Rumors of my activity are greatly exaggerated

Aaaaand as promised, here's the Real Life Update post. RLU. Acronyms.

Well, let's see. The latest round of college exams is here and, uh, mostly over. I've got an MCDB exam tomorrow evening, but as a friend pointed out, they drop your lowest score. And since I've gotten 90s on the first two... well, motivation is a tad bit low. I took a chemistry exam last Thursday. The exam was supposed to take about an hour and a half. I finished in half an hour. I'm reminded of the time in freshman math when I finished a quiz before the teacher had finished handing them out to the rest of the class. The score comes back tomorrow. I hate to sound cocky, but I'm not too worried. I've never really had an issue with taking exams.

On a less exam-y note, I recently found out that I need to spend about $200 of "Munch Money" that came with my meal plan on food by the end of the semester, or else it will expire. So, I've been buying beverages and gelato like a madman. I think I went out for gelato with friends twice last week. We're planning to go again after the exam tomorrow night. And I've still got $180 left. Gah. Diabetes, here we come? (We actually calculated it, and I could have purchased 40 scoops of gelato with $200)

The last big thing that's happened is that I got a job working as a lab assistant for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which has a lab just by campus (I may have mentioned this previously. I do not recall.). Mostly I'm doing data crunching, though some calibration-stuff with the instrument will happen eventually. It can be a bit boring - I think if I had been involved with actually taking the data, even to a small degree, it would be a bit more engaging and, eh, relevant. Nonetheless, it's fairly interesting and I'll stick with it for now. I'm interested in getting a spot at my chemistry professor's lab - he's a Nobel Laureate, Thomas Cech, and his research is very interesting to me.

I've got next week off for fall break and I'm rather excited. Not to be home - I've been heading home most every weekend (because I'm borderline antisocial, alright?) - but to see friends that I haven't seen in a long time. I'm also thinking about visiting my high school when I get back home Friday. Plans, plans.

Hurfblargh

So, I guess it's probably a good time to update on what's been going on. Lessee...

I've been continuing to do sketches and suchlike. Apart from those five, I've also got a few ideas queued up for later - that is, whenever I've got some time to sketch.

School's been continuing as usual, though I just got sick the other day, and it's irritating as hell. Runny nose, sore throat, a headache, the works. I took a two-hour nap after my last class today, woke up feeling only slightly better and unsure of what day it was (I hate how that always seems to happen), went to eat dinner, where I decided to drink some red Gatorade because it looked like cough syrup and I was wondering if it'd work as a placebo (It didn't), and then went to a chemistry test which I had decided not to study for. Actually, I just got back from said test, and it went fine, though it took me a bit longer than expected due to the whole "head-felt-like-a-compressed-balloon" thing.

Outside of school, we've been working quite a bit on my apartment for next semester, and it's coming along nicely. I've got some pictures on my phone, but I'm too lazy to put them up now. Suffice to say, the walls are pretty much all painted, the bathroom's getting close to completion, and we're starting to work on installing the new cabinets in the kitchen. I should probably start thinking about furniture and layout soon.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure I got a job today as a lab assistant at the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) labs just off campus. Duties will involve lots of data processing and some work with their instruments. I'm excited.

On a completely irrelevant note, I purchased my Halloween costume today, though it has to ship and such. Unfortunately they only had it in small size, but I'm desperately hoping it'll fit. I won't say what it is now, so I can do a big dramatic unveiling or something.

That's all for now!