whoa

man, am i sick. i have been enduring 4 hour stretches of sleep for days now. I wake in cold sweats with a sore throat from the relentlessness of this suffocating cough.

He asked me once not to smoke. I decided that day that it would be the last time I smoked in front of him. A few weeks ago, I decided that wasnt good enough. I remember asking my own mother not to smoke. I would flush her cigarettes down the toilet, hide them. And then, I tried one. I picked a long-ago put-out butt and pretended to enjoy it as I had seen my mother do so many times before. I put this image in my head everytime I want to let my resolve go. "If you want to win a battle, you must let your Mind control your body," says the General. Mind over the pleasure-seeking flesh.

So, she runs twice a day because the mind thinks this will build discipline. She does not smoke becuase the mind hopes this will save her from cancer and asthma, and give the boy a non-smoking example. Body would like to sleep late and tell the 10pm run to go fuck itself. Body would like to smoke when its angry, because its convinced smoking calms it down.

I think body is angry with me now. And so I am devilishly sick. I havent picked up my phone since Monday because I can hardly speak. So ache-y, break-y. Everything hurts, and creaks and moans. I cant even drink coffee, because it tastes too salty.

Q for Amber:
Chlamy is a haploid alga. You do a cross between two strains. Strain 1 is green, arg-, streptomycin resistant. Strain 2 is yellow, arg+, and streptomycin sensitive. Assume each trait is controlled by a single gene, and all 3 genes are linked.
A. How many genotypes and phenotypes are expected among the progeny (F1)?
The answer is 8. No matter how hard I try, though, I can only come up with 4. I know what the formula says but these guys are haploid. Boo, me! Help a sista' out? I know u took genetics!! (didnt you?)