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| 09:44pm 23/12/2008 |
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On my drive back home to Green Bay to visit my parents, as I was changing lanes my car hit a nasty nasty patch of black ice, and I lost control of the wheel. My jeep went into the ditch, and proceeded to roll, and landed on the roof.
Somehow I miraculously am unharmed, apart from a few bruises from the seatbelt. I walked away from the crash, so that makes me thank God for looking out for me like that. My jeep has seen better days by far, the roof is caved in, the driver's side mirror snapped off, and the windshield is cracked.
It's going to be a hefty repair bill... but like I told the nice police officer that helped me out, I'd rather pay a car bill than a hospital bill any day... |
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| 12/1/08 Farewell my Furry Sister |
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| 06:03pm 01/12/2008 |
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So...
As of 1:00pm this afternoon, my golden retriever, Myah passed away. She was 13 years old, and was suffering from kidney failure, with no hope of recovery. She was put down this afternoon to ease her suffering, as she could not even eat anymore. I am happy she is no longer in pain, but at the same time miss her immensely. I remember getting her when I was 10 years old, out in Clintonville from the breeder. She was such a mild mannered well behaved little puppy. Over the years she became quite the energetic, and lovable dog. I have so many fond memories of her, it's really all the more painful to know she's gone. I have not lost a pet today, I lost a sister.
I'll always remember my kind-hearted little kangaroo dog...
Rest in Peace Myah...
I'm feeling too sad to really be able to type much tonight, sorry... |
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| 10:21pm 04/11/2008 |
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mood:  cheerful
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AMERICA!
FUCK YEAH!!!
<3 YAY PRESIDENT OBAMA!
Let us welcome our Kryptonian Overlord :D |
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| 07:07pm 23/06/2008 |
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mood:  pissed off
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Fuck off, thanks. |
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| Tagged I guess |
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| 04:08pm 11/06/2008 |
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Lab work no is appealing at the moment... so I do thing that is not labwork
Tagged by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) piratekitten.
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
Since the formation of such acetals and ketals is generally reversible, it is a simple matter to equilibrate axial and equitorial groups at anomeric centers and directly determine which is the more stable form without resorting to calorimetry or other more complicated procedures. Figure 2.20 shows four examples of the anomeric effect. In each case, the large group on the anomeric carbon of the pyranoside prefers the axial position.
-Modern Physical Organic Chemistry, Eric V. Anslyn/Dennis A. Doughterty
I tag... uhm...
1.) baranoneko
2.) kytykatt
3.) daintynymph
4.) eclebouton
5.) eveofmoderntime |
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| Big news is big ^.^ |
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| 08:02am 20/05/2008 |
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mood: cheerful
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Alright, I apologize for the long lack of posting ever since I was all Mr. Emo McPosterson, but I actually have things to post now...
Starting off, I have been SUPER busy the post month and a half. Grad School really decided to bend me over and have it's way with me. Unfortunately, it didn't have the decency to buy me dinner before doing such. Hence why I pretty much disappeared off of the face of the Earth for a good long time. This would be the main reason why I haven't been to MAS, or to really any other social gathering of people. Stupid time raping candy coated chocolaty crunchy munchy graduate school. I digress though... It's over for now, and it'll just be glorious 9-5 research this summer (mostly from now on as well).
Well let's see know... apart from time raping me hardcore, I went to Anime Central this past weekend. I had a pretty good time. Granted we didn't do much con stuff... Cosplayed, walked around, hit up a panel, photoshoots. The standard stuff, really. However there is something that wasn't entirely out of the ordinary.
I would like to let you all know that I proposed to my longtime girlfriend, Angela, at the convention this past Friday. She said yes, which was very happy-inducing. Also, like most things these days, it's already up on YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LCNMSpleXZQ
These people work fast I swear XD |
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| Need of Happy Thing! |
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| 09:32pm 22/01/2008 |
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mood: cheerful
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With the sad news today, I thought there should be a little bit of good news at the least.
Today marks the fourth year I've been with my girlfriend, Angela. ^_^
That is really all I have to say, that and these four years have been very wonderful |
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| Year +1 |
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| 08:31pm 03/01/2008 |
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I hope everyone had a good time ringing in the new year, and weren't too hungover to engage in normal everyday activities.
I'm looking forward to seeing what 2008 is going to bring for me, to be honest. It just feels like it's going to be a good year for some reason. Granted, I know I'll be busy... the fact that it is 8:30 and I am still in the lab attests to that.
