BREATHE

I was so tired when I got home from school that after dinner and relaxing on my parents bed, I fell asleep. @_@

Well, stress stuff started last Wednesday, escalated by Saturday and started to diminish yesterday (Monday).

Stressful things:
1. Lola's funeral - Spent the whole Friday night up to Saturday morning. No sleep. Parents were not home for the past 3 days. ^^;
2. Thesis - Not yet finished. Target to finish the first draft by the end of January.
3. Academics - Report for 151, Interview for 197, EEE exam and homework, and Presentation for 173
4. Yearbook - For the ads and barkada pages and marketing stuff.
5. Jobfair - Where am I going to apply? What am I going to put in my resume? O_O
6. Gifts - Ahaha... last minute shopping! XD

De-stressers:

1. Barkada Bonding - Yay for Nikki's comeback! So sad I wasn't able to bring a camera, I forgot all about it because my parents used it that the morning and I didn't have any sleep. We didn't get to go to Global Fun Carnival because it was raining, but the seafood feast, cheesecake galore, exchange gifts and Monopoly more than made up for it! (I really wanted to go to the Carnival. ^^;) :P
2. My nephew and nieces - I love them to bits.
3. My pets - Because fun-loving dogs are so cute! Birds do the silliest things. XD
4. The Secret - Positive thinking gets you EVERYWHERE. ;)
5. Shopping - Enough said. :D
6. Internet - It's always nice to unwind by just browsing stuff.

Yesterday, I was in school by 8:30am for our report and got home around 7:10pm because we had to finish our interview. That explains the super tired feeling. ^^ Right now, I'm still researching for the homeworks. Ehehe... good thing I got some sleep before working. :)

Let's go!

Thesis gonna be the end of me...

Really, I never fully understood why my friends had to stay really late in school for something like this.

NOW I KNOW.

*cries*

I'm rushing with my thesis right now. I still have 7 experiments to do. Each experiment needs about 5-6 hours to complete if I'm lucky... if not then I have to wait for 8 hours like yesterday. T_T

On top of that, I'm getting a bit sick. :( See... my immune system isn't that great, and when I got caught in the middle a heavy rainfall last Thursday I began having coughing fits. ;_; Aside from that, I got an eye irritation because I kept rubbing my eye yesterday and now my left eye is all swollen. Then there is not eating on time (because of waiting for the experiment) and if I ever eat, it's something unhealthy and easy to finish (because I have to go back to the lab for the next experiment). And I also lack sleep because I have to study or make reports for other academic subjects. ._.

I wish there was 100 hours in a day, that way I'd be able to finish all the experiments in one day and I'd have enough time to think about other things for the remaining time. T_T

I still need to characterize the samples (AFM at Ateneo) and I need a working vacuum evaporator. Haaaaaah. Stress. T__________________________T

*prays to finish the thesis this sem*

Pictures galore!

I went to the studio after the meeting for our report in MatE106. They finally found my barkada pics! Yay! :D

Anyway, I asked them to burn the barkada pics on my CD so I could show it to my friends but Ate Rhea was nice enough to give me all my pictures! Whee!! Happiness! XD (It really helps when you know the people in charge of the studio, hehehe... )

And so.. I uploaded all the pics in a private multiply folder because I feel much safer. If you want to comment again or you want to feel overwhelmed by my face all over the page, feel free to do so. They're all small pics though, I don't want to use the larger images. :P

Face of 2007... :D

After getting the pics, I went to T. Alonzo. I have never stepped on that place, so yeah.. it was quite an adventure getting there! I had to buy an aluminum sheet for my thesis and my friends told me how to get there. I had to walk down the street twice before finally seeing the hardware store that has what I need. It was quite expensive though. :( But not as expensive as the aluminum sheets that I found online. @_@

So.. I may be able to start on the experiments next week. As it turns out, my power supplies are still working fine. (But the capacitors are starting to leak.. O_o we'll just have that fixed when I'm finished with my thesis. ^^) And they delivered the correct Argon gas last week. I'm so happy! This is it! ^_________^

Let's hope that we could find trends in the results. I need to increase polyimide's adhesion... *prays for favorable results*

Stress and strain curves...

I think my life can now be summarized by that. I have reached my Elastic Limit and I probably won't be able to relax... ever! >_< When I reach my Ultimate Tensile Strength, well.. then.. I will probably snap. Gah... T_T

And no more RO. Well good for me... I need more time to work on other things. Yes, I have life outside RO.

Schoolwork... bleh. -_-;

I need something to look forward to. Like an outing of some sort. Right now there's too much drama (IRL and IIL). Or maybe I can look towards buying new clothes and shoes for work. I want naturalizers! (They're super duper comfy and stylish~!)

I won't have a summer break. Boo~! T_T

I don't have a Physics72.1 laboratory class starting next week! Yay! But Ma'm Teci is leaving... Nooooo~!! I love her! This is the second time I got her as my Physics teacher and frankly, she's the kindest teacher I've ever had at that department. T_T