la la beijing...

i went to REI saturday and sunday to take advantage of the HUGE sale!! pretty much 70% of the stuff there was on sale for 50% off! so i bought like 100 bucks worth of stuff...lots of it had to do with my rafting trip and the other was for snowboarding...ohh how i love not paying full price for the things i wear.. never again will i return ;)

so my car is back in the shop...the problem this time is my AC...well, it isn't working..and i'm afraid that it will cost me my most recent paycheck.. ((sigh)).

jaymie had her surgery yesterday and i must admit seeing here was kinda sad..she is so swollen in the face but she is such a trooper. i'm truly thankful that everything went well. when i left for work this morning she was out of her room and attempting to speak, but i can tell she's still in alot of pain...poor thing.. i feel bad for leaving this weekend but i know she will be okay. we also picked up her grandmother from the airport on sunday and she is so adorable! i love her, she reminds me of my own grandma, not to mention she made us enchiladas sunday night!! ohh it was amazing!

oh yeah, she and jaymie came to REI on sunday too and they both were sold on those keen sandals! it was cool...first my mom then jocelyn and jaymie and her grandma too! haha!

oh! among other things marchecia left for cali with her family on friday :'( she is one of my oldest friends here and am sad that she is gone! i loved our potlucks and hangouts and just basically her company i will miss the most!! but it shall not be the last goodbye...i am planning on going to san fran this winter!! i gotta save, save, save!

before she left, we all did something drastic...we got tattoos! nicole, marchecia, brittany and i went to bullet proof for our 1st tattoos and yeahh it hurt like a mother fucker lol. it didn't hit me until i heard that needle thingy buzzing. i guess the scariest part was not knowing how it would feel... you really can't ask people how it feels because its different for everyone.. for me, the pain was on the borderline between tolerable and intolerable!! it was definitely something i've never felt before..

but it was great to have 3 other ladies there going through the same thing. it was funny because originally, nicole, marchecia and i planned on getting tats for like a month and brittany would come for support but she ended up getting a tattoo with us as a spontaneous decision!! it was awesome. since its been almost 2 weeks, my skin is nearly done scabbing...yay! its just itchy as fuck.

oh! i also bought a dub last weekend and smoked with brittany twice since.. then i thought to myself..this is way too much! and plus i don't like to smoke everyday like i think brit expects to...she didn't even pay me! wtfd. and she is also a different high then i am...i am calm, chill and she is loud as fuck. when we were hanging out she was so loud that i was like "omg shut up pleaaase!" (in my head of course). so..i sold the remaining ganja to my lab partner alex.. i love mj but please not frequently...can't understand ppl who drink or smoke that way.

just....blah!

UGH. i love my job but at times it can be really boring...

like right now, i couldn't find out what solvent to use in order to dissolve my product..ethyl acetate didn't work...methylene chloride didn't work...same with ethanol and hexanes!!

i mean wtf! is my shit just not dissolvable in anything? i tried both ends of the spectrum...non-polar to polar so bleh! i don't know what to do now. i need to separate this stuff out...even when i read some papers about people using this stuff in their experiements they just did dry reactions so i couldn't even get a solvent out of it. on the other hand some people did a reaction with my product in DMSO at 60C but its not like we have a huge bottle of DMSO around.

so fuck...what else can i do to make it seem like i'm being productive?.....

hmm...maybe make more media for my cells..even though i don't really need any ;)

i love summer.

what has been going on with me?

um, well i finally went to get my car fized the other day and i'm so relieved! my heat selector, ventilation control and fan selector are all working properly....after almost 2 years :) i really thank my dad for giving me the oppertunity to get it done.

research is going really well, i'm going to start my esterification on monday and hopefully if all goes well my compound will be able to get tested. we have also dipped into the biology aspect of things which is pretty neat because it gives me more to look forward to. we are now maintaining a cell culture line...some kind of lymphoblast but its awesome keeping em alive.

as for other things, we just finished watching "rendition" and it was a pretty great movie....brittany's 21st bday is today so we are about to clean the apartment to have people over later. i also have to put the icing on my cake in a little while too :) i can't wait to go home in several weeks..i've been looking forward to this rafting trip with my mom and i'm hoping i don't have my period during that time..ugh. but it really should be a great experience.

hmm...what else is on my mind...oh yeah i haven't gotten my check from cheney delights yet. and its been like over 2 weeks from when they said they'd send it. i'm going to have to give em a call tonight and speak my mind. i mean they have to pay me for the hours i did work. legally, they have to.

i've decided on my next paycheck i'm going to invest in some clothes for the rafting trip, and possibly a new longboard... but anywho that's like 8 days away...not that i'm counting down or anything :)