this and that

In class we learned about transduction, which is basically how bacterial viruses replicate. The virus bacteriophage thing lands on a bacterium, injects DNA into it with a needle looking thing, and the dna totally pwns the bacterium and takes over the cell function and makes it create tons of new little virus babies to the point where the bacterium explodes open with all of them. Then they go out and do the same.

 My teacher thinks bacteriophages look like space vehicles. I think they look like evil creepy alien spider things. They seriously creep me out. Go here to see them in animated action. Scroll down to see their little method of doing their thing. If these things became life size suddenly and I saw one, I’d probably crap myself.

If you didnt feel like seeing the animation, here are a few different types of good pictures:

this picture is amazingly neat! but scary!

I cant stand insects with long yucky legs. Even like in caves with those cave cricket things, I freak out. Grossness. Most other bugs dont really bother me, I just dont like them. But man….long legged things get me.

I DONT LIKE SPIDERS. Sometimes if I think about them too much before bed I have to check to make sure there are none in my bed.

One time my brother was sitting on a stool at my old house and he had a spider in his bangs and I started freaking out and I was like omg Richie there is a spider in your hair! And he’s like "nuh uh". And I said yes there is omg. So he just said whatever and continued eating his cereal. I was seriously like grossed out and so I went a got a mirror and he looked and sees this black spider in his bangs on his forehead and starts screaming at the top of his lungs and he hit himself so hard in the forehead he fell off his stool backward.

The sign is still up!

The glove compartment isn’t accurately named
And everybody knows it.
So I’m proposing a swift orderly change.

Cause behind its door there’s nothing to keep my fingers warm
And all I find are souvenirs from better times
Before the gleam of your taillights fading east
To find yourself a better life.

I was searching for some legal document
As the rain beat down on the hood
When I stumbled upon pictures I tried to forget
And that’s how this idea was drilled into my head

Cause it’s too important
To stay the way it’s been

There’s no blame for how our love did slowly fade
And now that it’s gone it’s like it wasn’t there at all
And here I rest where disappointment and regret collide
Lying awake at night

There’s no blame for how our love did slowly fade
And now that it’s gone it’s like it wasn’t there at all
And here I rest where disappointment and regret collide
Lying awake at night (up all night)
When I’m lying awake at night.

Title and Registration by Death Cab for Cutie

just like stella. 

how do you get a person with a phd in philosophy off your doorstep?

 pay him for the pizza.

I woke up at like 11:45 today and figured it would be a perfect time to go hang my "Mister Polite Bulb" sign, cuz everybody would be at church. I was right, there was nobody around, so Im pretty sure I cant get caught….not that I’d get in trouble for it I dont think anyways. But yeah, I hope it stays up, first of all, cuz the tape didnt want to stick to the painted cinderblock or whatever it is called wall….and I hope they dont take it down for a while so people will get the idea, maybe. But yeah, so people should be coming home from church either now or within the next hour after eating lunch if they choose to before changing clothes and stuff.

I wanted to take a picture, but becuse it was so close to time for people to be coming back in to the dorm I was too scared. I hope they dont fingerprint it. haha. they are crazy enough to do that.

zoom all the way in.

I enjoyed looking at TSG’s gallery of their favorite silly mugshots.

Also, some mug shots I enjoyed that werent on their list:

Bad (Indian) Santa

The (doesnt) Thinker 

Vanilla Ice 

 Also there are quite a few I enjoy that arent from smoking gun, but from mugshots.com:

Thrilled african american

Disheveled beat up lethargic man

Perms dont keep you from getting arrested

Femullets dont either

Muslim with a toothache? 

She REALLY doesnt listen.

I dunno what happened, but I think this guy lost. 

I think if you actually followed this woman’s shirt’s instructions, you’d get a disease.

Scary looking white supremist. 

The dell dude 

The principal from Ferris Bueller who was busted for paying a 14 year old boy to pose explicitly.

I think this guy is wearing a cat tail as a wig.

The tattoos are actually real.

I think this is the strangest looking woman Ive ever seen. 

