Pad Thai with a Side of Biology

After discovering the beautifully animated Cassiopeia Project website (http://www.cassiopeiaproject.com), I downloaded their whole evolution series via iTunes. I watched about half of them while working on my biology essay question material last night. (I never did get to the chemistry lab work.) So of course, I failed to get to sleep early!

Anatomy came way to early this morning, although I could probably have slept about 10 minutes later, since my teacher was about 10 minutes late. My thoughts about the level of detail necessary for our look at metabolism was correct: we only need to know the processes of glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation in a more general way, highlighting only certain key steps.

I had brunch at a nice little coffee shop (NOT a big chain coffee franchise) near the science building, and completed my chemistry lab homework. In chemistry lecture we continued our discussion of proteins (amino acids and peptide bonds). Some of it was already familiar information, such as the primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures of proteins. Next week we'll finish proteins, move on the related topics of enzymes and vitamins, then prepare for our test. We're behind schedule, so the next chemistry test will not include an additional chapter that was originally scheduled (nucleic acids).

Now that we are behind schedule in all of my classes, my careful scheduling for the remaining month and a half of this semester has been thrown off! I cannot be sure of any remaining test dates (or topics), so the days that I requested off from work in anticipation of heavy study days may no longer be as relevant. The problem is that my teachers are now planning the rest of the schedule as it comes along, so that increases my stress levels!

Add to this my end of year duties as a dance teacher. Yes, we are coming up on recital time. The music has been picked. The children have been measured. Costumes have been ordered, delivered, tried on and sent home. MOST of my dances are complete. But I have one class left to finish choreographing. It is one of my larger classes, and they just happen to have the longest song of all the ones I chose this year. A couple of the students are actually quite good, but an equal share simply cannot pay attention or remember something that I corrected for longer than 2 minutes. I already told my studio owner that their dance will NOT be done by this week, which was the goal. She seemed understanding, but I know I need to complete it ASAP.

For the rest of tonight though, its pad thai for dinner with a side of biology study! (I got the type with Arthropoda in it- shrimp!)

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