Twilight

Another thing that's coming a week from tomorrow is TWILIGHT! Yes, I will be there. I'm ready. Are you?

bus rules- food

If you ride the bus don't bring your fragrant food with you. It's rude. Even if you think it smells good someone else may not. What if the person next to you is nauseated? You'll have vomit all over you in no time. Eat your breakfast before you get on the bus.

Also, if you decide that your bus food of choice is a peanut butter and jelly bagel that has jelly oozing out from all sides you're an idiot and don't you dare touch the hand rail.

cello

I love the cello. It is my favorite instrument. To me it's so sad and melancholy but at the same time can also be strong and hopeful. A few weekends ago I went to the WWU Cello Festival and attended a lecture/recital on Pau Casals. I had never heard of him before but am glad I know of him now.

Biology

I basically hit the quotation jackpot with this professor. She's amazing, and foreign so it makes it twice as great.

"APOPTOSIS!" - look it up. It's one of my favorite biology things.

"Boundary Bay is the whole reason for being in Bellingham."

"...state of flux..." - love it. It makes me think of Star Trek.

"Bilge pump" - sounds clean.

"An excellent way to cheat is to study." - Let's philosophically ponder that statement for a moment...

"It's a pain in the 3' end." - she likes this one and says it often. I find it incredibly nerdy.

"vignette" - One of my favorite words. She's the only person other than my high school English teachers that I've heard use this word.

"Syncytial, two 'y's. It's like your Polish grandmother's name. Lacking in bowels." - Too funny. Too true.

"Meiosis is like a square dance. All the couples go line up in the center of the barn and dance around...or whatever you do in a barn..."

"Mitosis is like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre..." - I will always think of that when I see a picture of mitosis.

"Binary" - another Star Trek word. Love it.

"The protein was all denatured and crapped up." - This is coming from the mouth of a woman with a PhD in Genetics.

"I just love making people feel self-conscious." - Mean.

"When I say semi conservative I'm not talking about how John McCain is kind of republican."

"I'm not gonna hold you responsible for quantum physics. Although, it's a weird and wonderful place." -I'm sure.

Random thoughts:

Can you recycle pens?

Wet dirt smells good.

RAS makes me think of The Rescuers.

Chemistry

Sorry I haven't done a quotation update in a while. I hope you can handle this.

My chemistry professor isn't a very good quote person but I have at least one...

"substoichiometric" - I believe this is actually a word.

One thing that really bothers me in lecture are classroom floaters. You know those people that can't decide where they want to sit so they randomly choose a spot each day. Those people are stupid. Pick a single seat and sit there everyday because when you don't you're pissing off every other person in the class that has a routine. Not to mention 9 times out of 10 you are one of the most obnoxious persons on the planet and insist on verbalizing every thought that pops into your little brain. Stop it.

here I come!

I have been accepted for the Peru program! So as of now I will be going to Peru and Alaska next summer. Watch out world. Ariel's comin'!

plans

On Saturday I applied for a program in Peru this summer. Now I have to wait. I'm nervous.

Travel

Something I discovered this summer.

Travel

I should like to rise and go

Where the golden apples grow;-

Where below another sky

Parrot islands anchored lie,

And, watched by cockatoos and goats,

Lonely Crusoes building boats;-

Where sunshine reaching out

Eastern cities, miles about,

Are with mosque and minaret

Among sandy gardens set,

And the rich goods from near and far

Hang for sale in the bazaar;-

Where the Great Wall round China goes,

And on one side the desert blows,

And with bell and voice and drum,

Cities on the other hum;-

Where are forests hot as fire,

Wide as England, tall as a spire,

Full of apes and coconuts

And the negro hunters' huts;-

Where the knotty crocodile

Lies and blinks in the Nile,

And the red flamingo flies

Hunting fish before his eyes;-

Where in jungles near and far,

Man-devouring tigers are,

Lying close and giving ear

Lest the hunt be drawing near,

Or a comer-by be seen

Swinging in a palanquin;-

Where among the desert sands

Some deserted city stands,

All its children, sweep and prince,

Grown to manhood ages since,

Not a foot in street or house,

Not a stir of child or mouse,

And when kindly falls the night,

In all the town no spark of light.

There I'll come when I'm a man,

With a camel caravan;

Light a fire in the gloom

of some dusty dining room;

See the pictures on the walls,

Heroes, fights, and festivals;

And in a corner find the toys

Of the old Egyptian boys.

-Robert Louis Stevenson