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Monday, November 13th, 2006
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12:12 am
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I finally got a job...thanks mostly to Cindy, who is awesome beyond words being able to describe. And it's pretty much my dream job. I squish up ticks, extract their RNA, use it to make DNA, amplify genes, and study their expression patterns in attempt to find information that could help make a vaccine for Lyme disease. I go home every day smiling because I love it so much.
yet I still feel...idle? I could be doing more with my life than I am right now...but WHAT, is the question. Today they had a little "job fair" thing at Newbury Comics. I was tempted to sit down for an interview. But I don't have a TON of time that I could be spending on a second job. Just nights and weekends...but not Monday, that's frisbee day. Then again, I spend all my money at Newbury Comics anyway...it'd be more convenient if I'm there already..
or maybe I could get a social life. that wouldn't be as accomodating to the $17,000 I owe in student loans as a second job would. but I'd probably have more fun.
I just realized that now, at age 22, I have the exact same attitude towards guys I'm interested in that I had when I was 12. Obsess silently, and then when I actually see them, get so nervous and shy that I barely say anything, and then I don't see them again for a while. repeat. note to self, grow up.
current mood:  restless
current music: "Joe's Garage" - Frank Zappa
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| Thursday, August 24th, 2006
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3:13 pm
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I think my newest life goal is to have equal numbers of pants, shirts, socks, underwear. It really bugs me that I have to do laundry when one (usually underwear) runs out, but there are still plenty of clean items of the rest of them. Downright irritating.
So I've been doing that whole job searching bullshit. I hate it when employers don't even give you the courtesy of giving you a phone call to let you know you're a loser. They just leave you hanging. See, the problem with being a science person is most of the jobs out there require a fairly specific masters degree. Which I do want to get...in a year or so...but in the meantime, this sucks.
Some of my plants are doing VERY well, others are dying...don't know why.
so, order of things to do:
laundry.
find job.
rent own place.
current mood:  blah
current music: "You're Pitiful" - Weird Al
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| Saturday, April 1st, 2006
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11:28 pm
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so dave left my car door unlocked...again. And this time I had been dumb enough to leave my iPod in my car overnight.
After grabbing something I needed out of my trunk, I went back inside. "Dave...you rode shotgun last night, right?"
"Yeah..oh, fuck, did I leave your door unlocked again?"
"My iPod's gone."
"Oh...no....Are you serious?"
"Nope! April Fool's!"
current mood:  pleased
current music: dcd
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| Sunday, February 26th, 2006
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11:23 pm - it hurts.
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Pets are funny things. We take them into our homes, give them names. Some people even give them stupid little outfits. Like we're trying to make them human.
But they'd even be better than humans. If you tell a person a secret, they can cut you off and tell you their own problems, or silently judge you, or turn around and tell it to the next person they see. Pets never do that.
Bubba slept in my bed with me almost every night. when I was doing homework, he would jump in my lap and claw my leg, purring, as if to say "stop worrying so much." I let him have some of my food and hide from the dogs in my room. When I moved out at the beginning of the school year, my family said he'd been acting differently...that he missed me.
are they really just dumb animals? or do they really understand the humans they live with? I guess we'll probably never know for certain.
I wish I had gone back to visit him more often. I wish his last years could have been peaceful, rather than his having to fight the dogs for attention.
there will never be another cat like him. he was hands-down the most loud, obnoxious meower there ever was. he had no qualms about jumping on the table and eating your food off your plate. given the choice of chicken or corn, he'd eat the corn.
I feel like I'm never going to stop crying.
current mood: sad
current music: Gone Away - the Offspring
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| Sunday, February 12th, 2006
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11:51 pm - an actual update?
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somewhere in the mix of going to school and having a party at our house, I caught a cold. So all day I've been napping and eating chicken soup. i feel wretched. I also vaguely remember one of our party guests stepping on my foot and it hurting a lot...that would explain the pain I still feel in my foot.
I called mom a little while ago. She and Dave are thinking of adopting a 13-year old girl. which is kinda cool. I think mom might be experiencing a little of that whole empty-nest thing. I mean, the girl could easily be our fourth sister. she looks a LOT like Pie. but i still think it's good that mom wants to put some of her energy into something other than ebay. apparently nana is being kinda critical about the whole thing, going on about how the three of us are all miserable and need help and stuff...I think she could stand to lighten up for once.
