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Seasonal clothing?
Posted by Amber on May 16th, 2012
Filed under: General


I keep seeing people online talking about how they have to pack up their winter clothing or change out their clothing, something along those lines. Would anybody care to explain to me this seasonal clothing change? Arizona doesn’t have seasons, it has unbearably hot and nice, probably not actually cold but cold for an Arizonan. My clothes are the same year round. I mean, I have one long sleeve shirt that I guess I wouldn’t wear in the summer, although it isn’t very thick. In the winter I wear I jacket or hoodie, on particularly cold nights when I’m actually out (which happens maybe once or twice) I have a heavy jacket. But that’s really the excess of my “winter clothing”. I don’t even wear close-toed shoes that often, the entire year I’m probably in flip flips 98% of the time. Then when it gets around 70-ish I stop wearing a jacket and there is my spring/summer clothing.

It has been hectic these last few days trying to pack. I’m running out of room in my bedroom for stuff, so I’m at a standstill until I get some of this crap already packed out of here, but today I did a lot of the kitchen and living room.

Also, my brother brought me back a root beer float from Culver’s, which I’m assuming he ate lunch at after he returned his uniform. He also keeps letting his hamster roll into my room. Twinkie is freaking adorable, and he really gets around in that hamster ball, but it changes nothing. He still owes me my damn money and he’s still an asshole, and I still refuse to be in the same room as him.

contacts, buses and finals
Posted by Amber on May 3rd, 2012
Filed under: General,School


So the professor for microbial genetics put up the grades as of now, and what they are with the curve. I’m not doing as bad as I thought. I have a D without the curve (I thought I had an F) and with the curve I’m just one point shy of a C (I’m at a C-). So now all that’s left is the final… I’m not going to hope for anything better than a C. I want one, I’ve always wanted one, but I’ve known it’s not possible. All I need to do on the final is get around what everyone else does, and I’ll get my passing C. I’ll never have to look at microbial genetics again.

I feel I should write a bit about yesterday, which was horrible. I got something in my left eye like halfway through the day, and since I had my contacts in I couldn’t rub. Normally I tear up for a few minutes and whatever was there gets flushed out, my eyes are good at taking care of themselves. But whatever this was, it wasn’t coming out. All through physics, and the hour and a half it took me to get home, I was in some of the worst pain I’ve ever been in. When I finally got home I took my contacts out and flushed my eye with water for like five minutes. By the evening the pain had almost completely gone away.

Things wouldn’t have been so bad if the buses did suck ass. I knew I’d have to wait like a half hour for the bus because I always just barely miss the one to go home after getting off the first one. However, the one that I was expecting to catch was full, so the drive just drove right by the stop. Another half hour of standing in the sun and heat, with my entire head in pain. Then it got worse. A few minutes before the bus got there I nearly blacked out from everything. I felt like I was going to vomit for a few minutes, I was starting to lose both my sight and hearing and my entire body went tingly and numb. I have no clue how I managed to walk up to the bus when it got there, but luckily some guy gave me his seat. I really wish I had a car, then I would have been home way earlier and in general wouldn’t have to deal with the shit the buses put me through. Well, back to studying. I got a few hours in today, want to get through at least half of the recorded lecture tomorrow.

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Damn kids
Posted by Amber on May 1st, 2012
Filed under: General


Next apartment I live in…well the next apartment I live in will be a one bedroom, so that will probably help quite a bit, but I’m going to make sure it isn’t overflowing with damn kids. Obviously two bedrooms as opposed to one bedrooms are going to have damn kids all over the place. I think children should be required to have rigorous finals as well, because they’re annoying the hell out of me. It’s getting to the end of the year for everyone, and college students are locked up somewhere studying their asses off for finals. What are all the damn kids doing? Going outside, from like 5-10 or even later at night, being loud. And it gets worse. Some of them are even coming upstairs where I live and running around, creating even more noise. It’s annoying as hell. For the past couple days around 6 there’s just some little girl screaming at the top of her lungs for no reason. One time I was tempted to go out there and scream to show her who’s boss, but then I remembered I already went through puberty and can’t scream that high anymore. I can still scream loud, but without the high pitch it just isn’t the same. Then I was reminded of this one time in elementary school, I think maybe first or second grade, maybe even kindergarten because I feel like I was in the area (the memory is hazy), when for the hell of it some and my friends and I screamed at the top of our lungs during recess for the hell of it. Completely different situation. Also, I lost The Game earlier today, and just lost it again. Damn. Sorry, since you just lost it too. Haha! And if you don’t know The Game, don’t look it up. You don’t want to know. Just like I shouldn’t have looked up rule 34. I did, and now…the interwebz will never be the same again. Wait, point of this post? Damn kids being loud. I have a passing grade of the line dammit!

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Updates
Posted by Amber on April 16th, 2012
Filed under: General,Website


I have most of my school stuff done for awhile so I decided to go around updating stuff on the site. If you come here regularly-ish you’ll noticed I’ve suddenly aged 2 years from the sidebar. It’s been about two years since I’ve updated anything, so pretty much anything info-wise that could be updated was.