Halfro? 

Pretty much the best mugshot face ever. If I ever get arrested, Im doing this.

lol this MAN didnt have a physical exam upon entering prison and spent eight months in the women’s section before they found out

This mans hair reminds me of a blonde russian style hat.

When they arrested this scary looking man, he was wearing his mother’s clothing.

This guy’s real name for seriously is Harry Maiden. 

Not sure whether this guy is looking at the camera or not.

I really dont get this guy’s head. 

I bet you ten bucks this guy passes out early at parties. 

Im pretty sure this guy is missing part of his face.

Mugshots.com described this guy as looking like "a cat in curlers".

Im sure you’ve seen this everywhere by now but I still think its funny. 

I have no idea what is going  on with this womans hair.

I think thats about it. Hope you had fun. 

And it really pisses me off when youre riding on an elevator and when it arrives at your floor to get off of (particularly if its the main floor of a building) and people either try or do rush on before you can even get off. For some reason, now that kids are starting school they’ve forgotten their elevator manners:

1. Dont fart unless youre with your enemies and you have to.

2. Only hit the button for the floor you want to go to and not all of them to be obnoxious.

3. When getting on, wait for everyone else to get off that is getting off.

The first two the kids are doing ok on….its just that last one. Even the cleaning lady ran into me head on when I was getting off the elevator the other day. That is just so rude and one of my biggest pet peeves. How hard is it to stand back from the entrance and wait a half second to see if anyone is getting off? I put up with this for forever now, until tonight, and I have decided to make a sign to post on the main floor, because this is where I have run into this problem the most.

Click here to view. 

Yeah so I am just not sure when to put it up.

I just got the idea to hang it beside the elevator door on the main floor when I get up at 6 something tomorrow morning. I figure then nobody will see me be the one posting it and deans prolly wont see it for a while to release no staff member put it up, and kids will see it then later on in the day also.

Oh, and I put it in plastic because I felt like people would be less likely to take it down and throw it away if its in plastic….so lets see how long it lasts.  

I just remembered dreaming last night. I remember thinking, I guess, when I woke up briefly (or if its possible to make up logical thoughts while dreaming or whatever) "Man, I really hope I dont remember this dream when I wake up" because it was really really really bad. All I remember is thinking at some point, even though I still dont know when it would have been, that I didnt think I could think up anything any worse when I was awake and that it was the most horrifying dream or set of thoughts ever and that I didnt ever want to think it again and hoped I didnt remember them.

Luckily, I dont. But that is weird. 

Finally I am hoping there is progress with this yucky room! I dont remember if Ive posted about it or not, but my room is gross and moldy and damp. Ive complained 4 times and had them look at my AC, but the lady just kept getting sassy with me. I told her how damp my room was and she’s like (with a bad attitude….that pissed me off…alot….cuz she is always like that) "Well, honey…it isnt going to be dry in there. Its 100 degrees outside and 100% humidity". I say "well, it isnt as damp in the hall and in the rest of the building….." because her explanation only makes sense if I like have my window open or something. ACs are supposed to filter that crap.  Anyways, Ive complained to two deans, including the head deans, in person. Nothing has been done.

So…I told my microbiology teacher about it. She told us at the beginning of the first day of class that she has a particular interest in molds, so I knew she’d be interested. I told her how I’ve been sick and have headaches, etc. and how the school hadnt fixed anything, so she said she’d help. Today after lab we took 4 petri plates to have the air (which could have spores and such that are making me sick) so it can settle on them. We put one about a foot from the AC vent, one on my sink, one on my pillow, and one on the toilet seat to see the concentration in different areas. Im supposed to leave them there for 2 hours.

Then we took three sterilized swabs and make one swab of the mold from my AC vent slat things, one from the track on my closet (which has had mold on it previously), and one from the wall above the AC vent.