I'm gonna call in to work tomorrow morning. they're probably gonna think I just wanted a snow day and I'm being a baby, but whatever...I'm legitimately sick. They don't want to catch this shit.
the savannah trip got cancelled, so me and the boys are probably gonna go to disneyworld for spring break.
oh and my Nepenthes rafflesiana finally opened a pitcher!
current mood: sick
current music: sponge - plowed
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| Sunday, February 5th, 2006
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10:28 pm - fugly!
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I need more friends who knit. Mostly so we can share and giggle over things such as this.
current mood: silly
current music: wumpscut
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| Monday, January 9th, 2006
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1:12 am - crap.
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I have contracted... | Saturday Night Fever | ...This gruesome disorder is marked by a tendency to shake it to disco. |
Find out what you've contracted!
On a totally unrelated note...new plants! They are succulents...they kinda look like rocks...and that's all I know about them.
current mood:  awake
current music: Ashengrace
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| Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
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8:23 pm - Red Scare.
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The Metcalf Institute is basically composed of 4 people: the director, Jackleen; the program coordinator, Katharine (my boss); and the two student employees, me and Kristine. Jackleen recently resigned - which is shocking to all of us, seeing as Metcalf is the bestest job anyone could ask for. (that was sarcastic). So Katharine and I have started going through all the JUNK that Jackleen left in her office, clearing out everything we can and making room for the new people who are going to be hired.
The Hampshire College Ultimate team is best known for two things. First, their communism. Second, every year they put out a calendar of photos of themselves, naked, playing ultimate. Their poses are cleverly designed so that no actual private parts are showing. But they are indeed naked, and they sell these calendars as a fundraiser.
So what do these tidbits of information have to do with one another?
While cleaning out some file cabinets in Jackleen's office today, I happened upon a copy of the 2003 Hampshire College Ultimate calendar. After my initial surprise at finding such an artifact, and delight at recognizing some of the people, I got to wondering why a middle-aged woman such as Jackleen, with no direct ties to the Hampshire College ultimate team, would have a calendar of naked college students... Aaanyway, that's my story for the day.
current music: 311
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| Friday, December 16th, 2005
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11:51 pm
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| Monday, December 5th, 2005
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11:14 pm
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for tomorrow:
-psychology quiz
for wednesday:
-entomology lab practical
-two projects for drawing that I have yet to start
-might also be nice to actually be prepared for the critique in color theory
for thursday:
-article critique due
-microbiology lab final
what I've actually started:
-none of the above.
plus I'm sick.
WHY GOD WHY
current mood: sick
current music: chumbawamba - not tubthumping, their other songs.
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| Saturday, November 19th, 2005
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1:48 pm - NSFW
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| Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
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6:17 pm
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wow so I won a raffle. There is a gift basket full of herbal tea, incense, and other assorted new age goods waiting for me way the fuck out in Coventry. mini road trip anyone?
current mood: surprised
current music: REM
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| Monday, October 31st, 2005
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11:04 pm
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the guy who used to work at Bagelz now works at Shaw's. I found this out tonight while getting some halloween candy. He remembered that I always get chicken salad too. oh good god the chemistry when we talked. I might have to stop by shaw's a little more often.
other than that halloween was a big bust. though I did get this hat with spiders on it. pretty cool.
current mood: mischievous
current music: thorns - wumpscut
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| Thursday, October 27th, 2005
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5:04 pm
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in entomology lab yesterday, they had bugs for us to eat. So I got to eat a cricket and a mealworm. Not bad at all. The cricket kind of tasted like a sunflower seed.
So my venus flytraps and I have a special bond now.
current mood: crazy
current music: der komissar
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| Friday, October 7th, 2005
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12:02 pm - chilopods are the shit
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At work this morning, Andrea freaked out about a bug in her office. I went to investigate. Turned out to be a Scutigera coleoptrata, better known as the house centipede. It has really cool, long legs. So naturally I caught it and now Millton is chilling out under a cup on my desk, scaring people.
current mood:  enthralled
current music: Green Day
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| Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
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12:48 pm
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Fang and Cleopatra have BOTH caught bugs! All by themselves!! Fang actually has about 5 mouths now (if you recall, he was on the verge of death when I rescued him), and the one he used to catch the bug is tiny...only about a third of a centimeter. It's a tiny bug though...a perfect fit. And Cleopatra has BIG mouths...a good 2 centimeters. She caught some sort of fly. Oh I'm so proud! ^_^<3 the bright sunshine is really great for them.
