Bio Midterm Once Again

It is less than 30 mins that I have my bio midterm. I feel confident and not at the same time. I feel like I know my material but at the same time, I feel like I don't and that there might be something I'm missing. Hopefully I'll do well. It's on genetics and I've always been pretty strong in that area.

I just had lunch at Kimmel. The pasta here is sooo good. They were right when they said that this was the only place on campus and on the meal plan that had real food. I'm so stuffed... I'm just gonna blow up -- so many carbs not to mention fats... :(

I was sitting at a window table and it was facing Washington Square Park. As I was eating, I noticed a man practicing Kendo in the park. Of course, I was like KENDO! JAPANESE! I think he was doing katas... He was wearing those traditional robes/clothes thing that Japanese wear when they're practicing kendo -- those big, wide, black pants and the white top. I watched him for the better part of lunch. :) He reminded me of Arima from Kare Kano...

I didn't even notice it but as I was eating and watching that man, my eyes drifted upwards. I was a big building and thought to myself -- Wow, that's a really tall building. And it looked very familiar. Then it hit me. I was looking the Empire State Building. Doh! It was such a nice view (better on the 8th floor but I was on the 3rd)... You have the Arch and then in the distance is the Empire State Building and 5th Avenue just kinda runs down from the Arch to the Empire State Building. And on the right you could just make out the top of the Chrysler Building... It wasn't as tall nor as impressive but it still was pretty cool. If I had been on the 8th floor, I would have been able to see down 5th Avenue all the way down to Central Park.

It's amazing really. I've been in NYC for 3 months and I've only now started to notice these things. I'm in New York. I can see these places. And they aren't that far away. Wow.

Back from the exam

I'm back and I feel very bad. I have no idea how I did. No clue. I did all that I was sure of in the first run and that was over half. I did the ones that I had marked as a bit unsure and that was about half of the ones I had left. I went back and did the ones I totally skipped and spent extra time thinking about those and after that I had about 3 questions left unanswered. Those I left, hoping for divine intervention and for some inkling of a clue.

Then I went back and went over every single question. I think I caught a couple of mistakes but I might have just been crazy and they weren't really mistakes at all... I don't know. I hope they were since I changed my answers...

And not surprisingly, those were all Scicctano's questions. I like the man but he's a damn bastard. A damn, fucking rat bastard. He changes one freaking word and the whole thing is invalidated and you wouldn't notice it very quickly either. He hides them in his damn answers and questions. And he's the type that Deborde used to talk about -- all of the above, none of the above, a and c, c and b... God damn him. I love his lectures but his tests are so freaking hardcore.

And there were a lot of Small questions too and he was kinda tricky too. I thought he would have straight-forward questions too but he didn't... God damn it -- I should have known he would be like Scicctano. I mean, he has a sense of humor like him and they're friends. I should have known better...

There was one questions about keratin and acetylcholine and how keratine is produced and achetylcholine wasn't and why was that and I put none of the above. I had it as transcription factors repress the keratin gene and active that acetylcholine but then I rethought it. If keratin is repressed, wouldn't that mean it isn't produced? But if the question asked why keratin is produced... Damn trick questions.... I swear, they just want us all to fail...

Okay, off the topic of my possible failure. Different subject. My roommate is gone for the weekend. She's gone to Pennsylvania to visit one of her friends and won't be back until Sunday night. Yayness! I like her but I like being alone too. There's just nothing like having the room to yourself...

But supposedly Michelle's best friend is stay over for the weekend... Apparently. I only overheard her conversation last night (I know, rude but she was like 3 feet away and talking really loudly!). But I have yet to see her so I don't know. They're breaking some housing rules (by not signing her in and actually documenting her being here and staying here for the weekend) and I disapprove but what can I say? It's so funny how they can just talk about breaking the rules so easily. I half wanna go and tell on them but I won't... That would be pretty mean, ne?

The wind and rain have been attacking me today. I went out for class today and it was just RAIN. I think this was probably the snow we were supposed to get soon... And it's still so freaking cold! I was walking and I notice I could see my breath. That's so whacked. It's only November and already it's that cold.

*sigh* Okay, I'm gonna go and take nap and then make some food and then work on some lab stuff. Then I'm gonna unwind for a few hours -- fanfiction, anime and then more sleep since I have early lab tomorrow.