Then we needed a control room. She said I needed to find someone in a room as close as possible to mine that would let me put them in their room and do swabs there. I walked down the hall and realized two girls from my micro class were sharing a room 3 doors down across the hall. They were of course fine with it and understood what I was doing and thought it was cool. Dr. Foster simply told me to choose a room with no odor like mine, and I didnt smell one in their room, but their AC had more mold in it than mine did (Ive cleaned mine several times and have spray bleached the inside that I cant reach…so naturally mine is decently clean). I am going to call her soon to see if that is a problem and if I need to redo a room with no mold or anything.

She said the mold should be all grown and we’d see what was there on Monday, so hopefully if there is harmful stuff or anything at all that WOULD be interfering with my allergies that she can report, I will get some action on my room as far as replacement of nasty crap.  She said she will write the school a paper with her findings.

Microbiology class actually isnt too bad. Its hard, of course, but getting to see stuff cultured from places you swab is really interesting. For instance, our lab yesterday was on transmission and such of bacteria, so we made like 20 something  cultures (if you think sciency stuff is boring you can skip this part:

We did one where like I (we took turns mostly) wiped my unwashed fingers on half a petri plate, then washed them with regular (non antibacterial) to see the difference. Result: There were more germs after washing my hands.

We did one where Amy (one of my lab partners…we have a group of 3 cuz somebody dropped the class so I let her join us) did the same as the last one, but instead of regular soap, used antibacterial. Result: Same, except that the presence of gram negative bacteria was the same, but the gram positive was mostly all killed.

We did one kind of investigating sterile technique. Matt (other lab partner) swiped his unwashed hand on half the petri dish, then washed his hands with the same type of surgical scrub used at hospitals and then used sterile technique to put on sterile gloves. He left the sterile gloves on his hands for 30 minutes. Then he took them off and swiped the petri dish on the other side. Result: His hands had like 3x more bacteria on them afterwards. That is why its important to wear gloves during surgery!

We all did one where we divided the petri dish into thirds and sterile swabbed our lips. Amy’s didnt have much growth (which was odd…she probably didnt swipe enough on there), but me and Matt’s were FULL of bacteria. We had to rate the growth of colonies from 0 (no growth) to +4 (colonies covering most of the area), and me and Matt’s were definate 4s. We made jokes the rest of the lab session about this, such as if you had a microbiologist husband you could kiss a petri plate and it would make a big lip shaped colony of bacteria in the shape of lips, since there is so much of it on your lips, etc.

We did one experiment with coins. Most people think they are disgusting, right? You would never kiss a penny, but if you did it’d be cleaner than kissing somebody else’s lips! We swabbed them and barely anything grew. All of the class was so confused…cuz everybody knows coins are filthy. She told us that silver and copper that coins are made of have natural antibiotic properties to them and dont really carry much. I thought that was kinda neat. Dont kiss any paper money though.

We all did one experiment where we could choose whatever we wanted to swab for culturing. Amy chose the spout on the water fountain. There were germs in it. Matt did the mouth part on his cell phone. It didnt really have any germs on it…but then we realized that most people dont cough into the phone while using it since that is mostly rude, and they are constantly put in and out of pockets, wiping any germs probably off. Now, what Ive wondered for forever, is what I did my culture on. "Ear Funk". I dont know what else to call it, thats just what I have heard everyone else call it. If you dont have piercings (especially large gauge ones…cuz more surface area to notice it) or dont know or have extraordinarily clean piercings, this off whitish beigish crap builds up on them…and it STINKS SO BAD. I dont know of many other things that are worse to get shoved under your nose than a plug out of someone’s ear or their fingers after they mess with them. It smells for forever, also. I think I would rather hold a turd under my nose for an hour than a plug. Its really foul. Especially when you are just sitting there and someone shoves it under your nose and you arent expecting it and breathe in through your nose. So yes, I’d been wondering why this smells so bad, and if it was because of bacteria (I was pretty sure it was…and I wanted to see it). So, when the teacher wasnt looking (Im not allowed to have jewelry at school for readers who dont know. Also I use a lot of parenthesis. Is that spelled right?) I took out my one of my plug and swabbed my plug. It grew more than any other culture we had. It was TERRIBLE looking and everywhere. Like it was a forest and the whole entire third of the tray that was mine was full. Usually you get a few colonies to a line of them along your swab lines, but mine had grown over them and was pretty much solid. Here is an example of kind of how the culture stays on the lines (you can see where this person swabbed in a weird way…usually you just make one of the "sets" of squiggles he has. I dont know why you’d make multiple ones on top of each other….that makes it hard to see). So yeah, my ears are gross.

