was a crash course in analyzing genetic sequences and using programing and databases to answer various questions. I was the only undergraduate in the workshop. The rest of the people there were professors in the department and graduate students. All I kept thinking about was how much I really want to get my PhD and go to grad school. Every day it sounds cooler and cooler. Scott (my PI) got to spend an entire week in Brazil vacationing and going to a conference and the department paid for it! How cool to travel the world going to conferences all around the world and being able to write it off as business.

Then after the workshop was done we celebrated Marissa (grad Student) and Jessica's (undergrad) birthdays with some Brazilian alcoholic beverage that knocks you on your feet. It was fun. I mean, how many people get to party and drink in the work place?

After a two drinks come of us got in a conversation about dating giving one of the guys a hard time for not asking out his so called dream girl. After us girls telling him to just grow a pair and ask her. The guys were defending his cause explaining how intimidating girls are.

Seriously.....Seriously... Why oh why is there such a huge comunication gap between the sexes? I mean most of the time girls are waiting around for that guy to ask us out and make a move. Thats how it is supposed to go. We should not have to make a move. We are too freaking insecure. We want to feel wanted, desired and perused. Instead we remain frustrated and single. Waiting around wondering if someday some guy will ever come a long that is even remotely interested and let alone has the balls to ask us out to dinner.

Moral of the story.. All men need to stop being afraid of women, because we are not intimidating, grow a pair and ask a girl out. The worst she can say is no. So then take your pride, stand up and move on.

Finally!!

Hell week has officially ended as of 8:35 am this morning when I handed in our keys to the old apartment. You have no idea how much of a huge relief it truly is. I spent all week cleaning, packing moving and even painting. Yesterday I spent 11 hours over there finishing up the final coats of paint and doing the final wipe down of everything and I mean everything. All the window screens and window tracks had to be scrubbed, all light fixtures had to be taken down and cleaned, and even every spot on the wall either needed to be painted or erased. It was horrible. I have never had such a miserable week in my life. Even worse than finals. I mean it was a huge apartment of over 1900 square feet with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and there was only 2.5 of us there to clean. I mean .5 of a person because Lisa either was at work, hanging out with friends or ditched and went to Fresno for the week leaving Elise and I to do most of the work. And the other two roomates are in Brazil and Florida. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. It may take me a while to get over all this frustration.

On a lighter note I love my new management and apartment. It is an older complex built in the 50's but it definitely has its quirks and flaws like the fact that the air conditioning is a wall unit and only seems to cool down Lisa's bedroo

m, and there is no circulation in the kitchen. But apart from that it is nice and small and cute with white cabinets, gas range stove and new carpets. I also really like the management

. They are so sweet, and even called me to inform me that all my repairs had been done and fixed and wanted to know if there was anything else they could do. Plus the amenities are amazing. Free cable, internet, wi-fi around the beautiful almost lap size pool, game room fitted with air hockey and a billiard table, internet cafe with wi-fi and coffee, free faxing, printing, 24 hour fitness room (which is awesome) and even a concierge service!

I will be sure to post pictures of the new place soon once all the boxes and stuff have been neatly placed into theer proper location. But for now here is a picture of some of the complex.

Hell Week

The time has finally arrived.

Monday I received the keys to my new apartment. I spent all day moving my massive amount of stuff over to the new place. I even blew out my knee and have been gimping around all week.

Tuesday I drove all over Sacramento area hunting down paint because it has to be custom color from Sherwin-Williams. Then come to find out that my apartment complex had bought out all the paint in the area and in order to obtain some I would have to order it and it wouldn't come in till today. Plus it would cost me a small fortune of $30 a gallon and we would need at least 3 to paint all the walls.

Wednesday I tried moving the remaining stuff and try to clean but Elise's stuff was strewn about the entire apartment and was only able to prime the walls of my room.

Then yesterday I spent 10 hours cleaning, painting the place by myself until Lisa came back. I even had to fix my vacuum cleaner. One of the belts had broke and needed to be replaced and one of Elise's clothes pins had jammed the hose and caused a huge clog that I had to remove and ended up cutting my finger on it. Good thing I had my Tetanus booster recently because it is 50% fatal. Unfortunately we still have lots more to detail clean and all the walls to paint.

It will be all over soon and I will then be able to enjoy all the luxurious amenities of the new apartment and get back to a daily routine.

Came and Gone

So this past weekend I went down to So Cal to hang out for the weekend. Originally my only plans had been to spend quality time with my Dad. Instead I had more fun then I would have ever imagined.

Friday- Went to Disney Land with my Aunt, Uncle and Cousins. We stayed all day till closing at midnight. We also had dinner with my Grandparents who live in Orange.

Saturday- Breakfast with the family. Settlers with Bryson and his roommates, and I dominated the first game. Then good old thrift store shopping for a sweet get up. Dinner with Kristiana and Felisha. It was crazy as usual.

