Ahhhhh. There is not a more gratifying feeling then finishing your finals and having nothing better to do then lay around. Unfortunately, even though my finals finished yesterday, I have been barely able to enjoy the extra time. My crazy life does not get any better with school over, for there are many aspects that are still in full force even after the last test. The RA gig turned into overdrive at the worst possiple time.....finals week.....but knowing this when I signed up for the job, I took it like a the rock that I am and managed to solve the dilema and manage to squeak by on my finals. And of course there is my second job, my research. I just happened to finish the biggest part of my experiment this week, which means for the past 3 weeks I have been mating my vibrio and e. coli, transfering the results to over 200 plates and picking 3000 colonies to create my mutant library. Mind you there is lot of backround work to this, like making media, washing over 200 pieces of velvet and counting 5447 colonies which came from this experiment. But now, i have my thesis, I have 150 different colonial morphology mutants of the rugose form of V.cholerea. So now is the data collecting process, which happened today,consisting of about 80 drawings of different colonies and there is still more to do. But of course all work and no play makes Selena a dull girl, which in my case isnt true. Being a part of all these things has its perks. I had an E-tox dept. Christmas party which was followed by a Res. Life Christmas party in which during the White Elephant gift exchange I recived a stolen "Drama" sign from the drama building.Hmmm, Im still debating if I should hang that up seeing as how I dont want to get in trouble for vandalizing the drama building. RA's set such good examples . In regards to RA perks, I got an anonymous gift that was left on my door. Seeing as how the note read " Until you get the real one" and opened it to find the Spiderman DVD and a Spiderman calender, I can only guess that this is from my kids. Why would I assume this? Well at breakfast one time I remember telling my kids that I would like a guy who wouldnt mind dressing up as Spiderman. This was a totally innocent request, so all you dirty minded people, get your head out of the gutter! I remember only saying this to them, so that is why i think, one or a few of them did this. Anyways, it made my day, and will make my vacation. Although sometimes i feel like throwing some of them off the balcony, I really do love all my kids. Well I am staying here for another week to do more data collecting and to work on my research paper, so I will not just be lying around like I would be if I was home. SD buddies, i will be home soon. Cant wait. But for now I am destined to wander the halls alone, trying to keep myself from being afraid of the haunted dorms, and working my butt off. Everyone good luck on finals. I will see you soon!!!!!

".....there's beauty in the breakdown..."