I was going to put something else here, but I forgot

I'm currently talking to Lucy about the UCLA commencement speaker issue(s) and how they might get someone from Lincoln Park. I'm ashamed to admit that I completely forgot who those people are (maybe my subconscious was trying to protect itself by repressing the memory) until Lucy sent me the link to "Somewhere I Belong." I suddenly recalled very vividly the presentations they made us sit through in high school.

It's an unfortunate association. Even more so since if they do get that person, then Lucy's graduation from college will remind her of high school. When she wanted to know why they can't find something more original I got a sudden flashback of Kate singing "Cows In the Morning." Whatever else you might say about it, THAT certainly would be original. (Though perhaps it's more suited for UCD graduation, and not UCLA.)

... ...

A week in conclusion: the seminar class has ended. I've spent a great deal of time sitting behind the curtain imaging cells at 100x, which looks very cool but drives your eyes nuts since you are sitting in the dark, staring through a microscope at dimly florescent things for hours. The issue with my account turned out (after being sent from the program coordinator to the student business office and back again) to be a change in my funding source, which resulted in half of my stipend now being deposited via payroll and the other half being sent through my school account, which is not enrolled in direct deposit. At least I know both sums are mine, which makes me happy since the half of the salary that got deposited in my bank account is enough to cover my housing, but that's about it.
So yay food. I ought to go and eat chocolate, to celebrate.

Final project's due on Tuesday. I'm going to look at an apartment tomorrow. It's further and slightly cheaper, but mostly I'm after a safer area and a place that doesn't quite so resemble the North Pole. (Though I'm keeping the polar bear.) There have been no other promising postings of places for rent so far, but then again, I haven't been haunting the sites and probably won't do so until after Tuesday.

Cheers.

[edit 21:28]

Ahh almost forgot! I found the neutrophil-chasing-a-bacterium video that I mentioned a long time ago (the one where my classmates and I cheered for the neutrophil).

The round things floating around are red blood cells. The vibrating black speck is a bacterium.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your white blood cell at work.

Go neutrophil go!

And now I can sleep.