Dewy6

2018 is almost over, apparently I've been on dA for 9 years haha. I rarely use this site anymore tbh but it's a nice fallback in case tumblr ever actually dies. Life update for my own future reference and in case anyone cares: I didn't end up doing grad school 'cause I was just sick of going to school, so I got a job as an environmental analytical chemist a week after graduation. I analyze municipal and natural water for organic toxins, we're all underpaid and overworked and the health insurance sucks, but for some reason I'm still there after a year and half. I love my job 75% of the time and absolutely despise it the other 25%; I'll probab

yup, still here occasionally. not sure why. i was looking through my old journal entries and holy shit was i a lolrandomrawremoXDDD kid. sort of painful, but also kind of funny. whatever floated my fourteen-year-old self's boat i guess. this summer i'm working as an organic chemist at my university, with one more year left until i graduate with a major in general chemistry and a minor in german language. i'm thinking of applying to graduate school in analytical chemistry. it would be cool to be a forensic analytical chemist. this might sound selfish but i'd like to have a job where i'm needed and my work is directly beneficial. it gets me ou

It's 3:22 am and I'm updating my journal because why not. I got an internship at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology doing analytical chemistry research for the summer, so that should be fun (assuming I actually manage to find a place to live and get my visas. Seriously, everytime I ask one of the program directors about visas, they tell me to ask this other person, who sends me to another person, and so on... it's like a long chain of unhelpful referrals :I). I went to an anime convention last weekend and cosplayed as Emily from Corpse Bride, so I may post pics of that. Saw The Imitation Game today at the student theater. It was sad. O