Sunday- Quality time with Dad. We went out to breakfast, our weekend morning tradition. Then Felisha joined us to Redlands to see the plane my dad and uncle have been rebuilding over the last two years. Then consumed way too much beer. First we went to lunch and my dad insisted on ordering a pitcher of Hanger 49 Orange Wheat. Which is really good, its like a Blue Moon with oranges. Then after seeing the plane we went to the brewery across the street from the airport and my dad bought us the sampler. Which is about 6 4oz glasses of each of the beers they brew. Then to top it all off we went back home and played War Craft 3. I have to say I have to coolest dad ever.

http://www.hangar24brewery.com/currentofferings.htm

Now that I have come back to Davis there has been lots of drama with roommates. Different situation predictable outcomes.

6 more days till I move out.

Ahhhh So much to do just a little freaked out.

In 11 days I will be getting the keys to my new apartment. I am very excited to move to a nice new location. As I was packing to go to Riverside for the weekend. I started looking around and realizing I haven't even come close to start packing. There are so many large and small items that need to be stored, trashed, donated and moved. I have this feeling that I am going to forget so many things and what I plan on taking at the most two days to move will take me all week. Then I won't be able to sleep because there are so many things that have to be cleaned and painted. I am starting to feel a little overwhelmed. Not to mention all the little things that have to be done such as: change of address cards for not only me but Chelsea and Renee that need to be sent in, setting up PG&E and Comcast in the new apartment. Then there is the whole furniture and kitchen ware situation ...we have none. This month is going to cost me a small fortune and my bank account is running on empty.

Man oh man somehow I am going to get through. I just might be a little crazy and on the edge until then.

Idiot!!!

I am such a complete air head sometimes. I have no idea what was going through my brain yesterday afternoon. Maybe I was in a rush to leave. Anyways. I spent three hours yesterday doing this reaction and the last and final step was to place the e.coli I had just created on an agar plate and then put it in the incubator. Today when I went to get the plates from the incubator they were no where to be found. Ding Ding Ding. I never put them in the incubator!! Ahh to my idiotic frustration I found them on the bench top where I had left them yesterday. Now I have to redo the entire reaction and make more agar plates and hope not to have another mess in the microwave.

Stupid,stupid stupid.

Explosion!!

Today at work I had to make agar plates. For those of you who do not know what agar is, it is a gelatin like substance that is placed inside plastic petri dishes used to grow bacteria. In order to make these plates bottles of agar (gelatin stuff) has to be melted and poured. The process is a lot trickier than just microwaving it. You have to set the power level really low so it does not burn and explode. While in the process of melting I was working on another experiment and left the microwave unattended. I came back to find the entire contents of my bottle oozing all over the microwave.

It exploded and made a huge mess. I had to spend the next 10 minutes cleaning up the smelly oozing agar from the inside of the microwave.

Needless to say, I learned my lesson. Never, ever walk away from the microwave when melting agar.

The Case of the Missing Ladder

One summer morning I awoke from my slumber to banging noises outside my window. I didn't hear anyone come into my apartment so I fell back asleep. On the way out the door to work I noticed that Renee's Grandfathers ladder was missing. That noise I heard was someone stealing the ladder. In hopes that it was her Grandfather who had come to pick it up I did not think otherwise. A week or so had gone by and still I had not been able to get a hold of Renee. Then when I finally did she did not remember asking her grandpa to come pick it up. In rage I alerted Elise and we decided to go ask Management. After consulting with the management we got a hold of maintenance and it seemed that they had mistaken the ladder for one of their own. They had indeed removed it from our patio that morning. The ladder was returned.

Case Closed

14 days left and counting at FC #31

Sanity

Dum De Dum...

Top 10 Things that keep me sane..

1)Horseback ridding

2)Running

3) Long Drives

4) Nature

5)Friends

6) Music

7) Reading

8)Sleep

9)Fellowship

10)Chocholate

Man without these I would be misserable.

This weekend I went down to my Ohma's. Then drove down to Fresno to have lunch with my Parents because they moved my sis back into the dorm. Then I got to visit with my 89 year old Great Grandma. She is so funny and adorable. Then this morning I rode Majestic. I have been able to ride him a lot lately we are starting to get in the grove of communication these days. Also the more treats I feed him, the better he seems to be. Silly horse.

Half Dome

It has been a long time since I have updated my blog. The past week has been so busy. I spent last weekend in San Jose with my aunt and Grandma Pat. Then Wednesday and Thursday I hung out with my friend Bryson. Finished it all off with a midnight hike up to the top of Half Dome Mountain in Yosemite to watch the sun rise.

