Wednesday, May 24, 2006

   Mutants galore!
Listening to: "Fly Me to the Sky" - angela

Lab has been great. Since I'm learning new things, I guess I'm more eager to do the work. I've taken over the duty of counting/transferring the nanotube flies. Dr. Beckingham is doing a project w/ her husband to prove that nanotubes aren't bad for living organisms. From what I've gathered so far, they're actually causing the flies to live longer! :o Yesterday, I learned how to dissect a fly brain. I've always hated dissections, and the idea intimidated me b/c it took me 3 class periods to dissect a frog brain in high school. Flies are even harder b/c you're doing it under a microscope w/ forceps and the tissue is delicate. My technique is still messy, but by the end of the day, I got a pretty good specimen. ^_^ Today, I learned how to grow bacteria. I did some of that in AP Bio, but this was much easier.

I can't wait for the release of X-men 3: The Last Stand. Unfortunately, I won't get to go to the premiere, and none of my friends (except Jen) want to dress up w/ me. I could get a real X-men costume made in this amount of time anyway. I've been a huge fan of X-men since I was around 11. It's interesting how my favorite X-men have changed and what the word "mutant" means to me (working w/ mutant flies and all). My current favorite mutants are Wolverine, X-23, and Psylocke. However, I really like the Rogue-Gambit pairing; both have grown on me. I could ramble on about the other mutants I like, but I won't bore you.

Finally, I found some full-length episodes of Da Xiong Yi Shi Jia. 5566 was guest starring as a brothers singing group called 566 (one of them was missing). It was hilarious b/c they all had outrageous personalities. The youngest one (Xiao Zhe, played by Mengzhe) would eat all the time, and then the middle one (Xiao Fu, played by Zax Wang Ren Fu) would pick on him and beat up anyone else in the way. The oldest one (Da Ge, played by Tony Sun Xiezhi) would start nagging at everyone.

Quote of the day:
"I want to be a fly larva. All you do is eat." - Sonia
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