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"Would you light my candle?"

"Sing me something soft, sad, and elegant; or loud and out of key. Sing me anything."

"La volupté unique et suprême de l'amour gît dans la certitude faire le mal. "

"Je n'ai pas peur de vie. Je n'aurai jamais peur de vie. "

"Traduttore, Traditore."

I am Icarus. For years, I have been le temoin, watching from my tower, learning to live, yearning to live. And now, I am free. Are my wings strong enough? Will they endure the fire of the sun? Only time will tell. Join me on my quest, as I fly towards the sun.

"I'm through accepting limits 'cuz someone says they're so. Some things I cannot change, but till I try, I'll never know. Too long, I've been afraid of losing love I guess I've lost. Well, if that's love. It comes at much too high a cost. I'd sooner buy defying gravity. Kiss me Goodbye, I'm defying gravity, and you can't pull me down."

"We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and on the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
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Dec. 14th, 2008 @ 04:45 pm (no subject)
Definitely burnt myself out this semester.
Didn't help that i had to deal with two asshats in lab six hours a week. I mean, I can deal with people who don't want to do their share of the work, but when they start blaming me because the "group" fell behind schedule and then the grad student instructors say that I wasn't diligent enough, I get a little frustrated.
:: sighs ::
sometimes i think i should just forget about this school. get a job and start paying back the millions of dollars i owe (okay, maybe not millions, but with LIBOR like it is, i'm sure i'll hit the million mark rapidly, LOL)
ugh
oh well. i guess if the school doesn't kick me out after this semester, i'll just stay and muddle my way through something easy.
:: glares at his other professor :: and that idiot didn't answer my question :(
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Dec. 4th, 2008 @ 12:25 am (no subject)
a degree from the chem department isnt worth the paper its printed on
isnt even worth the ink used to print the words on the degree
ugh
stupid people who sit there and rely on you to do everything but then get pissed when the group falls behind. ummm, hello, drag your own weight then and dont rely on me to drag it for you

and i have three finals on the same day again.

sometimes, i think god hates me.
or at least the people in the office that schedule final exam times >.
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Oct. 10th, 2008 @ 05:36 pm (no subject)
i hate school. i hate the idiots i have to go to class with everyday. i hate the same idiots who even dare think that they are intelligent when they aren't. i mean, seriously, dilutions are not made with beakers. nothing is made with beakers. you store liquids in beakers, you dont measure liquids with beakers. and you need the initial weight of a sample in order to calculate weight percent. and no, you cannot just assume that the density of a salicylic acid solution is close to water. worse case scenario, just mass out some fresh samples so you at least get some idea of what the initial sample weight was. ugh
i hate my lab class. i really hate it.
i hate the students here. or at least the ones who are just here for a fucking degree. ugh, is it really that difficult to learn stuff while you are here?
and i am a blanket hatred of freshmen. without exception. stupid idiots.


ok, i think im done venting. time to go to my room to pack and go home
so i can waste more time there. blah.
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Sep. 15th, 2008 @ 08:41 pm (no subject)
got a new mac. enjoying it immensely. probably going to install latex or something else to replace word on it soon.

already had my first sleepless night. not a good omen :(

i miss my friends :(
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Aug. 28th, 2008 @ 01:06 am (no subject)
i want some Luxemburgerli.
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Jul. 30th, 2008 @ 08:20 pm (no subject)
Berlin was an okay city, I guess. After being in Zurich and surrounded by German for so long, it didn't really bother me that I was surrounded by German while I was there. Except for the area by the Reichstag, Berlin seemed...uninspiring. Even the grassy field in front of the Reichstag was dull. And the city was dirty and smelly. We couldn't take five steps without catching another whiff of sewage (although we never saw any - must have been coming up from the sewers). The areas in East Berlin were even worse. And the public transportation system...the trains still need some upgrading and most of the stations could use some major renovations. But then, I guess that is what happens when the government has to spend a lot of the budget on reincorporating East Germany. Overall though, I did enjoy it.

Amsterdam was nothing like I anticipated - Berlin seemed significantly better moments after I stepped off the train at Amsterdam Centraal. The entire city just seems dingy. The canal water is completely opaque and most of the canals have some trash floating through them. The streets, besides being extremely narrow, could use major re-paving/re-stoning. You can barely walk five feet without smelling another "coffeeshop". The city has a very laisser-faire, which I enjoy, but it seems that the people here have stopped caring about almost everything. Now I'm quite happy that we are leaving tomorrow afternoon for Paris.
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Jul. 24th, 2008 @ 08:03 pm (no subject)
Will be leaving for Berlin from Basel at 15:04 :-D
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Jul. 17th, 2008 @ 04:21 pm (no subject)
so after adjusting to the culture shock...zurich is turning out to be a pretty nice place...i'm even slowly starting to understand some german, haha. the trams are kinda interesting to ride. yes, trams, not subways, not buses, but cars that run off of electricity provided from the overhead wires, LOL. you can drink from almost all of the city's water fountains too...LOL.

