You're "lol". You're so common it's scary.

Common? *pout*

jumped at 2:08 AM

*tralala*
haven't updated for a bit, mainly cos the darned thing was down for a while, and I didn't save my entries.. so.. :p Anyway, not feeling as stressed now, the AMM test is over, my stats tutorial has been done and handed up, -and- we've thought of a topic for our damn PQS project *glee*

Of course, -she-'s still nagging, but then again, that's normal innit? Like one of those lil irritating mosquitoes forever whining away in the background *growl* Can't swat it though, that's the problem. *sniff*

The AMM test was pretty good.. Cos I started studying the nite before, and skipped SCV the next morning to study for it, so I memorized a fair bit, which is basically what microbio's about at the moment. I didn't get the manufacture of cheese qn wholly right, forgot the casein and am sure I got the steps mixed up, and for the qn on colony hybridization I put DNA probe in place of hybridization with RNA/DNA, but I think I'll still do okay. *crosses her fingers* Next test, immunology! *panic*

Trying to learn javascript, and realized I've gone and forgotten all my html, so I'm going back to the very basics *grin*. Quite sad really :p. Trying to get a webpage up eventually, but having seen some of my friends', I'm going to wait til it doesn't look like something a kindergarten kid did on frontpage before I dare put it up *grin*. Actually, some of the kids could prolly do it better. *sniffle* Anyway! I'll keep on trying. *waves* Later.

jumped at 9:12 PM

i feel rotten today. no idea why. it hasn't been a particularly stressful day, neither emotionally or school-wise, but i feel drained and lethargic. no inclination to do any of the mounds of hwk teetering dangerously on my dressing table, that haven't even made it to my desk yet. not that I've had any inclination to do them all semester. *grin*. and there's noone particularly interesting online, which is prolly a good thing, cos then i might actually end up doing some work. but i doubt it somehow. *snicker*.

need to fax my accomodation in scotland by today too, dr gandhi said that if i come in tomorrow and haven't done it she's going to send me back home to do it. :p which wouldn't be such a bad thing if i got to miss microbio prac, cos i haven't done my pre-lab report yet. and there's like 5 to do. *groan* by tomorrow. one of the things that's going to have to miraculously get done tonight. and my stats tutorial, cos mrs chan finally checked ours last week and fully half of us hadn't even bothered to do it. luckily she didn't scream at me too much, because of the aforementioned 24/25 *beam*. but she's making us pass it up this week, and it'll be my first stats tutorial i'm doing since the beginning of sem, if it gets done.

pah, this has been one long moan. :p in other news, lime did put that pic of me and jane outside the blue showcase in *shudder*. Marguerita from Max emailed me, called me a traitor for appearing in it. *snicker* It wasn't my faaaauuult! *whines*. anyway. the bubble tea guy in school recognised me from it. *groans* *digs a hole in the ground and buries her head in it*. eep, more whining. *giggle* sorry, im in a whiny mood, better stop here.

jumped at 3:29 AM

ooh, forgot to mention. I got 24/25 for my stats test! *glee*
*cough* Kay, i'm going to stop here today. Really. :)

jumped at 7:48 AM

Warning, this is going to be a long one. :p

Today I had another argument with my dearest mother. Over reading. Not her usual argument, that I read too much, but that I'm reading rubbish. See, I was reading a stack of my trashy love stories, and she went on an entire rant about how I'm turning my brain to mush and how i should be reading more 'serious' books, books that make me think. Well, pardon me if I read to escape. I have no desire to read about hate, racism, cruelty, discrimination etc, which quite a few of the people I know (out of the minority that actually read), would classify as broadening their horizons. (Looking back on that last sentence, it doesn't quite make sense, but whatever *wrinkles her nose*.) I reckon in the world as it is nowadays, we get quite enough exposure to all the above, and if I'd rather escape to a world where guys are always irresistable, with deep, dark secrets in their past, etc etc etc, and sex is always fireworks and multi-orgasmic, so? It's not like reading all this is going to make me believe it's true. Living here so far has taught me the guys are usually far from the romantic ideal, both in looks and personality, and I'm not exactly like any one of the women in any of those stories. Reading fantasy doesn't make me expect faeries under every leaf and dragons in every cave, I don't see what harm reading fantasy of another sort, which it undoubtably is, will do to my brain cells being able to link disparate things logically. (Though, from the last few convoluted sentences, you'd be forgiven for thinking that I was never actually able to link them in the first place :p)

Of course, I don't mention any of the above to her, I don't want another rant on how I always fail to face reality and like to bury my head in the sand.

It's not like they're the only books I read. I read, and re-read, many books which more than surpass her specifications on 'serious', but they don't seem to count. It's just that when my life is more than complicated enough, and I feel I'm already in danger of forgetting many tiny little things that I absolutely have to complete, I'd rather not add to my mental load. One of my problems is that when I read a book, I get completely absorbed in it, if I can't finish it at one sitting, I'll be thinking about and analyzing bits of it while I do whatever it is that's taken my attention away from it, which doesn't do much for me when I'm trying to memorize the characteristics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa for instance.

And. One last thing. Don't. Lock. Up. My. Modem. *wail*

jumped at 7:44 AM