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The good, the bad, the FUCKING AWESOME
Posted by Amber on January 8th, 2013
Filed under: Family,General,School

So yes, it has indeed been quite some time since I’ve written anything about my ongoings of life that have nothing to do with school. And strangely enough, I find that without school I have time to do things that aren’t school related, that is, have some kind of life. I never realized how badly school took over my life. Well, I did, but that’s not what this is about. This is not school stuff here, this is life stuff. Mostly winter break stuff, and the contents of this post will be all over the place. Also, this will probably be a very long post if I can remember everything. Because I was going to post before the new year, but then I got distracted with stuff and…yeah. Also, because for some reason I got distracted with other things, this post has things from like a week of writing it.

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That bummed feeling
Posted by Amber on October 26th, 2012
Filed under: General,School

The title says it all. I don’t know why, but the bummed feeling keeps creeping up on me. Well, I can definitely think of things that would make it appear again, but that’s usually right after such an activity (e.g., studying my ass off for my biochem exam only to find I still failed it, just not as badly, meaning that the class I’m putting 90% of my effort into, the only one I need to graduate and had to stay an extra year for, is the only class I’m not passing). I don’t really feel like doing anything, but I do. I’m so damn sick of studying, but I still do it, because I need to pass biochem. Two hours a night, except last night, because I was getting my stupid report for microbiology done. It was somewhat difficult, not because of any extensive research, but because such little research and such general information was needed. I’m so used to writing much more complex papers, this one was just general info on a microbe of our choice. I knew a lot of the stuff already, but I needed sources. Also, I’m sick of my history of rock and pop class, particularly the Friday section, the one day I have to go because attendance is taken. Last week the assignment was to write down ten signs that could be related to and then discuss why with a small group. Took my group like ten minutes tops. Took pretty much all the groups that much time. How long was I stuck in class? About forty minutes, so about a half hour of doing nothing. Then this week we first got into the groups…actually, I’m going to rant about this a bit. I mean, seriously. The class has an assignment where you have to make a group recording of a song. I specifically write on my paper that I HATE rap music, yet the TA puts me in a group where most of the people like rap. Also a group where nobody has any knowledge of how to use Garage Band to make the stupid recording. Oh, and I’m going to choke every single person in my group if I don’t get an A on the damn project. Some groups have already started doing stuff, at least writing lyrics. My group doesn’t even know what genre our song will be, and there’s definitely no lyrics. According to them it’s going to be super easy, we’ll be able to bust it out in a weekend. All of them were also saying how the midterm was difficult. Haha…yeah, no. I spent barely any time studying for that damn thing, yet I’m sure I got an A. This is why I hate gen ed classes. It’s with a bunch of dumb asses that think it’s so difficult. Well, maybe if you had a real major instead of psychology (and yes, I do not believe psych is a real major) where you had to work a bit, or maybe if you came to lecture where the professor gives all the information, or if you had a real major and thus had to learn how to retain information from books, then it wouldn’t be difficult. Then maybe you’d also know that procrastination is a BAD idea, because something will go wrong or you’ll just run out of time. This entire semester I’ve gotten shit done way earlier than due dates, or I’ve started them early and worked on them slowly so I’m not pulling an all nighter before the due date. Damn, my rant got long. My point of this was that my group talked for maybe five minutes then sat there for like a half hour, after which we watched a couple videos of music mashups, then left. The more this semester goes on the more I’m not regretting adding that 400 level micro class next semester. Food Microbiology and Biotechnology, I thought it sounded really interesting when I first heard about it but I didn’t have time for it. Then taking this extra year I just wanted to focus on biochem, but this semester the only micro class I’m taking is gen micro for a better grade, and it’s boring and not challenging. Actually, I really wanted to correct the professor today. He was talking about hear immunity, and the flu shot, and how people who had gotten it were safe from the flu. WRONG DUDE. The influenza vaccine is only to try and prevent the flu, based on the most common influenza strains from the previous flu season. If the flu someone gets is a different strain from the vaccine then it won’t prevent anything. You know where I learned that? Virology, by the professor I first took gen micro from, and I got an A in virology. But I didn’t. Where was I…so yeah, I need an interesting course next semester or I’ll go insane.