Im not sure if any of the others were of particular interest…but we did learn in class today that hand sanitizers arent very good for you to use…so stop it. 

They is no longer a problem for me anymore. I used to use cpr0x thing to get around it but it went down. Now it is back up and the dude who made it is asking people to spread the word about it cuz he isnt getting a terribly high amount of people using it. Since I <3 it so muchly for letting me view sites with hate talk, potty humor, and pornography, I thought i’d post a link to it. Also, if you go to a gay school like me or something you can use it and its real helpful. Its pretty much the only anonymizer thing that actually works that I have tried, so yeah. Also, the logo thing is neat. It randomly changes. Refresh and see. Some of them are super cute. To use, just click on the super neat random image below!

of ben folds five

Although Ive gotten quite lazy about my website, Ive found making "pages" on here is fun and easy. You may remember the "I hate celebrities" one? If not, its over there under "Pages" on the right side of your browser. I have now added one where I made fun of fat chick lingerie.

I LOVE PICKING PEOPLE APART AND WHINING/MAKING FUN OF THEIR APPEARANCE.

I have gotten like 39000000000754 emails saying "you have no right to make fun of anybody because youre fat and ugly and you look like you have fetal alcohol syndrome"….and yes, someone did say fetal alcohol syndrome…but seriously. I do not care; I do not care that people say I am fat and ugly etc…and it is quite obvious since I post pictures of myself online. THEREFORE: if I was just making fun of random retards’ appearances online but did not have my own picture up, that would be dumb. So yes, I do have a right to make fun of you for posting a picture of yourself looking stupid online. If you stick it online for public review, especially on hotornot.com, I can make fun of you. Afterall, that is what I put it there for. 

Sure, I might be "mean", but God wants me to be happy and making fun of other people online makes me happy.Seriously…for some reason picking apart people’s appearance, including their face or clothes or whatever just amuses me to no end.

I am thinking of (in addition to having my "tards page") posting different pages like I talked of earlier of people that get my goat. I also enjoy the phrase "gets my goat". My mom says it.

I just thought I’d tell you about it incase youre also amused by ugly people and would want to view it. 

I am.  

Just dont click on it if youre easy offended or whatever. If you see something that is titled "Ugly people" or something like that and youre offended by that kind thing just dont look at it. Save me the hassle of having to open up and read your dumb emails complaining about how I am "the female version of hitler" or even worse, that i am "a meanie". I dont listen to you. Im going to continue doing it anyways. It is wasting your time to email me crap like that. Promise.

Sorry about the bit of a rant there. I recieved like 5 emails today with whining….3 from goth kids, 2 just from turds who get mad cuz I make fun of people and abuse "innocent people" over IM. I dont really read them and most of the time dont even bother to reply so it isnt that big of a deal, but it is just obnoxious when I get several in a day whining about similar things.

tards 

somebody told me i look fierce.

is that a compliment or an insult? 

CAUGHT RED HANDED 

or should i say gold faced? no that is dumb. 

I have to wipe poop on a card. THREE times. I cant decide whether to tell or spare the details. Tell me in teh comments if you want details.

But man I will say that I dont like it

So I went with Danielle to donate plasma today. Before you donate, they stick you in a little room thing and ask you 10,000 questions, take your vitals, and do a finger stick to check your hematocrit (iron and red blood cell level basically) and protein levels. While she is taking my blood pressure and temperature, I glanced at her computer screen. It shows last time I donated’s results for all the checks they do. I noticed my hematocrit was 39. I couldnt remember what normal was, but that sounded low to me, so I asked her what normal was. She says 38-54. So then I say does it seem to be running low? She says yes. Today’s hematocrit was 37, a level not high enough to even donate. I became upset, because its been running low for like 2 years now.