This weekend is our first real tourney, and the annual meeting of the New England Carnivorous Plant Society.
I knit a sock for my iPod. It came out well, especially since I made the pattern up as I went along...which usually ends in a mess but worked out great this time. Kristine, who just started working at Metcalf with me, expressed interest in having me knit one for her too. And my boss, Katharine, asked me to knit her a bag, for which she will pay me. Awesome!
current mood: pleased
current music: Grateful Dead
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| Friday, September 16th, 2005
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9:44 am - my "day off"
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8 am: wake up (note, this is VERY late for me these days)
8:15: drink coffee, watch animal planet
8:45: decide to dye yarn
9:00: start dying yarn (takes a while).
9:06: check e-mail, discover I'm supposed to be at work at 9:30
so much for the day off. I'm sitting around waiting for the yarn to finish dying...
current mood:  coffee
current music: AYWKUBTTOD
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| Monday, September 12th, 2005
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1:33 pm
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we still don't have internet at the house so I'm taking advantage of time before practice. Hopefully the Cox guy will be able to remove the filter this afternoon.
Senior year is going well, I'm tired already though. Art classes are good. Microbio is going to be annoying. Entomology is going to be good.
Psych...the first day we went around the lecture hall and everybody said their name, year, and why they're taking this class. Everyone was like "I'm so-and-so, I'm a sophomore and a psych major, and I'm taking this class because I'm particularly interested in personality disorders and Freud's Oedipus complex blah blah blah try to impress professor." Or pre-med/bio, with psych minors. It was sort of disgusting.
I said, "I'm Emily, I'm a senior, and I'm taking this class because I need a psych gen ed."
People chuckled under their breath at this. "No interest in psychology?" asked the professor.
"I guess it's sort of interesting," I replied.
Anyway so our house is awesome. I was nervous about the money involved and all that, but after I moved in I don't have any doubts...it's worth it. My only complaint is The Guys had to watch football all day yesterday. All day! I mean I'll watch the Patriots, and the Red Sox...but jeez, they watched game after game after game, whether it was a team they cared about or not.
We need a second TV.
Ummm and RIUT, so far so good. Vin and Mike are going to take care of discs this year, I don't know whether to be suspicious or relieved. I'm already anxious about college sectionals...which is stupid because they're 8 months away. But that is THE most important tournament of the year, and I might not even get to play. I barely got to play last year. Let it go, let it go..
I am utterly addicted to Sudoku puzzles.
current mood: relaxed
current music: Sweet - 311
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| Thursday, September 1st, 2005
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7:46 pm - oh boredom.
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Stolen from Pie:
( The Random Question Meme! )
Back in 10th grade, the school band went to New Orleans for a little festival/field trip. We spent 3 very short days there. I absolutely loved it. It was kind of a weird place, but that was what made it so cool. I wish I had more time to really explore.
Now I guess I won't have a chance. I did find all my mardi gras beads and souvenier voodoo dolls.
I don't know, I'm really upset about New Orleans. I think you would have to have gone there to understand. And even then, I think I loved it more than most people loved it. A little on the dark side, a little on the crazy side. Sort of like me.
And gas prices are fairly high right now. I kinda wish people would shut up about it, everywhere I go people are like "gas prices are high." I don't even get a chance to forget about it.
But Cleopatra is doing quite well. She grows new leaves regularly and is beautiful and green. The nasty humid weather we had this past week was fantastic.
I got a second VFT too. He looked like he was on the verge of death at Home Depot, but he's doing better already. His name's Fang.
current mood: gloomy
current music: Our Lady Peace
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| Monday, August 29th, 2005
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12:27 am
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Dead Can Dance is performing in Boston on october 5...a wednesday.
god I'd love to go. but I don't think I can.
their music is so beautiful. it almost makes me cry, it's so gorgeous.
but boston on a wednesday night...I have a once-a-week class on wednesdays. and the thought of braving boston on my own is very scary.
there are plenty of tickets left, I need to think about this.
current music: guess.
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