Jueves

So, it was a normal Thursday. It began with my genetics problem session, where I watched my TA, Yi, completely butcher the English language (bless his heart, he's from China and probably two hundred times as smart as I will ever be, but he simply cannot speak English in a manner that allows other people to understand him) as he explained to us how to complete a pedigree for a simple Mendelian autosomal recessive trait. While he was explaining how to get started, I finished the problem and then half an hour later, Yi finished explaining the problem, and people still had the deer in the head lights look. I got it right, so that's one less thing I'll have to study for my genetics test next week, which I'm already beginning to hate.

Well, I think I'd hate anything that would prevent me from going home for the weekend. I like home. It's something I look forward to more than anything else. And yet this weekend I will regrettably be studying genetics and quantitative chemistry until my brain goes on strike. Actually, I think it already has, but that's no big surprise. So, after genetics, I went to self defense, where we learned blocking techniques, and I unlearned my left from my right. I thought I had it down, but left from right or right from left is a very tricksy distinction for me.

And then on to Chemistry, where I learned that my professor is an avid hater of the NY Yankees, and has said he will penalize anyone who shows up to the test next week with a Yankees hat. I'm tempted to find a Yankees T-shirt and wear it just to say that he only extended the ban to hats and left all other paraphernalia as fair game. But I won't, I'm fond of not being a pretentious little snot. And then it was back to my room for some procrastinating. I did some recreational reading, and then I bought a few books online (I wanted something of Edmond Rostand's). And yet I am still procrastinating. I think I'm going to grit my teeth and do my homework now, so, cíao.