Then I came home and decided to read about it. There was a site with symptoms of anemia, with things like being sluggish and tired (check…people have been yelling at me lately for sleeping so muchly), rapid heartbeat (check), feeling unusually cold (check…this one was obvious to me cuz i am almost always hot. but lately, ive been really cold often), etc. So I called my mother to ask her advice. She says she has the same problem. I also read online that low hematocrit/iron is genetic, so there you go. So I decide to go to the health center. I told the nurse practitioner all the stuff I’d read (not cuz she doesnt know, duh, just so she knows what i know) and asked her what I should do. She suggested she draw some vials of blood and it would be tested and I could know the results tomorrow and she can see what I need to do.

Apparently, if my blood levels are fine but just the iron is low, according to how low it is, I can just take some iron supplements forever. If the iron is fine but hematocrit is still low, I have to have more tests to see where I am losing blood, mostly commonly a gastrointestinal bleed. Apparently if she thinks thats the case, one of the tests I have to do is swiping turds on a card to see if there is blood in it. I do not want to wipe any turds on any cards.  

i must have this kitten

btw, the picture is a link to the site i got it from…which is awesome….dailykitten.com. omg. too many cute animals for me to look at. i looked at every one though.

I was born on a monday….so according to this nursery rhyme, am I supposed to be real pale or does it mean that I will be "beautiful and beloved" like another dictionary definition?

Monday’s child is fair of face,
Tuesday’s child is full of grace,
Wednesday’s child is full of woe,
Thursday’s child has far to go,
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child must work for a living,
But the child that’s born on the Sabbath day,
Is fair and wise and good and gay.

i am a jerk

seen on a bathroom wall.

this is my friend Even at the mall.

this is my friend Danielle. She’s Korean. And dating Even.

this is what steven looks like when he does not want his picture taken.

this is what it looks like when you donate plasma. sorry for the weird picture, but its hard to hide that you are using a camera phone when you arent supposed to have cell phones on.

 
i find this hilarious, i took it on the way home from work.

this is my friend sam. he is korean.

this is my friend lily. she is american.

this is sam being an asian harry potter.

  this is sam being the asian harry potter, ready for to play some quidditch.

lighters are now marketed as "fun". way to encourage would be pyro children.
 

i found this online. hot.

stryper is teh sexy 

i got all fixed up this morning and had all my crap together in my backpack and i was soooo ready for class.

 i walked to class and on the way came upon my friend Kelly from nursing class. she didnt not know what room number the class was in, so i am all "oh, its 224."

we walk together to 224 and see a sign saying "microbiology". hoorah we say, we are in the right place.

the door is locked. the room is dark. 

we then realize that nobody is in the building except a few kids waiting by the a&p room. which is dark.

none of the offices have people in them.

classes dont start til tomorrow

and we are tards. 

but the schedule says 7-18-05 to 8-19-05 

where did all the serial killers go? in the 80s there were lots. in fact, in  1983, serial killers accounted for the deaths of 5000 americans. rarely anymore do we hear of multiple murderers…has society become more civil or what plz

I have had like ten thousand things to post but I wanted the survey one to stay on top, so I havent. The survey is going well, btw…but I am lacking in the Hispanic, African American, and Jewish sections..although what I have in the Jew section IS turning out well, with 50% of Jews surveyed being served mickey mouse pancakes as a child.

I AM GOING TO SEE WILLY WONKA TONIGHT HOORAH 

Hi. My name is Emily. I am doing a survey to determine how many people were served Mickey Mouse pancakes as children and if ethnic background/nationality affects this. If you would like to participate, please tell me the following information:

 1. Whether your mother made you Mickey Mouse pancakes as a child.

2. Your ethnic background/nationality.

3. Your age.

4. Any other comments are fine.

Thank you. Results will be posted here.

hearing the phrase "might could".