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I have an archaic draft in my post section from the 9th which I will eventually post, but am going to ignore for now because I want to.

I'm at work. I have a media assignment due by the end of tonight online. I also have a 30 minute quiz on 3 chapters I have yet to read due on Saturday, and an exam for 60 on Saturday at noon for those same 3 chapters plus the two preceding them. I could really use some sugar right now. Thankfully I've started the assignment, and it shouldn't be hard to bust out the rest of it tonight. I think I'll wait till after Frisbee though. It's the last night of League, so I have to show up. I'm a little sick right now with some sniffles, so I can't have Mtn. Dew--it aggravates my condition, and I'm pretty sure it's what caused it in the first place.

Despite these things I'm a little sad. That doesn't make sense, but basically none of those things is causing my mood. They may contribute slightly and definitely aren't helping, but they aren't the cause. The same goes for work. I just woke up with a sadness in my heart today. I would watch a really depressing movie with junk food, but I have studying and sleeping to do. I've started going to bed earlier so I can get to work on time. Just a few more days till I'm a little more free. I'm still doing overtime, and I can feel myself settling into brokeness as I contemplate the many things I will need to spend money on in the next little while. That might have a larger part to do with my mood.

Having said all of that...I guess I should say that I got accepted to my program for the Fall. I will be spending the next 2 years studying Medical Laboratory Science with at least 2 people I already know. I'm excited, though I will not be able to work full time. It should be interesting. I also got my raise at work, so we're happy about that, though if I switch departments in the Fall it will be short lived. We'll see. Other than that I am finishing off 2 pre-reqs for my program this summer, which is not so good this week. My night stats class is super boring and late, so my friend Worm and I sit in the back drinking loads of soda and snigger at random things, and at the fact that we have to take a class that doesn't challenge either of us. And that is life right now. And I think I'm going home right now.

Bleh

I decided something needed to be written in red.

As per usual I have nothing to write when I do have the time to write, and no time to write when I have things to say. Last week I know I did a lot of things, but remember practically nothing. I didn't work, and that was nice. I finally got over my month and a half cold/bronchitis, which makes me very happy. I bought a lot of new books, and cds. My car was broken, now it's not. I made cookies last night, and now I'm tired.

I'm supposed to be getting a letter in the mail this week back from the program I applied to for school. I didn't really feel any anticipation or anything about it till now. There's no reason I shouldn't get in, but if I don't I'll cry and cry and cry... And suddenly I'm here thinking of all the reasons they wouldn't let me in. I'm also supposed to find out if I get a promotion at work this week. If I don't I'm outta here, that's what I decided. I deserve it more than everyone else, save one person, and if they don't appreciate me enough now, then everything else about them saying they'd "work around my school to keep me here" is bogus too. If I don't deserve it now, I won't deserve it any more then. And frankly I deserve to be getting paid more now, because I work hard and my job is hard, and even if they budget for more tech III positions in July, it's not worth it for me to stick around and work this hard till then without getting paid for it, not with the year that awaits me in school if I get into my program. It'll be hard regardless, but if I start making more now I'll feel more obligated to stay on in my department, which I do love. But if I don't get it, I'm switching either to part time in another department, or just to an easier department. That's that.
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So that's my patented "line of time." It's now tomorrow, and I'm pretty sure I'm quitting my job. I've looked into a few positions, one of them part time, but I think I'll wait to see if I get my letter this week, and then I'll know what my schedule for the fall will be before I make any rash decisions.

"...and God said 'I hate you Alfalfa'."

It happens to be a very ungodly hour of the morning and not only am I still awake, but I'm still at work. The last few days have gone about as wrong as they could go, so much so that it's actually quite humorous when I think about it. And actually I'm not at all upset about it. I haven't been upset for quite a while when things go wrong. Sometimes you just have to roll with the way your life is going. For instance, just yesterday (meaning Friday) we experienced an unexplainable instrumentation problem where the screen froze and so therefore I couldn't silence the loud beeping the instrument was emitting (I did however find out how to make it louder). So I made a sign that consisted of an unhappy facial expression with a thermometer in its mouth and a word bubble above it that basically told people to deal with it. I couldn't stop the beeping without aborting my run, so it ended up beeping for about an hour. After we finally got that one restarted, another error occured, which turned out to be my own stupidity, but we didn't run it again till the next day after I called the guys from bioengineering. I brought up our second instrument and everything went fine till it didn't. Some problem with the development pipette, which still isn't working and won't till after Monday since they couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. So we're down to one instrument, and we have about 3 days worth of samples.

So I had a lot of sample issues to deal with, plus I decided to run samples earlier than I normally would to ensure we get a head start on the problems that are suddenly present. And so after many hours of getting all the messes that were created this week out of the way, I'm finally restarting up our sole working instrument after a half hour rest to defrag the hard drive. I basically have an hour to kill before it gets to the point where I can actually start it up. Hence I'm here writing in my blog. I think I'll probably do some pipette calibrations while I wait. I figure I'll be here till at least 8 am, then I'll go home and take a nap till the noon fifteen pot luck, then I'll go back home and sleep some more. I have a ton of overtime as of late.

Other things that have gone wrong are that some hose or another in my car is leaking. If I don't refill the coolant area of my engine with water daily, my car refuses to go faster than 25 mph and shakes like a bandit. I have to drive down to my parents Monday, which means I'll be stuck there a while. Of course I have somewhere in SL to be on Tuesday, and I work the Wednesday overtime shift. I hope it's a quickly solved problem. Also, it was too windy to go skydiving today--which I guess was good considering it allowed me to get a jump start on work junk. We rescheduled for Monday. I can't remember what all else went wrong, because I'm kind of sluggish right now, but more certainly did. Storage is still down, so I can't get a hold of my samples, but I AM the sole member present in my department, so I get to listen to music loudly.