OK this hike was quite the challenge about 10 of us decide it was a brilliant idea to hike up the mountain at 11 pm Saturday to watch the sunrise. It was awesome. All of us sleep deprived

scoundrels made the 8.4 mile over 4,800 foot elevation gain to reach the top of this great beast. We finally made it

to the top around 4:30 am

and were able to see this breath taking view as we freeze our asses off at the top. The coolest part of the trail was climbing up the cables to get to the top in the dark. Then we spent about an hour or so hanging out at the top and finally made our descent.

The best part about the whole experience was how accomplishing

it felt to have made it all the way up. On the way down we passed so many people heading up to half dome and couldn't believe we had made it to the top, let alone left at night and didn't sleep to be able to see the sunrise. Once we got to the bottom of the trail we see all the families and old people and they were dying just getting to vernal falls which is only about a mile and a half or so up the trail. Yep we certainly kicked ass.

Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite

Recently I have been sleeping like a log. All of the fresh air, hard work and exercise makes it really hard to fall asleep and especially wake up early in the morning. As a result I have been having crazy dreams and nightmares. The other night I had a creepy and scary dream, and last night it was a strange and frustrating one. In my opinion there are three events that occur in a dream that I truly hate.

1) When you try as hard as you can to run away from something as fast as possible, instead you either do not move or go as slow as a snail.

2) When you try to open your eyes to see something and your eyes just won't open. This one happens all the time. Frustrating.

3) Getting attacked by spiders. You may laugh but I absolutely hate spiders and for some reason I often get killed and attacked.

In my dream last night I was with my parents walking around Davis chewing gum. Then the gum sticks to my teeth and I can not talk or get it off. I am walking around trying to get this gum out of my mouth and off my teeth. We run into some friends of my dad and the whole time I have my fingers in my mouth trying to take this gum out so I can talk. So this one now goes up as #4 on the list of events that occur in my dreams that I truly hate.

Igor It's Alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have officially decided that my water bottle is a dangerous weapon of mass destruction. Over spring break I had my bag filled with all of my tutoring books, papers, wallet and most importantly my very expensive TI-89 Graphing calculator. I did not close the cap to my water bottle super super tight and it leaked all over my purse destroying my calculator.

Atomic bomb number #2. While I was out one night with Chelsea and some friends I come home, slightly intoxicated to hear a weird noise coming from my room. I open my door to find my computer standing horizontally leaning against a fan on the floor. While I was away Lisa decided to use my printer and in the process spilled that same water bottle all over my computer. Luckily, After drying it out for a day or two my computer turned back on and worked perfectly. In fact it is the same computer I am using right now.

Now we come to nuclear blast #3. On a perfectly quiet afternoon I am sitting at home watching TV (BSG season1) I receive a phone call from my friend Amal (Whom I have not talked to before she gave birth a few weeks ago). I go into my purse to pull out my phone and it is dripping with water. My heartbeat stops as I pull the contents out of my bag

-wallet- drenched completely the receipts inside have turned to mush

-pens- wet

-I pod- soaked along with the headphones

-Water bottle- empty, the tool of Satan to cause death and destruction of any and everything in Brystal's life

So I emptied the contents of the purse to dry and placed my I pod along with headphones under the blast of a fan for the day to dry. After consulting with Karen she told me to instead put them in a bag of rice to dry. When I returned home from my grandmother's last night I tried turning on my ipod and nothing, no lights, no power, nothing. Then I tried to plug it into my computer and see if anyting happened. Still nothing. I was saddened. My little green friend had been with me through many great runs, adventures around the world, to the gym, on road trips across California and most of all was with me at every moment of every day in case I was suddenly stricken with boredom. Alas this long time friend was dead. I had plans to hold a funeral service for it tonight.

Until....

This morning I wake up not to my alarm, but my computer making all sorts of strange sounds and signal beeps informing me of a malfunction of sorts. I wake up, crawl out of my most comfortable bed. Wipe my eyes, and open my computer. Upon opening I saw I tunes was open, and was beeping angrily about not having connection to the itunes store. Then I look to my right and there on the table is my ipod flashing saying "Good morning Brystal I am still alive, I love you, and look! I am connected, eject before disconnecting."

Needless to say I will no longer be having a funeral today. It is fully functioning and working. Today is one of the greatest moments in electronic history.

As for the criminal, I will no longer be needing his services. I will move on to another water bottle. One that does not trick you to believe he is completely closed and sealed.

Battlestars and Trees.

So today it is currently 102 degrees outside. This morning I drove down to my Ohma's (Grandma's) house in Lodi. I rode my horse, laid out fly traps, bathed horses then came inside to clean her train wreck of a house. Then I sit down to finish disk three of the first season of Battlestar Galactica. Yes, I know, super nerdy. However, it is starting to grow on me. All of the people in my lab including the professor are huge Battlestar fans and are determined to make everyone else fans. Since I have had nothing better to do after work, and have seen most of the DVDs that are out I started watching the series. Yesterday when I told a few of the guys they got super excited. They started talking about the show, and made it my mission to watch all four seasons. I totally went up on their coolness factor. Sadly, I think I became a bigger nerd. Oh well, that's the name of my blog anyhow.

