Ions ions everywhere...

ACK.

Ions test in 2.0 hours exactly! I've been studying like mad (wicked mad, yo). I was going to wake up this morning at 6:30 am to finish studying the webnotes, but accidentally set my alarm to pm instead of am. Woke up at 8 am and from there it's mostly been studystudystudy. I spent a good 4 hours at Falconer, huddled with the :Ion Channels of Excitable Membranes," Hille book. It was on course reserve and I had 4 chapters to get through- averaging about 2 hours a chapter...not a good outlook, but given two of the chapters only had one question each, I decided some skimming was in order.

Hogging the course reserve book. Ek, it's kind of sad. The lady at the library actually stopped to tell me to go get lunch or something (she said something about "delivary"- hmm...I think the raccoon eyes had something to do with it).

Had to go deposit Relay money (we made about $56,000!!! w00t) at the ASSU, then went to cultural psych lecture, then back to studying in falconer bio lib. This time, I only got my hands on the old edition of the book, this guy literally right before me got the newer one. Not that it's that much more exciting of a read...and I was trying to get through cystic fibrosis notes at that time- on my comp. Scarfed some dinner at Lag (definitely was hungry- er, had cereal for lunch) and chatted with Craig for about 5 min, spent the next 5 minutes semi-flipping out and being rather hyperactive (glucose boost?).

I'm currently sitting on a random bench in the psych department...just really feeling burnt out and sick to death of stupid ions. Crap. I can feel the knowledge seeping out of me! Ahhhh!!!!!!

This weekend was quite exciting but I have about zero time to write about it right now. UGH. It's bound to be an inevitably-incredibly-obnoxiously detailed quiz (i.e. "

Choose the incorrect statement:

a. One form of glucose permease, GLUT4 is regulated by insertion and retrieval from the plasma membrane; insertion is stimulated by insulin.

b. At least 5 isoforms of glucose permeases exist they differ in their cellular distribution and in their affinities for glucose.

c. Glucose permeases can be considered as “glucose channels” in the sense that a single conformational change allows many molecules of glucose to flow across the membrane.

d. Intestinal cells have SGLT in their apical membranes and GLUT basolaterally")

After this? A chaser of yet more lecturing! Let my people go! Heck, forget my people- just let me go get some darn sleep.

Shoot. Back to studying.

Hmm...I hope I don't get in trouble for posting that question...cause he didn't actually give us our quizzes back...not that I expect Prof Wine to be reading his students blogs. Way creepy. No, quizzes I can't abide, but the class itself is pretty cool and he's a nice prof.