Also, next week Wednesday (the 9th) I'll be turning 23! ^.^ Yay for birthdays! Now I just need to figure out what to do that night, because I certainly don't want to be sitting at home doing nothing... |
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| Merry Christmas!! |
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| 06:04pm 25/12/2007 |
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mood: chipper
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I know most of the day is already over, but still, it's the thought that counts, eh?
I wanted to wish everyone who pays attention to this little sporadically updated portion of the internet a very Merry Christmas. I hope the day treats you well! |
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| *brushes off the dust* Heh heh... dust :3 |
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| 10:10am 08/12/2007 |
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mood: cheerful
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So I saw The Golden Compass last night, and I have to say I was rather impressed ^^
At the request of my girlfriend, I took the quiz on what daemon you would get... and here is my result!
Yay! Tiger! |
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| Happy Birthday to me! |
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| 01:18pm 09/01/2007 |
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mood: chipper
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I wanted to change my journal entry here, since I'm feeling much better, and I really don't want to look at an angry journal entry anymore.
It's my birthday today! Whoo-hoo! I am now 22! I'm a palindrome, Yay! |
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| 01:09am 07/01/2007 |
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mood: angry
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Ever have those days where things just tend to happen that leave you kinda quite pissed off? I'm not going to get into too many details, because I don't want to start fucking ranting... but I'll let you know what's up anyway.
So I went and played some D&D last night at a friend's place, and when I get ready to leave what do I notice? Some bastards decide to egg my new jeep, so yes, at 2:00 am I spent a good 30-45 minutes trying to clean up the dripping eggy mess that is oozing down my car. Not a fun way to spend the night, so then I get up and immediately go to the car wash to attempt to get the rest of the eggs off, mission mostly accomplished. So $20 later I have a mostly clean car that I have to spend an additional hour or so with a toothpick scrapping the stuff out of the various nooks and crannies that exist... NOT YAY...
Most of the day was ok from then until about 2 hours ago...
My sister asks if she can play Guitar Hero 2... ok, I say. She calls me in to say it's not working... I look at the disc, and just wonderful, somebody scrapped it up so incredibly bad that the PS2 decides it doesn't want to associate with it... just... great... I've had it for less than a week, and now the game is shot... whee... The "nice" thing is that she agreed to pay for a replacement copy, since she figures it was probably her fault anyway... however I feel pretty bad about the whole thing, since she, like me, can't really afford to pay the $40-$50 for a replacement game... God frickin' dammit... it just keeps coming...
Ok... I'm going to go to bed now... wake me up when things decide to stop sucking |
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| 11:47pm 09/12/2006 |
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Lovingly pilfered from piratekitten
The cool people are doing it:
I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions: no more, no less. Ask me anything you want (though I reserve the right to not answer, or to answer evasively). Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this, allowing your friends (including me) to ask you anything. |
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| 08:06am 07/12/2006 |
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You know... you'd think that when people are going to be doing construction work that involves tearing up the ground and causing the houses in the immediate area to start shaking, that they'd at least wait until the FUCKING SUN COMES UP! Apparently this is not the case, because the fucking construction workers don't care about the people in the fucking area or not.
This is the second night in a row I've gotten practically no sleep at all because of these bastards. I really really REALLY hate construction workers right now... I so want to fucking yell at them or write a nasty letter to someone around here. |
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| Uhm... help? |
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| 02:43pm 04/12/2006 |
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mood: Nervous Breakdown
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Guys...
at the risk of sounding emo right now... I really friggin' need somebody to console me... I'm on the verge of a complete and utter nervous breakdown with all that I have to get done by next Friday... I don't know how to handle it all, and more importantly... I don't know how I'll be able to maintain my sanity/health through all this...
Any advice, kind words, smacks in the face, hugs, etc. that you could give would be much appreciated... thank you so much. |
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| *fizzle*... |
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| 06:43pm 26/11/2006 |
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I don't know how much longer I can keep this up.I thought I'd be more relaxed after Thanksgiving... but I feel more burnt out then I did before it. I have an insane amount of stuff that I need to get done in a short amount of time... this stuff hasn't piled up because of procrastination, no, quite the opposite really. It keeps piling up because I can't get to it because I'm working on everything else!! I'm so burnt out right now I'm surprised I haven't collapsed in a heap... oye...
Here's all the stuff I have to do for this week:
Send out Grad School applications
Advanced Organic Chem Exam 11/30
Research Seminar for the department 12/1
Advanced Organic Homework Due 11/30
Advanced Organic Project Outline 11/30
Biochem Lab Report 11/28
5-6 page English Paper 12/1
Advanced Organic Computational Assignment (due next week) 12/4
It just bloody keeps coming... I feel incredibly sick, horrendously confused, exhausted, I'm becoming horribly moody, and to top it off... my health feels like it's hitting rock bottom.