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Uh-MAZING
Posted by Amber on March 12th, 2012
Filed under: General


I thought it would be best to make this a separate post, because it has a completely different mood to it. Yesterday, which will actually be two days ago when I post this because it’s almost midnight (so Saturday night), I went to see Wicked. I believe the title of this post says it all. I have wanted to see it for so long, and my aunt, through connections, was able to gets tickets when they were on special sale, so she managed to get center stage seats, row 26. The stage wasn’t itty bitty like other times I’ve seen Broadway shows, it was easy to see and right in front of me. I was anticipating going for so long, and I finally got to see it! I cannot even describe how amazing it is, words cannot describe how amazing it is. In order to understand the amazing-ness of it, you’d…you’d have to be able to feel what I feel, or go see it yourself. Seeing it yourself would probably be easier. It was so…it was hilarious, yet tragic and painful, yet suspenseful, yet incredibly surprising. I hated characters at first, then loved them, then hated them again, and felt for them by the end. I’d have to say it’s probably taken over as my favorite musical, and I really enjoyed Les Mis. I also enjoyed the Lion King, but it wasn’t on this level, and the Phantom I saw was probably too Vegas-fied for me to be able to compare it. I would love to see Wicked again to see what a different cast brings to it, like if Galinda/Glinda (the Ga is silent) is always so…yeah.

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Haters gonna hate…
Posted by Amber on March 11th, 2012
Filed under: General


And bandwagon fans will jump off just as fast as they got on. Today was Selection Sunday. I don’t think it really needs to be said, but I had issues with some of the selections. First off, I will say I was disappointed in Arizona’s play last night. Their defense was AMAZING through the first couple of games of the tourney, but then it just slipped against Colorado, and lost us that automatic bid. That would not have been a problem if they hadn’t lost to…er, if that day of darkness hadn’t happened. I won’t say who the loss was to at the end of regular season, but the fact that I refuse to mention the team by name should make it obvious (or maybe not). If we hadn’t lost against that team, then all Arizona would have needed to do was not get knocked out of the first round of the tourney and we would get in. It wouldn’t be the best seed, but it would be in. UW was in a similar situation. They were the regular season champions but got kicked out first round by Oregon State (who Arizona then beat) in the first round, ruining their chances. What was my point again? Right, Arizona should have been in over some of those teams that were chosen at large. Although the real main point I was getting to was how when it mattered most the team couldn’t pull their defense together. They have the best defense in the conference, yet on that dark day the other team scored a season high 87 points, and for some reason yesterday against Colorado they were not sticking to their guys. I have to point out Mayes in particular, mostly because the last points that won it for Colorado were a dunk by the guy he was defending because he seemed to be somewhere else. I understand that he’s never been the best defensively and the tourney is the first time he’s played in awhile since his foot injury (which may not be healed completely yet, but when your starting PG continues to fail to grow up and gets suspended for the tournament, the back up point needs to come in), but he just would not stay on his guy. I’m not a coach, so I don’t know the reason for it, but I think Miller should have gave most of the time at point to Johnson, then had Fogg at the 2 and Lavender at the 3 instead of giving B-Lav what seemed like limited minutes off the bench (his defense has improved this season).
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Finally over!
Posted by Amber on January 27th, 2012
Filed under: General,School


This week has been nothing short of shitty. First off, I end up getting a cold again (I usually only get sick once a year, but this year, thanks to my brother, I got sick in September during midterms and now I’ve caught something again). It was a sore throat that was incredibly irritating for a couple days, then a couple days of the normal cold symptoms. Luckily it was very mild so I’m nearly over it. Then Tuesday morning I think I performed a winning act for klutz of the year. Izumi was up to something (she had been bad all morning, getting into things, knocking stuff over, etc.) and so I got up to see what she was doing. I ended up jamming my toe into the wall. This isn’t really all too strange for me. About a month ago I ended running straight into a wall in the apartment (I don’t remember if I wrote about that or not), and banging feet on walls/doors/furniture is nothing strange for me. However, this hurt much more than usual. I was limping around the apartment until I had to go to lab, which luckily was the only class I had that day. That was painful, because I had to wear close toe shoes. When I got back and took my shoes off I noticed that the painful little toe now resembled a large, swollen, purple something. It was badly bruised, twice the size of my other little toe, and still incredibly painful. I had to wrap it for a few days, but it’s now returned to normal size, and is back to normal color with the exception of some bruising still on the inside (which means I hit the inside of my little toe on the wall, which really makes no sense). But it continues!
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No school, no meaning
Posted by Amber on December 19th, 2011
Filed under: General