had dinner at a restaurant on top of the uetliberg last night...had to take a train up there....fantastic view...and if it wasn't so humid we could
have seen the alps too >.< but we had a fantastic view of the lake, city, and countryside. talking with one of the women there, she said zürich is one of the fastest cities in europe. i was a little surprised, since it seems really slow to me (except when people are running late for a train, LOL)

this saturday might be a trip to bern...if the weather holds...get to see the swiss bears, LOL

as for next weekend, could involve a trip to CERN....if not, then i think we are going to Paris through Genève....maybe i should translate that note from DHL so we can figure out how to get the train tickets, LOL

back to learning german while waiting for the washer and dryer to finish (it takes at least an hour for the washer to finish and over two for the dryer >.<).
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Jul. 7th, 2008 @ 12:52 pm (no subject)
more to help me not get lost than anything else, haha

Kappeli
Freihofstrasse
Letzigrund
Albisriederplatz
Zypressenstrasse
Lochergut
Kalkbreite
Bezirksgebäude
Stauffacher
Sihlstrasse
Paradeplatz

if i can keep those straight, i hopefully won't get too lost, LOL
especially paradeplatz. a lot of the trams go through paradeplatz.
>.
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Jul. 7th, 2008 @ 07:32 am (no subject)
i wish i knew german :: le sighs ::
at least im slowly learning, HAHA
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Jun. 23rd, 2008 @ 01:03 pm (no subject)
So, I depart from Detroit Metro for Frankfurt at 3:50 PM on 04 July.
I arrive in Frankfurt at 5:55 AM on 05 July only to depart for Zurich at 7:40.
Traveling Lufthansa, Business Class, so it should be comfortable. And yeah for friends who get discounts because they work with the EU :-D

school sucks. i need a break :(
life sucks. i want a break :(
why didn't i get any emails even though i was logged into my email account? stupid computer.
oh well, life moves on. i hate it.

excited excited excited excited excited excited excited excited excited excited
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Jun. 2nd, 2008 @ 07:28 pm (no subject)
stressed out of my mind
asshole decided he was going to take his name off the cable account...problem is he was stupid and did tell me about it much less ask me to go with him to the payment center so the account can be transferred to my account. now im without internet. dont know if thats a good or bad thing though.

two essays and two exams this week

no idea where my loan paperwork is...limbo seems like a pretty safe bet at the moment. although that could depend on which computer system the bank checks -.-

most definitely going to zurich as soon as my passport comes in

i am so tired i want to fall asleep -.-
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May. 18th, 2008 @ 05:52 pm (no subject)
instead of visit...i could live there for a couple months i guess
first things first, time to finally get a passport -.-
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May. 12th, 2008 @ 11:51 am (no subject)
im a stubborn bitch. but im lazy :(
i have a chance to visit zurich this summer if i wanted...hmmmmmm
i dont think i would want to come back though, HAHA
oh well. and i hate writing. blah.
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Apr. 30th, 2008 @ 06:56 pm (no subject)
my daddy was just laid off.

hmmmmm

shit -.-

time to talk to financial aid. and see what i can do about rent. and where is that damn job already?
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Apr. 18th, 2008 @ 06:38 pm (no subject)
so it has been decided....biochemistry and biophysics with some medchem thrown into the mix

( :: drools :: )
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Apr. 15th, 2008 @ 05:05 pm (no subject)
biochemistry major
and a physics major
possibly biophysics

yes, i am that crazy. thank you.

o, yeah, thats because im stuck here another three years -.-
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Apr. 9th, 2008 @ 04:50 pm (no subject)
i hate japanese.

i fucking knew that the last couple weeks of my semester were going to be absolute hell. hence the reason why, when my partners and i met (the one time we did meet) to work on our japanese projected, i made the obvious comment that the syllabus said the a "script", not an "outline" was due several weeks ago. of course, aforementioned partners did not so much as acknowledge my comment, so they continued writing the script and i, per the norm in such situations, just stopped talking to them.

now that the presentation is in two days, its my fucking fault that nobody in the group has seen the entire script yet. im the one being unfair to my partners by not giving them enough time to memorize the script. of course, its not my fault that the idiots put anything and everything in their lives ahead of the script when the project was assigned, i.e. when i had the time to work on it. so yeah, fucking idiots. and now the professor hates me. go figure. oh well, two more weeks and i can tell her to roast in fucking hell :-D

other than that, classes are fine. just have to make one more graphic in physics lab and i am forever done with that class. one more assignment in chemistry and physics and i can then i can start studying for my finals. except, i still have an essay for biology lab to write (due monday at 5) and the biology quiz on friday. hmmmm, i think i will finish the physics lab first, write the biology paper (all tonight). then study for the last japanese quiz ever tomorrow before class (for the record, i hardly get any sleep). then study for the biology quiz tomorrow night. finish chemistry (reaction kinetics and dr. octavius, LMAO) and physics (yeah special relativity!) over the weekend. then over the week i will split my time between japanese and chemistry. that will give me plenty of time to study for physics...which is going to be impossible -.-

ugh, fucking japanese professor can go to hell.
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Apr. 1st, 2008 @ 05:54 pm (no subject)
i hate the weather. i was in my room, naked, after my shower, with the window open this morning, and it felt great.

and then i walk out of starbucks and its like, when the hell did it get so cold?!?!

stupid weather

two projects
two lab reports
one paper

thats what remains of my semester, outside the normal routine
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Mar. 24th, 2008 @ 05:25 pm (no subject)
you know you are a dork when you know the permittivity of free space....by memory

ugh

when did i become so devoted to physics?!?!?!?!
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