anfin’s Blog

Despite my recent lack of internet presence, I am in fact alive and here’s what I’ve been up to:

• For the past forever, I have been spending my weekends visiting grad schools. I think I’m going to Northwestern outside of Chicago. Chicago looks like this. I know that I’m not going to Stanford. Stanford looks like this. Pop Quiz: (1) Which place looks colder? (2) What am I thinking?
• I am finally using my iPod regularly. It’s nice. What’s not nice is that every time I plug it in to my computer, iTunes decides to welcome my “new” iPod and makes me go through set-up again. Any suggestions?
• I have just won two small chemistry awards, and both of them involve me receiving a personalized copy of the Merck Index which I’m not entirely certain is something I will ever need to use.
• I plan to try out for Little Shop of Horrors at GCT this summer. It’s not my favorite play, but the music’s fun. If I had a choice of who to play, it would be the evil, flesh-eating, world-domination-planning plant. Unfortunately, that particular part is meant to be played by a baritone man. However, this is not necessary to the script, and if I’m lucky, they won’t have a good baritone man try out. If not, I would be happy playing one of the back-up doo-wop singers. In related news, while trying to sing along with the CD, I discovered that I am completely incapable of doing the nasal New York accent of the leading lady Audrey (same accent as Adelaide in Guys and Dolls).
• I just got new Timberland Boots. This make me happy.

So that’s what’s been happening with me in the last while. And now for a post that I actually wrote last winter:

By a happy set of circumstances, I have just won my very own brand new 4.0GB iPod nano. The thing is, I already own an old 8.0GB iPod nano. So what do you people think? Should I stay with my nice old version with the larger memory and sell the new one or are the new features of the latest nano too good to pass up? You tell me.