Unfortunately, I'm the only one who can provide it.

Yesterday, my PI and I discussed the possibility of extending my internship another quarter, and possibly through the summer until I head off (knock on wood) to graduate school. I would get a modest pay raise and the certainty of saving up extra money through the summer (as opposed to maybe getting another job that doesn't require the use of too many brain cells, or, alternatively, finding a summer position in a lab that may or may not pay me for working in it) makes answering in the affirmative a fairly attractive option. However, it also severely limits the classes I can take next quarter, not to mention places a limit on my tutoring time, which is far more lucrative than the internship, and arguably just as advantageous to have on my CV if I ever want to teach at the college level in the future.

What I think would be perfect is if he would allow me to show up 10 hr/week to train another intern to take my place. That way, I can tie up some loose ends on the three projects I'm working on, I can help smooth the transition between me and my replacement, and it still frees up some time to devote more time to tutoring. That arrangement isn't exactly an entirely new proposition--my predecessor trained me 10 hr/week for an entire quarter last year, so there is some sort of precedent.

Argh. It's a lot to think about. Hopefully, he won't need an answer right away...

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...I'm playing "Smelly Cat" on the guitar and having the time of my life.

(It isn't hard, by the way. But I did just begin playing.)

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We went over the tests in class after we handed them in for grading.

It was then I realized just how incredibly fucked I was.

At least I can find solace in the fact that since so many people were fucked over by the same problem, it (or something very much like it) will appear again in the final.

Then I shall have my revenge!

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So my mom, in all of her snooping glory, went into my cousins room and found a change of address form.

Hopefully that means they're planning to move out.

I guess they didn't like paying a paltry $350/month to live here. (On the market, that's at LEAST a $800/month room.) My cousin can shove it up her ass, though. She's lived here rent-free long enough, and she doesn't treat my mom with respect.

She's a fucking stranger here.

So good fucking riddance--to you and your pig sty of a room, to your two (LONG) showers a day bullshit (An aside: what the fuck do you even do all day that warrants two showers? You don't even have a job!), and to your disrespectful attitude and sense of self-entitlement!

But we still want that $350 you owe us for January, and the $350 you will owe us for February. Because that water and electricity you use doesn't come cheap.

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I went downstairs to complete a 1% NO gas reduction experiment and in the process I managed to break a magnetic stirrer.

No big deal, except that those things cost like $150-200.

Boo, lab equipment.

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As much as I root for the underdog much of the time, I really, REALLY wanted the Patriots to win because they deserve it.

I think I take it personally because back in 8th grade, I was going to have a repeat of winning the Geography Bee until some 6th grader won on the last question because the 6th graders were given the questions to the competition beforehand. I deserved to win, but I was robbed.

Ever since then, I have had this worldview that certain people (or teams in this case) deserve to win based on their past experiences. I know people don't always get what they deserve, but I really hate it when people say that no one actually deserves anything in this world. People who work the hardest and get good results actually DO deserve to be recognized as the best, but as luck would have it, it doesn't always work out that way.

I have come to terms that the world is random like that; I accept the fact that it happens that way. But I don't have to like it.

Not at all.

EDIT: Okay. I have calmed down and regained some semblance of rationality.

I have concluded that I am just a big fucking baby.

Whatever. I still want to vomit all over the TV. But I think I'll opt not to because the TV is so big and pretty and high-definition-y and I don't want to ruin that.

So instead, I'll take my frustration out on a video game or something.

Or perhaps I'll just pee really aggressively into the toilet bowl, because I really need to go RIGHT. NOW.

SECOND EDIT: Even though his team lost, I still want to do naughty things to Tom Brady.

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TODAY WILL BE THE DAY.

Unless tomorrow's the day.

I shall clear my mind by practicing the piano piece I will have to play for my midterm.

And then... DOWN TO WORK!

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I wish the mall near my house would just DIE.

Maybe then I could get home on weekends from school in less than 45 minutes. (The whole trip should only take 20.)

Why do people even like that mall, anyway? The retailers there aren't even that great.

Pain in my ass!

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