Avoiding binding energy

I have had enough chemistry to last me forever.
Well, maybe that's a slight exaggeration. See, I think that I would find harder chemistry more interesting than intro chem. Not because I already understand all the easy stuff and I'm bored- in fact binding energy is currently kicking my butt. The problem is it's just not interesting and I don't caaaaaaare....and now I'm whining. But really, last Thanksgiving I was talking with my uncle who's an engineer and he just casually mentions that electrons are a cross between a wave and a particle, which is a really cool random fact in my opinion, but not something that gets discussed in intro chem. Which sucks. Because if we learned cool things like that then I'd be all about studying for chem.
But this is not a complaining post. This is an oh-man-my-weekend-was-cool post! Because oh man my weekend was cool!
It started on Friday night, after some lovely chem studying in the living room (when a random first year asked me if there was a party tonight. Did I look as if I knew whether or not there'd be a party that night? No- it was five o'clock and I was studying.) This lovely studying was followed by some dinner and then procrastinating back in my room. Life was pretty boring until around 10:30 when two RCCs burst into my room, in a desperate attempt to kidnap my roommate Sara and stop her from working. See, there was a devious plan in the works to steal (fencing team) Sarah's stuffed toucan because *K*** (RCC and epeeist extrordinaire) has a deep and passionate hatred for it. Also, she likes to torment Sarah, because that's how fencers show their love. So we ran downstairs where we met *K**** and another person (who I actually never got introduced to. Hm.) who had the toucan in hand. After locating a digital camera we took off for a tour of West campus and the student center. Some excellent pictures were produced, the best one being the one with the random high college boys. What were they doing on our campus? No one really knows. But they popped their collars (::shudder::) and the picture will traumatize Sarah for the rest of her life, so it's all good.
All in all, it was a well spent Friday evening.
On Saturday there was a sale on the lawn in front of the Chapel and just about everything was $1. It was excellent. I got flipflops and shower shoes that don't squeak and sound like a dying animal and a bombdiggity coat that makes me feel like Sherlock Holmes, plus some books. Afterwards Sara and I went to the campus center where I had what is possibly the best rissoto in the world. (I have no idea how to spell rissoto.) It is AMAZING and if you come and visit me I promise to take you there and get you some. Yes, I'm bribing you.
I meant to do some studying, but I chose instead to check out the new Backstreet Boys music video and was too traumatized for the rest of the night to do anything except play freecell and solitaire. You may think I'm exaggerating, but I'm not, and both Dana and Kelly will attest to the truth of my statement.
This morning I had an immensely long breakfast in Caz with Sara and Tara. (I am so out of the -ara loop.) By immensely long breakfast I mean we talked for an hour in the dining hall and then another hour after the dining hall closed. It was lovely. Then Sara and I returned to Beebe where I finished taking notes on the chem chapter, read an article about bones that was pretty interesting (sea urchins have teeth!) and discovered my complete incomprehension of my class notes concerning binding energy. I think the notes we got in class and the ones I took from the book are slightly different concerning how to find binding energy. Or maybe they're the same and I'm just being dumb, which is totally possible. I got tired of trying to think, though, so I gave up and wrote in here instead.

*Names censored for the participants safety.