Things are CRAZY!

Sometimes personal life gets a little too loud for me to concentrate on school. This has been one of those weeks. My sixteen year-old daughter is struggling with TMD (temporomandibular joint disorder), and we spent all night in the ER one night in order to find this out. So I missed my political science test the next day, along with all of my classes for the day. I thought I was getting everything caught up (including my study blog), but then on Saturday, I had a car accident, and I spent the day in the ER myself. I'm OK, just bruised pretty badly. The lady in the car that I hit (yep) broke her arm and I think she may have had surgery. I feel really terrible, everyone assures me it was an accident, but I feel like the idiot who can't drive.
My hubby took me to the Toyota dealership and bought a new Prius, and it is RED! I LOVE my new car. So in the middle of all this life, I'm trying to manage to learn something and make some decent grades. I had to make up my political science test today, and I think it went fine. Hopefully I'll find out tomorrow on that.
So now I'm updating the study blog, trying to catch up on some reading, and I'm about to study the vocabulary that I'm being quizzed on tomorrow. Maybe life will go back to being a little more on autopilot so I can concentrate on school. Just a few more weeks til spring semester is over! I went to advising on Monday, so I'm pretty sure about what my schedule for summer and fall semesters will be. I'm planning to take Physics 1 and Biology of Aging. We'll see how that works out. Then in fall, it's Biosystematics and Ecology. Things are starting to look like I'll be a senior soon! WOW! I've got to work on coming up with a senior project proposal. I so don't know what to do. Ideas?

Best intentions...

Yeah, so it's March. I have LOTS of updates. So the first day of class, I decided that taking Chem II was a bad idea. I'm sure my professor is a lovely person, but he told me that (1) I had to have my book in class, and (2) I could not have any electronic device during class. Well, my book is ON my iPad, and I told him that. His answer? That's your problem. No iPad, must have the book. So I chose door number 3. I'm outta here. I'm not going to buy the book AGAIN. I have no regrets. If I find the time later I'll retake the class, otherwise, I'm just going to deal with the C. Oh but wait, there's more! The next class after Chem II is Orgo II. The professor did.not.show.up. This is not good. My Orgo I professor was a great dude, and I was looking forward to having him again for II. Apparently he's not coming back, and there was some kind of drama. We got a replacement professor, and he is lovely. However, the head of the chemistry department is facilitating the labs. He's one of my favorite professors, but he is NOT an organic chemistry instructor. After my third panic attack, I dropped that one too. So that leaves cell biology, genetics, and American government. Now that we have passed the midterms, I am perfectly happy to only have these three classes. They are no walk in the park, and I've had a few hiccups in the testing department. I have resolved to buckle down and be a little more responsible in the second half of the semester.
Currently, I'm studying for a government test that is coming up on Wednesday. It shouldn't be too bad, I enjoy the class, and I'm working on catching up on all the reading. And boy, is there a lot of it! We are doing a fruit fly experiment in genetics lab, and that has actually been pretty fun. Our mutant flies have brown eyes, and we are determining what kind of inheritance leads to the mutant brown eyes. Our first cross is finished, and we should be done with the second in about a week. It has been fascinating learning how to roofie flies so we can examine them under the microscope without them flying away. We also introduced some glowing plasmids to some E. coli in a petri dish, and saw them glow after a couple of days. The smell!
Cell bio is kind of kicking my butt. I do well in labs, but the tests are intense. I'm sure I'm going to pass both classes, but I'm not sure how good my grades will be. I'm always in knots about it right up to the end. Anyway, I'm blogging instead of studying, see my ADD? I'm going to get back to government. *Yawn*