This cannot become a pattern

Today was my first day of what unfortunately is looking like a truth of this semester: not having lunch.

In fact, it is nearly 6 and I have not eaten yet today. As Winnie the Pooh would say, "there's a rumbly in my tumbly." And I won't be eating until the boyfriend gets out of his senior design project meeting. About which I'm not complaining, since I know he has done exactly no work on it yet this week and it is sort of required of him if he plans on graduating.

But my schedule this semester is not conducive to the standard 3 meals a day. Neither is my friends' latest habit of having movie nights that start at 10 PM. I like movies too, but I can't sleep through my morning classes because Braveheart ended at 2 AM.

Anyway, I have my first major report due in G&P lab, which has to be written in the format of an article for the Journal of Bacteriology. Yikes. Bookmarked that webpage, it's a new BFF. Fortunately all lab reports have rewrites, which will be essential for me, as I've never written a science journal article before. And I'm going to have to magically understand microbial metabolism overnight, because I can't explain the results right now.

Research is going slightly better. We have weekly group meetings on Fridays, and then there's a mini-group meeting for me and this kid in Computer Science (hereafter referred to as CS Guy) on Tuesdays. Except the first one was today due to a scheduling error. Basically, I'm going to start out annotating phylogenetic trees until CS Guy has written a PERL script that will get through GenBank and BLAST searches faster. Oh and we have about 50 pages of reading on nicotine metabolism that our director wants us to understand backwards and forwards. A preliminary glance at it seems reasonable, a lot of organic chemistry and gene regulation, but I have the biology background for this. CS Guy hasn't had biology since the 9th grade. It's gonna be fun.

Well, that's all for now because my room is cold and I need to read for class.