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Lowell House, on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus

I promised both and that I'd have been able to guess correctly even without those clues because I did think while reading the fic that it sounded like Luce or Aishuu, and I figured Aishuu wouldn't have reused a previous idea.

Another somewhat "unfair" guess was [kirin] for because it just happened to be the Meijin and Sai in the chat, although I'm not sure if I can manage it. Will put on to-do list for this week though.

Yours &c.

Classes

Haste Street, on the Feast of St. Augustine

First day of classes. General consensus seems to be that Advanced Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is deathly boring. I wouldn't mind boring so much if the lecture didn't seem so unstructured. The professor gave a lecture on nucleotide metabolism today, and I honestly wasn't able to tell what the point of the lecture was. He didn't really go over the purine biosynthesis pathways; instead, he just pointed out various interesting aspects that didn't seem to tie together to make any overarching point (other than, "these metabolic pathways have various interesting aspects"). Advanced Genetics, Genomics and Development, however, was tremendous fun, though we had a lot of information thrown at us at a very rapid rate. (Well, at least it keeps me awake.)

Part of what may account for the pace is that all the courses are divided among three professors who teach more or less independently. There's a "final" after each third of the course. It feels more like sequentially taking three short five-week courses that are somewhat interrelated in topic, rather than taking a single course.

Anyway, I'm going to stick with the biochemistry course a while longer and see if it gets better. If it doesn't, I may have to drop it. I'm supposed to take one core course (out of three total) that isn't in my "division" (i.e. genetics, genomics and development), and originally, I'd intended biochemistry to be my "out-of-division" course, but if I drop it, I'm not sure what I'll take instead. Maybe I should just take neurobiology or cell biology next semester (but that would mean giving up the chance to take the computational biology class). Argh.

Took a typing test (link from aiwritingfic): 104.79 wpm and 434.48 cpm, with two errors. Personally, I think the writing sample was too short, and the sample I got had the sort of language I'm used to typing for papers, so I think my speed was inflated. (Previous typing tests usually place my speed in the 60-80 wpm range, depending on the sort of text I'm typing.)

Really cool meme from zoesque:

Give me a series and I'll tell you who on my f-list would play each character (in my opinion). Please be specific, though. If you say 'Furuba', specify 'Zodiac members' or 'Student Council', etc. unless it's a small enough series that I can actually COVER all of the characters without my hands falling off. You know my fandoms-- if not, ask.

Yours &c.