Then at lunch with the lab one of the guys started discussing how he was working on one of his fictional novels again. The character is name Jared the Tree Boy. Half tree, half boy. He has leaves for hair, can photosynthesize and farts oxygen. Somehow he saves the day by farting. The details are yet to be determined and was the topic of the discussion. The origin of the boy is also questionable. How does one become part tree, part boy? Maybe his father was a gardener. All I know is that Matt said all this with such seriousness. I however was crying with laughter. I am constantly entertained daily by the characters I work with.

Survey of the Day.

What do you associate with the game Canasta?

a) Coolest game ever, rocks my socks!

b) Never heard of it, is it like the capture of Canada?

c) Definitely old ladies, dentures, wigs and moo moos!

d) Vegas baby!

my response...

c)

My grandma always plays this game with her girlfriends. I picture then sitting around the table smoking shuffling giant decks of cards. The clink clink clink of their old gold and topaz stone rings.

(note: Picture was from google. This woman is in no way related to me. Those glasses are awesome!!)

Longing to be somewhere other than the here and now.

So for the last week I have been trying to plan a weekend to go home to Riverside. After corresponding with the parental units and looking over schedules it looks like August 13th-16th seems to be the only good weekend. My mom unfortunately will be in Minnesota visiting family and my sister will be back at school. So it looks as though it will be a weekend with just the Pop's. I am excited it will be three days of War Craft, Age of Mythology, tv and not cooking. We will be able to play video games guilt free without the incest nagging of mom. Plus I will have full access to her automobile to go down to the OC to visit friends, and maybe my dad will go with me to get my tattoo.

I finally was able to talk on the phone to Chels today. Oh how I missed that Ho. I mean my life is truly not complete without her in my life. I really have missed our daily decompressions, random adventures and all the classes we had together.

One plus to being the only one in the appartment I don't have to worry about cleaning up after myself. I still am a clean freak and all but for the first time I can leave all my make up and hair tool all over the sink and not worry about it being in other peoples way. I also don't have to get dressed. I could totally walk around naked and no one would know or care. But that just feels wierd so I stick to a robe. Also, I can sleep with the bedroom door open and not have to worry about being woken up by loud people... But still, living alone is not as fun as living with your best friends.

Texts from last night

Here are some great quotes I stumbled upon from Texts from last night blog

"so I was just driving high and I stopped to let a pinecone cross the road because I thought it was a hedgehog."

"hey this is lauren, i have to type for jon because he's convinced the tongs he's holding are his real hands"

(434): why are there goldfish crackers all over my bed?
(540): you decided you wanted to name them & keep them as pets.

(508): awoke with 47 plastic lawn flamingos in my bed and on surrounding floor. explanation?
(1-508): you said they were your minions of evil that protected you from ferrets.

(402): lol whn u cming hre I nd 2 c ur fce
(1-402): IF YOU TEXT ME ONE MORE SHORTENED VERSION OF A WORD, THE ONLY THING YOU'LL SEE IS MY FIST IN YOUR FACE.

The Gayest Straight Men I know

Everyday I am constantly amused of the events and conversations that take place in the lab.

First of all, if I would have bumped into some of the guys I work with on the street I would never expect them to be such extreme nerds. They all are good looking, good dressing guys. Until closer examination you do not find that they have all seen all seasons of Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Chuck and some other super nerdy SiFi network shows. Not to mention the fact that three of them are making a road trip to San Diego for Comic Conn next week.

Second, today Derrick and I were asked to accompany Matt to carry back new lab supplies. Just as we leave the door I see Matt brings out these re-useable blue shopping bags. I started laughing. To make it even better he hands one off to me and then takes one himself, throws it over his shoulder like a purse and proceeds down the hallway. Carrying it exactly how I carry a purse. I can't stop laughing. He was serious, and didn't understand how Gay he looked walking down the hallway with a bright blue purse. Then to make it even better we get to the supply room and what he thought was going to need two bags was all pre packaged into a nice box. He responds in a serious monotone "Man, I am seriously disappointed; I wanted to be able to pick out the colors I wanted." I laugh again at him realizing how absolutely gay he sounded again.

Then we get back to lab and the whole lab goes over to ohh and ahh at the new projector that came in. We seriously get the hook ups. Every week the Prof. bakes or cooks for the lab. We have an espresso machine with all the coffee and espresso provided. The place is also hooked up with top of the line Mac Computers and we are now going to get wireless speakers to accompany the new projector.

Hmm.

This summer is starting to pick up. I am working in the lab everyday and loving it. It is so laid back and the people are fun. Here is a little picture the parasite that I do research on.

Along with research I have started babysitting a 3 year old adorable girl, a cute 3 month baby boy and an 11 year old.

