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To Do List for This Summer:

1. See Kelli, Erin, Janeea, Jess, Sarah, Renee, Heather, Emalee, and anyone else that I'm forgetting right now but who I want to see and said I would hang out with.
2. Get a job.
3. Re-read Deathly Hallows. And maybe Half Blood Prince too, just for good measure.
4. Work on, and preferably finish, epic fic of epic-ness.
5. Visit Ellen in Maine.
6. Visit Abby, if her work schedule allows.
7. See new Indiana Jones movie. Even if I have to come back to Burlington to do it.

To Do List for the Next Three Days:

1. Take Genetics final.
2. Finish Philosophy paper and hand in by 1:00 tomorrow.
3. Give Emily all her stuff back.
4. See college friends one more time.
5. Pack, clean, and go home.
6 Clean my car. PRIORITY.
7 Unpack and clean room.

In a related story, I'm pretty sure all my junk is not going to fit into my car. It's going to be interesting.

Current Mood: busy

I think it says something really good about my college that today, despite the fact that Genetics is fully the most boring science class I've yet to take, when Professor Lippert didn't show up, even though we all left after 15 minutes, we all not only turned in our lab reports that were due today, but a bunch of us went up to his office to see if any of the other professors knew if he was all right.

I mean, I was glad not to have Genetics, but I was still worried about him. He's not the best lecturer ever, but he's a good guy, and he really cares about his students.

Also, the professor whose office is next to Lippert's collected our lab reports, and told us that Lippert is really sick. So sick that he couldn't even get out of bed this morning to call. So at least we know that he's alive. Not quite all right, but at least he's not dead in a ditch somwhere.

Current Music: Something Bad - Wicked

You know what really fucks with your head? Seagulls in the snow.

It's snowing right now, and there were about 20 seagulls cawing and fighting on the quad. It was so bizarre.

Then three guys walked by going, "Mine?" intermittently and it was kind of hilarious.

Anyways, now that I'm done with my Orgo test I can post all the random bits I've been meaning to.

First off: I'm on spring break starting Friday. I'm planning to go see Once on This Island Friday night, and possibly again on Saturday. And I'd rather not go alone...

Quotes from Peter Pan rehearsal last night:

Craig: *standing behind Phillip Noonan* Now, Phillip is going to bend over and I'm going to pummel him...

Victoria: Ok. I'll just pummel Jon in the middle, and you can all pummel each other in a circle around us.

(We do this relaxation thing called "pummel and hum" and it's really very nice and relaxing, but also hilarious. And we all know it.)

Zach Pratt: *Leaps on Craig's back*
Someone: Zach, get off Craig. (It just sounded so bad.)

More Abby Quotes:

Abby: This movie was like golf golf, times golf.
Me: That's golf cubed!

Abby: Trust me, I know these things, I'm an English major.

Quotes from Philosophy of Religion:

Class: *discusses how Augustine slept with a lot of differet women*
Professor: So, why do men need to sleep with a lot of different women?
Zach: I don't know, I'm not good looking enough to sleep around.
Guy 1: There's more to us that just sex! I have a personality!
Professor: But why do men sleep with many different women?
Guy 2: Variety is the spice of life.
Zach: Hey! Women do it too!

And so on. It was the most interesting ten minutes of class yet, and that's including the digression about Star Wars that we had one day.

Finally, in genetics we keep talking about how Francis Crick solved almost every single genetic question that was raised, and he never did any experiments and he was almost always right. And apparantly that was greatly annoying to his contemporaries.

Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY!!!

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Into the Woods

Scenes from Megan's life:

In Genetics Lab:

Professor Lippert: This Taq Polymerase is very expensive, so be careful.
Chris (one of my lab partners): How expensive?
Professor Lippert: 50 dollars for just one of these little bottles.
Chris: (after Professor Lippert has walked away) 50 dollars? That's not expensive. That's less than crack costs!
Me: I do not even want to know how you know that.

In Bed:

Abby: I hope if aliens ever come and demand a sacrifice, we give them Melissa Joan Hart.
Me: (after several seconds of going BWAH?) ... Go to sleep, Abby.

Upon Returning From Class:

Abby: I missed you.
Me: I was gone for an hour!
Abby: Come on. I miss you when you leave to go pee.

Also, Nora and I took a practice GRE the other day, and the word 'jejune' was on it, and I had never heard that word before EVER, and then it was in one of the songs in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels last night. Therefore, watching musicals will get you a higher GRE score. Tru fax.

