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[Sep. 4th, 2009|10:55 pm] |
Today I had a bizarre exchange
Guy: I'm closing the gate now
Me: I'm waiting for such and such, can I wait over there if you're closing the gate now?
Guy: why are you talking to me like that!?
Me: what? (thinking, "is it rude to ask for a place to wait if I have to?")
Guy: how old are you?
Me: 22
Guy: 22!? why are you talking to me like a 10 year old girl!? Come on, speak normally!
Me: uh... where should I wait when you've closed this gate?
Guy: over there
etc etc
So I pondered what was going on because, yeah, I know I sound childish when I talk, but I've never had anyone yell at me for it before. Then I realized, he, like just about everyone else in the past few months probably thought I was a boy. I'd react much more oddly if a boy started talking like I do than if a girl did I guess. He probably thought I was pretending to talk that way or something. Pretty odd though.
In the last 3 months or so I've been addressed with male pronouns so many more times than I've been addressed with female pronouns. Just this morning actually I had a funny incident. I was buying something in a store and the clerk kept calling me "he" to the person behind me for various reasons "he was here first" and "this one is his" etc. Finally the man behind me turned to me, looked down at my chest, then back up to my face and looked really confused. I was done at that point so I just walked away.
Day before yesterday I walked into the shoe store and a little girl about 4 years old looked up at me and said, "are you a boy or a girl?" I was about to say, "yep" when I saw her mother was there so I said, "I'm a girl" instead.
Stuff like that happens every day now. Funny because when I had really short hair, it didn't happen ever. I wonder what changed in the last three months. |
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[May. 22nd, 2009|10:42 am] |
Graduation is the day after tomorrow! How did that happen?!
I still have so much to do to get ready, particularly prepare for this performance that I'm in tomorrow, and clean out my lab area which I started yesterday and realized, "hm, this will take more time than I allotted for it to take..." And pack up all my stuff, and say goodbye to people who I may or may not ever see again.
A lot has happened in this last month and a few days since thesis were due. Basically, I judge this year pre thesis handing in or post thesis handing in. I thought things would be so chill after I handed in my thesis, but then it just turned into disaster, fires, murder, friends going to the hospital for various reasons, assault, seizure, etc.
Things seem to finally be settling down from those things, but now the graduation stuff is picking up unbelievably rapidly.
Meggy is staying in my house with me, and mom is staying in a hotel. Dad will drive up today with Lucky and join Mom in the hotel. My housemates families are all flying in tonight too. I am excited to meet them and have all our families meet!
I think I may have found people to live with up in Boston. Acquaintances from Wes (friends of friends) who want to live in the area I'm thinking of and have similar lifestyle requirements as I do. Hope it works out. |
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[Apr. 20th, 2009|03:24 pm] |
There was a fire in one of our science buildings during the night last night. The details are wishy washy because it points to an unattended reaction in one of the organic synthesis labs, but then when the reaction was considered, it was not really inflammable. I don't know, but it was a lab on the first floor and the fire destroyed that lab, and the labs above it to the third floor, and the surrounding labs have damage from the water and smoke. The end of the building where my lab is was fine, and no one was seriously hurt. I think a few people actually got chemical burns from trying to put out the fire in the beginning, not from the fire itself. Rumor has it that my friend Ann-Marie was down the hall at the time and was the person who pulled the fire alarm.
Anyway, I went by around 9 this morning and while you could not smell smoke you could tell that it was an organic lab because there was a pretty heavy smell of organics surrounding the building. Later when the security people were gone I went into the building with Adam. There was a really strong smell of organics in the hallways and signs saying "air quality something or other, emergency research staff only" so we decided we were research staff and went in (we both have keys). His lab was partially destroyed by water (including one of the grad students' lab notebook. SUCKS.) but my lab, being on the other end, was fine.
I guess you shouldn't take anything for granted huh? |
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[Apr. 11th, 2009|02:25 am] |
Woot! My thesis is over 50 pages now, and that's without the proper formatting. Proper formatting will increase the pages number a lot I think. and of course adding something like 60-80 sources at the end will make it super long. I don't quite know how that happened, I thought I was going to end up writing the shortest molecular bio thesis in the world and all of a sudden it's the same length as everyone else's. I guess I did kind of ok. I sent my third draft to Oliver just now. I hope he likes it. Kind of a lot of thought went into it. I hope he sees that.
Due on tuesday afternoon! I want to get it done and turned in by monday night. |
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[Mar. 21st, 2009|12:09 am] |
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Yayyy the sun's on our side of the equator again! |
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[Mar. 5th, 2009|01:08 am] |
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Wow, my presentation today really sucked! |
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[Jan. 28th, 2009|11:08 pm] |
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My friend gave me a rose today! It's so pretty! It's peach! I feel like Zuzu in It's Wonderful Life, "I'm not sleepy, I want to give my flower a drink!" |
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[Nov. 6th, 2008|11:44 pm] |
I'm pretty proud of a good chunk of America right now. I have faith in Obama and I am so happy to have that feeling. The faith that I have in him combined with the happiness I have for finally having faith in a president again has periodically made me stop what I'm doing and cry for a second. The idea that I can look to our president as a role model is comforting. Besides that I feel he has the best interests of the world at heart, not just America.
It's weird how he's compared to Lincoln and Kennedy for a few reasons. Besides that they were both... I don't even want to say it. But besides that they both were so exteme. I mean Lincoln caused the civil war, and Kennedy invaded the Bay of Pigs. But then Lincoln ended Slavery and Kennedy averted the missile crisis and a million other incredble things. Just kind of weird that he is already being compared to people who did great and awful things and people who had an end I don't even want to think about.