Yesterday I went to the mall with my friend Karen. I am a Sephoraholic. I have realized that I can not go to a mall without going to Sephora and proceeding to purchase something. Yesterday I bought moisturizer, foundation and powder. I am excited about it. I have been cheap and buying foundation from target lately and nothing compares to the bare esentuals mineral foundation from Sephora. I mean this stuff is truly incredible it matches my skin perfectly. It is light, doesn’t clog my pores and it stays perfect all day. Oh there is nothing like a little shop therapy to make my day.

out with the old

Since school ended last month I have been itching to move to our new appartment. We don't officially get the keys till August 24th which is over a month away. I walk through my appartment on a daily basis and keep thinking about how truly dreadful the moving process will be. I have to down size my stuff in order to share a room. Then we have a bunch of fruniture we will not being taking with and have to move and get rid of. Then there is the process of painting all the walls that we insisted on painting. My room is the most dreded paint job of all I have three walls I am going to have to first sand, prime and then paint. I was stupid and decided to use a semi gloss lime green paint. That was the most stupid decision I think I have made in my life. Then I came home to a disaster of an appartment on monday and have slowly but surley been cleaning a little at a time.

Today I feel a little more accomplished. I had the sudden urge to search for my War Craft game disks because I hid them from myself and have been unable to find. Instead of finding the disks I started cleaning out my closet, desk and all my boxes full of school stuff that have accumulated over the last four years. It is amazing how much crap I kept. I had 4 boxes of miscelaneous notes, books, pictures and paper. I was able to consolodate and trash 4 bags of stuff. Not to mention organize 2 boxes for long term storage to take to my grandmas until I have my own appartment and pack another box of stuff to take to the new place. My desk is no longer covered in books and papers. Instead it has the remaining essentials for the summer and a bunch of docum

ents that have to be shredded before being disposed.

Note to self- purchase a paper shredder.

Summer is officially here

Well it is already Wednesday. This week has flown by. I am really excited to fly home for the weekend tomorrow. This is a record, three weekends in a row being at home with the family. We are having a big reunion and party all weekend.

It's finally official, my best friend has finally tied the knot after a 3 1/2 year relatioinship with Mr. Fullman. It was such a beautiful and fun wedding. I had so much fun with the entire bridal party. The photographer was amazing, the food and dancing were also good. But my all time favorite moment was decorating the car. Here are some photos show what we did.

Earthquake! California slips further into the ocean

So it is good being home in Riverside. I haven't been down here since Christmas. It is so nice to be able to sleep in a large squishy bed where I can spread out and lay diagonally, except I have to worry about upsetting the grumpy sleeping dog that follows me around where ever I turn. This morning I awoke to the slight shaking of the house, or also known as an earthquake. It was just a little one of about 3.3 magnitude and centered about 30 miles from my house. I forget about earthquakes in Davis, there are no fault lines active enough to have many. However, in Riverside earthquakes are very common. All of Southern California sits on many fault lines and there are a few each Day. According to the news article over 50 small earthquakes happened last week.

Call me crazy, but I love the thrill of the house shaking, the thunderous sound of the earths crust moving. I don't find them scary at all. Apart from what the rest of the country thinks, earthquakes are not that dangerous compared to other natural disasters. I mean, if I had the choice between fire, tsunami, hurricane, flood, tornado and earthquake, hands down I would rather have an earthquake.

Craig's List

My oh my has this week flown by. I can't believe it is almost Thursday! Yay I am leaving Davis for a week on Friday. I can't wait to go see my horse for a bit and then go home to Riverside. I haven't been down there since Christmas. Nothing like an 8 hour drive to keep you from going home. I just need to remember to make a mix cd of all my new music to keep me entertained for the long drive in my stick shift with broken cruise control. Then finally I am going to get a haircut my long locks that once were so golden are in need of trim an rejuvenation. One more day to go!


Here is a weird one for y'all.

Awkward

Awkward

Yet anther reason to dislike FC. Management and maintenance is always coming into our apartments for the most random reason. I swear it is at least 2 times a month. Today they came in twice to measure and check stuff for move out. I mean come on, we have two more months before we even move out. So here I watching TV in my un matched pajamas after I have gotten out of the shower, with no make –up and my hair up. Comfortable looking horrendous not expecting anyone to see me. Then the doorbell rings yet again and management and two other people come in to measure the doorways. It is always so uncomfortable, I don’t know what to do or say they only thing I can do is continue to sit her awkwardly. Still I think the worst of the awkward encounters with maintenance is when they insist on doing maintenance at 8 am in the morning, on the few days I am able to sleep in and I wake up to men talking outside my bedroom door. Oh man I am so ready to move.

Summa Time

Well after a year of hard work, tears, and toil I am finished with yet another year of my UC Davis career. I still have a few more classes to go until I to will cross that stage and shake the hands of the Deans and my family screams proudly in the audience of another boring graduation. But for now I will spend my summer here in Davis trying to figure out what the heck to do at work and lounge around filling my down time with activities and planning.

