Whew!

Finally done with months of week-to-week lab reports and quizzes and midterms and essays.  Meaning I have time for my hobbies again!  Including Xanga.  You can tell that I had a little more free time Fall '10 semester because I actually existed on this site back in those days.  Oh, the life!

I've been treating Twitter as blogging-on-the-run, so that filled the hole in my heart whenever I wanted to blog but knew I didn't have the time.  Otherwise, a woman needs to allocate her free time reasonably, and I've been putting my free time into watching Conan O'Brien's new show.  And Fringe.  My goodness that show is getting intense.  So my choices have been between been typing here (on top of writing for school) versus mindless brain-resting with various internet shows.  Guess which I chose. @_@.

I'm not going to try to make this less mundane than it actually is.  I'm not trying to impress anyone today.  I'm just waiting for my nails to 100% dry before I go back to packing and cleaning up my dorm before I go back home to Sacramento, so this is basically my chatter to myself until that happens.

You call it boring.  I call it keeping it real.  I'm sitting on my bed right now.  That's pretty real.  I got proof: my booty on my bed.  REAL.  I don't think I'm using the slang properly.

OKAY, I just looked it up on urbandictionary.

Keep it real: To not be fake.  Be yourself.

So, I AM using it properly.  It's pretty "being myself" that I am bumming out on my bed after all my finals ranting on my Xanga that I am bumming out on my bed after all my finals.  So game set match.  Point to me.  Winner.

Okay actual news in my life:
* Got into a pretty sweet research internship at UC Merced.  I'll be working in my first-choice laboratory that I've been pursuing since freshman year, and my mentoring professor is really stoked about me.  I'm going to start doing stem cell research in the Fall.  So I'm definitely staying in Merced to pursue the internship and whatnots.
* Told Phuc I'd apply to UCD to open the possibility of making our long distance relationship into just a relationship and followed through.  So, I applied to UC Davis, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and UC Irvine last November (the other three UCs were just for funsies).  Got into all four, so that was flattering!  :)  BUT, all of the acceptance letters were after I put down my security deposit for my house and after I was accepted into the internship, so lolololololol.  It looks like I'll still be in Merced next year. 
* Less major, but my roommate is transferring to Cal next year so we had a huge "let's just bum out and watch movies all day" day today.  We just finished shopping + two 2.5-hour-long movies so I'm pretty tired.  She drank a butt load of sweet tea though so she's pretty hyper on sugar right now.  

It's like when I played tag with that kid at the playground all over again.  HOW DO CHILDREN HAVE SO MUCH ENERGY?

Did I have that much energy as a kid?  Nowadays I'm pretty spent after rushing to class.  I believe it though.  I remember most of my childhood at Cassell Elementary being spent literally chasing boys (yeah, I was that girl) and going on adventures in the soccer field (mostly collecting ladybugs).

A few hobbies that I tried to keep up in spite of a busy semester: make-up and nails! XD I am such a giiiiirl.

NOW I'M SLEEPY

DONE

What if I ended all my posts like that?  Just: "DONE" then run away?

DONE