Got the smackdown from Minnesota today. No school for me, come back next year. Only Roswell Park and New Mexico remain. TWO SCHOOLS ENTER… and probably both will leave with hardly a glance in my direction, the way things are going. And finding a science job with only a BS and no industry experience seems to be a near impossibility. The few that exist pay less than my current job, which is essentially making stacks of paper. You know, I could go places in this company. I could be a service rep and make the big bucks. Guess I better practice my phone voice if I want that. “Thank you for calling Geico, how may I help you today?”

OK, so I just got back from taking the test. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was gonna be, but that’s because most of it focused on intramembranous proteins and cross-membrane transport, which I already had a good handle on. The sections on glycolysis and oxidative phosphoralation asked for a level of detail that he specifically said we would not be required to know. Oops.

Fucker.

Two other things of some import:
1) I have added pictures of my trip to visit my best friend over winter break. There’s not a lot, but it’s a pretty part of the country.
2) So that car that I’m supposed to get? I’m really close to just telling the mutants to keep their car because this shit is so not worth the trouble. I’ll just drive Nornan III into the ground and then walk until I’ve saved up enough for a decent used [something with AWD].

It’s 9:30 in the morning. I was up till 3:30 last night and woke up this morning at 7:00. I’ve been trying to go over and over the infinite fucking material we have to know for this test. It’s easily 3-4 times the amount of stuff for the last test, and the last test wasn’t on a trivial amount of info to begin with. My head hurts. I feel sick. I’ve had a shitty few weeks. I ate just about nothing yesterday and feel even crappier because of it. I’m not even hungry. When an OMGXBOXHUEG fatass like me isn’t hungry for over a day, you know something is seriously wrong. In a little under two hours I’m going to leave to take this test, which I likely have little hope of actually doing well on. When you study for over a week and still haven’t covered all the material, it tends to weigh heavily upon you. I’m tired, cranky, pissed off, and in no mood to deal with this shit. It’s the perfect time to remind myself to finish that physics lab report this afternoon so I can hand it in on time tomorrow! Well, here’s to pissing away 15% of my grade.

Someone remind me, why am I doing this again?