Sunday Funday Blog

Hi my dear readers,

It is Sunday finally. “YESsss” as Grant might say. 

At 10am I arose from my coma-like sleep to the beautiful patchy painting on my ceiling, the remains of the gaping hole that once flooded our room a week prior. Later, I walked to the local boba shop, Uni Uni, accompanied by Liam, Ivy, and Emilio. We expected an array of foods like Korean Corn Dogs and Popcorn Chicken, but apparently people don’t update their menus in New Mexico so I had to settle for a taiyaki which is the only food item on the menu btw. I also ordered a matcha with boba (No, I am not performative).

Of course since all of us woke up late, we decided to get lunch at Panda Express after the boba “experience.” I had broccoli beef and white rice; some variety from the 13 burgers I’ve had at the dining hall throughout the program. After panda, we came back to the dorms to nap. YAYYYY More Sleep. Or so I thought. When I sat on my bed, I found my glasses completely broken. This is when I forged a plan to try and fix them, with no prevail. Unfortunately, I will be blind for the rest of SSP. Maybe if I beg hard enough I can be CRISPRed to 20/20 vision. SSP Investors if you are reading this please fund my CRISPR journey for better eyesight!

Peep the capybara I got from the mystery box at Uni Uni.

After a glorious dinner of another burger, the “pentagon” (Ivy, Liam, Grant, Emilio, and I) and Sia walked over to Dollar Tree and the local supermarket to get some supplies for the upcoming week. I got an awesome watermelon so we could have fresh fruit/hwachae (subtle foreshadowing).

Following the amusing trip to the Dollar Store, we arrived back at the dorms. We wanted slimy goop on our faces, so we pulled out the sketchy dollar store snail mucin sheet masks and relaxed in the hallway on Liam’s engraved beach towel. Did you know that snail mucin is technically snail foot juice? Sia and Grant decided to get boba instead of joining us (big backs?).

After planning our joint Mexico Trip for the next summer during the masking session, we headed out to the grass area to confirm Liam’s skunk jumping delusions. Do skunks even have the ability to huddle in a circle and jump? Sounds sketchy to me. Grant decided to cosplay as the skunks to make Liam feel better about himself.

Now my dear reader, do you remember the watermelon that I bought? Well it was sabotaged. The government decided to overripen my watermelon when I wasn’t looking and the result was “perturbing” (Emilio vocab). Genuinely the most mushy and gross watermelon I have ever tasted. We couldn’t let it go to waste. As the saying goes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Well we made melonade aka watermelon juice. We realized halfway through the blending process that we don’t have any storage containers for the melonade so we all had to chug bottles and water and juice until we had enough bottles for the nasty watermelon drink.

Now as this blog comes to an end, I’d like to showcase the awesome friendship bracelets we made. We bought beads/string from Walmart during our cavern field trip and used them to make super cool bracelets (Ivy remade hers 10 times). Tomorrow we are planning on all wearing matching shirts and our friendship bracelets to assert the power of friendship among the entirety of cell bio.

As the day wraps up and my fingers are almost done typing this blog at 1am, I’d like to commemorate this day as one of my favorite days at SSP. Stepping away from pure science and experiencing the life around you as it comes your way is what makes being here special! 

Your Favorite Cell Bio Kid,

Chris Ramirez

Chris Ramirez