Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Tales of the Beetle Bard!


Tales of the Beetle Bard!

It's going to be out tomorrow!

Collectors Edition includes:
• All five fairy tales from the original The Tales of Beedle the Bard
• Outer case disguised as a wizarding textbook from the Hogwarts library
• Exclusive reproduction of J.K. Rowling's handwritten introduction
• 10 new illustrations by J.K. Rowling not included in the Standard Edition or the original handcrafted edition
• Velvet bag embroidered with J.K. Rowling's signature
• Metal skull, corners, and clasp
• Replica gemstones
• Emerald ribbon

Price: $100

Standard Edition: $7.14

Should I or shouldn't I? I guess not. It's going to be around in the future anyways. Besides, I'm not a kid anymore. Can't indulge myself into desire and neglect responsibilities or reality. Not a typical American.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Not Sleeping

How far can a person go without sleeping?

So, I was up until like 4:39AM or later this morning. I got up 7:20AM, thanks to my brother's accidental call
"I didn't call you, (I improvised his words: my phone have a mind of its own)"
"Yeah that's because you sat on it!"
Since I was up, I went to volunteer. I might as well, I didn't go last week.
In the last couple of days I got roughly 5-7 hours of sleep a day. I'm hoping that I'll stay up until 3AM this morning, then wake up at 7:20 again and walk to work. 7:30AM-8:13AM, 43 minutes for 44 blocks? Probably pushing on my limits again, so 7:25AM get out, 8:15AM get there 50 minutes for 44 blocks and 1 avenue. Sounds accomplishable. Is that even a word?

Anyways, the presentation of my topic went as usual "horrible."
I lose my voice. There's this scarring of my voice after I speak in front of people during a presentation over time. Is there like some syrup or potion that I can use to make my voice stay clear and sound? Is it my lack of confidence or is it my vocals?

Friday nights, lovely to stay in a computer room with papers and assignments. I'm being frank. There's so much that can be accomplish in such place and time. Plus, there's no need to rush since there's the weekend. But in my case, however, paper, work, and personal deadlines that's another scenario. But in general, Fridays are more enjoyable to start papers and research.

Plus, spending Friday nights in a computer room result in no costs. If there's a study done, I'll like to measure how much money people spend on especially Fridays and weekends. I "hypothesized" that this spending is more than the average weekday. In any case, I'm glad to not waste away time in unpromising dates, boring movies, and long lines at the restaurant, shopping mall, and in transportation.

Friday, CHEERS!

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Heart Potato (Solanum tuberosum forma cardium)


Heart Potato (Solanum tuberosum forma cardium)

I was looking for images for my presentation later in the day when I came across this image.
I typed "heart" into the Google search engine, I was looking for a human heart image to fit into my presentation of my topic: Tinman and its Role in Heart Development.

It's an interesting image. Should I include it along with my presentation? Why not ? I find it interesting. Mutations, just lovely! As long as it's beneficial. And that the harmful ones stay miles away from me and my lineage.

Photo taken by Lumbar 17:16, 6 November 2005 (UTC) in Osnabrück, Germany


List of Things To Do

Friday Night: 4:00PM-12:00AM
- crash on finishing everything, wouldn't have enough time to do anything due to work schedule.

This Weekend
- Work + Transportation (min: 26 used)
- Plant Evolution & Diversity Problem Set
- Journal Club Presentation Slides
- Adopt A Family Paper
- Research on topic
- Thesis Editing
Sunday 8:00PM meet up with Group

Monday11/24: Senior Photo
- DUE: Plant Evolution & Diversity Problem Set
- Journal Club Presentation

Tuesday 11/25
- DUE: Adopt a Family Orchidaceae Study Guidelines
- DUE: Lab Introduction + Methods

Wednesday 11/26
- DUE: 6:00pM: Peer Draft Review

Thanksgving Break:
- Posting on Courseworks about the Trip to Vancourtland Park
- Study for Animal Physiology
- Research on Topic
- Edit Thesis
- Study for Angiosperm Quiz 20 Species
- Problem Set for Animal Physiology
- Read readings for Music of India
- Listen to recordings
- Presentation of Paper Oral + research

Monday 12/01
- DUE: Problem Set for Animal Physiology

Tuesday 12/02
- Angiosperm Quiz 20 species

Wednesday 12/03
- Presentation on Paper Oral

Monday 12/08
- DUE: Research Paper
- DUE: Paper on Plant
- FINAL for Music of India

Thursday 12/11
- DUE: Thesis Paper