I was just looking up forensic toxicology grad programs…I found a program at George Washington University in DC and one in Florida.
http://www.gwu.edu/~forensic/academics/forensic_toxicology.cfm
http://www.forensicscience.ufl.edu/programs.asp?p=28
I think when the time comes, I’ll do the DC one. The Florida one is online and I think hands-on/in class learning would be better and look better when I apply for a job. I’m excited! The first step is getting into UC Davis though so I hope that even happens!
Besides that..Me and some friends went to a club in Sac last night. It was 18+ and I kinda thought it would be lame because of that but it was really fun. The place was pretty cool too. I don’t really feel like doing anything tonight because I’m really tired still ahha I even took a nap! I’ll probably just work on some homework.
School has been good so far. I think I can handle this 17 unit thing as long as I stay focused. I think math will be the hardest class for me since I took pre-cal 3 semesters ago; it’s a bit hazy. Anyway, time to eat something AGAIN. I’ve been hungry all day! Maybe I’ll just have some cereal.
Today was my first day back! It went pretty well. I almost didn’t find my math class because the door isn’t connected to the inside hallway ahha. I need to brush up on trig stuff. BUT. I realllly like my molecular biology class so far!! My teacher is sooo full of knowledge. He doesn’t make it seem like a normal class; he makes it seem like we are going to be learning useful skills in lab that can be applied to an actual job, and we are entering one of the fastest growing fields! We even isolated our own DNA today and put it in a necklace! Anyway, HW time. I want to try to make at least 5 mins for blogging everyday. Bye!
Sooo. Guess what!! I converted a friend to start stretching with me! The guy she’s been hanging out with does break dancing and I was just doing like handstands and trying some moves with him last night, and I think that got her into stretching! She has a similar body style to mine and I think she can get pretty flexible if she just works at it! This is so exciting! I hope she sticks with it so that I can have a stretching partner!
Besides that…I have been learning Russian! I really like it..it’s pretty different from English. All the symbols represent sounds, and you just put the symbols together to make a word. Of course there’s rules like with any other language, but it’s neat. So far I can only say simple words like, ‘hello’, ‘goodbye’, ‘thank you’, etc. I’m getting there! I actually have better handwriting in Russian than in English…although it might be because I’m not used to it and want to write it correctly.
And…I just found an awesome job online today! It’s a student assistant position at the Berkeley Lab!!! I’d be assisting an O Chem postdoc researcher with his…research ahah. It pays pretty good and the description says the schedule is flexible…I hope I get it! It would look good on a resume as well.
Anyway that’s all I wanted to share for now. Bye!
This past weekend I went with my dad and brother up to Bass Lake and we went into Yosemite for the day! It was really beautiful. Here is a pic of Yosemite Falls through the trees. eee! I forgot how much I loovvve being in nature.
We didn’t go on any major hikes because we didn’t have enough time before it got dark. We walked to the Lower Yosemite Falls viewing area and then we walked to the Yosemite Lodge to get a bite to eat. They had really good french fries 
After that we decided to hike to Mirror Lake because seemed like the shortest walk. We saw a bunch of deer and these giant ravens that looked like they could tear your ear off if they wanted to. We also saw a coyote while driving up there on the side of the road (alive and walking of course).
Mirror Lake was really cool. It was mostly frozen over and my dad and brother kept testing the ice to see if it would hold them so that they could walk to the other side. They never walked, but this group of like 7 japanese people did! And you could hear the ice cracking around the 5th person hah.
When we were at a part of the lake where the ice had melted, we heard this giant crash and I look up and there was an avalanche coming off Half Dome! My dad and I only saw the end part of it but it was still really cool! We kept looking up afterwards incase any more snow decided to come down.
We started walking back and it got dark really fast. We walked to the Ahwahnee hotel, which looks like a mini ’The Shining’ hotel if you ask me. A wedding was going on at the time in one of the giant dining rooms. We eventually took the shuttle back to our car and drove home. Luckily the lowest temperature was around 37 degrees so there was no black ice on the road.
The whole way home I had this vision that I was going to take a pilgrimage one day to Yosemite, on foot. It would be like my version of a Mecca pilgrimage. According to Google Maps it is only 195 miles and it says it would take around 3 days to walk that far; probably non-stop though. 
So if I walk around 3-3.5 miles per hour, it would take 65 hours (3 mph) or 55 hours (3.5 mph) to get there. If I walked 8 hours a day, it would take about 1 week to reach Yosemite. What a trip that would be! I would have to learn survival skills, etc. Oh, here’s a pic of Half Dome. I’m climbing it some day! Anyway enough daydreaming for today…time to learn more Russian!
I was actually productive today! I drove up to the mall and went to Barnes & Noble and got this Spanish-learning set; it has cds, a booklet and a dictionary (I already have one though). I want to start getting some languages down; it really sucks when there is a language barrier between people. I figured I’d start with Spanish since I took 3 years of it in high school and have the basics down; I just need a refresher for the easy stuff. It would really help if I had someone to talk to though; everyone I know personally can only speak English. Boo. I know my mom wants to learn too so maybe I can talk to her.
