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tanarillAnd also I should post more often. This one isn't going to be about the go club, although only because I am too lazy to upload the pictures from my camera.
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News!
The bad news: I did not get into University of Michigan. I did send a letter asking why, so hopefully I can get some feedback on what I can do to make myself more attractive. But I really think the problem is that I don't have enough lab experience. Working IR in a pure chem lab is only a bit similar to doing plasmid transformations in a biochem lab.
The good news: I got in to UC Santa Barbara! :D That is the one with the lagoon, although it is a smelly lagoon, full of interesting mutants* and not one to go swimming in. Fortunately, UCSB is also the one with the Pacific Ocean not a ten minute walk away**. Also, UCSB is the one doing cool things with other nanoshells, which you will recall I have some *coughexhaustivecough* experience in making. So I think I will do fine. Plus, it will be close enough that I can return home for weekends and holidays \o/!
Also, I want a Dragon Age. This, however, is silly, for the same reason that me wanting an AC is silly: I do not own an XBox, and the Boy's, which is still in Michigan, has gone permanently red-ring on him T.T; So I guess I shall have to remain addicted to WoW and D0rf Ortress instead.
Totally unrelated, I learned how to make blackened fish. It is verra easy and verra verra nummeh, and due to my total aversion to getting up close and personal with other forms of meat, I shall cook it prolly once a month.
And, finally, some Jewish stuff. This year was a leap year in Judaism, which means that, instead of having one extra day, we have an entire extra month. This is because we use a lunar calendar, which is eleven days shorter than a solar calendar. Every third year, we just add a leap month to make up for it (except sometimes we have two leap years in a row because a Jewish month is only twenty-eight and a half days long and so we still have a surplus of five days every three years, which add up). Anyway.
Leap year. The month that happens twice every third year is called Adar, also known as "that month when Purim happens." Instead of celebrating it twice, like sensible people who like a party, we celebrate it on the second Adar (which is called Adar Sheiny; it means "second Adar"). Having to wait the extra month didn't exactly make me happy, but the Purim has finally arrived! \o/ Time to make hamentashens, and also get smashed :D :D :D
*Not really. But all the used water from the marine biology lab goes into the lagoon, so as not to contaminate the Pacific with anything that might be in it . . .
** I am dead serious. Heading due south from pretty much anywhere on campus lands you in the Pacific in seven minutes or less, even if you have to detour around the lagoon.
c.c
News!
The bad news: I did not get into University of Michigan. I did send a letter asking why, so hopefully I can get some feedback on what I can do to make myself more attractive. But I really think the problem is that I don't have enough lab experience. Working IR in a pure chem lab is only a bit similar to doing plasmid transformations in a biochem lab.
The good news: I got in to UC Santa Barbara! :D That is the one with the lagoon, although it is a smelly lagoon, full of interesting mutants* and not one to go swimming in. Fortunately, UCSB is also the one with the Pacific Ocean not a ten minute walk away**. Also, UCSB is the one doing cool things with other nanoshells, which you will recall I have some *coughexhaustivecough* experience in making. So I think I will do fine. Plus, it will be close enough that I can return home for weekends and holidays \o/!
Also, I want a Dragon Age. This, however, is silly, for the same reason that me wanting an AC is silly: I do not own an XBox, and the Boy's, which is still in Michigan, has gone permanently red-ring on him T.T; So I guess I shall have to remain addicted to WoW and D0rf Ortress instead.
Totally unrelated, I learned how to make blackened fish. It is verra easy and verra verra nummeh, and due to my total aversion to getting up close and personal with other forms of meat, I shall cook it prolly once a month.
And, finally, some Jewish stuff. This year was a leap year in Judaism, which means that, instead of having one extra day, we have an entire extra month. This is because we use a lunar calendar, which is eleven days shorter than a solar calendar. Every third year, we just add a leap month to make up for it (except sometimes we have two leap years in a row because a Jewish month is only twenty-eight and a half days long and so we still have a surplus of five days every three years, which add up). Anyway.
Leap year. The month that happens twice every third year is called Adar, also known as "that month when Purim happens." Instead of celebrating it twice, like sensible people who like a party, we celebrate it on the second Adar (which is called Adar Sheiny; it means "second Adar"). Having to wait the extra month didn't exactly make me happy, but the Purim has finally arrived! \o/ Time to make hamentashens, and also get smashed :D :D :D
*Not really. But all the used water from the marine biology lab goes into the lagoon, so as not to contaminate the Pacific with anything that might be in it . . .
** I am dead serious. Heading due south from pretty much anywhere on campus lands you in the Pacific in seven minutes or less, even if you have to detour around the lagoon.
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Date: 2011-03-16 07:01 pm (UTC)*reads*
No, wait, dummy. Purim happens in Adar UNLESS it's a leap year, then it happens in the month that makes up the gap. Still, this is a thing I did not know. Interesting.
*goes to find the Maccabeats Purim song video*
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Date: 2011-03-17 07:49 am (UTC)I don't if I would feel daunted or excited if I lived that close to an ocean.