This past weekend already seems so long ago. We finished our last class on Thursday, Jennie's wedding on Friday, Chelsea moved out on Saturday :(, and Sunday was spent running errands, graduation parties and having dinner with Emily.

Today I had my first day of work. Unfortunately it was not as busy and exciting as I anticipated. I have no clue what to do and no one was there to teach me anything. Hopefully tomorrow will be more adventurous. However, I did get quite a bit done on the Bachelorette party planning and a secret project I am working on. Now I need to look for hotel rooms for friends.

I am doing my best trying to keep myself this summer. I have started a list of books I want to read, projects I haven't the chance to get around to, organizing and consolidation of my stuff in preparation to move in August. Oh yesterday I bought "The Host", the other Stephanie Meyer book. It is kind of strange, but I have been wanting to read it for quite a while. I will be sure to keep you updated.

Waking up in Davis

Oh I forgot to mention the wonderful song Chels and I wrote yesterday. As we were coming back from dinner at Thai Bistro the Katy Perry song "Waking up in Vegas" came on the radio. Chelsea had the brilliant idea of writing new lyrics and change it to

Waking up in Davis

You got to help me out
I got lost on campus last night
We need the bus because we’re freshmen, and we’re broke
I lost my school ID you lost your bike key
Spare me your freaking dirty looks
Now don’t blame me
You want to drop out and get hell out of town

Don’t be a baby
Remember what you told me
Shut up and put your books where your mouth is
That’s what you get for waking up in Davis
Get up and shake the pollen off your clothes now
That’s what you get for waking up in Davis

Why is the lecture hall so bright?
Oh, we didn’t get any sleep last night, writing a paper,
And why am I wearing your sweat pants?
Don’t cry to your father
‘cause we’re not freshmen any more

Don’t be a baby
Remember what you told me
Shut up and put your books where your mouth is
That’s what you get for waking up in Davis
Get up and shake the pollen of your clothes now
That’s what you get for waking up in Davis

You got me into this
Information overload, situation lost control
Send me an S.O.S.
And take a loan out
We’re gonna bike all over town

Don’t be a freshy
Remember what you told me (x3)
Shut up and put your books where your mouth is
That’s what you get for waking up in Davis
Get up and shake the pollen off your clothes, now
That’s what you get for waking up in Davis
That’s what you get, aggie
Shake the pollen, shake, shake, shake the pollen c’mon!
Take some loans out, aggie
Take some loans out, aggie

And for the music
http://www.truveo.com/katy-perry-waking-up-in-vegas-instrumental/id/1626891644

Frying Brain Cells

Well, 48 hours till I am done with my senior year of college. The only things that stand between me and the freedom of summer are two lab reports and a final. It is currently 11:31pm and I do not have the motivation to study any longer. However I have hardly studied at all and I think I am really going to regret that decision in the morning. But for now I don’t care. I honestly don’t think I will be passing the class anyways because when it comes to these tests my brain seems to loose all regular function. I am just banking on the hopes that somehow will beat the average and be able to understand the questions and what the professor wants. My dyslexia seems to get worse and worse as the years go on.

Right now I would much rather be playing the bean game with Tim and Chels or being artsy with Lisa and Renee. They are having so much fun painting and watching movies. Ohhh how I want to be done!!!!!!!!

Thank You Comcast!

Such a wonderful thing occurred today. Our Cable was disconnected. You may think, "What? Brystal, why are you excited about your cable not working?"

In the words of John McCain

"Well my friends...."

For the past week there has been a silent between Chelsea, Elise and I over control of the remote. It is Chels and I VS Elise, and Today meant Victory for our team. No longer will we be subject to 24 hours of the television only playing Law and Order. Literally 24 hours. Elise has been camped out in front of the TV assuring her complete control of the television. Chelsea even woke up at 4 am to find the TV on, and guess what was on.

So Saturday before I left for the fun Hen Party, the internet decided to fail. In attempt to fix the solution after being bitched at by a certain someone, I called Comcast. I scheduled an appointment for Sunday. Finally, today the Comcast tech. came and spent an hour analyzing the system to give us an unfortunate diagnosis. This shity apartment had horrible cable lines and need to be replaced. The maintenance is under Fountain Circle's jurisdiction and he was unable to fix the problem. So for the time being we can have either cable or internet, not both. So of course it being finals week, internet wins. Well, I don't think that this complex will even get around to fixing the problem so tomorrow I am going to cancel cable all together.

Luckily I am not going to be around much this summer to want to watch TV. Instead I will just get a subscription to Netflix.

Today marks a wonderful day of silence coming from the living room.

The Final Countdown

7 days till I am done with finals!!!!

Then Summer!