I also bought a book on how to speak Russian which I think will be relatively harder since it isn’t based on the Latin alphabet. I also bought a calendar! Of wild cats! Can’t go wrong with cheetahs, leopards, lions or tigers. May is a leopard; although I would have preferred a cheetah.
I’m not really looking forward to school just yet; I have 2 weeks left of break still though. Well I’m gonna wait for my food to digest and then I’m gonna stretch for the day!
http://gymnasticsstrength.blogspot.com/2009/01/stall-bars.html
Click on that. I sooo want to make this one day and put it in my garage or a room! Hell no I’m not spending 500-1000$ for a few pieces of wood either…why not just go to Lowe’s or Home Depot and make it? There are sooo many stretches and exercises one can do with stall bars…it makes me sad that I don’t have a set 
Today was OK. Just sat around and did nothing (I’m on winter break). I helped my mom paint eventually and we made dinner. I then made Han Solo, Luke, and Leia on The Sims 2 ahahah. I might go play it in a second. I found an old memory card for my digital camera and was about to throw it away, but I wanted to see if there were any pics on it. There was. Of someone I’d rather not see ever again. Delete. There were a few cute pics of Phantom (cat) and Lucky (dog, RIP) that I might upload. I got rid of a bunch of crap that I never use as well. Ok well time to go do SOMETHING.
I am so tired today. No idea why. Well I went to bed around 2 I guess and woke up at 11..that’s a good amount of sleep. I went with my mom to Costco and some other stores to get stuff for the house and found a shower curtain that actually matches my bathroom
We had filet mignon for dinner mmmm with grilled mushrooms and other veggies and some ‘fat ass’ potatoes that a friend brought over. And now I’m just sitting in my room, typing this. I actually wanna get up and do something tomorrow instead of being a bum all day.
Oh my brother and I watched Paranormal Activity last night with the lights off :O It actually wasn’t that scary. My eyes watered in a few scenes (they do that when I watch ghost shows for some reason). I think one of the creepiest parts was when the girl woke up in the middle of the night and just stood next to the bed looking at her boyfriend for about 3-4 hours, and then walked out. And also when they saw that the door to the attic was shifted…creepy. But over all nothing too scary; I fell asleep fine.
Our wireless still wasn’t working this morning and my dad came over to try to fix it. Luckily my brother had bought a new wireless router on accident; he thought it was a wireless adapter for his computer. We found that the wireless router from comcast was busted, so we used that one. It took a while to set up (stupid Vista) but it’s working fine now. YES!! I haven’t been without internet in a while; and since I’ve been getting into blogging I felt powerless haha.
Well I haven’t stretched in two days! :-/ No bueno. I’m gonna stretch in a little while though after my food gets digested.
Gah my freaking wireless won’t work! We’ve been painting like all day and we had to unplug the wireless router and modem…and when I plugged them back in they didn’t work. I waited for about 2 hours for them to ‘warm up’ but no. Now I have to sit here with an ethernet cord in my comp -__-. My dad is coming over tomorrow to check it out (he’s a computer engineer dude).
Aside from almost throwing the router at the wall, I feel a lot better today. I’m thinking it is because I haven’t been sleeping as long as I should for about 2 weeks and I was just sleep-deprived. I slept in til about 11 today..felt nice. Well I’m gonna go; my feet are starting to fall asleep.
I have been in such a funk lately. Yelling and cussing all the time. I’m not really sure what’s up. It might be just because we moved and there’s still a bunch of boxes and paint stuff all over the place and I am just over it? Maybe I should go out tomorrow. Where? Dunno. I’ll go for a walk if it isn’t raining.
I’ve been listening to Muse a lot lately; I got my brother a CD for Christmas and my mom got me a different one so it worked out pretty well haha. I especially love this song: Muse – I Belong To You / Mon Cœur S’ouvr
Anyway, Alegria is the Spanish word for ‘joy’. It’s what I wish I would feel. I should feel nothing but gratitude for my life and how it has unfolded. But I feel nothing but anger and sadness. Hopefully this will pass. Alegria is also the name of a Cirque du Soleil show, and one of my favorite Cirque songs..just had to throw that out there.
Hopefully I will get out of this funk soon…I can’t be like this when school starts because then it is all about business. I’m striving for a 4.0 again but I just want to do my best because why try if I don’t? I WILL BE VICTOROUS!
Hmm..it’s getting kind of late. This is probably the latest I’ve stayed up all break! Hopefully I won’t wake up until like 10 tomorrow because I haven’t been able to sleep in. I’m thinking oatmeal tomorrow…or maybe just cereal. And a banana. Yes!
Welcome to my blog. This is me. I am just someone in the world seeking out the patterns of the universe. I want to blog everyday for the next year. I feel like there is always a pattern throughout the year for me and I want to find out if this is true. I feel like I have something to contribute to the world, I just don’t know what to give it yet.
