Caffeine Fiend

First off, I'd like to preface this post with letting you all know that I'm a MORON. OK, now that that's out of the way, onto the post. Perhaps I'll even get to why I'm a moron (owwws and ahhhhs). I hope you all had a great SAD (Singles Awareness Day), and by you all I mean anyone who reads this blog, and by anyone who reads this blog I'm pretty much just referring to myself. I worked this SAD. After work I went and tried to do some of my caffeine extraction lab. This was a homebrew experiment where I was trying to extract caffeine from tea and coffee (get it, homeBREW. har har har). This is where I confirmed, once again, that I am indeed a moron.

Tea went fine. No problems extracting it from the aquesous layer into the organic layer and all that good stuff. Coffee, on the other hand, well, let's just say that I now know that there was good reason why I really couldn't find any experiments that extracted caffeine from coffee. I discovered (much to my dismay) that caffeine was not the only thing that I got in the organic layer when I tried to extract from coffee. It was really thick and looked nothing like what I got from the tea. Then it dawned on me: oils and fats. Coffee has lots of oils, I've known that for quite sometime from looking at the clear windows of bean dispensers and they're covered in oil. I'm such a moron. Oh well, at least the tea came along fine and at least the extraction process is quick and relatively painless.

OK, so maybe that wasn't the dumbest thing that I've ever done, but I definitely felt stupid after it was done. In other news, I got a care package yesterday from my church! I haven't gotten a care package since freaking freshman year! I have all sorts of junk foody snacks now to munch on when I know I shouldn't be munching. It's all gotta be a conseriacy to make me fat...ter.

Although the care package was good, it has not been the highlight package of my last couple of days. A new power cord for my laptop arrived on Monday. Hurray! My laptop is no longer an oversized paperweight (and there was much rejoicing...yay). Now I can do all sorts of things with a portable computer that a desktop just won't cut it for. Like, I can take my computer to work or, I can type a paper outside--if the weather was warm...and if knew how to get to this "outside" place.

OK, I need to be wrapping it up because I need to get a shower in before class. I'm sure you all wanted to know that so there it is. Before I head out though I have one last announcement. My brothers and mother are coming down to the Indy area this weekend, huzza! Alex has state vocal competition in 3 different groups and mom and Jonathan are coming down to watch him. I really hope that his performances are in the afternoon because I have to work in the morning *sigh*. After the performance, Jonathan's going to spend the night with me and it will be pretty cool to get to hang out with mi hermano. Then Sunday I'm going to meet my dad halfway in taking him home. It should be good fun.

Now I really am heading out. With any luck it won't be another 15 months before I bother updating this thing again. You all take care and God bless.