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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Life Lessons of a Bio Major #2

Don't accept vitamin shots from your boyfriend

This one comes from my Evolutionary biology class.

Back in the day, a woman contracted HIV. This is unfortunate of course, but not super unusual. However, she blamed her boyfriend, a doctor, for giving her the virus.

Apparently, he had been giving her shots, claiming them to be "vitamin tonics" or whatever. And she accepted it as such. Uh...I don't know about you, but I'd be a bit concerned about this, especially when vitamins are so conveniently made in pill form.

Using the evolutionary history, forensics were able to determine that the strain of HIV that this woman had came from a tainted supply of blood/plasma/whatever, that the doctor had. Maybe he used it for research? I can't remember the details, but there were several samples of HIV that he had, but they could track down the specific sample that he used to infect his girlfriend.

All I have to say is WEIRD. Just...creepy and weird D:

However, out of this lesson comes another one. Evolution is badass and can be used for awesome things such as this. Awesome stuff, awesome stuff.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Hey, Remember that Drunk Lady?

Being in an apartment off-campus has been one of the most interesting developments in me becoming an "adult"

I mean, when my roommates and I were living in our first apartment on-campus we hardly ever saw any of our neighbors. The building was super quiet all things considered (except the fire alarms going off every so often.)

Here, we have babies crying every so often, yelling and screaming spouses (and in the other apartment complex, the police have shown up), pounding from the upstairs tenants, and the creepy people from downstairs (one always talking loudly on his cell phone and the other that just stares at us weirdly)

However, the day of the drunk lady was one of the more memorable events thus far.

As a good student, I was holed up in my room studying for an exam. Despite the loud talking I heard coming from the living room, I thought nothing of it; my roommates friend was over and I figured that she had just invited someone else along with. No, it wasn't until my other roommate came into my room and related the story to me.

It seemed that there had been a disturbance outside, someone screaming and crying. Upon investigation, it turned out be a very drunk girl who was trying to drive. Her boyfriend had kicked her out of his apartment (his mom's apartment actually.) Yes, he did kick his very drunk girlfriend out and expected her to drive home. Oh, and before you say anything, she had a dead cell phone so she couldn't call a friend to drive her. And he knew this.

Not wanting her to drive home in her condition, she was invited in. And this is where things got weird.

See, when she found out what apartment we lived in, she told us that her boyfriend called us "the lesbians downstairs." Not only this, but he apparently went on to say that we "wanted him" and that he was going to "f**k us all"

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think wanted to have sex with someone means that you've met them. And we've never talked to him. At all. Ever. Hell, I only saw him for the first time a few weeks later. Um...creepy?

After finding this out, my roommate, Rachel and her friend decided to have a bit of fun messing with the ass, and went up to his apartment.

They then proceeded to tell him that they were the lesbians from downstairs and asked if they could watch the football game with him. Apparently the look on his face was priceless and he asked them if he was on candid camera. When they replied with a negative, he seemed pretty giddy and said of course they could.

Dumbass.

But they told him that they had to go get some stuff before coming back. And of course they never did. But Rachel's friend did grab Rachel's butt and looked slyly back. The pie-eyed look on his face said it all.

As for the girl, she was fine. A bit of an idiot but harmless really. She called a friend using my roommate's phone, and left shortly thereafter. She called us her angels.

Weirdest night ever. But a great story to tell. And the story always starts, "hey, remember that drunk girl...?"


Wednesday, May 4, 2011

A Bucket List

Just decided to think up a Bucket list. You know, a list of things to do before you "kick the bucket"

And despite wanting to never die, I'd have to say there's a pretty good chance I will. So this is my list, in no particular order really.

  1. Fall in love and not be scared
  2. Work at a wildlife refuge or zoo
  3. Have some literary work published
  4. Meet an actress or actor from one of the shows I love (i.e: The Mentalist, The Big Bang Theory, or Bones)
  5. Cuddle under the stars
  6. Explode a glass of water with sodium or potassium
  7. Visit Seattle
  8. Live in Alaska for a summer
  9. Pet a cheetah
  10. Own my own home
  11. Graduate college
  12. Go to Comic Con
  13. See Wicked on Broadway
  14. Learn to play the violin
  15. Sing a solo
  16. Read all of Jane Austen's work (I have read Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park. Next up is Emma)
  17. Stay up an entire night just talking with friends
  18. Do/learn genetic testing
  19. Cook a fancy steak dinner
  20. Fall asleep in someone's arms
  21. Own a snake/bearded dragon
  22. Have a pet cat
  23. Build and launch a rocket
  24. Fold a paper crane (I cannot seem to do this. A paper frog, yes, but not a crane...)
  25. Kids? Maybe?
  26. Read On the Origin of Species
  27. Own the complete series of Calvin and Hobbes
  28. Work in a museum
  29. Go horseback riding
  30. Hike all the way down the Grand Canyon (I have visited there before, though)
  31. Have a first kiss
  32. Visit Incan, Aztec, and Mayan ruins (I have been to some Mayan ruins)
  33. Beat someone at a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock
  34. Learn to ballroom dance
  35. Plant a garden
  36. Have a blog that people actually read (XD)
  37. Visit the Northeast USA during autumn
  38. Collect all the books I can and have a library of my own
  39. Drive on Route 66
  40. Accept life for what it is. And to be happy.