These things are addicting

Stole this from Travis, and he does not know what happened to Numbers 1-14 either.
I am not answering some, so there will be numbers deleted.
The PAST Side:

15) Memory (People) you miss most: TAILGAITING AT LSU and all my buddies in BTR, my friends from elementary school
16) Memory you would like to forget: Too many from 2000-2002, part of the last semester at TCU
17) What did u do today: partially grade papers, CLEAN
18)Last person you talked to on the phone: Matt
19)Last thing you said: "I love you too"-to Matt on the phone.
20)Last song you listened to: Tin Cup Chalice--It's Jimmy

NOW the FAVES part

21)Food: Italian
22)TV show: Friends, Will and Grace, the Apprentice
23)CD: A1A-Jimmy Buffett

25)Toothpaste: Crest
26)Ice Cream: Chocalate or Peanut Butter
27)Candy: Snickers or Reeses
28)Channel: NBC and ESPN
29)Shampoo/Conditioner: Pantene
30)Songs: too many
31)Sport: BASEBALL-GO SOXS (too bad Cubbies)
33)Friends: Do I have to.

PEOPLE YOU KNOW Side:

34)Best Friend(s): Nicole
35)Funniest: Dan and Brian from school
36)Sweetest: George and Shagufta
37)Weirdest: All the Chemistry grad students for being chemistry grad students
38)Most annoying trait of a friend: stop talking just to hear yourself speak
39)Ummm....39? MMMMM..K, it's not a great number ( you can divide it by 3)

The ONE OR THE OTHER Side:

40)*N Sync OR BSB: definately NSYNC, even though I saw BSB in concert
41)Peanut butter OR Jelly: Peanut Butter
42)Coke OR Pepsi: Coke
43)Matt or Ben: Definately Matt, my Matt..not that Matt
44)MTV OR VH1: ummmmmm
45)Apples OR Oranges: Apples
46)Vanilla OR Chocolate: Chocolate
47)Flowers OR Candy: Flowers, I'll get fat on the candy
48)Dawson's Creek OR Felicity: Dawson's Creek
49)Romantic, Comedy OR Horror: Comedy
50)Book OR Magazine: Neither...do I have time to read...Although, I am reading Harry Potter for the umpteenth time.
51)TV OR Radio: Both

The BELIEVE OR NOT Side:
52)Do you believe in angels: Yes
53)Aliens: I'm a scientist, I need more evidence
54)Heaven & Hell: Both
56)Yourself: I better if I'm going to get my PhD

The HAVE YOU EVER Side > > >[Answer YES or NO]

57) Been on a plane: Plenty
58)Cried in public: Yes
59)Climbed a tree: Yes
60)Fell asleep in a Movie theatre: no
61)Met a celebrity: Don't think so
62)Met the president: He was at my graduation, which I refused to go to.
63)Gotten a cavity: nope
64)Shopped at Abercrombie & Fitch: Yep, I still have a $50 gift certificate to spend
65)Gone skinny-dipping: no
66)Skipped school: Of course
67)Gone to a theme park and checked out all the cute girls or Guys: no

Do you like ........

68)Bill Clinton: Not his personal life...didn't mind him as president
69)Lollipops: not really
70)Dreams: i guess...I have no choice
71)Love : yes
72)Whipped Cream: yes
73)South Park: funny
74)Boy Bands: No
75)Guys: only one romantically
76)Girls: as friends
77)Death: don't know yet

The WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER BE Side:

78)Dog/Cat: cat, i don't have to wait to go to the bathroom
79)Blue/Purple: Purple..hello LSU
80)Chocolate/Vanilla: what the hell?


The QUESTIONS THAT DON'T MATTER, BUT I'M STILL ASKING Side:
81)Do you sleep with a stuff animal: not anymore..I have Matt
82)Last time you showered: this morning
83)If you were a crayon, what color would you be: not BURNT ORANGE
84)If you could be a tree, what kind would you be? OAK, you last long
85)How many buddies do you have on your list: 78
86)One pillow or two, cotton or feather: barely one...it doesn't matter
87)Last CD you bought: don't buy them unless they are Jimmy
88) How long are you in the shower: 10 minutes
89) How do you eat a Reese's Peanut Buttercup: around the edgeand then the middle
90)What is your locker number: don't have one..my student shave 2 each though
91)Right, Left, or Ambidextrous: Right
92)What is on your mouse pad: Winnie the Pooh holding a jar of Huney
93)What is under your bed: nothing

Stole this from Nicole

Act your age: 21..for another month
Boy/Girlfriend: YES, MATT
Chore you hate: cleaning the cat's litter box
Dad's name: William
Essential morning facial item: contacts and toothpaste
Favorite actress: who cares?
Gold or silver: silver
Hometown: Baton Rouge, LA
Instrument(s) you play: I was a ballet dancer, jeesh
Job title: Graduate Assistant (same as Nicole), Teacher's Assistant, slave to my boss
Kids: nope, not until my PhD
Living arrangements: 2 bed-2 bath in Austin, with Matt, and with two cats...and they have their own bedroom too.
Mom's name: Debby
Number of places you've lived: Baton Rouge, Fotr Worth and Austin
Overnight hospital stays: When I was born
Phobia: some heights and public speaking..ha and I'm a grad student and have to give a lot of presentations (you'd think theatre would have helped this)
Quote you like:
Religious affiliation: Catholic
Sibling(s): Stephen, older brother
Time you wake up: 8 or 9 am. Grad student go in late and stay late at school...unless I'm pulling my normal 12 hour day. It's the same on Saturday because I have class.
Unique habit: you tell me?
Vegetable you refuse to eat: They mostly have to be raw, except corn, potatoes. Cauliflower, squash, brussel sprouts. Anything steamed or cooked.
Worst habit: I can be demanding and then lazy in the same hour.
X-rays you've had: foot, foot, foot, hell I was a ballet dancer, foot, foot.
Yummy food you make: Don't cook much, but I make one hell of a cheesecake and cookies from scratch.
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius.

