Rah!

Thursday:

1) Passed orals. YAY! I felt it was sort of a disaster, but any one you can walk away from, right? Wondering if I had 'molecular biologist' written on my forehead. They asked me all of ONE ecology question, in the midst of a grilling session on stem cells, pathogens, gene therapy, and genetic transcription. The fuck?

2) Had lunch with a friend at Edohana. Mmm, Japanese.

3) Relieved stress by shopping. No, it was necessary - really. Really. Visiting friends in L.A. next week, and we have tickets to The Magic Castle. Money duly spent, I feel much less wound up now.

4) Acquired at Hot Topic: One Last Unicorn t-shirt. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I was sorely tempted by their collection of video game shirts, as usual, but refrained. 'What I learned from video games: Anything can be overcome by application of sufficient force. If your car crashes and explodes, don't worry; A new one will appear.' Et cetera. OH, HOW I LOVE THAT STORE. (Even if it is run by people who're seventeen years old, know shit about shit, and PULL UP YOUR PANTS.)

All in all, I am greatly pleased. And infinitely relieved. And more than a little silly, at the moment... but what else is new?

Gratuitous Poetic Interlude

...Because it gave me shivers and made me happy.

Oh, I have skipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of, wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

-John Gillespie Magee, Jr.