I solemnly swear I'm up to no good.

Day 4: Motherf---in' Microbiology

School doesn't start until next week but I bought the packet of notes for my microbio class only to find out that the first four chapters are missing. Why are they missing, you ask? The department head, author of the textbook, and my instructor(before I wised up and switched out of his section at the last minute), skipped over them.
SO, I'm outlining the chapters myself just in case my new instructor chooses to skip over them as well. In addition to that, I also like to read ahead of what I'm going to be learning in class anyway. Call me what you want but in a semester, I'll be on the Dean's List. I'm still salty about my GPA last semester...

In other news, I sunk back into my old ways and started serial flirting again. I doubt that I'll have the energy to do that everyday but it definitely was amusing! Fun times...

There's an app for that!

Day 2: iPhone vs. BlackBerry Part 3498439832

So, apparently there's a "glitch" with the Apple iPhone software that causes us lovely iPhone users not to have an alarm to wake up to in the morning(unless you set it as "reoccurring", but that's annoying). Lucky for me, I still have my 9700 and will be using it as an alarm clock.

Because ever since the iPhone's alarm stopped working, BlackBerry phones have be noted to have the best alarms EVER.


Really though, I'll just download an alarm clock app and move on with my life.

1-1-11!

I am loving these number patterns. Happy New Year to everyone! I try not to live in the past, but I had a wonderful last day of 2010 with my good friend, Blog Me, Boo in our lovely hometown city of downtown Charleston, S.C. Check out her blog for all the fun pictures!

I've decided not to have any resolutions. I have a 5-year plan that's detailed enough, so as long as I'm working toward that, I'm happy. I do have something else planned though...



365 days. 365 photos. 1 moment a day. 1 photo a day. Some days are super mundane, so hopefully this will force me to find more things to appreciate. I'm not going to lie. The first few days are going to be kind of lame until I get the swing of it, so don't be too harsh on me, haha! You're more than welcome to join in if you'd like and if you do...leave a link so that I can see some photos!

Shame on me.

I just hop from blog to blog. I'm not sure if Tumblr is considered a "blogging site" but I have one. LoveCourtastic at Tumblr.
Anyway...

Fall semester is DONE! I'm not pleased with finishing with a 3.4...I seriously expected a 3.7 or 3.8 but...it is what it is. Time for the real major courses before my 1st major program. Microbio, biochem, a&p(part II) and then I can sort of relax before taking courses towards my 2nd major(Hi, Physics & organic chem!). Yes, it's crazy but I find that if I don't think that it's crazy, I'll be able to handle it. Mind over matter.

A Special Happy Birthday to my homegirl over at Blog Me, Boo! She's turning 21, again. And in 2 months or so, I will be too. I'll be 21 until I turn 25. Those other years are extraneous to me.

Tis The Season...

I must be getting old because the thrill and anticipation of getting Christmas gifts have faded. Plus, I actually enjoy buying things for other people now! Naturally, this frustrates those who genuinely like me and actually want to buy me things during the holidays(love y'all!). I've just gotten to the point in my life where I'm happy to be in good health after having:

• The H1N1 virus
• a mental breakdown of sorts which led to...
• (stress)hives
• ongoing situations with my family that have pretty much forced me to give up everything that I've busted my ass for.

Honestly, Christmas gifts are the last thing on my mind and the main thing that I do want won't fit under the tree...and if it can, then we have a problem. ...Unless it's in the form of a check, of course.

Another thing that I've been told is that I'm hard to shop for because I'm really picky selective about everything and I buy all of the "would be gifts" for myself throughout the year...which is true.

So with that being said, I'll make it easy this year. Although I don't like making lists of things for people to buy for me because I'm stubbornly independent and Christmas isn't all about me(but my birthday is--February 7, mark your calendars!)I'll make some suggestions with a few of my favorite things/stores.

1. Sephora
2. Express
3. The Limited
4. Gap
5. Chocbite
6. Gucci by Gucci for Women
7. Nina by Nina Ricci
8. Fossil
9. Amazon
10. Forever21
11. Ca$h/Gift Cards

There. Go crazy.

The Season of Finals is Upon Us!

Remember this post? Well guess what? It's baaaaacccck. If you're wondering, I'm a mixture of the following right now:


See, aside from printing out review sheets, I haven't done any studying. Luckily I've never have to study like crazy in order to make a half-decent grade in anything(so far) in my academic career, but my lackadaisical attitude towards it all is even making me sick.
All I've been doing lately is listening to music, taking sporadic naps, and complaining about having exams(as if I'm the only one who has them). I'm not worried about what's on the exam, I just don't want to take them. Having a "B" in a hard science as my lowest grade should be enough. Yes, these are insane feelings of entitlement, but I don't care. Hmph.

I drank the Kool-Aid.

Come get you some!

Yeah I went there. Let's talk about my slow but steady descent into Appledom.  I used to be such an Apple hater.  I felt like(and kind of still do) their products were over priced and the people who loved them so much were either: pseudo-intellectual, wanna-be artists, or extreme hipsters.  I wanted to be ~different~, so I had a Creative Zen Vision:M and a BlackBerry.  Then the iPod Touch came about.  It was tough, but I resisted the temptation to use my employee discount/go on eBay and buy one.  Oh, I resisted temptation many, many, MANY times.  All was going well with my phone, mp3 player, and bank account until I realized that I couldn't really work out with my Zen because it didn't have a flash based memory.  Basically, songs skipped every time I went jogging.

Uh, no bueno.

So, then I caved in and bought an 8GB iPod Nano 5G.  I justified my "traitorness" by reminding myself that it wasn't as expensive as an iPod Touch and I'd only use it when working out.  However, I somehow ended up not only throwing my Zen in a drawer(never to be touched again) but also buying an iHome Speaker System for my iPod.  My logic for that purchase?  "It matches my TV and it was on sale!" ...Yeah.  So, now it's just me and my BlackBerry.  We were going pretty strong for a while until I got bored with my 8320, bought a 9700 and then:

• had some error pop up when I was surfing the internet on it.
• saw everyone else bragging about their phones with all their fun apps.
• succumbed to my monthly impulse purchase that usually is in sync with my cycle(TMI? Oops.)

So, 8 months later, I'm downloading apps on an iPhone 3Gs and feeling slightly guilty.  Brand loyalty is a female dog.   This isn't an iPhone vs BlackBerry blog. Both phones have their ups and downs.  In fact, I still have my 9700 in case I need to switch back.  And it's on the drawer and not in it, FYI.  But for now, BBM, instant email updates, and a "professional looking" phone aren't enough to keep me.  But a FREE app for pretty much anything that can keep me entertained will.

Oh, and I didn't get the iPhone 4G because of this.  Why even make it that difficult/risky?