My sense of humour sucks

Seen on campus:

They are flyers for the pharmacists’ analogue to Doctors Without Borders. I’m sure they do an awesome job, but that acronym never fails to make me giggle.

On new classes (and stress)

Hi there, new semester! My stress level at the thought of new classes, labs and exams is surprisingly low at the moment, but I’m afraid it’ll build up soon. First lab day is on the fifth of February, and I’m anticipating some minor panic attacks over having to write laboratory logs every other week. Oh, well, I’ve begun to get used to that by now.

This semester, I’ve decided to spend more time with friends, exercise more (it helps both my mood and the previously mentioned stress level) and, just, do more of the things I like. Last semester sort of drowned in studying, or stress over lack of studying, and I don’t want that happening again.

It helps that one of my classes this semester is quickly turning into my favourite ever, and that’s even before the lectures have started. It’s called “Molecular Driving Forces”, and I know that doesn’t exactly sound like fun, but I’ve always been interested in why things happen. In this subject, it’s all about the whys: why diffusion, pressure, elasticity, etc… happen. I just hope my lack of advanced maths knowledge won’t be a problem. The (awesome) textbook has a lot of “Math Tool Kits”, but those chapters aren’t on the syllabus, and I’m not that good a student that I read outside what I have to.

In other news, I decided that this was the semester I would colour my lab coat red, a long standing plan of mine. But then the washing machine decided to go on strike. As I was trying to colour the coat. It came out looking like I’d killed someone, and after an attempt to bleach it, it’s now spotted pink. Which is not a look I want to sport. So I’m currently hoping my boyfriend will let me use his washing machine to colour it again. And if Murphy decides to rear his ugly head once more, I’m going to punch him in the face.

Bunny meme

Adastra tagged me: “According to splitbrain, the world would be a better place if there were just more bunnies in it, so he encouraged a few bloggers to draw a bunny and post it on their blogs.”

My bunny is clear proof that I really should stick to science, rather than art.

The wonky colours are the result of me taking a picture of the drawing, rather than scanning it.

Anyway, the rules for the meme are:

• Draw a Bunny (or several)
• Post it to your blog with the rules
• Name three other bloggers that should draw a bunny

I hereby tag Kaylee, Regine and Wendy.

Going to Britain!

So last year, my mother took my sister on a one week trip to Santorini in Greece. This year, she wanted to travel somewhere with me. But because I didn’t want to go during the semester, and going to Southern Europe in the summer can be a sweltering experience, I talked her into going to Britain for a week in the middle of June. More precisely, we’re going to The Pig’s Foot, a.k.a. Cornwall.

Standing Stones in Cornwall
Image from timetravel-britain.com

It’s still in the early planning stages, but I’m really looking forward to it. I am, after all, a bit of an anglophile. We’ve decided we want to visit Tintagel Castle (King Arthur!), The Eden Project and to hike in the countryside. I hope my spoken English is a bit less rusty than I think it is.

This will be my fifth visit to Britain, but only the second after I became old enough to actually care about the sights. My dad has a nice story of how my sister (five) and I (seven) were more interested in ice cream than seeing Stonehenge. And later, at ages seven and nine, more interested in ice cream than seeing Westminster Abbey.

I think I need to do an Amanda and tour England by myself at some point, seeing all the stuff I missed. But Cornwall first.