three down.

my organic spectroscopy test was fine. i felt good when i left, but then as i spoke with other people in the class i started to question some of my answers... i hate how that happens! so i'll just have to wait and see.

my molecular biophys presentation this morning went really well. these presentations are part of the grad student work that i've been doing in order to get honors credit for the class. anyway, i felt so good afterwards, and i knew an answer to one of our professor's questions that none of the graduate students knew... that was an awesome feeling. it's just so cool to realize that i have learned *so* much over the past 4 years.

my evolution critique was ok. basically the 4 group members sit facing the 3 teaching assistants and the professor. we had 7 minutes to present the paper, and they had the rest of the 20 minutes to ask us questions. it seems short, but when you are sitting there... it feels like forever! the paper my group and i were discussing was really poor research. [to be honest, i'm not sure how it got published!] full of bad experimental design and way too much extrapolation of the results... so there was a lot to critique. i guess it just didn't go as smoothly as i wished. everyone else said it was fine, so maybe i was just over-thinking it. or maybe i just wanted it to go as well as my presentation this morning... ha.

ok. well i'm off to study. another lame post, but i just wanted to update. :]

p.s. my dad went to vegas on friday, and that night his heart went into atrial fibrillation. again. i believe this is 4 times in the past 3 months. the cardiologist in las vegas wouldn't convert him, so he is now taking blood thinners and waiting for a while. when i was younger, he was in atrial fibrillation for about 2 years because they couldn't get him back into sinus rhythm. so he seemed to be in ok with this... he said that if he could do it for 2 years, he could do it again. he joked that now he could actually drink a coke and not worry that it would put him into atrial fibrillation, since he's already there. his cardiologist here has been encouraging him to have the ablation procedure done, but for a long time the odds vs risks weren't good enough to make my dad comfortable with having it done. i'm not sure if he is considering it again... either way, it's scary. at the same time, all i can do is be thankful that i do have such an amazing family and that we all care about each other deeply.

p.s.s. yesterday my grandparents went to vegas. tonight my mom is going to vegas. tomorrow my sister is going to vegas. needless to say, i'm feeling left out.