Friday 28 February 2003

[x] bio midterm (results back)
[x] ochem midterm (results back)
[x] english midterm (results back)
[x] english paper
[x] music midterm
[x] music composition

i wish i had something additional to say that's more encouraging and happier but.. God is sufficient. :)

Tuesday 25 February 2003

peroxisomes detoxify by producing hydrogen peroxide which gets converted to water. WHAT A REVELATION!

Thursday 20 February 2003

duuuude. i really really really want to get into the darkroom again. printing is really fun. but, alas...nerdy roz is taking over and i have to study. maybe i can go into the studio this weekend and at least get the index prints for the processed rolls of film.
talked to my family yesterday night. it was cool...everyone pretty much just passed the phone around. i think i do that a lot. call and then ask to have the person on the other line pass the phone on to someone else. i talked to my dad, then my mom, then my dad, then my sister, then my dad, then my mom and then we hung up. fun stuff. i miss being at home, vegging, making hot pot stuff, washing clothes in our lovely washer and dryer, playing the piano, using the sewing machine, eating peanut butter out of the fridge or sorbet out of the freezer.
not to be selfish or anything, but i think i hoard sorbet. my mom and christina can attest to this. one time at home, i got a quart of cookies and cream ice cream and a pint of dreyers strawberry sorbet and i hid it in a bag so my dad couldn't eat it... because we both have a habit of just eating spoonfuls of ice cream at a time.
anyway... that's what i miss about home.

Wednesday 19 February 2003

I really like darkroom photography. My first print ever is an 8x10 picture of a tree. It's one of them big trees from the Santa Cruz Mountains. There's a lot of things wrong with the picture like how the top of the tree is out of focus and how there's too much light at the base of the tree and there's this dark line at the left edge, but I'm still very satisfied because this was a picture I saw all the way through from taking it (sorta), processing the negatives and printing the film. Photography is expensive but with you have worth it prints, it makes up for the time and money. they're from the heart and there's that cliche that everyone uses "a picture is worth a thousand words"

Thursday 13 February 2003

Pharmacy School Rankings.
UCSF is my dream.
USC is in the work-up, too.
UCSD is sadly not accredited yet.. but that's OK!

Wednesday 12 February 2003

the CHUBBCHUBBS!!! here. nominated for best short animated film. CHUBBCHUBB!!! haahaahaa

Monday 10 February 2003

hm... i wanted to blog about something...
OH... here's a website that might be of interest. Berkeley Blitz

there was something else...
it was something funny, too. stink. that's ok. if it's important, i'll remember it.

Wednesday 5 February 2003

it's been about 1.15 semesters since i've had 8 oclocks every day. yeah i think i complain about it a lot, but now i'm starting to appreciate the level of productivity my life has come to since waking up at 8:00. Getting a full night's sleep is essential and it's been good. i have time to do things like take pictures and study and eat (which is probably the only thing i've been doing this semester).
SFC retreat:
It was a really good spending time in a place concentrated with SFCers. We all have our own little lives and sometimes they cross on AIM or on Fridays and Sundays, but I think this retreat united us in a way that can't be done any other way. People were open and honest in our small group, in conversation, at campfire, during worship practice. When you're in such a concentrated area with the same people you can't help but notice everyone's habits, everyone's demeanor (sp?) and challenge their thoughts and way of life. I thought a lot about how this semester is comparing to last semester, how am I going to use my time since there's not that much of it, what kind of friendships am I going to make, maintain... maybe even break sad as that sounds.
I was really encouraged by Pastor Harrison's statement about surviving vs. really getting out there and thriving. Before I came to college, my youth pastor, Byron said that same exact thing. Are you going to just survive or are you going to thrive and make a difference for Christ. I've grown a lot since college started, changed some but am I really making a difference?