Happy Canada Day and Independence Day for all you Americans!

I had a week off, but it’s so little time to do anything that I want to do outside of school. I think my problem was that I thought of this entire week off as a holiday, but it wasn’t. I still have to organize my food, make sure I have bird seed and the feeders and outdoor equipment is full.

I like to cook my own food, and I let various part of my leg muscles get weak and I have this knee pain. So then I had to spend some time at the gym. I wrote a lab report, I have three experiments next week, and then I have an examination in 2 weeks (and I really am tired of the routine, the toxic culture that is my university). Then, it’s as if there are articles just being thrown at me (well not thrown, more like I enjoy reading newspapers, and there was this person who wrote to a Washington Post columnists about cleanliness and produce) and wait until I show you this.

America, what is going on with you?

Anyway, let’s get started with what happened this week!

In the lab.

So, I told you that I had the week basically off, so there were no experiments. I am thinking of throwing out my pink pineapple yeast/fermentation observational side project as well.

Speaking about food, I was reading this Washington Post where there are letters to recipes editor Becky Krystal. This had taken place during a live chat which took place on July 2^nd, so 3 days ago

Who the fuck washes their food with bleach? This is why I don’t like going to peoples houses anymore, this is just wild. You honestly never know what people do to their food, like if they can, are they canning their foods properly, or am I going to get poisoned. I know, let’s just take a gamble.

Even if it is diluted down, why is your friends washing their strawberries with bleach? You’re telling me that your main concern is the bleach creating spots on your clothes, priorities matter it seems.

Seeing some of the people out there and hearing these stories, makes me wonder how we haven’t killed each other. Also, why I don’t trust women who fuck around with food, to get back at their partners. I might be biased, because all I do is study diseases and death, it’s so easy to just forget one thing though and mess up with so many peoples lives.

This week, I saw 3 movies. They were all good, but there were times where there was a lack of momentum. I do wonder though, do you think there is like a point in movies where it all gets too real and the director has to give the audience a sense of “this is fake”?

I have seen a lot of movies where the endings just seem to make the whole movie seem crappy, like they take it too far. Take The Substance for example, at the end of that movie the story just got too bizarre. From what I have read, this can be related to several theories in cinema and in filmmaking. I don’t really want to learn that stuff right now, but it’s good to know that I am not turning into a lunatic.

I saw the 2025 movie Bugonia, and 2026 movies Project Hail Mary and Wasteman. They were all good movies, In the movie Wasteman, one of the prisoners poisons the food of his cell mate, causing him to OD. It was ironic because I read that article on The Washington Post by chance.

I just don’t think that there was enough substance in the movie Wasteman, that it was a movie. The film was good, but I just don’t feel that it was “filling”. The more that I venture into film, the more that I am learning of these different genres, periods of film that have different styles, different countries also have different styles.

Next week, it’s back to labs. I have a project to start, I have an exam to study for, and a movie to see on the 15^th. In the chemistry lab, I am going to be conducting a fluorescence analysis of quinine in tonic water, to keep those pesky mosquitoes away with their malaria causing parasites (not that we have to worry about that for the foreseeable future). I have the soil science lab, I will be analyzing the Cation Exchange Capacity and measure the soil pH in two different samples, and then I will be determining the number of exchangeable hydrogen ions.

I remember that there were a body of virologists, epidemiologists and the like, that were making a big deal of Ebola on Substack. Anyway, that didn’t amount to anything. Now there is H5N1 threatening Australian poultry, sheesh, so many zoonotic diseases floating around these days. I really miss sushi though; I’m just really scared of eating bad fish.

Anyway, I am back on Quora, mostly talking about and learning Cancer Biology. I think Cancer may be my jam.