And I worry about how my cats are doing at home...

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I have been cleaning that stupid bathtub/shower for the last 40 minutes. When I started, it was sundown, and when I quit, it was dark out.

I feel woozy from the cleaning solution fumes.

I feel sweaty from the vigorous scrubbing.

My mortal enemies are soap scum and mildew. And it looks like they've won this round.

When I began, I thought it was a 20 minute deal, tops. Looks like it's a multiple day-long project, and I just don't have the strength (or patience) to carry on today.

So maybe tomorrow, or this weekend, I'll have my shot...

And now, I'm off to take a shower. But not in the one I've been cleaning. I had thought that I could take a shower in it after it was cleaned to celebrate my victory over grime. My dream may have been deferred, but I will not let it shrivel like a raisin in the sun. But like a raisin, winning the War on Dirt shall be all the sweeter once that moment arrives!

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It's only 10:00 and already it's hot as balls outside.

Today, it will reach into the mid-to-upper-90s. Tomorrow, it may reach past the century mark.

And on top of all that uncomfortable-ness...the allergen counts are very, very high.

FUCK LATE SPRING. Bring back autumn and winter!

EDIT: I was just thinking about the expression "hot as balls." If we're talking about temperature, the more apt expression should be "cold as balls," since the scrotum is designed to hang away from the body in order to create a more hospitable environment for rearing sperm. Though--and I'm sure I'm in the minority here--some balls are indeed hot. But not in that way.

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Now that they are gone, my sister and I have the bathroom to ourselves. I decided to clean/fix it up.

Among the things I did in the last couple of hours (in roughly chronological order): clean out the medicine cabinet, fix the shelves in the medicine cabinet, create a cute flower arrangement, hang artwork on the walls, install a hand towel rack, get rid of their old half-used personal hygiene products, fix the doorknob so that it locks correctly, clean out the cabinets and drawers, literally Lysol the shit out of everything, update the bathroom reading material (old copies of National Geographic, Radar, and GQ), and finally, coordinate, attractively fold, and neatly lay out towels.

There still remains a lot of stuff to do to that bathroom, but I have to go to sleep, so that will have to wait for next week. And guess what: I'm actually looking forward to it.

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Charging $30/hr to tutor easy microbiology is the greatest fucking concept EVER.

Clarification: it was her idea to give me $30/hr for tutoring, not mine.

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I'm EXTREMELY tired.

AND. I can't fucking STAND IT when dancers break on count 1 instead of count 2 in the fucking cha-cha.

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And I couldn't have predicted it, since I woke up at 6:15 this morning.

I'm starting to do private tutoring in addition to the hours I work at the Tutorial Center to supplement my income. Today, I tutored two girls in organic and biochemistry. In addition to the $50 cash I got for only about 2.5 hours of work, they also said that I'd make a good teacher. At the end of the session, one of the girls remarked that she couldn't believe that she learned more in an hour with me than she learned in lecture all week long. In addition to the wonderful boost that gave me ego, I found myself feeling really proud, not only of myself, but of them because towards the end there, they started getting more and more of the problems completely correct and could explain the steps of how they arrived to those answers. The more I tutor, the more I come to realize that I want to share my love and knowledge of the sciences with people; I want to teach. Even if I become a researcher in industry, I'd still want to teach on the side--maybe night classes at a community college even. It's just completely rewarding to actually observe that moment when everything clicks in the brain of a student and it all started to make sense to them. I'm addicted. Tomorrow, I get another fix, this time with a different girl who needs help in microbiology. I know it takes a chunk out of my weekend to take the time to help these people, but I find myself looking forward to it.

When I got home today, there was another surprise. Remember my cousin: the ungrateful Bitchfacecuntbagslutwhorefuckertwat McAsshole? She moved out today. Good fucking riddence! Lately we've been hearing strange shuffling noises coming from her room and today, she was just suddenly gone. My mom is relieved, although she is also kinda pissed that my cousin just left without so much as an explanation for her behavior the last few months or whatever. Personally, I don't care what sort of axes she has to grind against my mother or my family; I'm just glad her stupid axe is GONE.

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Well, a partial list of courses came out today at SDSU's WebPortal, and let me just say: choosing courses is going to be HARD. There are so many interesting classes related to what I want to do and I want to take them all! (But to do so would pretty much result in me being in this Master's program for three [or more!] years...)

One thing I am rather excited about is that since this will be my first semester in the M.S. program, I don't have a formalized Plan of Study yet, which means that at least for this semester, I can choose whatever crazy classes I want to take! However much free reign I have over my first semester of schooling, I will show restraint and actually choose courses that I will likely include on my Plan of Study so I won't have to backtrack and stay in the program any longer than I have to. But I think I will go ahead and take one course that I know for sure WON'T be on there (it sticks out like a sore thumb so you DEFINITELY will know it when you see it)...

So these are the possibilities (so far) I have to choose from:

BIOL 567: Advanced Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology
BIOL 576: Developmental Biology
BIOL 590: Physiology of Human Systems
CHEM 711: Chemical Thermodynamics
CHEM 764: Membrane Biochemistry
FILIP 101: Elementary Tagalog I
M BIO 601: Colloquium in Molecular Biology
M BIO 610: Advanced Topics in Molecular Biology

I'm leaning towards the following:

FILIP 101 (4 units) MW 2:00-3:50p
M BIO 610 (3 units) MW 4:30-5:45p
BIOL 567 (4 units) TR 9:30-10:45a F 9:00-9:50a
BIOL 590 (4 units) TR 2:00-3:50p
M BIO 601 (1 unit) R 4:00-4:50p

Of course, this could all change if I get a TA/GA appointment, in which case, I'll probably have to drop a class. I wish they'd tell me already. Geez. The suspense is killing me!

Oh, but now I'm getting ahead of myself. I haven't yet found a place to live, so until that gets squared away, thinking about what classes to take seems like the least of my problems.

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