"Let's Take The Long Way Home"

I can't remember...have I ever confessed my homesickness??? Maybe I did in an email to Hajra...its usually when I'm having some sort of a moment. It's not bad or anything...It's just that those 2 weeks before I left for Brasil, I was having to get used to moving away from Lan, whom I had been roommates with for 2 years, and moving into an apartment with Ana. Basically, once I got used to the idea of living in Cordova...and not the U of M area, Midtown, or downtown :( I left for Brasil!!! My point is just that so much changed in my life so FAST!!!!

I have not had any coffee today...I actually think its been making me kinda of sick. I love variation in my food, but I usually don't eat alot of variation in my daily diet. I need to probably go back to that as well. I went to the UFSC "mess hall" today...ummm.....yeah, very interesting...I wanted to go and see what it was all about. It was cheap. That is the ONLY justification for eating there on a daily basis...I felt like a real student though...on the menu today: rice, black beans...duh...batata fritas, "salad", tangerine, some kind of creamy chicken stuff...hahaha...I don't know...it didn't LOOK good, but it wasn't that bad. I already feel better without all of that caffeine. Probabaly should have just eaten fresh veggies and good soild meats today, but I wanted to have lunch with the boys of the lab today :)

Which I'm very glad I did!!! Rimenez told me about a really great band from Australia. The Beautiful Girls!!!! They are awesome!!! I love discovering new music. But I am LOVING the fact that this album will forever remind me of my summer in Brasil :) So I'm downloading the album tonight and wearing it out while i'm here!!! Living proof of the memory conditioning that I'm researching in lab!!!!

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Yay!!! Shakira and the Black Eye Peas are performing!!!!!

All of the graduate students are such hard workers :) This lab is great and I feel really lucky that I put Dr. Padua's lab as my first choice. He's very good at what he does. Think I'm going to sneak out of here shortly...