Flies

Today is only Monday, but it feels like Wednesday. This is because I had a long day. I woke up at 6:30 AM to work, then had class from 11:30-5PM straight. I am not even done yet, either, because I have to go back to genetics to play with fruit flies some more. So now I am procrastinating, and this seemed like a fairly productive way to not be productive, right?
In genetics we are working with fruit flies. Geneticists like these annoying bugs, because they are easy to study. I kind of like them, too, because their eyes pop if you poke them, and this looks really cool under a microscope.

In class today we got a mutant strain of flies. Our mutants had white eyes (instead of red) and black bodies (instead of brown). It is very important for our female flies to be virgins when we cross them and do our experiments, so we had to kill all the living flies and just leave the pupae in our jars. This was annoying, and then it became even more annoying when I had to sit around and wait an hour because I finished early. Now it is triple-y annoying because I have to go back and harvest my virgins so they don't have time to get too frisky with the male flies.

Today has not been all annoying, though. After class I went to Mongo's with Rachael, Ashley, Eric, and Eric's friend Halley. I LOVE MONGOLIAN! It was extra great because there was a deal for students today, and I got to drink diet coke, another thing I love!

My 18th birthday was at Mongo's!

Well, this post doesn't really have a point/theme. I'm new at blogging, maybe I will improve?