When a heavy metal box frozen to -80 degrees centigrade comes into prolonged direct contact (>5 seconds) with skin it will leave a surprisingly painful, raised burn that will probably scar because life is like that.

Fact.

I am not a big fan of the "Don't smell like a ladiiieee!" thing, but I can't help loving the new Old Spice Commercials. This one makes me smile:

Click to view

But this one is by far the best!

Click to view

I think it's the "Hyah!" at the end that finally does me in.

Now that I apparently have everyone's attention!

New Shoes!


( Read more... )

1. I was terrified to get my oral surgery, but prepared. I stocked up on food, took time off work, got Paul to do the same, and had two weeks to recover. I was preparing a pre-op binge, then the office called and said that they would have to reschedule me to next week ( Read more... )

Okay, for those of you not in-the-know, I recently accepted a job with OHSU's primate center, division of neuroscience. We'll be studying alcoholism in a monkey model, in the hopes of determining what individual characteristics (neurological) lead to alcoholism, which will help to find a cure/treatment more effective than what we have now. (AA, 3 ( Read more... )

Ha! Hahahaha... "Mason is just a commuter school." Oh really? Then why is it the number one "Up-and-Coming School"?

I feel smug. And pleased. Especially after "Well, I'm only looking at this school because I know I can get in" girl. (Oh, I really hope she doesn't get accepted.)

For the first time (ever) I was hit on in a non-creepy way by a non-creepy person that turned out to be flattering and not-uncomfortable. Sitting on Metro at 5:30am ( Read more... )

A Haiku, to my Phone.

Poor deceased cell phone:
I woke up, your screen was dark--
How I hate you now.

Today wasn't so hot. After my last entry, a bug got into the Kiosk and a patron had to reach in through the window and rescue me. (And as soon as she was gone I started sobbing from fear.) But none of that can ruin my high, because last night was my...

FIRST BRAIN DISSECTION


( Read more... )

What did one lipid say to the other lipid?

"Move your fatty acid out of my way!"

(As told by my BioPsych LA--a Neuro grad from William and Mary who I love.)

She also said that, "The action potential is like the bovine precipitation of the brain."

( Brief Explanation )