Its A Small World After All

Soooo, for those of you who know me, I am a complete nerd. Today, we will discuss one of my beloved nerdy subjects: microorganisms

There is so much to love and so much diversity. But for some reason, I have always been entertained by t4 bacteriophage [the little bugger below].

These suckers are the viruses that infect bacteria. Didn't someone once say "the enemy of our enemy is our friend"? or something like that. But that is not why I love these guys. And actually bacteria are our friends too. I just think these viruses look so cool. In fact, they are so incredible awesome, that I have one as the background of my phone. It was a picture from my MCAT book. I couldn't resist. Plus they basically poop their genetic material into the bacteria. Poop is a great word. And it is illustrated below.

I wanted to be one of these dudes for Halloween. Although it will definitely take some planning. One of these years, I will be one. Or one of my poor children (when I have them like a bazillion years from now) will be forced into a t4 bacteriophage costume. Can't you just see that now? Screw the pumpkin, the lady bug, the pea pod... My offspring will be intellects from their very first Halloween.

And their toys.

They will not have stuffed ponies or puppies or barbies or toy cars. NO. They will have stuffed Giant Microbes. So many choices to choose from. I will get them all. And teach them about every single little microbe from Giardia and Syphilis to Leishmania or Penicillin. The possibilities are endless. And I encourage you to enjoy that site as well. They make great "Get Well Soon" gifts I think. Please get sick so I can send you one.

Here's my t4 buddy:

Good Luck with finals!!!!!

From A Balance Beam

So first, to my nonexistent collection of readers, I must first apologize for the past few emo blog posts. They are completely out of character, but I felt I had earned the right to be an emo, depressing, obnoxiously complaining chick after a particularly crappy life experience... But I felt shame at the same time. So to you (now 4), I give my most sincere apologies.

So hello there world. I played racquetball with my good, extremely red-headed friend Nandi last night.

Yes, he is white with the reddest hair you will ever see, not Indian as you might suppose. But there was a collection of creepy dark grey manikins at the gym. And they had awkward genitalia, if you get my gist. Especially the male ones. More like woman parts actually. But we were so tempted, and I am still tempted, to move them into one of the courts. Or something. It seemed funny at the time. But now that I am writing it out, it sounds absolutely retarded probably.

But you must know the most pathetic thing I did today. See, I didn't sleep last night too much. Actually 2 hours and 52 minutes to be exact. So after biochemistry today I went to chillax on these chair on campus that are very cushiony. I can curl up enough on them or combine them to make a bed. So today, I curled up like I was in the womb (I actually had this barbie when I was a kid) or something and noticed myself dozing off..... dangerous man, very dangerous.... So do you know what I did? I set an alarm on my phone to go off in an hour and ten minutes later to wake me up in time for my next class I was actually going to. Genetics wasn't deemed worth my time, so I decided to doze away.

I know my Genetics teacher and TAs hate me. See, they know I never pay attention. I rest my feet up on the bar in front of me and recline with my eyes only focused on my laptop.... My brain on everything but Genetics. But I've earned the right to do that since I have one of the highest grades in the class. I love it when a teacher or TA's are a jerk and I can just shut them up. I can be a bit vengeful ( I absolutely love The Count of Monte Cristo). I particularly had a thing against the teacher and TA's in this class because when I used to pay attention in the first month of classes, they were mean. My teacher was a jerk when anyone asked him a question and the TA once asked me to not come back to class because he thought I had been talking... which I hadn't. He was pretty rude. My friend suggested I should have handed him a tampon at the time. I wish I had been so quick on my feet.

But enough of my tangent. Which speaking of, my friend Grant and I have decided that everyone loves a good rant and tangents. And that there should be a band called "Rants and Tangents". Don't steal that. Its copyrighted.

But enough of tangents on tangents. The moral of my story was that I was pathetic enough to set my alarm on my phone in public with a bunch of people around while I dozed on a comfy chair.