It's about 5pm right now and I find myself sitting in Barnes and Nobles near my house mooching off their free internet sipping Mai Tais Caramel Macchiatos from Starbucks. I'm supposed to be learning about solute and solvent transport in human cells, but rather, I'm surfing the internet looking at car parts. Got a test in about 2 weeks that I hope to be ready for by next week. We'll see how that goes. It's "supposed" to be a short test.

Last night I had a pretty late night. It was about 9:30 and I was getting ready to wind down and head to bed pretty soon when I got a phone call from some fellow BMEs. They were heading out to a bar around 10:30pm and asked if I would join them. Since I didn't really have anything going on today, I decided to go. It was an interesting time... I didn't know what to order in terms of drinks, but a friend recommended a German beer that I had never heard of. It was actually quite flavorful. It had this weird triple flavor personality thing going on. It had one taste when it first hit your tongue, another taste when it hit the back of your throat, and then yet another aftertaste that smelled like nothing that you had poured in your mouth. Weird, but good.

I learned a little bit about conflict resolution this week, and last night. This past week I said something in jest to a friend that could have been construed as unkind. Though this person isn't the type to be overly sensitive to jokes, I made an effort to apologize to her although she didn't think it was necessary. Kinda made me wonder if it was even worth bringing up. On the other hand, last night there was a couple who were having a conflict with each other and they weren't speaking to one another... I had a chance to talk to both people separately, just randomly and both were expressing their frustration at the other person. They didn't seem to want to actively approach the other person... it seemed like they were just going to go on like that, but at the end, one of the people approached the other and I'm guessing they ended up talking about it. Made me wonder if it's always better to err on the side of more caution and to always choose to talk about things rather than ignore them. I know many times in my life I'm chosen to ignore the issue thinking it will go away or not wanting to make anyone uncomfortable... I'm sure that hasn't always worked out for the best.

Okay, back to studying... as usual.