My week has been okay. I ran out of buffer Monday, so I couldn't do anymore plates at work until I got more. Harini loaned me a bottle of her buffer, so tomorrow I can probably finish that SNP. Maybe the updated software will be installed tomorrow, or next week sometime.
Tuesday was sort of a weird day for me. It's been sunny and warm, and I've been listening to music a lot this week. So I guess I've been in a pretty decent mood. Anyway, Tuesday mornings I have biostats. A guy who sits in front of me always reads a book during class, and one day I asked what he was reading. After that he started talking to me a bit. Anyway, on Tuesday he sat next to me. That made me very uncomfortable, mainly because he's a big guy and pretty much fills up those seats in that room (amphitheatre style lecture room, but it's not huge). I like my space, and he was sort of encroaching on mine. I just tried to pay attention in class and did my nervous doodling. I didn't talk to him or even look at him really. He seems nice and friendly, but I'm not that interested in any sort of relationshiping right now. I guess that's because I've been feeling pretty good even though I'm lonely. So that was the first kind of weird thing that happened.
Then later that afternoon before my last class (infectious diseases), this other guy who has been in most of the same classes as me, said hello to me in the computer lab. Now, we're in a group for chronic diseases, it's a homework group deal. But he's married, and I had a little crush on him last semester before I realized he was married. (He's made it quite obvious since then, always saying "my wife" this and "my wife" that.) Anyway, I just thought that was weird because I didn't expect him to bother. He's friendly and stuff, but still, I didn't expect it at all.
THEN, in class, the prof was discussing contact tracing, which is like partner notification for STDs. So, he was explaining why it can be difficult to find all the contacts in the case of an STD. He made up an example about anonymous sex, saying that people could have sex with someone and not really know their names or enough about the person to contact them. And he used the names Michael and Laura who had sex one night in a motel during a business trip or something. Yeah, why my name??? That was embarrassing. I've never had sex with a person whose full name I didn't know. Hopefully my name will never be used again in an example to illustrate anything about STDs.
Wednesday was okay, really boring though since I couldn't do any work. Plus, there are only two computer labs in the building, and one was reserved ALL DAY for I don't know what. I found that very very inconvenient. It was used all day again today. I hope they'll be done with that tomorrow. Anyway, presentations for my epi study design class were that afternoon. My group didn't have to present this time. We will for the next one I think. Anyway, the last group to go used that powerpoint design with the red curtain on the stage. But, the very last slide, the "any questions?" slide, was a different background. It was this black and red smokey picture, but the smoke had these really creepy skulls with scary teeth. Someone asked why they used that scary picture, and the guy said, "The colors matched the rest of the slides." Yeeeah.... it matches, but that doesn't explain why you used such a creepy one. There was only one guy in that group, and I figure he's the one who put that picture up for the background on that last slide, probably because he liked it even though it was really damn creepy. These presentations are all on the same question, if physical activity can prevent type 2 diabetes in children. We just change the study design to answer the question. I just thought I'd share that, because I thought it was really really weird, but still really funny. "Because the colors matched".....
I got a haircut Sunday. It's shorter now; I couldn't stand my hair being almost beyond my shoulders anymore.
Jason Castro is still on American Idol. I admit that I did vote a few times. But, you all already know I'm pathetic like that, so whatever. I like his performances and his singing voice, and it doesn't hurt that he's so cute and dorky. I like dorks. Well, I mean I like dorky people, not whale penises.
