So its been a while, so let's have a look-see at what has happened.

Well, class has been as rough as the toilet paper here. Who knew something so thin could be that rough. Haven't they heard of two-ply? For a room comparable in size to your average jail cell (no coincidence in comparison) that runs $6,000-8,000 a year, there would be some comforts, but no. You can see through it, and the janitors use it to sand down the plaster they apply to the walls following the various drunken rages over the weekend. So needless to say, stuff has been a bit rough. Oh, and the classes too.

However, chem lab was a bit entertaining today, or rather, at 3:07 AM, yesterday. Yeah, entertaining chem lab goes on the list with jumbo shrimp and Microsoft Works, but weirder stuff has happened. That was the first lab I showed up to on time, because I was real close to not being allowed to go into the lab because I was so late last time. So I was able to hear a story about one of the people in the lab, Tex, taking Thirsty Thursdays far into Friday. The guy comes in, to the surprise of his lab mates, and is dressed to match his nickname. When asked how much he had, he estimated 25 beers. And he stopped at 7 AM. For the safety of the whole class, he was banned from touching chemicals, which were really strong. 9 M HCl and 15 M ammonium somethingoranother hurts enough sober. Anyway, he falls asleep twice during the lab, and the only reason he woke up one time was because one of his lab mates sent about 5 mL of water down his shirt. Also, he reeked of more than alcohol.

In other lab news, I discovered that the small disposable pipets are a lot of fun when the T. A. isn't paying attention to us. (If you asked me what I was supposed to learn in lab, I couldn't answer that, but if you asked what I learned that wasn't in the manual, I could say quite a lot.) I meant to hit a lab mate with water because he was being irritating again (we do stuff like this a lot) but since i haven't had pipet target practice in a while, I missed terribly, but it went a long way. Making sure our T. A. wasn't doing her job well, we found out that the water can shoot in excess of 25 ft. It might have gone farther had the ceiling not been there, but oh well.

Well, they say college seperates the losers from the not so losers, or something like that, and this has given me the chance to show just how much of an overachiever I am. While some brag about the fact they're getting an A in a class, or that they haven't gone to class in two months, or both, I display my talent in another sector of college life. In an estimated two weeks, I should have attained my first Freshman 15. Sure, you might say this is nothing to brag about, but you have to get your victories somewhere, and they sure as heck haven't been coming too often in class. Luckily all my pants (were) as size too big. But it isn't all bad, some of it is muscle, and if I keep telling myself that, it might come true.

But it is hard to keep the weight down when you have twenty meals a week, and the dining hall and a vast majority of the resturants are closed at 3:30 AM. Throw in the fact I haven't woken up in time for breakfast in several weeks, and you just have to use a bunch of them up at the carry out places where you get five items for a meal. And we all know fruit and other healthy stuff doesn't keep well when left on a dresser for weeks at a time. Although, with a seventh floor window, rotten fruit is entertaining. The make big splats when they don't get caught in tree branches. So your only choice is excessive hilarity at 5 AM, or brownies that have life spans longer than most humans. And they sure ain't a "light" variety. They can use these things for bricks. So your choice at 3:30 in the morning is to go hunrgy or raid the brownie stash that makes thunking sounds after you swallow. Who in their right mind would chose the former? Well, after five brownies, you might, but you sure aren't going to be hungry after five of them. You aren't going to want food for hours. And it just so happens that the time frame for the return of hunger corresonds with the closing of dining halls and places with edible food.

To be continued, need to restock on caffiene.