Lost everything....

I had a huge entry about how my week will be and it got deleted, so here is a mini-version of it because I am not typing that all over again.
Monday: Lab.
Tuesday: no class but I have other things to do.
Wednesday: Presentation on Diels Alder Reactions and NMR training for 3 hours. Remember dienes and dienophiles. Everyhting you learned in sophmore organic should not have been taught that way and is only half-truth.
Thursday: I have reports to grade for my lab this day. I started reading them today and they sucked. So, I stopped reading them and I am going to figure out all their problems.
Friday: doctor's appointment.
Saturday: 9 am 2 hour test.

Matt went home this weekend; he comes back tomorrow and I will be so glad to see him. I miss him!! It's weird being in this apartment all by myself.

And they keep coming...

Mom left today. Only stayed a day but that was good. I still have 11 papers to grade for my Thursday class. I receive 16 more tomorrow and 11 more on Thursday. They just keep coming. My test on Friday was not bad, but was rushed. 8 problems in 50 minutes, where each problem took our class an average of 7 minutes. So, that gave us time for only 7 of the 8 problems. I had 5 minutes left on the test with the last problem to complete. We have new prof on Monday. We hear he is funny but does not teach very well, so we will end up having to teach ourselves. We still have other prof for our other class. He is generally concerned about our grades and asked everyone's opinion about the test. Really nice guy. Rides go-carts and has a Porche. Not bad, but he is the editior of JACS. He edited my paper and accepted it. Pretty cool. I am sitting in his lab until I can move to my own lab group in December.
Presentation tomorrow too.
Back to grading.

Drawing Mechanisms and Cleaning

What a combination. I have a midterm tomorrow on mechanisms, so I am drawing a bunch of chemical structures and pushing arrows, as we like to call it. I hope I do well. My mother is coming Saturday so I have to clean tomorrow and grade 41 lab reports sometime this weekend. I just hope it gets done, so my students do not complain. Oh well, short update because I have so much going on.

Web Page Update

I have completed more in my web page.

Hope for the best!!!

Group Research News: A drug developed by our group is in Clinical Phase 3 Trials right now. To find out more, check out the Pharmacyclics website, the company founded by my boss. The drug targets Brain tumor cancer cells.

GRRR

I wish people would stop calling Matthew when they have a party and remind him that he is not there. He hates it and IT MAKES ME SO MAD. Because, I know all of you just LOVE the fact that I took him away. He did not HAVE TO MOVE WITH ME!!! So, stop rubbing it in his face that he doesn't live in BR anymore. And please, get a life and torture someone else for a change. And don't ask why he is not there...YOU DAMN WELL KNOW WHY!!!!!!!
Jeesh!!!!

New Web Page

I have a webpage that I have to create for my Teaching class. It is still under a great deal of construction. Right now, I only have 2 sentences on the page, no color, and the sentences run together. Over the next 3 weeks, I will be changing and modifying its look for my Nov. 12th deadline. It will mainly be personal/research oriented...and mostly professional especially becuase it is being graded on. Hope you enjoy, especially when I post up some pictures and my JACS paper.

Enjoy, later.

Yippeeeeeeeeeeee

I got a B+ on my test, which is great considering some people failed. And, I am so close to an A, but it really does not matter in grad school as long as you do not get a C. Lately, I ahve been in the library most of the day studying and doing homework. We have homework, which sucks because I think being in grad school, our grades should not matter based on homework. When do we actually have time to complete homework. I guess it is a freebie for us because Prof does not actually grade it.

Other than spending quality time in the library, which is cold (why are libraries always cold?), I have bee nteaching and grading papers. Tomorrow, I get 2 sets of lab reports from one class. On Monday I get 2 sets of lab reports and 1 set from my Thursday class next week, meaning I have to grade 3 sets of lab reports the weekend my mother comes. Why does she have to come the day after a test and on the worst weekend? And, she is only coming for one night and two days, driving up from Beaumont on Saturday monring. Not to mention that Ihave Saturday class that weekend.

I finally got a doctor's appointment---in 3 weeks on a Friday afternoon (I have to miss group meeting and Seminar) and it is also the day before a Saturday test. I hate that!

Well, I'm off to bed, because I have a non-stop no-break day tomorrow.

End of a LOOONG week, start of another one

OH well. Monday and Thursday I had to teach lab, as every week. My kids were very good this week and will hopefully be this week. They did not add to my already stressful week due to my test that I had on Saturday. The worst aspect of Physical Organic is taking tests for three hours on Saturday morning. First of all, it is early for the weekend, and secondly...prof makes the test so damn hard. He even told us on Thursday that we would not finish the test because he made it long. The test is ridiculously hard. Last years test curves: 60% is and A, 50% is a B. Prof. does this deliberately to see how our minds work. But, since the object is not to fail us (because a C is death in Grad School), he has to curve. I'm just glad it is over with, and so is the LSU game. Stupid pounding by GA.
Matthew is grabbing my boobs while I type this. Very thoughtful. A couple of my friends came over to watch the game and have pizza and beer. It was nice to open the sliding doors and let the cool breeze float through. Oh well, I just finsihed grading lab reports and they were actually better than last report. The average was the same, but I see some improvement in some student's lab report writing abilities. I must go now, as my grammy is talking my ear off. And I need to take a bath. Now Brady (the white fluffy gay cat) is meaowing at me to feed him his special "make me fat" food. I am not supposed to give it to him, but he still whins at me for it. Good night!