My desk is littered with books like Silicon Nitride for Microelectronic Applications, Fluidization Engineering,andChemical Surface Preparation, Passivation, and Cleaning for Semiconductor Growth and Processing. It's been a hard weekend.

The first week and a half of the semester were great. I got contacted by the pharmaceutical company I wanted to internship for, and there's a good possibility they're giving me a fellowship for next year (I'll calling Tuesday to find out), I avoided my stalker and the smelliest of all the foreign kids in all my project groups, and my group for Design is made up of people I've heard are hard workers, and who say they don't want to put everything off till the last day before it's due.

But then, once the groups were assigned, the work started. I have a pre-lab due Tuesday for Unit Ops, another pre-lab done as a group due Thursday, which will be harder because I'm the best writer in the group. Drug Design has a homework due Thursday too and a quiz, which I have no idea about. And meanwhile I've been doing a lot of work on the Design project which is all research and absolutely no chemical engineering.

Frustrating.

We had a board game night last night which was a lot of fun. Beforehand our friend Tracie had us go with her to a restaurant called Chow Baby, where you choose ingredients for the people to stir-fry for you, including a lot of difference sauces. I'd like to try more combinations. I had a teriyaki one, and a coconut curry one. The coconut curry one was good, but I really liked the rice in the sauce rather than all the vegetables and chicken I'd put in, so I'd like to try that again with more rice. I like carbohydrates.

Maybe now I'll do my drug design homework just so I can actually cross something off my to-do list. That'd be nice.