Just Throw a Brick

So little fifth-grade P calls me up the other day, and this is what went down: P: Katelyn? Me: Yep, it's me. What's up? P: Um... Well, can you be my special guest for "Bring a Friend to School Day" at my school? Me: Sure! That'd be awesome! P: Grandma's out of town or I would ask her. Me: ... But it's okay! I was still excited to get to see P (and my mom) in their working environments. I remember when my mom would come to my classroom in elementary school and volunteer to read with groups or whatever, and it was always awesome. So I show up to Bring a Friend to School day super excited, like yeah! I remember elementary school! It was super easy! Woo! First we had an assembly where they all sang songs and we cheered for them, and then we went and met them in their classrooms and they showed us around and we ate cookies. Here's a few conversation snapshots of that day: Me: Hey Mom, how's it going? Mom: Other teacher is gone, basically i...

Haha, hey guys... Yes, I know it's been awhile. I'm very aware of that. I'm sorry, loyal following. I really am. But school literally kicked my butt this semester, and the little time I wasn't studying I was spending with C or my roommates doing roommate-y things. The only reason I've poked my head out today is because I finished my last final and figured if I had time to watch Jeopardy, I had time to blog about my life. So let me inform you as to what I've been up to for the last 15 weeks. Here we go! School The word that best describes this semester is just... meh. Meh. Meh. That's all I have to say about that. Hard classes, and really time-consuming ones. I'll have to write a bunch of my stories on here later, I have some really great ones from English and anatomy lab... Suffice it to say school was long, boring, hard, strenuous, but had some good moments as well.  What the hey, I'll write about it now. It's not like I have anything b...

...of my final semester as an undergrad! Woooooohooooo! Since all of you care lots and lots about my life, I'll tell you all about it. What am I taking, you ask? Well... -Technical Communication, which is a total wash. I have taken so many English classes already, why doesn't one of them apply to this one so I don't have to take it? I'm giving this class two stars off the bat because a) it sounds boring, b) I know how to write already, so suck it, and c) it involves group work, which I absolutely detest. So yeah. Two stars, max. -Cell Biology. I'm giving this class a two as well, but for different reasons. There is group work involved, which as I mentioned above, I freaking HATE. Got stuck in an...interesting group, so we'll see how that goes. It's also my professor's first time teaching the class, and he introduced himself by first name...yeah. Coming from a major where the more letters after your name, the better, to have someone introduce themselv...

Seeing as it's the last day of 2013, I figured I would reflect back on my year, and unfortunately, as my readers, you are forced along on the journey with me. Ha ha ha! So we start with... January January was pretty fun. I retook the first half of OChem (which sucked like every other time I've ever mentioned OChem), hung out with the awesome half of my apartment (remember back when I lived with the crappiest people in the world??? SO glad that's over...), saw all the guys from Kid History in person, and played a lot of Just Dance. Me and my roommates like drawing comics...Yeah. February February was a rough one (read: boys suck). I was again grateful for my good roommates and friends. I don't know all that much about what happened in February...A lot of studying at the kitchen table, eating microwave popcorn and Pringles. Ooh, and those red cinnamon gummy hearts they sell at Macey's during the Valentine's Day season. Dang, those are good. Let's s...

...It's been awhile. But to be fair, I've been up to a lot lately. Want to hear all about it? Um, why else would you be reading this thing? Here we go! Well, school's out for winter break. I actually got a D in OChem, miracle of miracles. Don't have to take that crap again for awhile. Woohoo! Haha, and I even passed the stupid lab that went with it. Want to know how crappy it went? My TA bought one of those Gandalf stamps that says "You Shall Not Pass!!!" on it and started stamping all my papers with it... Not my lab paper, but you get the idea... Freaking Dan. He said if he could date one of my roommates he'd give me an A. Guess I should have taken him up on that offer. Oh well. It got to the point where he would just wander over to my experiment, take a look, sigh, and then say "Miss (last name here), what did you do this time..." and I'd look at it and go "Hey man, it seems to be going pretty well to me," and he'd...

