Just Another Long Day

Good morning!

The only reason I'm bubbly is because I'm blogging. Yes. I'm blogging. *giggles* So right now I'm in my bio class, and unfortunately today is one of my long days--I won't be reaching home tonight before around nine-thirty. =(

And I got up at five this morning. Sucks bad, eh?

I soooo didn't want to get up, but my mom came in my room three times and forced me to get up the last time, and she sounded rather hysterical; (and I quote) "It's the last class, you have to go, you'll miss all the important things for the final, because it's the last class...yada yada.."

Now, what she failed to realize was that this is, one, not the last class, and two, we're learning arbitrary stuff now..winding down. In chemistry we learned about the importance of water and purification. No hard-core stuff. Here in bio we're talking about stem cell research...although, I admit Prof. Erster has somehow managed to make her lecture sound like it will probably be on the final......*frowns*

Is there anything interesting I have to say? Not really. Well, okay. I've just learned this: stem cell research works in mice, but not in primates..interesting. I suppose I'll check out www.ScientificAmerican.com/interactive later on. iPS stants for "induced pluripotent stemcells". Basically, you take an adult cell in culture and then genetically modify it in the laboratory and turn it back into a stem cell by introducing a minimal number of proteins, which are transcription factors that basically reverse all growth and returns them to stem cell stage, where they have the potential to be differentiated into lots of different cell types.

That's actually pretty cool, if you can excuse the run-on sentence. =D And it actually works.

Wow. God wasn't kidding when He said nothing would be impossible for us...

So..randomly. My mom gave me a chicken cup noodle soup and it turned out to be the spicy kind. *fans drooling mouth* I suppose I neglected to mention that I only like plain chicken vegetable cup noodle soups. Eh. I was hungry, so it was good.

I found a really good fanfic on ff.net from the Mortal Instruments Series. Most of the ones I looked at before only were set within the actual setting of the original story, and their writing wasn't all that good...so I didn't like them. But this one is all human; no demons or warlocks or shadowhunting, just a brooding, sarcastic, hot, soccer/piano/guitar-playing Jace and brokenhearted artist Clary who become next door neighbors and (I'm guessing) will eventually fall in love. It's really well written.

And I recommend it.

Eh, I suppose I'll pay attention in class now...talk to you later!

your mushroom, Cahryn.