current mp3: heavy heart - you am i

Well, I was reading my science textbook in an effort to do that missing homework, and I started reading the section on how DNA replicates itself. Basically, electrical forces form weak bonds between the guanine and cytosine nucleotides and the adenine and thymine nucleotides. Basically, with the way the molecules are structured, net forces on atoms attract only one other type of nucleotide. The other 3 types can't get close enough to form bonds because even if one bond is made, you can't really make another because of the shape, and that's not strong enough to make a nucleotide pair... Erm, at least, that's what I got out of it, and it's likely that I'm horribly, horribly wrong. BUT. The moral of the story is... I got to thinking about Gattaca and if you break up the letters you can get: G AT TA CA. So, G's all alone, but maybe that's just because it hasn't found its matching cytosine. But the CA pair is wrong. It's a mutation. And it says in the book that the chance of an error is 1 in 10⁸, or something, which is 1 in 100 million, right? Eh, but I just thought that kind of was interesting and fit in with the theme of the movie. Clearly, I have gone crazy and am now resorting to doing non-homework homework. Or something.

I walked the dog today and in the process got the mail. So I look, and lo and behold there's my report card. There's only one C, which is good, but I think my parents have this idea that I'm getting all A's and B's. So I've been too scared to give it to them. Partly because I don't want to hurt them, and partly because I want them to keep thinking I'm a dutiful child who actually does her homework, or at least most of it.