Did absence make the heart grow fonder?

My deepest apologies to all of you who have been feeling the lack of posts lately badly (basically...Mom, I'm sorry). Since the regular semester got off I have been in summer classes and working in the Chemistry lab doing research and working at the movie theater. My summer class, calculus three, got out about two weeks ago and I did pretty good by getting a B+ in the course. Since then I've been working about four days a week at the movie theater and two full days a week at the lab and some nights working at the lab too to finish up research that doesn't get done during my full days at lab.

In the lab I've been helping a graduate student hoping to get her Phd with her research. I am looking at the effect of dioxane percentage on pKa (something to do with reactions and equilibrium). I do a bunch of different titrations on different percentage solutions. Actually, the computer does these titrations as we are working on such an accurate scale that we need the computer to automatically dispense very small volumes of base into a solution of acid, which is on such a small scale as to be impossible to do using humans. So, basically I sit around for six to eight hours a day changing solutions when necessary and making sure that the computer is doing it's job. In the last month I have therefore read five books and am halfway thorough my sixth. Quite the productive summer I'd say.

However all this work leaves little time for fun and adventure and therefore little need for entries. I have been trying more to have fun and when last Saturday with Jeff and Stacey to Wawawai Park for some floating and sun bathing and am going again this weekend for a barbecue and possibly on Monday with Stacey to go boating with Jeff's sister. So I've been trying to have fun and hey, I've been making money.

However, even I have to think twice as to how important money really is. I got an email today from the Chemistry department requesting a Chem 105 tutor, but advising us that these students are all ready very far behind and will require much help and study. I decided that with all this other crap going on, I really just need to have a few moments of time to myself each day otherwise I'll burn out, so I declined! Hey, it's an improvement for me, the girl who never turns down a job.

That's pretty much the most recent news that's happened lately. So hopefully this will help to let you know what I've been up to. Brian's been in school too and has just recently gotten a job working construction for the remainder of the summer. Well be keeping busy, but also having some fun with each other in the meantime!

When Marketing Goes Bad

So there has been an odd bit of marketing going on in the McDonalds here in Pullman. To explain better, there is a sale going on now for two small vanilla ice cream cones for $1. Now this marketing is great to start off but then it goes very bad; first off the sale is only going on at the Bishop Blvd McDonalds not the one on Stadium (it's a CHAIN for goodness sakes who would have thought two stores in the same town wouldn't have the same sale), secondly when I went there today by myself I ordered a small vanilla ice cream cone and the total came to 97 cents to which I said "isn't there a two for $1 sale?" and the lady said "yes, would you like that instead?" and I said "no, I'd just like one for 50 cents" and she said "no, it's two for $1 or one for 97 cents".
CRAZY!!!!!
In case you were wondering I refused to give them my business and drove through the rest of the drive through feeling satisfied with my refusal of this ridiculous marketing travesty.