As you can see, I have a low attention span...haven't posted in weeks it seems.

Let's see, I've bought two new fish, one zebra danio (in memory of Danny-O) and a leopard long-finned danio. Their names are Eek (for the little one) and Sharky. Yes, Aaron named them and he has a strange fetish for Eekstravaganza the cartoon. Right now Sharky has exiled Eek into the corner of the tank under the filter (mean Sharky) but I am going to get some gothic castles and stuff to put in it so Eek has somewhere to hide.

Ok let's get this blog up to date.

Remember the thing with the band manager, etc.? Now we have a drummer, Marc, (who is also in another band, The Pheremones, which is wierd cause i feel like our band has to live up to them, and their name sounds so cool...) And just yesterday Pete (the manager) called and said he had this guy, Chris, who plays the bass and his friend Katarina who plays the guitar and sings. We are meeting on Monday for our first practice. Uber stressful, I say, not only that I am missing a BIO genetics review for it, but also the pressure to perform. I think I'm just gonna sit back and see what they want to do b/c i am worried--I hate "jamming" as they call it...it is just another excuse for musicians to show that they are way better than me. this is how it has been in the past (thanx for that h.s. jazz band). anyways, so i hope it goes well, marc seems cool already and i'm sure the other two are as well. at least the name Katarina sounds super exotic and cool...and not just a little intimidating.

so yes...summary: mixed feelings about the practice monday, hope for all the best, trying to be optimistic, which is hard when put into account my lack of social skills...want band to be cool, comfortable, and for all members to be equal...translation: i dont want to be known as "that ugly one in the back...who can't play" LOL ok can you believe my insecurity??? I will stop this right now.

anyways, yes, got the bmx bike. got it for $70 flat, which is really good seeing as it is a GT bike and those don't usually go for anything under $125. thinking about trading aaron for his and repainting it b/c he is so in love with it, he barely lets me put it one the rack by myself for fear i will scrape the paint or mess up the brakes or something.

today, i had biology lab which was enough to put me in a bad mood, b/c it just shows how heartless and selfish humans are. and it's hard to escape thinking the same way sometimes. like in the lab, we had to dissect crawfish (NOT crayfish, crawfish dammit...) and i have eaten crawfish, and they taste good, and i will probably eat them again. but it just seems different when you set them out and start cutting them up and looking at their insides. what's worse, were the ghost shrimp. my friend elissa has ghost shrimp in her aquarium, and so that was hard, seeing as i had already thought of them as pets that we should take care of and protect from harmful substances, etc. and here we are, looking at them in a petri dish with like, a millimeter of water in it, and sticking dye in the water, and basically watching them die. and it makes me even madder what people say when confronted with the meanness of their actions. ok yeah, so it's only a crawfish, its only tiny little ghost shrimp. Animals' importance does not just reside in thier size!!! If that were so, all those gymnastics girls in the Olympics are worth so much less than me...or Shaquille O'Neill... well you see what i mean. And where do we come off condoning animal testing just because "it's for the good of mankind." i wonder if we even have the right to assume that our well being is more important than...let's say, monkeys, or mice--and sacrifice their well being in order to further ours. i wonder if we do.

And i know there are vegetarians out there, elissa in particular, who are calling this hypocrisy as i especially enjoy a juicy side of hamburger...but to me, that's different. that's the food chain.

ok side note: I hate hate hate the smell of latex and right now, I reek of it. I wonder how I'll ever have safe sex without thinking of all the sheep eyes, earthworms, frogs, and now crawfish I have dissected.