Stressing and Depressing

This was a scene that was played many times throughout dinner. We'd be sitting down, quietly eating our chicken piccata pasta (sometimes, leftovers taste better than the main course), and somebody would slump their black tray down and join us (because let's face it, any time I'm at is the cool table), we'd all nod in acknowledgement, and Shaez would say, "Man, you look stressed. Are you stressing out lately?" Because Shaez has no qualms with telling people they look bad, even when they don't feel bad.

Here are some common indicators that your life is depressing and that you are indeed, a science student:

... you log onto the computer in the science library and discover you were the last person to have logged on. As in- the rest of campus had better things to do than use the science library during all that time, but not you.

... when your birthday dinner has to be scheduled a week after your birthday because everyone, yourself included, is too busy with midterms to go out and celebrate. (Not me, folks, somebody else. And I expect presents when my day comes.)

... when kids stare at you then shake their heads smiling when they hear you discussing homework problems in the library lobby because what you're saying just sounds way too ridiculous. Alpha-1-phophate-galactose? What? Where does the UTP come in? Is it energetically unfavorable for the D-glucose to convert to D-galactose? What!?

A'ight. I've ignored my papers, homework assignments, lab report, and problem set all due tomorrow for long enough. I'm off.