It smells like up-dog in here...

What's that, you might ask? WRONG! You're supposed to say, "What's up dog?" And then I would reply with:

I went shopping today with Callie, my totally awesome roommate who drove us to the mall and endured all my mutterings and idiosynchracies about shopping. I bought my Dad a present for his birthday on friday, and then bought myself dinner at Moe's (the JC quesadilla). The quesadilla was great, but what topped off my dietary day was the purchase of a Clearly Canadian Strawberry Fizzy Water. They redid the bottle, and the flavor, so now it initially tastes like strawberries, but the aftertaste is definitely beer. Yes, I know what beer tastes like, and yes, the last time I tasted it was when my Dad let my younger siblings and I taste "beer," which was actually Jack Daniels topped with a bit of beer. That'll wake you up in the morning!

In organic chemistry today, my professor showed us a new reaction, and then extended the reaction and gave us two molecules with reaction arrows drawn, and then she told us to draw the major organic product based on the reaction arrows. She prefaced the question with something along the lines of only one or two students in her class of 200+ students ever get the answer correct, and those are her organic genii, her A+ students. Well, I looked at the arrows and I said to myself, "Self: that looks a lot like the diels-alder reaction from last semester, so let me make cyclopropane, and see how that looks." So, I drew cyclopropane (it's basically an equilateral triangle with various things hanging off the vertices). Well, wouldn't you know it, I was right! I'm an organic genius!

I have two exams on friday. Exams?!?! I've only been in school for three weeks, it's too soon for exams! Right. Try telling that to my Microbiology and Spanish professors. I'm not worried about Spanish - we reviewed today and I got that down pat. No, I'm simply worried out of my mind about my Microbiology exam. My professor is cool, but his teaching methods are a bit unfamiliar. He doesn't require the book, and he doesn't assign readings. He lets us download the power point slides online and take notes on those, and he says that all the information we need is on the slides and is in his verbal lecture. Fine. But there's not a whole lot of information there. I read the book - he tells us the sections that correspond to the lectures - and there is a ton of information in them! Tons! And then I looked at the practice exam - it requires more information that what is given in lecture. So what do I do? Study my rear off, that's what I've been doing. But right now, all I am is panicked and exhausted. It's off to the showers and then to bed for me. Keep it real...