Oh, and I hate Cartoon Network even more now than I did before. If you didn’t know (I don’t remember how old my last post is, so I don’t know if I had this in it) they fucking took Young Justice off after two episodes and a three month hiatus for yet another several month long hiatus. I watched the episode that was supposed to air online, and I am so pissed at them for stopping it there. Actually, I’m pissed that the didn’t show that FUCKING EPICNESS on tv, but also because they put it on hiatus at such a suspenseful time.

So…yeah, I’m still bummed. It’s not all from biochem. Part of it could be I’m getting off my happy high from my awesome weekend last weekend, which included apple picking, a delicious apple smoked burger, a huge ass piece of freshly made pie with homemade ice cream, some bomb fudge, apple bread, cider doughnuts, an ass kicking football game, and of course the Red-Blue game filled with promise of a national championship. Regardless of my mood, I know I must continue on. I still have to get some hardcore studying done every day. I still must continue to workout (this super hard, so I can go home Thanksgiving and laugh at my brother at how much of a fat ass he’s become yet again). I have to keep going to class…and that’s my life. Not even any Bones on right now, so just Thursday TV for an hour. I continue to search for a job with no success. I better do some more notes for biochem so I can maybe play HG a bit more tonight. I caught a Seedot earlier and already evolved it into a Nuzleaf, so I’m going to try to get a leaf stone by tomorrow. Plus I need to evolve Loudred into Exploud. Then level up my Absol because I’ve been switching my party a lot and want to replace Umbreon with Absol in my main party.

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hard work, and other stuff I guess
Posted by Amber on October 5th, 2012
Filed under: General,School

So it’s been forever since I did an actual post about stuff. I’ve decided since I did so well getting stuff done for school yesterday that tonight is my off night, and tomorrow I start studying hardcore for my biochem exam. So, I guess I have time to write about lots of stuff, or at least as much as I can think of.

So the first thing I will write about is a good thing, I guess. Good for me. It makes me happy. So, there’s no denying it. For most of my life, especially my teen years, I was fat. Not fat, but FAT. Technically, by looking at BMI I was obese. However, I never looked as bad as some fat people do because I’m taller so it distributed better or something? I don’t know. What I do know is that at one point in high school I was around 230 lbs, capable of wearing a size 20 even though I usually stuck with an 18, and…well, what more is there to say? Hell, I even had trouble sitting cross legged at times, I’m assuming because the fat made circulation in my legs poor or something. I recall I also couldn’t touch my toes at one point. Well, that’s all the bad. Around my senior year of high school I was around 215, still way heavier than I should have been. However, all of that shit is in the past. My freshman year of high school, just from all the walking/biking I had to do around campus I managed to get under 200 for the first time probably since middle school. Kept it around there sophomore year. Of course during the summer I would end up gaining almost ten back. Then junior year, when I moved into an apartment, I decided that I was going to kick my ass into shape. With the help of my Wii (playing EA Sports Active) and watching my food intake a bit more I managed to drop almost thirty pounds, to get around 180. Senior year I didn’t get a chance to exercise much since I had an upstairs apartment. Then this year, my fifth and final year of undergrad, I decided I was going to finish what I started, and thus far I’ve done pretty well. I’ve dropped ten pounds in the past two and a half months, and I’m only about ten pounds from a healthy BMI. I’m at just under 175 right now, and my first goal is 164. My end weight goal will probably be around the mid 150′s, mostly because I’m calculating muscle into that. Because, you know, I don’t want to be some random skinny chick, I want to be fit, with some abs and buff arms, which is already a work in progress (I flex and you can barely feel any fat, even though I have tons of it on my arms :( ) And while I’m on the subject, I will promote MyFitnessPal. It’s a website but also an app you can get for free on your smartphone/tablet/whatever, that helps you figure out how many calories you should be consuming daily, and let’s you keep track of your food intake and exercise. I think that has helped me more than anything along with the exercising, because exercising was keeping me at a steady weight, but I wasn’t losing much. So if anyone ever wants to lose weight and stuff, I would definitely suggest it, it helps.

