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.