I started interning this week.

After a 4 hour long plasmid experiment
including lots of mixing, transferring, and centrifuging
i finally extracted pure plasmids free of proteins and other supernatants!
I also found these neon orange thick-rimmed lab glasses to wear.
they make me feel "mad-scientisty"
then after the gel electrophoresis:

muffins!

Summer.

thursday: CPK after school for CSA luncheon. My new friend, Emily, and i shared this pizza. Then pool partay at Maggie's casa. More pizza.

friday: leah's house bright n' early. got ice cream. baked cupcakes. target. made a dinosaur card.andrea's birthday party. more pizza. marco polo with ariana(andrea's adorable little sister). then triangle toss. then pulled her around the pool with a noodle.

saturday: ikea.browsed for a new car(for my sister). had trouble with complicated coffee machine. went to little india. got some exotic foreign foods.went to a resturant. then parents company. I did a lab experiment involving lots of chemicals, extracting DNA, destroying protiens, then centrifuging. Then i found this chocolate cake in the fridge and ate some.

wheee. see? it CAN fit 4 people.

maggie's little puppy, bichu(pronounced bee-zhsoo)
he smells a little funny.
and looks like a little lamb.

Wouldn't it be nice?
Our dance final:

I should really be studying for 2 tests tomorrow.

I can't do math at the momment

(the packet flew into the pool.)

But it was rescued by ellen who claims she "saved the day"

Field trip!(kind of) Nature Trail walk-in science
I am pretty pleased with the pictures.

Hopefully googledocs will work

and mr. butler will like these pictures

and give jessica and i 8 points.

aww. jessica is so studious.

look at everyone scribbling notes.
so fuzzy. i want to roll around in it.

cat tails

more fuzzy-ness

ehh. no comment.

"so we beat on, boats against the current,

borne back ceaselessly into the past."

EYE-pod;meowzers.

new little white bookshelf

i spy julius and george.

Happy Birthday Ellen!( June 11th)

Happy Birthday Hiroki!( June 10th)

Leah and i, are suposedly "excellent"

(there's an award to prove that too).

pollination of flowers by bees is excellent too.

Without them, we would have no pretty flowers to look at and sniff.

its aliveeeee

The Spanish names for hummingbirds are very descriptive of their behavior:

Chupaflor - which means flower-sucker

Picaflor - which means flower nibbler

As well as the more romantic Portuguese Beija-flor or Flower-kisser