time to finally dust off this thing and re-start it over the summer. actually, i think i'm going to try to update as much as possible this summer.. the kids for the high school program moved in today, and as soon-to-be college freshmen, they're the most social of the bunch in the dorm, so there'll be more ppl to hang out with. i've mostly been hanging with marvin (from plano) and myers (from last summer) which is pretty cool , but it's nice that there's finally more ppl to hang out with..hahaha i still haven't really met any girls yet,cuz all the high school girls are on the 4th floor, and i'm on 7th, with no incentive to go down so many floors. i've met some of the med school girls on my floor though, and they're pretty nice. one of them, michelle, is KOREAN! hAHA. i'm prolly gonna go running with her sometime, that way i'll keep in shape somehow during the summmer.

basically, i'm working at the same lab as i did last summer. Su laboratory! they totally rock. i'm working under Valeria again, which is awesome, since i'm technically continuing on where i left off last summer, so that saves a lot of time in terms of reading papers...and i'm also doing more stuff than last year - pretty exciting stuff. my work day typically spans from about 8:30 am - 7:30 pm, but that's ok with me cuz i like it =).

usually, we just go eat somewhere and hang out after work. mostly been staying within rice village, altho on tuesday, myers, marvin, me, and some med students took this trip to the walmart on westheimer. haha we had a nice trip, looping all the way around on 610 before we finally realized that we were just looping around.

i went home for the weekend, chilled and got more food (food! :D)and happened to arrive back at Rice just when all the high school kids were moving in = craziness. i was amused that a whole lot of them kept introducing themselves to me, thinking that i was in the high school program. that's what i get for being short i guess. lol. they're pretty nice though. i went down to the 6th floor to visit louis, but i ended up talking to nirav and van (from the med program) for a long time (hahah listening to nirav complain about the high school kids was priceless =P)...and then the high school kids actually started coming down the hall and talking to us. looks like just about all the high school guys are on 6th floor. it's interesting how they segregate all the floors. eventually van and nirav left so i talked to the high school guys for a while- pretty cool lot, i'll have to say. finally got to meet stephen, and we both entered into about a 5 minute period of confusion when we couldn't figure out that we were both talking about jenna, since apparently everyone in dallas only knows her as sujin. HAHA. even though jenna forewarned me about that like 2 billion times.

eventually everyone had to go to their own thing, so we all split up....couldn't find anyone around the dorm - all the BME ppl were furiously studying for their anatomy test tomorrow, myers mysteriously disappeared for the weekend, and marvin was no where to be found. walked around for a while, and then ran into stephen again, so i ended up going to jason's deli with him and his roommate, who is named Jesus!!! (said with a spanish accent)..haha....fun times. marvin calls halfway thru dinner trying to figure out where everyone was:

me: "yea i'm at dinner with some of the guys from the high school program, they moved into the floor above you"
marvin: "oh cool, how many of them?"
me: "um, about 8?"
marvin: "you're having dinner with 8 guys?!"
me: "hahaah no, two of them"
marvin: "awww..that's disappointing"

LOL...anyways, on the way back from rice village we found this random dolly so we jumped around and tried to wheel our way back to brown, semi-successfully. then went and talked to marvin and his friend jing (sp?) for a while. marvin hurt his ankle reallly bad playing basketball..hm i hope his ankle gets better soon.

anyways, i'm really tired now. gnite yall.