Okay, onto something different now.
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Posted by Amber on June 16th, 2012
Filed under: General,School

I know I saved some icons from LoK (I was particularly looking for one of the Lin ones) but I couldn’t seem to find them so I’m just going to go with the Gaang. All I will say for now is this: this week’s episode. Holy…I’ll get to it last under the cut so I don’t spoil anything.

I’ll get to what my summer ongoings have been. First off, physics. It’s exhausting. Two days a week, five and a half hours of class straight. But I’m about a third of the way done, and get this, I have an A in there right now. I wasn’t too confident after the exam last week, I was just hoping for a C on it, but I ended up getting a 94. The issue now is keeping that A.

Much earlier in the summer I marathoned Smash with my mom since she hadn’t seen it yet and I had no problem watching it again. It made me realize how difficult it is going to be waiting until next spring for the new season to start. It was amazing.

Yesterday I went to the park to play sand volleyball. It was at night of course because it’s too damn hot to do anything in the summer outside. I hate going to class because I have to wait outside. Anyway, I was the only one who was into it. By the end of the night the bottom half of my pants were completely brown from the sand. I was the only one willing to dive to for it.

Right quick too: Arizona made it to the CWS, and beat Florida State despite being bet against in that game. Going to be up against UCLA next.

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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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Realizations
Posted by Amber on April 29th, 2011
Filed under: Anime,General,School

No more basketball stuff, because basketball is over. Okay, one thing. Williams decided to screw Arizona over and declared for the NBA draft. Bye bye top 5 rank pre-season and automatic championship. He should have stayed another year, he could have worked on his defense more. Whatever though, there’s an amazing class coming in, I guess we’ll just have to show him we can do it without him, and when Arizona does clench that championship next year he’ll be sorry he missed it.

Now to as the title says. This is going to be very short, because I have less than a week of class left for the year and have a shitload of stuff to do.

First, I’d like to say a bit about the finally aired last two episodes of Madoka. It took forever, and honestly the ending was a bit confusing (not so much the ending ending as much as the Madoka stuff), but it received a 10 from me, and has bumped Clannad down to my 3rd favorite anime. Also the HOTD OVA, which I’ve been looking so forward to because there isn’t going to be a second season anytime soon with the mangaka only bringing out a chapter every two months with barely any development in it, didn’t impress. I rated it rather low.

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And so hell continues
Posted by Amber on October 15th, 2010
Filed under: General,School

First, a quick look at what this week was, and what next week will be:
This week: Easy Monday, Tuesday had Japanese oral midterm, Wednesday full four hours of o-chem and all I did was prep for my group, didn’t even help them with this week’s experiment, Thursday mycology midterm, Friday a shitload of o-chem. And that’s only like one thing a day. There’s so much more. I have had very little time to myself this week. I shouldn’t even be writing this, I should be studying. I’m not going to the science day thing with astronomy club because I have to study for o-chem because the exam is next Friday and there’s SO MUCH to know, and I know NONE of it. And I have to do the assignments for chapter 17 and 18, and I need to get started on the review assignments. And I have to meet my vaccine proposal group on Sunday, so tomorrow I also have to work on finding some info to contribute to it. And of course study for the immunology exam which is coming up next Thursday. I’m not understanding the humoral adaptive system as well as I did the innate, so I’m going to try to at least get through the notes once this weekend and then go see the professor on Monday if I don’t get anything. I really should be paying more attention to o-chem, because I failed the first exam but got an A on the immunology exam, which I found totally justified my failing. However, that’s going to have to be the exam I drop. I need to pass this damn class. I hate it so much, I don’t care if it’s a good grade, I just want a passing grade in o-chem.

