on a sunny saturday afternoon

gosh. ang layo ng nilakad ko to make this blog entry so this better be good. i got sick of paying 1$/15min at the cybercafe next to my place so here i am at the 24hr/7 days a week student center where i could use the internet to my heart's content for FREE! ayos.

actually, nandito ako kasi wala akong maisip gawin this afternoon. i'm done with my laundry. took me 3 hours, would you imagine. had to walk three blocks with 1 week's worth of clothes which for me is quite a lot (you'll be happy to know na i still bathe as much here as i do at home kaya ang dami ko talagang clothes na nagagamit). three blocks here is no joke. sadly, walang nag-offer tumulong sa akin. mukha kasi ata akong amazona. pero lech talaga. ang layo ng laundry place na yun. kung may sampayan lang ako . . .

since last i wrote here, i've had significant progress in terms of my academic pursuit (opo, pumunta ako dito para mag-aral at hindi lang para mag-fafa). i have a rotation lab for this quarter! i'll be working on zebrafish as a model for spinal muscular atrophy. may publications naman yung lab sa Cell so mukhang ok. and the other RAs seem to really love the work. But my main reason for picking the lab is that i thought the PI seemed nice, almost motherly. and to those who asked, no, i didn't go for the lab with the hot PI. they all say he's too demanding and i don't want to be traumatized on my first rotation. aside from having a lab now, i have 3 other PIs who said they'd take me in the next quarters. so that's settled. mukhang kelangan talaga nila dito ng researchers so sa mga future applicants (jenner, eloi, cris, cathy, kat) apply kayo dito sa osu. daming fafa. promise.

that long walk addled my brain. i had so much stuff i was thinking of writing down before i got here and now i can't think of anything else to write about. darn it. there are now a lot of people here. di lang ako ang walang friends dito. ha.