Well folks, the semester has officially started, and I am not excited. OChem is laaaaaaame but at least my teacher has a personality this year... But the lab is even worse. At least when you're sitting in a lecture hall if you mess something up you won't blow anything up. But in lab? Good luck, buddy. Good luck. At least so far I haven't messed anything up too badly, although all my experiments have gone wrong in some way... But good news! Today I didn't mess anything up too badly. But we were only doing chromatography, so it wasn't a big deal. Dump some methylene chloride in a jar, put some stuff on your test strip, and let the capillary action go to work. Woo. So in the end, I didn't end up blowing anything sky high... In other news, choir should be good this semester. Patrick's already cracking the whip on vowels, which I appreciate so much. A choir without good vowels is like popcorn without M&M's. It's just sad. Other classes...my ...

Well, my roommate went and concussed herself again. *sigh* Somehow she always manages to hit her head on the most random of things at the most random of times, and ends up injuring herself. This time she actually went to the doctor's and got checked out and everything, so that's good. What does that mean for me? Lots of movies and listening to odd ramblings about random things. So it could be worse. When she got her wisdom teeth out and was on all sorts of painkillers she kept talking about The Ghost and Mr. Chicken...which is apparently a movie? Back then I had no idea what the heck it was, so I just kept saying "It's not here..." and she'd get all upset about it and then ask again like half an hour later. It was stressful. Thank goodness our home teachers brought us over some Jambas or I would've given up then and there. Still haven't seen this...Still don't want to. What else...typed out a soccer game last night, wrists still hurt so this...

Well, I went back to work today. Woot! It wasn't terrible, really. Got to do some live captioning, which was nice. Don't want to get out of practice! Like that would ever happen... Boss lady told me to teach new girl to live caption, so I did my best. I'm really not the "show you how to do it" type. I had to learn by experimentation, so she should too, right? Gosh, I'm mean. In other news...I signed up for the GRE last weekend! And the more I prepare, the more worried I get. I thought I had a pretty extensive vocabulary. Ha! Ha! Ha! Want to look at an example question? Here you go. Choose the word with the most opposite meaning of the bold word. Recondite A. Abstruse B. Erudite C. Understandable D. Obtuse E. Seismic Give up? The answer is C. Don't ask me... The face I made while grading my practice test I thought I was smart. The GRE is going to prove me wrong, I just know it. But it's okay, with a lot of vocabulary study and som...

Today was semi-eventful, I guess. A few things of note happened: I went and got my oil changed, and while I was waiting, I made friends with a little kid. Which is a big deal for me, because I get really nervous around little kids and don't really like to be around them all the time, but this one was cute. Him and his dad and his older brother came in and you could tell the dad had been through the wringer, he just looked dead. Mom must have been on a girl's weekend away or something. But anyway, this little kid runs right over to me and tries to share his drink and his popcorn with me, and just keeps jabbering the way little two-year-olds do. He was covered in stickers, and I mean covered. Oh, and then a train came by.  Kid's dad: "Look guys! A train!" My new friend: [gasps and smashes his face against the window] "TRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN!!!!!" So that was exciting. Usually little kids don't try and make friends with me and this one did. It was p...

Well, it's finals week. All of my finals were scheduled within a 24-hour period (worst idea ever, especially having two at 7 am in a row...Who does that?! I can do one in a row, easy. But for some reason, two in a row is way harder than you'd think...) Anyway. So yes. 24 hours later and all my finals are done. I have one more final project to work on, but it's for my annoying Editing class and I'm just at the point where I don't care anymore. I'll make the changes she told me to make, and then I'll be done. That was probably the most annoying class I've ever taken. Haha, thank goodness for teacher evaluations. >:) It was raining when I went to my final at 7 am today, which I liked. I had gotten up late (6:45??!!! How did that EVEN happen?!?!?!?!) and I was extremely stressed, because I hate being late, and it meant I couldn't review for my final before like I had planned :( So I ended up throwing on my favorite T-shirt and brushing my teeth an...

