Just a short note before i decide to head over to Hawken for my very boring physical chemistry leture about my laptop---

I finally got through to Dell about my orange juice hating laptop -- after several attempts, and they are sending out an engineer (who will contact me) to pick my computer up and take it to the workshop and then bring it back in a few days!!
I am really glad i called them because there are no devasting effects of the orange juice catastrophe at the moment but my CD-drive is becoming increasingly hard to open and i know at times it cant even open by itself. If it went on much longer the mechanism which pushes it open would probably break from their being something pushing against its force.
So i am happy :)
AnD i am seeing my genetics co-ordinator about my mid sem result (and hes going to help me figure out how to answer MCQs efficiently), i also want to talk to him about possible labs to volunteer at on the holidays to get some proper lab experience.

Still 15 minutes before i even think of chemistry.. hopefully i will pass my chem CMT (computer managed test) which i need to submit today... i did kinda work on it  *sheepish grin* not sure why i even took chem1013 or biom2007 (physiology), both are pretty annoying.. although for physiology we now have all the cool lecturers!


I cant believe how well our calcium prac went yesterday for chem.. it was so awesome.. i finally got a column to work!! (although it was a resin column not a matrix column like in BIOC2012.. and we didnt completely set up the column, although i still had to neutralise charges and such.. took a while, nearly an hour because the column let the liquids flow down drop...by...drop... :P

we got 9/10.. we lost one mark for prelabs, but it was tricky!! (i swear!)
*wonders why she is listening to MiB...??)
 
*sings: where have all the good men gone... and where are all the gods?? wheres the street wise hercules to fight the rising odds... isnt there a white knight.. upon a fiery steed.. late at night i toss and i turn and i dream of what i neeeeed......... oooohhhhH!!! I need a hero... i'm holding out for a hero till the morning light!*
Hehe.. can anyone guess what movie that is from?!?

I love that sing.. has awesome instrumental!!! (just the reason why i love 'this is how a heart breaks' because theres an awesome violin part in the middle of it.. its so kickass!!*

Also like nightwish and apocolyptica for that reason although to be honest havent listened to them in ages.. might put one of their CDs in on the way home (currently have Cursive in there).

Its really cold..........
And i didnt go for a walk this morning (seriously did contemplate it though does that count?!) coz it was too damn cold and i can go for one this afternoon... before or after watching NCIS.

Yesterdays episode of House was also pretty interesting.. poor Chase.. will be interesting though.. Foreman as boss? And is house going to try and ruin him because he knows foreman may be potentially up to the job??

ANYWAY...
i might wander down to Hawken and see who has gathered for chem... need to go through my cmt with amanda, need her opinion on several things...

Ciaoz!!

(this turned out to be a longer posst then i thought... :P :P :P)

Hi everyone,
I know last time i blogged, things werent going particularly well.. i had just been rejected for a perfect position, i was having familial issues, and was dreading going back to uni.

Well, this week has been alot better even though some very nasty things have happened.
I think it seems like the week is so good because i now have a very awesome and gorgeous boyfriend who is very comforting and cuddly and i just love spending time with him.
Anyway, enough about gooey stuff :P
I got 50% on my genetics mid sem, which i was pretty upset about, its good that i am not a person who keeps things bottled up, i can just let things go and hope for a better result next time, but i really tried hard, and studied alot.
I also got 57% on biochem, which i can understand although i also studied that alot and was still fairly disappointed.
You can imagine the day i had... these results were released almost on the same day.
And the genetics lab i attended, was really a tutorial for going over some data attained in the last lab, i didnt understand anything.. which isnt good.

So i am considering dropping a few hours at work so i have more time to study, because my grades are really suffering and i do want to do really well (there goes the idea of getting a GPA of 6). So hopefully with a few hours more time, i can be a little less stressed and actually get some work done!!!! (Because at the moment i cant really study because i am too tired and other distractions are too enticing... that and because of my stress i cant seem to retain anything).

I have also applied for a job at a pizza hut call centre in moorooka. Its alot closer to home then subway in the city (although subway is close to Mitch but i dont think i would want to go over there after a shift all smelly and sweaty and tired).

Oh, and i spilt orange juice on my laptop keyboard... but dont worry, it still works, some of the keys are just hard to press.. and i have accidental warrenty on my laptop, i still havent gotten through to Dell yet, but i will do it when i get home.

I spent the whole day yesterday with Mitch and it was great. Not sure if i will survive till Monday to see him again. Oh well. I'll have to manage somehow.

Just waiting for people from genetics come to this building and hand out the exam papers.... I am seeing the course co-ordinator about my result because i got 0 for both multiple choice sections and i was sure about some answers.

ANYWAY... i really should go do something.. like my CMT (which i have to finish by tomorrow but didnt bring to uni today because i thought i would be too busy... i didnt think i wouldnt have a physiology prac i was all prepared for... its next week....grr)

Anyway.. I will leave you nice people to get on with whatever you were doing before you went.. oh look ania blogged again!!

Over and out
--Ania

P.S SO going to the wolfmother concert!!!

Hello my adoring little fans.. and yes i am joking.. your all probably taller then me.
.. and i am sure your not my fans. you just read this because your probably bored.

I got back from Noosa today.. yup.. spent Easter there with my family.. didnt really come back feeling all warm and fuzzy... as we all know, family dysfunctia is a virus that is fast spreading through the western (and probably southern, eastern and northern) worlds. As yet, there is no cure, but there is always hope. Always hope.

I was going to talk about something interesting.. like, the human genome, mRNA, ribosomes, chaperones, chaperonins, ubiquitin or proteasomes instead of my usual boring, mindless, argh!!! rant i usually give on here.

However, i dont know what i will say.. because i dont really feel like giving a science spiel, and i dont really want to rant on about how my job sucks and i cant seem to get any interviews for any sciency jobs -- lab assistants (i.e. rats), medical administration staff.. no-one.. it sucks. i have applied to over a dozen places.

Anyway, i think i will end this here..
Hope everyone had a happy easter weekend!!

Love,
Ania

I am officially sick.  I have the flu, its why i am a biochem weapon, because i am a vector for the disease and i can spread it to other people. (not that i have been!!!, my friends would kill me if i gave it to them, and i havent been kissing any boys [i know disappointing], so i wont give it to anyone that way!).

I have just come back from my biochem exam.. and i apologise now to anyone who was distracted by me blowing my nose all the time.. i honestly couldnt help it.
i didnt find the exam that bad, the maths bit is probably the part where i will lose most points (because we werent allowed calculators) i could do all the maths, i just couldnt crunch the numbers in my head. I am not very good at mental maths.. give me long formulas and equations any day!

I think i am just going to do nothing today because of sickness etc etc.

Hope your day is less snotty then mine!

--Ania :P