Finally, Abby has taken a vow of silence. I don't know why, (neither does she) and I don't know how long it will last, but there you go.

Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: Easy to be Hard - Hair

Dinosaurs: Return To Life?

Dinosaurs: Return to Life follows scientists who are using the latest technology and amazing advances in genetic research to revive the possibility of creating a living breathing dinosaur, but in a different way than we ever imagined.

Did you people not see Jurassic Park? THERE IS A REASON DINOSAURS AND HUMANS NEVER CO-EXISTED. AND IT IS BECAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE EATEN US.

Also, in the immortal words of Ian Malcolm: Your scientists were too busy wondering whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should.

Maybe we should just let the dinosaurs stay dead, yeah?

Current Mood: annoyed

I got both my Genetics test and my Orgo test back today. Let's compare, shall we?

In Genetics, I got a 91/100. Lost nine points, two of which I used to "buy" some info from Professor Lippert so I could answer an eight point question. So really, I lost seven points. My first thought was, that's respectable, and my second thought was, I can do better.

In Orgo I got a 139/200, after he added on the six extra credit points I had earned. So I really lost 67 points, but it came out that I lost 61. A 139 translates to a B. My thoughts were, Ok, that's a good solid B, and I'm relieved I'm not the person who got a 30. Yes folks, someone got a 30/200. This should tell you something about Orgo.

I just thought it was funny that on one test I lost nine points, and on another I lost 61.

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

I've decided that I hate it when teachers say, "We'll go into more detail on this later." No. Either you tell me all about it now, with all the full gory details, or you stop talking about it for good. I don't want to have to write about it in more than one section in my notebook. And when you say it about three things in a row, I get really REALLY annoyed. Why can't we have these details now? Why later? ARGH.

Also, it's the mitotic spindle. You told us what it is, where it is, what it does, how it does it, and what it's made out of. How much more detail is there?

Current Music: American Gladiator

Announcement to the world: MEGAN CANNOT DO SIT-UPS.

Cathy asked us to do 40 yesterday for Singing for the Actor (and no, I don't know why), and I did seven. Seven. That's less than 10. And my middle and back hurt SO MUCH that I will never be doing those again. No, I mean it. Not even for Singing for the Actor, if she asks again. I kind of can't move, and it's just not worth it.

Now I've gotta go clean the snow off my car so I can get to Genetics. Oh boy!

Current Mood: sore

Ah. A new semester of college, and a new set of classes and teachers to quote in my livejournal.

Professor Lippert: Ok, everyone go around the room and tell me your name, and one genetic thing about your family.
Class: *does, saying things like brown hair, blue eyes, ability to roll the tongue*
Colin: Colin, and I have diabetes.
Professor Lippert: Oh. That's great!
Class: Ummmm... *laughs*
Professor Lippert: What can I say? When you love mutants, you love mutants! (By which he means that most diseases and things, including diabetes, are caused by mutant genes. Which he studies.)

And Singing for the Actor is going to be so awesome. I know all but like, three people in that class, and today we all sang Do, a Deer (is that even the name of the song?) and Tomorrow (From Annie), and acted out every word and did big cheesy motions, and it was so great. The two songs I picked to sing are Donna from Hair, and Maybe This Time from Cabaret, which I don't really know that well, but Cathy thinks I can do it, so I'm gonna give it a shot.

Seriously, I can't sing, but I had soooooooo much fun today, and I love being the center of attention, even if my voice is nowhere close to as nice as the other people in the class.

Current Music: White Boys - Hair

Do you know how much genetically modified food you eat? No. You don't. Because there is no law in the United States requiring genetically modified foods to be labelled.

And that should terrify all of you. There's no way to control genetic modifications in plants from spreading. And no one really knows for sure what eating these foods might do to us in generations to come. Research that refutes research done by the big business that are modifing the stuff gets shut down or goes unpublished.

It's hard to explain to a general audience who doesn't know about recombinant DNA that putting genes into food means they're going to end up in people, and I don't have the strength to type it all out. But it's terrifying, and I don't want to be eating anything thats been messed with without knowing that I'm eating it.

We watched this movie about all this today, and all I could think of was the line in Jurassic Park where Jeff Goldblum says "Your scientists were so busy worrying about whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should." And we all know how well genetic engineering worked out in that case. How they could totally totally control everything. NOT.

Current Mood: angry

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