Chronicle Number 42: Drat My Caring Heart

It seems now that I start off every blog post with an apology. I would like to be able to write every week, but the truth is that there are weeks when nothing happens- so I don't write, or weeks that are so busy I can barely breathe- so I don't write.

I think it is also partially because I don't feel particularly funny. I don't feel like my stories are that exciting at this point, and I don't know what to write when I can't be cheerful and joking.

So what is going on in my life? Last semester was extremely hard. I was busy all the time, what with my classes, lab, and graduate applications. There were times when I know I was neither rational nor fun. My people held up remarkably well, despite the fact that (in the words of Boyfriend) "a hurricane would be more predictable."

LINDSAY: I cannot destroy the things I hate, so I must destroy the things I love!!!!

Luckily I did not destroy anything, especially Boyfriend. If Boyfriend were destroyed, I would be quite displeased. Despite the crazy (which honestly, I should be used to), last semester seemed to go remarkably well. I made high grades and succeeded in lab, and my personal life did not explode. But it didn't make for very fun blog talk.

So what am I doing now, you ask? Hopefully you haven't been waiting with baited breath, because you would be dead by now.

I'm going to graduate school interviews! Sounds like fun, right? Right? Wrong. I've only been to one so far, and even though I loved the school and thought it was super awesome, it was also very stressful. It's funny how actually really liking something can make possibly losing it scarier.

LINDSAY: I'm invested. Drat my caring heart! Now it matters.

At the same time, it is really cool to talk to people who do this for a living. Because I really want to do this. I think it's really important. I think sometimes I might have trouble getting that across to interviewers.

INTERVIEWER: Are you awesome? Tell me why.
LINDSAY: I am so awesome. *Concentrates on appearing awesome*
INTERVIEWER: Is your eye twitching? Do you need a glass of water or something?

But enough about that! This year I'm taking biotechnology! I think that it is a secret plot to make me take a business class. Surprisingly, I am down with this secret plot.

LINDSAY: Wait. Are you saying that I'm going to have to understand how the world works? I'm confused.
PROFESSOR: Learn how to run a company!
LINDSAY: I belong in lab! What's that shiny yellow thing staring at me?!
PROFESSOR: This is the outside. That is the sun.
LINDSAY: It burns!

It's actually sort of fun. We have to fake buy stock with fake money! I have so far earned 14,000 fake dollars! Hopefully this continues. I would like to be a fake millionaire.

I am also taking cell biology, but that is boring and we shall not speak of it.

There is also this other class. It is very difficult. It's something that I don't have much cause to do. Mainly because I don't like it. What is it, you ask? What is UGA forcing me to do that I obviously won't do on my own?

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Exercise.

In this case, I am taking fitness for life walking. Yes, I am taking walking. It's actually a lot more legit than I expected. This alternately invigorates and depresses me. It was the only class that would fit in my schedule, as I am doing my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays and living in lab the other weekdays.

LINDSAY: I am way too fat to do this.
MARVIN, WALKING INSTRUCTOR: I would refute that, but I am too busy being depressed that I am teaching walking.
LINDSAY: Yeah. Tough break, that one. What do I do now?
MARVIN: Walk up these stairs.
LINDSAY: It burns!

So that's what I've been up to. We'll see if this whole "blogging" thing continues. Who knows, I could be back next week or I could see you in six month! I've got to keep you on your toes, now don't I?