January 24, 2004

• Missing me?

  
  

  I'm missing me and just about everyone else! However, due to the impending shit weather that should hit about 8am...I'm giving myself time to Xanga! How I miss posting and reading and commenting...

  
  

  I'm also rearranging my apartment since the roommate is gone. I'm also playing Patsy Cline and her ilk at top volume and singing along with great, great joy. I'm moving my big bed into the big room, the one that doesn't share the computer desk. This is in the hopes that I'll not only sleep better at night, but that I'll spend less time on-line/watching Buffy DVDs and more time reading/cross-stitching/cleaning....etc. I'm also trying my bed against the wall. Not the headboard, but the one side...it will make it hard to make/change the sheets...but I miss the comfort of wall snuggling. Any other wall snugglers out there?

  
  

  *note to self and other...assembling a daybed alone blows, I knew this...the assembly of a double bed by myself...ooooh boy, that sucks even more...NEVER will I attempt to assemble any bed larger than a double. The double is already almost as wide as I am tall, and it's just too frickin' wide for me to toss around easily.

  
  

  Let's see...aside from work that is advancing at a stately crawl (equipment malfunctions blow...especially when they don't change your deadline at all)....I went to the dental school and got my teeth cleaned. Took three hours...and had a nice little hygenist who was BRUTAL with the scraping. But damn, my teeth are really, REALLY clean...however, I am now awaiting a phone call from a dental student who will be fixing my cavities (apparently there are lots in between my teeth)...as my insurance only covers 70% of this, I will be VERY happy if they are the right size/shape for dental board exams. Imagine that...my cute little teeth being used for board exams by some dental student...I suppose it's too much to hope he'd be cute?

  
  

  In February I'm heading to the optometrist (yet another student exam, there are some advantages to being on such a big damn campus). The optometrist is kinda going to suck though. Though the exam itself and the associated tests will only be $15 the glasses and contacts are going to be the typical assssss-raping. I save 20% off lenses and frames and 15% off of the contacts...
  yeesh...at least it's something I guess.

  
  

  I'm trying really hard to get all my insurance needs out of the way before my insurance ends with graduation (Sept? maybe July or August?). It is however, difficult to schedule around work and especially when I'm waiting for machines to be fixed, it sucks to be sitting and waiting for health care. I don't know how well things will go for the year after I graduate when I won't have any health care...cross my fingers I guess....

  
  

  I'm looking at moving back home for the year...home home, Indiana home, though not my parents home. I think moving back into my parents house with my stuff, my three cats, and my....er....personality.
  
  
  **Tangent**
  I've determined that if I ever live with anyone again, before they move in (be they husband, boyfriend roommate or whatever) we will have to have a nice long talk about Kelly and her...personality. I find, that I HATE it when people touch my stuff. I'm okay with it for a week, tops. And then after that, I want to scream. I don't like people touching my things, using my stuff, putting my stuff away in the wrong place...disarranging the flow that is MINEMINEMINE. (I feel like a three year old). I am very set in how things HAVE to be done. This goes here, this must be done at this point in time...I fear I'm already getting very cemented habits and I'm not (yet) 24 (less than one month to go). So...yeah...compromise? I guess iffin' I ever want to live not alone I'll have to suck it up and learn how....*mutter*
  **end tangent**

  
  

  Anyway...Huntington is cheaper. Cheaper in pretty much all ways...as in, 2 bedroom apartments for under 400$ a month as compared to 50% more here in Columbus. Groceries are between 10 and 20% cheaper...of course...I'll have to find work. I want to get my PhD, but I won't apply until Dec of 04 and then won't get in until the following Fall Semester (or quarter), which means after I graduate, I will have until September of 2005 with naught to do. So...factory job? substitute teacher (god only knows, I'll have enough classes and experience at teaching Bio101...)? who knows...

  
  

  *mmmm...patsy cline and hank williams sr...god I love bad old country music...*

  
  

  So, PhD....
  I am looking at UNLV, UCSD, Stanford and Oregon Heath and Sciences...
  I just need to decide what I want to get out of this degree...
  I can:
        -stick with bird genetics (just in general)
        -hunt for the bird plumage pigmentation genes
        -stick with pigment (MC1R, agouti, etc) genes in general
        -go after the receptors (MC1R, MC4R, etc...interestingly enough, MC4R is considered to be a main receptor in why people eat...why they have the URGE to eat...if you "flip" this receptor switch in mice they can make some SERIOUSLY fat mice...it's kinda neat...)
         -abandon everything I know and go play with something else (epigenetics, more MOLECULAR and less ecological stuff....)

  
  

  I guess I need to come up with a list of what I want to study and who I think I can study it under...and I guess I better not assume that I have the grades/skills/GRE scores to get into wherever I want to....and, let me tell you, trying to accept that you could easily fail, it's not so easy...it's in fact DAMn hard. Failure isn't easy...though, you'd think after watching 85+% of what I do fail for this past 18 months that I'd be a little bit MORE accepting of it....

  
  

  ah well...back to rearranging I guess....

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