I just can't take it anymore... Christmas can't come soon enough... although I don't even know if I can make it that far |
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| WI Political Troubles Part 1: Marriages |
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| 11:07am 08/11/2006 |
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Everyone,
What I am about to do may alienate some of you from me… this is usually why I avoid political statements. But, after all that has happened in the past couple days, I feel like it is my turn to express my disappointment in current political events that have occurred in the state of Wisconsin. Be forewarned that what you see here you may agree with or disagree with, but first and foremost, they are my opinion.
I looked at the electron results today when I got up, curious to see if my play at the democratic process yesterday was effective or not. I looked through the various government positions, and in fact many of those that I voted for ended up winning the election more or less, which made me feel good, until I got to the two amendments that were up for debate in Wisconsin. I looked at them and was, to put it bluntly, mortified. Here are the two amendments in question:
Same-sex Marriage Ban Referendum -- 3,590 of 3,597 precincts reporting (100%)
Yes------------------1,256,208------------------59%
No-------------------858,259--------------------41%
Death Penalty Advisory Referendum -- 3,590 of 3,597 precincts reporting (100%)
Yes------------------1,159,543------------------ 56%
No-------------------928,355----------------------44%
I look at this at see that there is a 397,949 person difference in the people that voted to take rights away from their fellow Wisconsin dwellers, and a 231,188 person difference that voted to potentially take away the life of their fellow Wisconsin dweller. These numbers just baffle me to no avail. How can so many people out there feel as if they have the God-given right to take away so much from their fellow brothers and sisters. I do, however have to say that I am at least comforted slightly that the numbers were not a landslide. This shows that issues like this are not as one-sided as you may originally have thought. It shows that the state is not entirely like minded, and that everyone seems to have their own opinion, which is good.
Before I fully begin the voicing of my disappointments, I want to emphasize, I am NOT a bleeding heart democrat. I am NOT a staunch republican. I consider myself to be in the middle, because to be honest, there is no logistical way one side can be 100% right all the time. I consider myself someone who is concerned about the world he lives in, as well as someone who feels that everyone deserves to be treated fairly, no matter what their differences are. So therefore, I can honestly say, that I am NOT jumping on a bandwagon either way, and that I am looking at these issues from what I personally believe.
Starting off with the Marriage-Ban, I would like to state that the amendment was NOT primarily about same-sex marriages, it also effectively banned civil unions, common law marriages and similar legal rights to unmarried couples, whom might I add are one man and one woman (Ironic I think, that the advocates against homosexual couples have just harmed the type of people they are trying to protect). Therefore, it has no come into effect that only married couples may now share benefits among those involved, end of story. Also, these same unmarried couples share no legal protection. If a woman in a heterosexual union was battered by her significant other, the man would potentially only be held accountable for assault, instead of domestic abuse (a crime with a higher penalty tied to it). So a crime that used to be punished more severely before the amendment, will no be reduced in severity… even though nothing else has changed. I personally find that to be incredibly flawed in it of itself, and we now have removed any protection that these people in a civil union or common law marriage situation might have had. We have taken away these peoples rights, freedoms, and protection because the majority of people in this state jumped on the “homosexuals are bad!” bandwagon.
Moving on to the REAL issue as some might consider it, involving the marriage-ban. I want to start off that I have homosexual/bisexual friends. They are wonderful human beings who laugh, cry, feel joy/pain, have dreams and aspirations, and (heaven forbid) feel true, honest to goodness romantic love, just like their heterosexual counterparts. What Wisconsin has done as a state now is to essentially say that we don’t want them anymore… we have said that we consider you to be lesser humans than us heterosexuals. Don’t believe me? Well now we have denied them any right or privilege that they might have as a couple, both legally and socially. Why can’t homosexuals be given the right to be married or at the very least, have a civil union? That’s the question I ask, because I feel that they are just as human as the rest of us, they just are different… which may be the primary cause of the problem, since we innately fear what is different. Avoiding psychological discussions of society for the time being, the main “Get out of Jail Free” card for this issue is the area of religion. I would like to make a point, that I am a religious person. I am a confirmed Roman Catholic Christian, and I still hold my beliefs the way I do. In fact to quote my father on this issue, “They are God’s children also. They deserve everything that God wants for us as well.” I find that even more interesting because my father is a much more devout Catholic. The point of this was just to show you that I am not a God-less heathen, so for those of you who wish to make a rebuttal, that is not something to use in your arsenal.
