sushi, scrapbooking, volunteer work, vegas, & victoria grace.

let's see. my exams on thursday were horrid. after organic spectroscopy, liz and i went up to the lab & i actually started crying because i was so mad at my professor. there's really nothing worse than a professor calling his students stupid, is there? i talked to dr. tittiger and sharon in my lab about the whole ordeal and the exam, and they really helped me put things in perspective and feel a bit better.
plus that evening, james, deepa, eleni, ryan, and i went and volunteered at the local food bank. it was actually a lot of fun, and it just felt nice. the perfect way to fix a bad day, really. we are definitely going to do that again soon. they also have a mobile food pantry program, where you go out to the low income communities and pass out the food. i think that would be a lot of fun too.


last night, some of the biochemers when to sushi. now. we all know that i don't eat sushi, but i do love mochi, cucumber salad, & rice. so i don't mind the sushi nights. it's always fun to have these dinners, but they are kind of sad too. pretty soon everyone will disperse across the country and the sushi nights, breakfasts at peg's, and lunches at newman's won't really be possible anymore. i guess we have to fit in as many as we can right now, huh.
we ended up watching the unr game at the sushi place. unfortunately, it didn't turn out in unr's favor, but for a while it was a pretty exciting game to watch.


tonight, angela and i headed out to carson city to the scrapbook store there and held a fiskars training event. we had 8 ladies, which turned out to be a nice group. two of them were ladies i know from reno who teach scrapbooking classes. i was so glad that they were able to make it down to carson. :] the only problem was that on the drive back to reno, we ended up in a total white out blizzard through washoe valley. angela kept telling me that she was so glad that i was driving. ha. i usually don't get too bothered by conditions like that since one of my first trips to san francisco included driving home in fog so thick that i couldn't see more than about a foot in front of me. i learned quickly that you just have to keep track of that yellow line on the inside of the road and you can tell when the road is curving, etc. tonight the yellow line got covered from the snow after a bit, but i still managed. when i got home though, i noticed that my back is quite tense. i guess i just don't realize how tense i get.




oh. and i've booked my flight for vegas, so i finally get to meet baby victoria. i'm going with my parents for the first part of spring break. james isn't going with us this time. i think he wants to stay home and snowboard. haha. i don't really know what i'll do with no one to hang out with in the evening, but i'm sure i can make do. maybe a little more shopping time or something. ha. :] so here are a few more photos. the one with my brother is from the hospital, and the others are from when my parents visited last weekend. :]

alright. i'm still not quite over being sick, so it's time to get some sleep. i hope everyone is having a great weekend! :]