This has to be fast because Pokemon comes on in less than ten minutes. So the semester is over, and despite how much I hated it, it ended up being my best yet. I got 2 A’s and 3 B’s, and I didn’t fail biostats (I ended up getting a B despite having an average on the tests of a D, go extra credit!). I could have gotten an A in my micro lab had I done better (much better, I quite literally bombed [as literal as you can take that] it) on the final practical, although I’m happy that I got an A on the test final. I studied my ass off for it and it payed off. I was just going for a mid C so that I could get a B in the class, ended up getting on A on it and a high B in the class. This is the first semester (and it’s my…seventh) in college that I haven’t gotten a C or worse. Next semester is going to be oodles of fun. I’m only taking two classes at the university and then have to hurry my ass to one of the community college each day to take physics. Only idiots take physics at the university. Well, idiots and physics majors…and maybe math majors I don’t know. Then it’s official that I’m going to have to stay an extra year. It’s lame, considering that several of my high school friends and even a couple of people who were a year below me in high school graduated this winter. I was hoping to graduate next winter, but that damn biochem. The university just had to change it to two semesters isntead of just one, and the fall is a prereq of the spring. One of my friends told me that biochem is pretty much just like microbial physiology, which I understood fairly well and passed with a B. So why can’t I take the spring biochem and then fall? Why do I have to take two semesters in the first place when I could have only taken one had I taken the class before the university got rid of 460? I have no clue, but that’s how it is. So instead of just doing an extra semester I do an extra year, which may or may not be good. Since I just really have biochem and physics left I can take the next level of Japanese in the fall, and since I’ll just have biochem in the spring I can that microbiology in food course that’s only offered in spring that I wanted to take this upcoming semester but couldn’t fit into my schedule.

I’ve been very bored with no school, thus the title of this post. Tomorrow I’m going home for around a week then coming back. During that off time I need to find a job because I have a hell of a lot better chance of getting into physics down here then up there, so I need money for the summer.

And…basketball goes on. We lost a couple we should have won. The next three should be easy wins.

happy mood!
Posted by Amber on November 7th, 2011
Filed under: General


Football season has sucked all year (except for Bonano, but that’s beside the point) and now it’s basketball time! My favorite time of the year, basketball season! And after a bit of a rocky start last week in the first exhibition match my Cats started their season off with a win! Considering we lost D-Will and MoMo, Parrom is currently out of commission and we have four freshman on the team compared to one last year, I’d say we did pretty well. I think our defense is better this year than it was last year. Rebounding both ways could be better and I’m sure will get better. There isn’t really a standout player like D-Will last year, but hopefully one will emerge soon. To a winning season!

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And I’m looking for a job on top of it all
Posted by Amber on October 16th, 2011
Filed under: General,School


I realize it’s been an incredibly long time since I posted anything. Well, this post is probably going to be short, because I have two more midterms this week that I need to study for, then I want to try to get through the rest of my kanji flashcard making, study for my kanji quiz tomorrow, finish my Japanese homework, study for the structure quiz in Japanese tomorrow, try to load Write-n-Cite onto my laptop for one of my classes tomorrow, get a bit more done of my lab report, and do all of this in a hasty fashion so I can get up early tomorrow to make sure I get into the classes I want to.

So in case you hadn’t noticed, this semester has been a rather busy one for me. It’s my senior year, although after looking at everything it looks like I’m going to be staying another full year probably. And for one class, biochem. Why? Because before they had a one semester biochem class for non-majors who needed it. Well, apparently the last time they had it was last spring, so now in order to fill my requirements I don’t get to take a 3 unit biochem course, but two semesters of biochem, each 4 units each. Lucky me. I guess that’s what I get for putting it off. So I’m going to have to most likely come back next year just for that class. But on the plus side if I do come back I can take Japanese 415 in the fall. Hopefully I can, taking a semester break from a foreign language might as well be taking a three year break from speaking it. But also another good thing, if I do have to stay, and if I get the job I’m trying for right now, then I’ll have tons of time to work. And I hope I do get the job. I applied once before but apparently there wasn’t anyone qualified enough or something so the job was posted again. I am qualified for it, and I am determined to get it, so I’m applying again. It’s the perfect job for me and a great chance for me to keep practicing and learning new lab skills. The pay isn’t too bad either, it’s nearly $11/hr, which may not seem like a lot to some people reading this, I don’t know, but minimum wage in Arizona is only $7.35, which I’ve been told is very low compared to other states.

Real quick about classes. I hate my biostats with a passion, and I usually leave early in order to make it on time to my next class because there’s no point in being in class except for possible extra credit. The professor can’t lecture worth shit, it seems like she’s always just babbling. She just pisses me off. My vet sci lab isn’t too bad, it’s actually pretty easy, just takes a bit of work and the main professor who lectures is a bit boring. Japanese is fine, I have the same professor (I don’t know if that’s even what I should call him, he’s a grad student) as I did for some of 101 and 201, which helps because I don’t have to get used to how he speaks. I’m actually doing pretty well in there right now. And my micro lab is enjoyable, although not so much the Monday pre-lab lectures. The professor pretty much just goes over what we’ll be doing in lab that week in fifty minutes, and then the next day the lab TA goes over the same information in about 20 minutes, so I’m not sure why I go but I go. My lab TA is really nice though.

And quick anime! Thus far nothing good this season except Shana. Boku wa Tomodachi isn’t too bad I guess, but nothing else I’m watching stands out. Although from last season Penguindrum is starting to intrigue me. It’s kind of like with Steins;Gate (end AMAZING), where I had no clue what the hell was initially going on, but when it started it started.

And that’s all I have to say for now! Or have time to say! Oh and I’ll put a more relevant icon when photobucket decides it wants to stop being a bitch.

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