Tonight is the night...

So today we have done the following:

1. Made it to lab on time and misidentified the scientific name for a Texas Mountain Laurel. Apparently you can't know the "brand name" of a plant. Must know generics. I have a hard enough time memorizing drug brand and generic names and now I'm expected to know Sophora secundiflora. I KNEW THE NAME OF THE PLANT, GIVE ME POINTS. Well I accidentally identified the next tables plant instead. No credit. Oh well. I consider the TX MTN Laurel a friggin tree, NOT a shrub. So kiss my arse.

2. Registered for my Ethiopian Adventure officially, as in not just with the study abroad office on campus. Its really happening now. HOLLA! The biggest question I get is WTF are you going to Africa for?! I reply with "to study of course" and they say "WHY?!" and I say "why not?" They never have a response. I'm staying in Addis Ababa which is basically a super black version of Austin. Many languages and cultures. Its actually more closely related to Washington DC as far as nationalities and stuff, not only is AA the capitol of Ethiopia, its the Capitol of the African Union. So thats basically DC.

3. Got silly nasty sweaty at the gym. I was on the elliptical for about 18 minutes when I decided to move along to the treadmill. There was a girl who is about the size of my arm bouncing all kinds of everywhere on the elliptical a few machines down. It was way too distracting so I had to move along. I kept watching her and turning a face like "uhhh da fuck are you doing???" As far as I know you aren't supposed to bounce up and down, you are supposed to squeeze your core and stay as stable as you can to achieve maximum balance and minimum fool-look-a-like-in. But I could be wrong... What do I know? I busted out 120 crunches, 5 girly pushups, and a few leg lifts. I was doing the lifts wrong so I quit doing them. I know its not supposed to hurt but something wasn't right and I kept getting a funny feeling in my knee that was bad.

4. now I relax until the bell doth toll for me to leave for work. I feel like lunch and a nap are at hand. I must be prepared for the worst to happen at work tonight. The worst being that I am late to trivia because of some heart surgery or something today. I wish they would just have those on Monday only... That would indeed make me a happier camper.

So there we go. Its not even noon and I've already had a super productive day. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Alys

PS
Trivia tonight we are going in as champions. The only way someone can catch us is to beat us by 25 points or so. That doesn't mean we are going to coast on easy. I want to win FIRST AGAIN to solidify our legacy. We only got three Ron hosted wins in a row and were dethroned last week. Tonight we come with Vengeance.