Much, much later...

Spring break was marvelous, and I'm going to use recovering from it as an excuse for not blogging for about a month. Honestly, though, my routine has been thrown off lately. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I've started using Google Chrome interchangeably with Firefox. I haven't personalized Chrome to the extent that I have Firefox - it has none of my RSS feeds, bookmarks, etc...which means that I've fallen out of the habits that Firefox kept me in line with...checking RSS feeds chief among those habits. That may say something to the non-necessary nature of these habits, but I honestly do feel a little guilty when I realize that I haven't checked my RSS feeds...I'm sure that using Chrome constantly would free me of a lot of my webcomics, but because I still rely on Firefox for much of my browsing, I still check them fairly often. Other habits, however, such as blogging, have suffered more.

Nevertheless, it is late in the night, and I am caffeinated and writing a paper for Immunology, so I return to this key habit. Updates, both big and small: there is an alarmingly short time between now and the end of school. Classes are done May 8th; between now and then I have exams, presentations and performances, but before you and I know it I'll be back in Cincinnati. I've obtained a summer job which promises to not only be interesting and engaging, but also will pay well...and given my history with jobs and salaries, I'm quite happy about it. I got a raise at the campus bookstore as well this year, and will get another one in the fall, which enables me to do things like buy a new baseball glove. I splurged a little bit, but it was worth it; I now have a brand new Rawlings glove that will probably be my glove until I hand it off to a child, possibly my own. Not that I have any real plans for that, it's just an expression of how I think that this is probably the last baseball glove I will buy myself. It's also the first, but that doesn't matter as much.

I saw Vampire Weekend in concert over the past weekend, and it was a free outdoor concert. It was wonderful. I am looking forward to four things musical this summer: an Avett Brothers concert and new CD, and a Wilco concert and new CD. Exciting times.

The stream of consciousness will continue (in this post) after I finish graphing some ELISA results. Be back soon.

Okay, I lied. Sorry, but I checked my main RSS feeds (if you're interested, they're IDTMI and You Heard me!), and from there I followed links to the dictionary.com daily crossword puzzle. It uses the same engine as the LA Times online crossword puzzle, which I do daily. I might add this to my daily routine of crosswords: NYT and LAT, and occasionally the Globe. In the past year and a half or so I've progressed from a sad fellow who could barely handle a Monday puzzle to become a person who can often manage the Thursday puzzle, and every so often a Friday puzzle too. Saturday and Sunday are mysteries to me, since I can't get free copies of the Times then, but I do fairly well on the LAT puzzles on the weekend. Just another part of my day: wake up, go to class, get paper and do puzzle. Sometimes (Tuesdays and Thursdays) it's wake up, get paper, go to work, go to class, do puzzle. Not during the actual class, of course, just before and after.

And now I really will do some work. If I'm still awake when I'm done, I'll return. This is a habit that I've missed: late night stream of consciousness logorrhea.

Well, I'm done with the Immunology, at least. It's going to be a rough week, what with BMR being in hell week (performances this Thursday, Friday and Saturday) and an organic chemistry lab report to write up still...along with various other things.

Course selection for the fall opens up later this morning, and I'm basically clear on what I'll be taking: Advanced Immunology, Physics, Plant Physiology and Greek History. For the first time in a year I'll have afternoons free, even if it comes at the expense of starting at 9:30 in the morning on Tuesdays and Thursdays (Greek History) rather than at 11 (Advanced Immuno). It should be a fun semester. And now I'm going to bed, I swear. Alarm goes off in five and a half hours. Hooray for sleep deprivation...after all, it is college. This is the kind of thing that causes me to wonder why a t-test is showing my results as non-significant even when they clearly are, only to realize a half hour later that the t-test is showing a significant difference, and that I'm just ignoring a zero in the decimal. That kind of fun stuff. Which is why I'll be carefully reading over my paper before lunch tomorrow, just to make sure that none of it slipped through and made it into the paper.

BED! I swear. No more music, no more ranting, no more Facebook. Just me and my pillow, and the possibility of switching on the lamp and reading until I pass out. And maybe I'll post again before a month passes.