A song to represent the theme for today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IKcMl_a9A

Spectacular Spectacular!

After a very long week, I finaly feel a little less stressed. I had a final project presentation that we rocked, had an exam today and turned in the first of four lab reports due over the next two weeks. I also signed the lease to our appartment for next year. Which I am extremly excited about moving out of fountin craple. I spent a few hours at Starbucks with Renee working on a lab report due tomorrow. Finally ended the day with going for an amazing 4 mile run. Now I have to work on some more homework. 

I ran across this picture today. It is what Lisa drew on my door last year. 

Oh I forgot to mention the crazy cat lady! So there is this woman in my lab. She is married and strange. Reminds me of someone else I know.. no not you Akin, someone blonde.. Well while the rest of the class spends time on the computers checking e-mails and other somewhat academic stuff. This girl spends hours online watching you tube videos of cats. I mean seriously and then she drags me into watching them too. They are wierd. I enjoy animals and all, but seriously. She is obsessed.

Grow Bacteria Grow!

Man, I am siting here in lab trying to kill time waiting for this mutant bacteria to grow. So very borring. I have tons of stuff to do for thursday such as studying for my exam, writing my lab report and graphing the Data from Hell. Ahh and to top this wonderful day off I am sick. My throat is burning from thirst and my stomach groans with hunger pains. That small muffin from the Co-Ho at 9 am is not holding me over now that is is almost 5pm. Oh man and when I get out of here I have to rush home and change for my marketing presentation this evening. Oh how I long for summer to arrive. I wish I could just skip over finals week. 

Surprise Surprize

Well after having a major melt down monday. I am starting to try and not be so stressed out. Oh how I look forward to summer. So close but so far away. I have two weddings to attend. A cool lab to work in. Places to travel to and people to catch up with and see. I also will have more time to log hours on the bike and run. Oh and being able to go hiking and up to the mountains, ride the horse. So many plans. 

As for being super studious today and getting a lot of work down that was completly shot down when Tawny and Derrick came over and Pj walked in randomly to join us. We spent the rest of the afternoon playing settlers and finishied it off with beers. It was fun. I even cooked dinner for the first time in what feels like weeks. I have been so busy and stressed out I have been eating out so much.

Mmm now I am going to make brownies, and still try to get stuff done. 

well until later. 

I wan't a puppy

So what better to wake up to the morning to a cute little furry creature at the side of your bed. After years of being away to college I am very deprived of the canine companionship. So this week I realized that I really really want a puppy. What better to come home to a little ball of fur that is so excited to see you. A companion to go on runs with and to bring a little life to my appartment. So after searching I realised I am quite partial to terriers. I love Terryk my cute little furry westie at home. I love that little dog. The only drawbacks is that he always gets dirty and has a hard time staying white. Since I am always out and about it would be nice to not have to worry about a dog that always has to stay nice and clean and white all the time. After googling different terriers I have come across the cutest of breeds. The Cairn Terrier. Aren't they so adorable?? 

I have decided that if I get one I would name it after one of the Ewoks from Star Wars because they remind me of those cute little guys. Man oh man do I want a puppy now. 

Many Things

Well So many thoughts since I last documented by uneventful life.

Well for one I love the weather this week. It started out cool and cloudy and now it is sunny and breezy. The perfect temperature. Man I am really going to long for this weather as I sit and fry like an egg in Davis this summer. 

Well it is Mother's Day weekend and I won't be seeing her at all. It is also her birthday. Instead I will spend those days ridding my horse in the new arena. My horse will sure be happy about that. 

Last night I had dinner with Chelsea and my Dad at Burgurs and Brew. It was good. Afterwards even though I was completly not hungry, we had to go in to Yolo Berry. Except now a days I feel like such a trader for going in that place. For my marketing class we are doing our project on Yogurt Shack and trying to figure out how they can stay in business in the newly competative yogurt industry in Davis. But of course I like all the places. They each have something good about them, but for locations sake Yolo Berry is better situated right next to central park, Crepeville and Burgers and Brew. Man oh man. 

That leads me to my next tangent. Wednesday while I was outside Yogurt Shack doing customer survey's I was excited to make a new friend that is more obsessed about seeing the new Star Trek movie than I am. I mean, I grew up watching the shows as a kid, and have seen most of the major movies that came out in the 90's when my dad would drag me and my sister along with him. But this new film is produced By J.J.Abrams, the creator of Lost and Alias, two amazing shows. Oh and the young Captain Kirk is quite a site to see. Needless to say I am excited about going to see the movie tonight with Chels. We are such nerds. But hey that's what the title of the blog is right???

So many things yet to experience

Ok so this is my senior year here in Davis and there are so many things I have yet to have done. First of all I have not explored all of the downtown hot spots of recent addition to Davis. So I am making a list of places I want to have tried by the end of summer.

