Today was not the best day for me. I checked my much-neglected hotmail account and discovered I missed an email almost ten days about from Tanya about her wedding. I feel terrible, as I hate letting my friends down about stuff that is important to them.
On top of that, I let myself down today when I got too wrapped up in lab business to remember I had ethics class. This course is heavily (I mean almost entirely) graded on attendance, and I missed it. Now I am praying that the professor is understanding and lets me make up the time in a way he sees fit.
I guess both of these situations are examples of how I am burning the candle at both ends these days. I have so many commitments, to class, in lab, at home, to my friends, and to my family, that is seems like I am constantly making excuses to people so I can do other stuff. I have priorities, just too many of them are #1, and it is driving me crazy. I hate letting people down!
It seems like I had so much more time in undergrad and med school. Maybe I am just suppressing my stress from those days. I do know that I am exhausted right now and would nothing but to sleep for twenty hours straight. Hopefully that is just a result of too frequent blood donation (another consequence of me being unable to say NO to people who need my help!) Speaking of sleep, I better head to bed.

Go Gophers!!!!!
The Sioux (as a mascot, NOT AS A PEOPLE), S**k!

Tonight Karen, Matt, Tim, and I are heading to the Gopher/Sioux hockey game. I am hoping for a really good game. Tim has never been to a hockey game before, so it will be fun to teach him my limited knowledge of the game. I can always get behind a sport where there is the potential for fighting.

This week was a crappy one in the lab and in class. I am so much writing to do it is depressing just thinking about it. I plan on spending a majority of my time this weekend in front of the warm glow of my laptop. Hopefully I can get it all done.

My mom really messed up her ankle. She had an MRI on Tuesday and it sounds like she may need a cast for a while. I think we should put her in a giant bubble so she can't fall anymore!

Matt has a partial day of school today. The rest of the time he is going to wait at home for the FedEx guy to deliever my new phone. I hope he catches him, otherwise I have to find time to drive to White Bear Lake!

Well, I better get to cancer class.
Have a great weekend!

I never thought I would be so happy to see a Friday come as this week. I have been so busy that it is hard to take it all in. Unfortunately, I have not been busy with lab work, just busy work. Hopefully that will start to change soon, as I need to get some serious work done up here.

I am going ice skating tonight. I went swimming on Tuesday. Both of these items I used to do on a daily basis, and now they are rare treats. It is sort of strange to think that I used to have all that time to do stuff. I am looking forward to the skating. I went last year and it was really weird. It is not like riding a bicycle!

We have offically had our cat for six months now. He is such a huge part of our lives now, it is sort of hard to imagine our time before little kitty. I do wish he would stop waking me up though.

Nothing else really going on here. My life is lab, eat, lab, eat, gym, read, clean, repeat. Hopefully now that Karen is in town I can mix that routine up a bit. My big thing to look forward to this month is the hockey game next week. After that it is the Seindfeld performance.

Well, back to work here.

Karen is moved in now and as of today has all of her furniture. Since Sunday she has had a squatter, as one of her lab mates did not have an apartment until today. Needless to say, she has spent a lot of time at my place to avoid him. Now that she has furniture, a tv, and other stuff I am sure I will be spending time at her place to help her get settled. Hopefully she will not get too settled in, as she might move in 6 months to a new apartment, or even a new building. My poor parents can't handle too much more of this. During the move my mom torn a ligament in her ankle pretty badly and now has to wear a walking cast for up to eight weeks. She will just be getting back to normal for the next move!
This weekend I am hosting a tapas dinner for Karen, Jenny, Nancy, and Matt. It will be fun to try out my new recipes for them. I started making the dough for the manchengo cheese crackers last night. The end result of this experiment was one happy cat (I spilled cheese on the floor) and a penis-looking roll of cheese dough in my fridge waiting for Friday's baking.
Well, my turn for the Storm reader is up.

Happy New Year!
I had a great lazy weekend with Matt. Due to the snow (finally!), we just stayed in this weekend. We did get out long enough to get some nice food to cook for our New Year's celebration.
Karen is having a tough week. Her ex annouced he is now dating the girl he cheated on Karen with. The asshole was classy enough to text it to Karen on New Year's Day. Talk about immature and spiteful. I wish Matt and I could beat the shit out of him. He definately does not deserve my little sister. Now we have to work on convincing her of that. She is so awesome that I know she will bounce back, it is just going to take time. I hate seeing her feeling hurt over something that is totally not her fault.
Well, this week is full of writing and wrapping up of some loose ends in the lab. Julie is fitting in well and I am happy to have her on board. She leaves next week to get married, so I will miss her.
Gotta run.