Moving on back to the topic at hand… However, the issue is not “Ban Same-Sex Religious Marriages”; it is to ban all same-sex marriages in general. This includes just going to the court house and picking up a marriage license, which is NOT a religious experience at all (far from it I might add). What is the problem you might ask? The problem is that way back when the United States was founded as a nation we were to have a separation of church and state. The church should not interfere with the goings on of the government. This was shown when many religious ceremonies/carvings were removed from public and government institutions such as courts, or public schools. So why, does this issue get special church/government treatment? It all goes back to the fearing what is different stance, and well… I just don’t buy it. We as a state have now kicked out many of our brothers and sisters because we feel as if we can lord over their rights and privileges as human beings. This is ironic to me because last I checked, America was supposed to be the land of the free. However, it seems as if it’s really the land of the free unless your different from the main populous, then you get less freedom, because we say so.
This wraps up most of which I want to say about the marriage ban… I plan on following this up with my thoughts on the death penalty, which will be soon-coming. |
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| Fun, Fun, Question, Quiz |
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| 09:52pm 23/07/2006 |
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mood: thankful music: Can You Feel the Love Tonight? - Lion King the Musical
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Ok, so life has been chugging along at a decent pace for me as of late. Research has been at the very least going somewhere. The drama has subsided for the time being, which is nice and good. I also only have three weeks until I am done out here, and head back to Wisconsin. So while this summer has been interesting, and a worthwhile experience, I am quite looking forward to returning home. I miss the people there immensely.
Apart from research around here, not too much has been going on. It's been a typcial go to lab, come back from lab situation, which is alright I guess. I did go canoing yesterday with a a large group of the other chem students out here. That was a fun 7 mile canoe trip. Although, I did have a bit of issues with the other guy in the canoe about steering, so with all the veering off course and zig-zaggin, it probably added another mile to that. All in all though, it was a great time had by all.
Also, this weekend my mother, sister, uncle, and aunt came to visit. They stayed at my cousin's place (who lives 30 miles or so south of Minneapolis) and the group of us had a lot of fun going for walks, seeing the sights, etc. It was nice to do a slight touristy thing, as well as have family come and visit. I really miss my family out here, so it was nice to see them. Also, this was the best I've eaten all summer. Yesterday we went to a place called Chino Latino's. Oh it was excellent, albeit quite pricey. As odd as it sounds, it's a Latin/Asian restaurant, where the dinners are served "family style" (you order a large dish, and it is split up between the group at the table) Had the best lo mein I've ever eaten there, some excellent Sangria wine, some Chipotle Salmon Sushi (it's awesome), and some really good Chipotle Lime Shrimp. As odd as a Latin/Asian fusion would sound, it was freaking great. Then today, we had a barbeque, and I got to take some leftovers home. Being a poor college student, free food is always a nice bonus :-D
Ok, so all fun things aside... I have a serious question for you all that read this. Ok, so as of late I haven't had much time to talk to my girlfriend, and well I've been having some seperation anxiety going on, since I haven't seen her in about a month, give or take. So, her and the rest of my housemates left in Point have been hanging out at a mutual friend's place a lot. So... to put it bluntly, I'm getting decently jealous that she goes over there so much, and that he gets to interact with her more than I do. Now don't get me wrong, I want her to do whatever she wants, and I'm not jealous of anything happening between them, I'm not worried about that at all. I'm just jealous that I barely get to talk to her lately, and she goes over there a bunch. I'm not going to do anything out of jealousy or anything... I just feel jealous is all... So now for the question I want to ask, am I justified in feeling a smidgen jealous here, or am I being ridiculous and should be smacked over the head with a large fish, such as a Marlin?
And to wrap things up, I am going to conclude with a little quiz about me thing for you guys to do (if you want) at the end of any comments that you may leave.
This has been lovingly stolen (and edited) from Piratekitten :3
1. Who are you?
2. Are we friends?
3. When and how did we meet?
4. Do you have a crush on me?
5. Would you kiss me?
6. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
7. Describe me in one word.
8. What was your first impression?
9. Do you still think that way about me now?
10. What reminds you of me?
11. If you could give me anything what would it be?
12. How well do you know me?
13. When's the last time you saw me?
14. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
15. What is that something??
16. Why haven't you asked me out? (OMIT THIS ONE, for obvious reasons ;) )
17. Are you going to put this on your journal and see what I say about you? |
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