I am an Asian-American college student majoring in Technical Communications at the University of Washington. My Spring Quarter 05 Schedule: posTComm, TC 403, TC 407, ARCH 251, ESS 495.
All I need to do is find a PAID summer internship and I'm set!
ACK!! How horrible! I can't use my SN SoulDream7 any more. Since it was an AOL screen name, since my parents got rid of AOL, it deactivated that SN. Well, they got rid of it a long time ago, but AOL let us use it for a while longer...until now. :( So I had to come up with another SN AND now I don't have anyone's SN, only the five or so that I remember. My new SN is now finitebeing2. So please, either IM me or something. Also, :'(, they took down my old website too. I'll have to find somewhere else to host it, I'd host it on my UW one, but that one right now is currently being taken up by the Sichuan page. Jez, how complicated is all of this? I'm still debating whether or not I should mass e-mail everyone and tell them about it? Eh, if enough people IM me, like the people that I usually talk to, then I guess it won't really matter. I mean hey, if you have this site bookmarked, I'd say I knew you pretty well huh? :) or at least you know me.
Unknown @ 6:09:00 PM
Ugh, there was this sparrow flying around at the McMahon 8 dining center. It was so sad, it was hitting itself on the windows trying to get out and I tried getting some of the people there to do something about it but I guess they really couldn't have done anything. The words animal cruelty, PETA, health hazard and death (of the sparrow) come to mind though. Times like these make me wish I was a journalist so I can write something about it and tell others about it. Journalism is about experiencing something and then sharing that experience with hundreds of other people who should have been there or wanted to be there. There are just some things that the general public should be made aware of, there so much suffering and unfairness, and at least some of it can be prevented. Even though there will be hundreds of people who read it and go "Oh, that's too bad, wish I could do something about it." And never do, there will (hopefully) be one person that will try to do something that will change the situation. Maybe it won't work, but at least they didn't just shake their heads and walk away. Sometimes it's okay to not do anything because you know someone else will, someone more prepared, more passionate. But sometimes, you have to be that person. It's you, or no one.
Unknown @ 2:56:00 PM
Finally, the Shaolin Soccer Movie Night thing is going down. Unfortunately, a ton of people are going to be out of town because it's Easter Weekend. It's still a great movie though. I can't wait to show it with the projector :D It's gonna be sweet. Now if I could only find the time to make some flyers!! I don't want to publicize it too much since I have a burned copy...not to mention that it's STILL not out in the US yet (I think it's projected to be out in August) but I saw a trailer for the US dubbed version and it is so horrible, Miramax is really screwed it up, it totally loses the whole crazy feeling if you take out the Cantonese and the trailer gave away SO much of the movie. I'm excited to watch it again though :D. Ahhh, I just hope someone shows up :).
For those of you on the UW campus:
Shaolin Soccer Movie Night
Haggett 3/4 Floor Lounge
9 PM
Rant: I am scared for my life when I am my chem lecture. My prof is a clumsy, out of breath, mumbling, absent-minded scientist. I'm surprised that he didn't blown himself up doing an experiment a long time ago. On Friday, he did a demo. He put a little bit of a catalyst into a clear solution and it caused the solution to bubble green froth 3/4 of the way up the beaker. Then he had another beaker which had the same amount of solution in it (about 1/5 full in the beaker), and he also added catalyst to that one and then he proceeded to show how the catalyst was not used up by pouring the contents of one beaker into the other. Who sees what is wrong with this situation? I'll give you some hints...
1. There is twice as much solution.
2. There is twice as much catalyst present.
3. The beaker is still the same size.
Yes, to those "geniuses" out there, one would assume that the new combination of the above 3 facts would cause it to spew green froth, which it certainly did and he got it all over his hands and all over the table and I feel sorry for those in front because it must have been scary seeing him practically yelp and throw the beaker down, luckily he managed to keep the beaker upright and in two seconds it finished having its little eruption but I'd have to say it was the dumbest thing I have EVER seen a teacher do, and also, practically immediately after he did that, he proceeded to rub the corner of his eye with his contaminated hand.**
Today was also a scary day, first, he had a large sealed flask containing bromine gas, which was red, and then while he was walking up and down the lecture hall, up and down concrete stairs and the like, he tells us that it's poisionous. God must have been with us all because I was praying quite hard that he wouldn't trip and drop it, and I was looking around trying to find the best way to not breathe while running for the exit in the event that a catastrophe occured. Then, he puts the flask into a container full of dry ice and for some reason, to show that the ice is brittle or something, he takes out a chunk and hurtles it against the wall, then he takes another chunk and lobs it into the sea of students, softball style and it pretty much flies straight for where I'm sitting, lands next to my bag and shatters all over the floor. Needless to say, I was not as dumb as some of the other students who tried to catch the other pieces (yes, he continued to bombard his students with about 3 more pieces of dry ice) because I didn't want to risk burning my hands from the cold. THEN he pulls out a container full of liquid nitrogen which is at about 77K (subtract 273 for degrees C) and he pours it on the floor, which is fine, but then he starts walking up the stairs of the lecture hall and proceeds to pour liquid nitrogen down the rows where there are quite a few students sitting. So my professor spent about five minutes of class running up and down the lecture hall pouring liquid nitrogen on the floor.** Then he gets all impatient with the flask of bromine and pours liquid nitrogen in the container and a LOT of white gas comes out because of the difference in temperature between the liquid nitrogen and the dry ice. I'm not entirely sure why these demonstrations today disturbed me, but they did, and I resolve from here on in, that I will never sit less than 4 rows from the front of the lecture hall. I'm going to sit in the back, close to the exits.
Three more cool things to mention about today. First of all, I 'found' my calculator!! Yeah, pretty much only Diane knew that I had misplaced it. Turns out my lab partner in Physics jacked it and didn't find it until this morning, because he could have given it to me last Thursday because we both have chemistry lab at the same time too but instead, I had to do without my calculator for almost a week. But I had been praying that I would find it soon when class started and I turned around in the middle of the lecture and Ray was two rows behind me and he was like, oh yeah hey, I have your calculator lol :), God is good. Secondly, I got to kind of evangelize with Jamin, a guy from Campus Crusade (CRU), to this guy named Derek, he actually did most of the talking to Derek but it was really great sitting by and listening and then afterwards praying with Jamin. I wasn't able to actually try it myself because I had to leave to go to the Water Group Research meeting, which at the end, we worked it out so I now have 3 hours of water research once a week on Friday. Kind of crazy I know. Also, another flattering thing that happened was that I was in Dr. Stensel's office with XinGang looking into a light microscope for flax and Dr. Stensel asks me what I'm doing for the summer and then is like, yeah, Gang and I are going to Boise, ID over the summer and we need a helper, you interested? XinGang is immediately like, you know, she's a freshman, and Dr. Stensel kind of shrugs and is like, she's smart though. Of course I had to tell him that I'm hoping to get something out at PNNL for the summer but yeah :D, how cool is that? It just really made me think, damn, I really love doing research and working in the lab, this is what I'm really here for. Chemistry and Biology related labs are the best. Physics labs are kind of okay, but basically you do crazy things like rub a PVC rod with wool. Where's the fire, explosions and substances that turn your hands brown?
**Note: Do not, I repeat, DO NOT attempt to do anything this dumb. Practice good lab safety, sterile technique, etc.
Fifi 
Saturday, April 19, 2003