I’m kind of worried about the mycology exam I just took. I got a D on the last one, this one I studied more and took about twenty-minutes longer, yet I’m not feeling too good about it. The damn life cycles screwed me over, if anything.

Grr, I need to hug something fluffy. Too bad Rosco doesn’t like to be held and Izumi decided to pass gas whenever she lays on me, so I probably shouldn’t hug her or else I’d probably cause her to create a gas chamber resulting in my death.

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Kitties
Posted by Amber on September 5th, 2010
Filed under: School

I think I’ve decided on how the last two years of college are going to go for me. I’m going to actually do two years instead of a year and a half. I could finish in a year and a half, but in order to do that I’d be pushing myself to or even over my limit. It would require taking around 18 units each semester, and most of those being upper level science courses. And I wouldn’t be able to minor in Japanese like I want to because I wouldn’t be able to fit 202 in my final semester. Taking the full amount of time, along with meaning I have to pack fewer courses in each semester, also means I’ll be able to study harder for the courses I take each semester. I need to seriously improve my GPA if I want to go to grad school, which I do. I’m hoping I’ll be able to get it high enough. I think it’s a possibility, now that I have more drive. For the first two years I was doing what my parents wanted me to do, majoring in pre-pharmacy, and it was very clear I didn’t have any motivation, especially not like the others in the major. But now that I switched to something I really enjoy and am taking classes that pertain more to my interests I think I can turn my grades around closer to what they were in high school.

And as for the title, and icon, I want my kitties. They still haven’t come down to live with me yet, because I don’t have the money for the pet deposit. My loan finally dispersed into my bank account, but that is strictly for rent money, not for the pet deposit. I want them down here, it’s so lonely by myself.

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Clearly Japanese is better
Posted by Amber on May 13th, 2010
Filed under: School

I’m studying for my Japanese final which is tonight, and as I go over the grammar stuff, which is probably where I’ll mess up the worst, I noticed something. A lot of the grammar that I learned in the first few chapters is second nature to me. I just know to write or speak using it. I know that I had issues with Italian and trying to remember all the damn grammatical rules, and it’s obvious why. Because there’s way too many damn irregular verbs, and way too many tenses, and just too much weirdness. Damn you Latin based languages. Seriously, if English hadn’t been my first language, I don’t think I’d ever bother to learn it. Too confusing. I think the thing that makes Japanese seem so difficult to people is that you have to learn a new writing system. As I’m sure I’ve said at one point, the hiragana isn’t difficult at all because it’s used to often, and eventually I’ll get the katana down, more than what I use for my name. Kanji…it isn’t too bad I guess, maybe…it’s just hard for some of them because they have so many different meanings. And there are a few that are read different in specific words, like 今日。The first character is normally read as either こん(kon) or いま(ima), which is the word for now. And the second character can be read as に、にち、か、じつ、ひ、or び。 But combined the two characters are きょう、the word for day.
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^.^
Posted by Amber on April 30th, 2010
Filed under: School

Today, I think, I can classify as a good day. Perhaps even a great day. Physio was boring as usual, but somehow today I didn’t nearly fall asleep. And I found out today was the last day the guy professor is going to be lecturing, we finally get the female one back for the last couple of lectures. And then…well, I thought Japanese Pop Culture was going to suck, because the professor was there. But he just sat and let his TA lead the class, which wasn’t much but just giving a brief overview of the movie we’re actually watching all the way through, Summer Wars, and then relating it to stuff we’ve learned in class. I think the only reason he actually did that was because the professor was there, but I don’t really care. And we’re going to be watching it on Monday too! I never thought we’d get through an entire movie in that class.
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