Yeah, I know it's been awhile. Bite me. Finals week is coming up and I'm fading fast. And by fading fast I mean I have zero motivation...The only way that I can get stuff done is turning up my "Classical for Studying" station on Pandora and thinking about how much it would suck to fail any of my classes. It usually does the trick (for awhile, anyways). It doesn't help that my roommates have recently decided to start watching Psych from the beginning, so we're on season one. Party hardy. I would much rather be watching Psych than doing anything for anything of my classes, true story. Last night we watched the one where Shawn pretends to be a worker at the space museum and introduces himself as "Aurora Borealis". It's a good one, look it up. You know that's right. Annoying roommate update: She has decided that Psych is an appropriate show for her to watch (??? Or maybe she ran out of MASH episodes...?) Either way, now she sits out with us...

...in University Chorale, so it's not that special. But hey, it's something. It has actually become one of my favorite classes, because when I come I just sing. I don't have to worry about anything else besides singing as well as I can in my little Alto 2 section. By the way, I've got a joke for you. Q: How many altos does it take to change a lightbulb? A: 8, one to change it and seven to complain about how high it is. Hardy har har. But wait, there's more! Q: How many sopranos does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Just one to hold the lightbulb while the world revolves around her. Okay, now THAT'S funny. You can probably tell that sopranos annoy me to no end. Sorry it's short today, friends. It's been a long couple weeks and it's not about to get any better. ... OH WAIT! It's Thanksgiving next week! YEEEEESSSS! See you on the flip side, -K A picture for the road? And again, Whose Line provides my life with joy...Well, ...

No, really. Once you get past all the words you can't read/pronounce/tell are English, it's all awesome from there. My two favorite science bros Today's post comes from a quote out of my Infections and Immunology book, "Sherris Medical Microbiology" (2010). The author writes (describing how Louis Pasteur was treated after he discovered a vaccine to zoonoses anthracis, a disease in herbivorous livestock): "He was cheered and carried on the shoulders of the grateful farmers of the district, an experience now, unhappily, largely restricted to winning football coaches." Powerful stuff. No really, this whimsical sentence actually made me think for awhile. What if the great scientists of our day were celebrated as much as sports stars? Allow me to speculate. First off, we would have a lot more scientists. Science is such an amazing field, with new discoveries made almost every day. Can you imagine how much faster we could cure diseases if everyo...

Guess what, guys! Chem lab's over! And I think I did pretty well! We won't know for sure until the final grades come out in a couple more weeks, but it's looking good! YAY!!!! Anyways... Now it's on to my piano final. My teacher's grading me on "how much I've improved", and while I do think I've gotten better at the songs, I don't feel like it's too noticeable, so hopefully he hears something that I don't hear. I guess we'll see. In other news, I discovered my favorite episode of Psych. Or at least, my two favorites. I can't decide between Last Night Gus , Or American Duos. As you can tell, it's a hard choice. Suggestions? ~K

Sorry I haven't been on here for awhile, friends. If anyone even reads this thing. Oh  yeah, no self-pity. Sorry about that little lapse in judgement there. Anyways, so I've been taking a chemistry lab class this spring, and I hate chemistry. Actually doing the lab isn't bad though, and I'm not half bad. I can follow directions, which is all chem lab is, so I'm pretty good at it. Woo! One chemistry class I (hopefully) won't have to take again! Or a third time... *sigh* If you haven't noticed, I haven't really done so well in chem. But hey, that's about to change! I'm going to do great in this one! I know it! (hopefully). First test is tomorrow, so we'll see how it goes. Cross your fingers! Ready for a bad chemistry pickup line? I knew you were. If a guy says this to me sometime, I think I might die. Hahaha. Thank you, Big Bang Theory, for making my life so much better. I love understanding smart jokes. And then I shrink a little ins...