1) Makuni, its a new chain sushi restaraunt to recently open in Davis

2) The new Thai restaraunt/night club- I have heard nothing but amazing things about this new bar. 

3)Davis Shushi Buffet- apparently better than Fugi's and buffet.

4) Davis wikki- the drink, a Davis tradition that apparently everyone must try at least once in their life.

5) The Varsity Theater- Cool, vintage and still never seen a film there.

6) Quickly- the new boba place

7) 49'er video- still never been there

8) Batting cages- really really want to go, need to find out when it is open.

I know there is more. But right now I feel really sick, must have eaten something that does not agree with my stomache. That and the fact that I am freezing from standing outside for the last 4 hours at Sophia's trivia night, which by the way was a lot of fun and my first time. Man I do not get out. I am so lame. 

A wonderful Week

Well it is now 5:30 pm on Easter. The end to a long and wonderful week. Hello to a new week. Well this week as you know was important for two wonderful religions, Judaism and Christianity. Thurdsay was the begining of Passover, celebrating the New Covenant God made with Israel. I was lucky enough to attend my first Passover dinner with some friends. It was a lot of fun and really made me miss Israel. In the booklet we were reading though it was in both Hebrew and English. I was so content listening to that language for the first time in months. Oh how I wish I knew Hebrew. It was also so amazing being able to learn all the wonderful traditions that have been kept over the years.

 Also Friday was good Friday marking the day Jesus died to Rise again out of the Tomb on Sunday. That also made me remember the Garden Tomb. It is really neat being able to read through the Bible and being able to remember where the stories take place and have been there. 

This week will be busy. I have been tutoring a ton and have two exams and a lab report due. Not to mension preping for the GRE and trying to improve my vocabulary and verbal scores. Then there is the constant intership and summer job search. Finding an intership is so difficult because so many people are going into the Bio- tech indistry. It is really frustrating waiting around trying to figure out what to do with my life next. I honestly don't know. 

Well until later

Hmm Bacteria!

Ok so I am a super nerd and currently am sitting in my Microbiology lab waiting for my bacteria to grow. In the mean time I try to catch up on all procrastination I have lost over the last few weeks and realize it is time to update this nerdy blog. So sit back and relax I have a lot to catch you up on. 

Item #1 Chelseas Bridal Shower

It was a wonderful weekend of making fun of chelsea and all the wonderful things she has to look forward to for getting married. I have so many obsene pictures but and fearful to post them. So I guess I will put one amazing one up to sum up the tone of the shower. 

After a weekend of fun and surprises the next few things I am looking forward to are 

1)picnic day and seeing my family

2)Star Trek. 

I am such a nerd and May 8th baby I am going to be watching the opening night showing of that movie. Even Chels wants to see it with me. You all should totally check out the trailer. http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/ 

Its been a while

So it has been quite a while since I have made a post. Over the last week..
1. my car got towed from Derricks apartment complex
2. My computer crashed
3. I went completely Broke
4. I went to San Louis Obispo for the weekend

Last night I realized that I have an exam on Friday and the career fair tomorrow. Man growing up and looking for jobs really sucks.

However I now have Katy Perry's song "Hot N Cold" stuck in my head from Anneliese's twilight blog. Man that ridiculous movie is coming out on video soon. I need to go on detox from everything Twilight. I keep reading the books when I have nothing better to do (on the pot) and while I am in class I make comparisons of my life drama with the charachters in the Novel. Yes it is bad. I relate reality to fiction. But I know I am not the only crazy girl who does that, I talked to two other of my friends who do the same thing. Maybe I need to get sane friends.... No.. I like being surrouned by my kind.

Hmm wine. I think I might help myself to a glass of full moon. Like the greatest winery from $5 at Traders.

Viruses!!!

Gah I have been plagued by viruses for the last week. First I get sick in the middle of mid terms, then my computer gets bombarded with viruses while in the middle of trying to download age. So I have spent literally all day fixing my computer. I have sat on the same couch all day!!! At least I went for a long run and cooked dinner and stuff. Man I am such a bum today. But my computer is my life. Gahh if only I had a mac. I would not have to worry about viruses.

Kilts

So this morning Jennie and Anneliese came over for breakfast. It was fun talking about just about everything from Obama on Twitter, why John McCain cant raise his
arms and Scottish Kilts. Hehe so all morning in Lab I just pictured everyone wearing a kilt. That later turned in to why Chelsea should buy a Kilt for Tim for his birthday, and cutting her cake with a Medieval sword.
Oh Life so just to put to picture my crazy converstions of this morning.
Funny Right??
Oh Jennie I can't wait to see all the men of your wedding wearing one of these.

Akin this one is for you! So I am excited you are coming to visit Chels and I Thursday. Get ready to get your game on!

Welcome

Well after months of pondering, procrastinating and denial, I have finally broken down and started my own blog. So here it is my online journal for the many weird happenings and thoughts of my life.