Passion

This will be a short entry, but I wanted to make a quick update before running off to lab. Today is going to be long and busy. Technically, this particular five minutes was scheduled to be spent reading a paper for tonight's discussion, but I'm so far behind on my schedule anyway that I figured I'll just move around things like food in order to get all my work done.

Saturday was good--I attended a swing dancing workshop and sort of learned to dance. It was a lot of fun, but of course I can't remember any of the steps. I'm way too uncoordinated. I think that now I could probably find the beat without assistance, and for the most part I can land on the right foot at the end of each 8-count, but the first seven counts generally have me flumoxed.

Sunday I had brunch with some other grad students. I'm now a graduate affiliate for Pierson college, so the brunch thing was sort of like an orientation for the two of us who are new to the program this year. They gave us a tour of the facilities, and handed out our meal cards. I get three free meals a week at Pierson. So now all I have to do is find three times a week that I can physically make it to the college. Do I have time for this??? Probably not. Sounds like typical me.

Monday and yesterday were fairly mundane. I finally finished watching the second season of Lost, and might actually be able to get some work done now. Hahahaha...

Today I'm going to an informational meeting for a magazine written by and for science graduate students. I would love to be an editor for it--I miss yearbook, oddly enough--but since I barely have time to breathe as it is, I'm not sure if that's really such a smart idea. We'll see. I'll go to the informational meeting and then make some sort of decision as to what my schedule can handle and what it can't.

Chocolate party tonight. I tried to make a chocolate cheesecake, which basically involved melting chocolate into the crust, but I'm not sure if it worked. I guess I'll find out tonight, and if it turns out to taste awful, I won't tell anyone that I made it. I'm still not sure how I'm getting the cheesecake physically to the party... I really don't want to have a cheesecake with me during genetics discussion. That's just way too tempting.

All right, now I'm going to be late for lab.