Computer Surgery

Okay, my computer continues to annoy me. 2 days ago, files got corrupted again, and windows refused to start up, even after I tried to repair it. I suspect it's my older hard drive that was cranky, so as a result of being fed up, I decided to surgically remove that hard drive. This is so annoying. Setting up windows 2000 on the other hard drive, getting all the updates, and setting up all the other miscellaneous files always takes forever. If my action produces no improvement, then I'm taking a baseball bat and bashing this bucket of rust.
My magic 8 ball still amazes me. I asked if my computer will ever start up again if I just leave it, and it said no (and sure enough, it didn't. It only started up after I installed windows on my newer hard drive). I wonder what or who is posessing this magic 8 ball.
In DNA Replication and Repair, my group got shafted into going 1st. I hate going first, especially when student evaluation is a part of it. Whenever there's student evaluation, the first people always get horrid marks. After people have gone and realized how challenging the assignment is, they become more lenient with their evaluations. Bah. Well, at least the written assignment is only 10 pages (double spaced not including figures) as opposed to 5000 words. From the looks of it, I think this semester won't make me put ink on as many papers as last semester, so I'm glad.

Lack of Update

It wasn't my fault, honestly!
Upon my return trip to Guelph, I thought I left my keyboard at Guelph. Upon arriving at Guelph, I realized that I had not. As a result, I had a computer with no keyboard, yey! Well, the good stuff is that my sister brought over my keyboard at Saturday, so all is good now.
So, what went on 1st week of school? Well, I was conned into dropping mammalian physiology 2, and picking up Bioinformatics. How did I get conned? Well, Natalie suggested that mamm phys 2 would be moving at an incredibly fast pace (similar to Speedy Gonzalas on a caffeen high), and showed me that the powerpoint notes provided would be incredibly graphic intensive and with a black background. On top of that, the magic 8 ball also conned me into taking bioinformatics. It was really erie. The sequence of questions and answers were like this:
Q: Will this semester kill me?
A: As I see it, yes.
Q: Should I switch to Bioinformatics?
A: Outlook good.
Q: Will I find a research job with one of the professors for the summer?
A: Without a doubt.
Q: If I make the switch of courses, will my average be better than if I didn't?
A: Without a doubt.
(and just to make sure the 8 ball isn't stuck at positive answers)
Q: Will I have financial difficulties next year?
A: Very doubtful.
Well, I guess you can't really argue with the magic 8 ball.
So currently there's only a couple of courses that scares the living daylights out of me. Lab Methods 2, and DNA replication and repairs. Human Genetics is given in bite size pieces, and Bioinformatics seems okay. As for Pharmacology & Toxicology, well, you can't go wrong with learning how drugs and poison works now can you? But all in all, this semester seems slightly less painful than the last one (fingers crossed). Hopefully everything will go well this semester.
That ends my post for now. Just leaving you with a quote I found from a rather twisted manga: "Apologizing is such a pain, though. That's why you should just kill her!"

The break is just not long enough

It's a shame that the break is almost over. I can really do with another week. New years was fine I guess. Went bowling with my family, where we were rudely interupted by a group of drunks and kids. They were rude, and disruptive. They would hog the balls, and block our path to take a picture. Bowling was fine until that point, and we decided to leave.
We went to have bubble tea afterwards, and I taught (or attempted to teach) my family Eucher. My sister didn't enjoy the game, and my mom was at a loss. Even though smoking is banned from all public eateries, they still allowed smoking indoors. The drinks were not top notch. So we celebrated the new years at a not exactly excellent place. Oh well. It wasn't too bad.
I haven't even purchased everything I intend to bring to school. This is annoying. I need a haircut too. No, I need to get ALL my hair cut (hahaha, old joke). I'm soooo not looking forward to the new semester. It's going to be as bad, if not worse than the last one, in which I did quite poorly. Oh well. If my sinusoidal patterns of grades continue, I'll eventually do better. I just hope I reached the minimum already.
Oh, yea, and I helped my cousin write her essay on Lord of the flies the other day. Hope it was good enough ('cause I suck at the subject of English). If not, oh well. It could have been worse.