I'm also pretty pissed at McCain's people right now. Not at McCain, he's alright I think. But McCain's people make me angry. With all this coming out from McCain's aides about how stupid Sarah Palin was, why did they pick her to be vice president? If they knew as they say they did, that she was so terrible, why did they try to convince us (unconvincingly but still) that she was great for the job? That is just plain dangerous for America. Why would they flat out lie and try to conceal that fact that she was pretty terrible?
I try to give people the benefit of the doubt most of the time. So I say, "well, McCain thinks his way is best for America" But trying to give us Sarah Palin when they apparenntly knew she was absolutely terrible for the job, that is not wanting what's best for America. McCain's aides coming out with these remarks is not covering their asses, it's making them look even worse and even more selfish than I thought they could ever be. They were really trying to feed us a candidate they knew was terrible. WTF? |
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| Clearwater, Maxine, and invertebrates, couldn't ask for a better weekend! |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|08:57 pm] |
I visited the boat and Maxine this weekend. It was an all around great experience.
I was sitting in the waterfront park in Beacon looking towards the bend in the river where the Clearwater would come from as they finished their transit from NYC to Beacon. I was waiting a while but when I finally saw the mast come out from behind the trees I could feel my heartrate jump up. I ran over to the dock to be there in time to catch their dock lines. I was so excited to see the boat that I almost couldn't talk well enough to say "I can catch your lines for you".
Many of the crew members were off that day, but it was still so good to see the ones who were there. It also turned out that our educators parents were on board visiting. It is always so interesting to meet people's parents! It was so good to be on board and to sail with them again even though it was only one sail. I went down into the hold and I smelled the mix of sawdust from the toilets and oil from the engine room, and I'm not sure what ther other smells were but it was so surprisingly nice to smell all that again. And the watery, slightly fishy smell that rivers have. It was even nice to see the flies flying around again. And it was so good to clean up after meals too.
I think I am definitely going to ask Sam about working for them after I graduate. Maybe I can be a deckhand or something. I finished making up my mind this weekend that I want to ask Sam about that. The only thing is that all the staff turns over. I think the educators and captains stay for a little bit longer, but I really feel like I would enjoy working for the current captains and educators so I hope that if I do work for Clearwater after I graduate that they are all still there.
Anyway, then I visited Maxine at Marist. It was so good to see her! Talked a long time and made my soul happy. Then Maxine kindly woke up early early in the morning to get me on the early train to Grand Central.
Such a good weekend.
Oh, I almost forgot. On friday I didn't go to physics class, instead I went with one of our bio grad students, Kate to help her and her labmate with some field work. So I had the pleasure of romping around in rivers all day long. Her project is about invertebrates in the rivers so we were all srubbing stones down and catching the little fly larvae etc in nets. I have to say I don't think I did a very good job, but I learned a lot that day. I hope she got what she needed from it. We wore these great wet suit type waders to allow us to sit in the river for extended periods of time and stay dry and pretty warm. I enjoyed it. Though I felt slightly guilty for not going to physics. I do feel that doing this was pretty important for my post-wes career though since I am trying to figure out if field for like this is what I want to do. Still calculating that one. Jury's still out. |
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[Jul. 30th, 2008|10:37 pm] |
I leave for the Clearwater tomorrow!
woot! |
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[Jul. 27th, 2008|09:27 pm] |
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Meg is not in China anymore. SHE IS HOME IN NEW JERSEY WITH ME! |
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[Jun. 16th, 2008|12:29 am] |
Beth is back home for some time. Where are you?
Visit me! Have food with me! Meet me somewhere! |
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[May. 27th, 2008|10:09 am] |
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Karen: By Beth! I'll see you... somewhere... in the world, again! |
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| Myanmar |
[May. 15th, 2008|03:09 am] |
My friend Wunna is from Myanmar and his friends at home are personally going and buying and delivering food and stuff to victims of the cyclone. Possibly 100,000 people are dead, and about 2.5 million people are affected and are in need of aid.
You can donate directly through Wunna and his friends (ask me for his address to mail checks to)
Or through agencies. Google is doubleing donations: http://www.google.com/myanmarcyclone/ |
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[Apr. 11th, 2008|01:16 am] |
One evening on the boat I said
tonight we will see the green flash
and we did |
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| This one time, on the boat.... |
[Apr. 7th, 2008|09:43 am] |
Captain Beth Played "Wagon Wheel" for us during our ships meeting and we all danced on the quarterdeck. And it was completely great and we could be completely stupid because no one -that we all hadn't been living with for weeks- was anywhere, for miles and miles, as far as we could see was just water and we could dance however we wanted.
Another time we all danced like salps -interpretive dance. |
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[Apr. 1st, 2008|11:26 pm] |
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Life is really fucking weird. |
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[Mar. 30th, 2008|02:10 am] |
I really miss the stars
While we were learning about the stars, Captain Beth said they would be our "Celestial friends" and we all kind of laughed at her. But now that I'm home, away from the boat, I look up and it is like looking up at friends. The few stars that can be seen this close to the new york city lights and with trees and houses around are very comforting, but I miss really seeing them and seeing them all the time.
On an unrelated note, one day we were all shooting local apparent noon and once we had all decided that yes the sun was in fact sinking again and walked away with out numbers, Beth shouted "Happy post-meridian!" Love her. She was a really awesome captain.
On another unrelated note, whenever we had all hand get togethers where we were toasting anything, we would toast, then pour one glass over the side for Neptune, then we'd all drink from our own glasses. |
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