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Advice
I have a facebook account, I belong to a national organization for minorities in science, in fact I'm the advisor for the chapter on this campus, both the national and local chapter have facebook pages. Here's my questions, should I friend my students who are in those orgs and on facebook ( Read more... ) -
An advantage of my husband's hobby
My husband is a VW enthusiast in fact he is the secretary of the Volkswagen Enthusiasts of Colorado and he writes a lot of the articles for their newsletter. One thing he likes to do is interview people about their passion about VWs He has interviewed some people who are pretty well known in the VW community like the fellow who started the VW ( Read more... ) -
KInd of Bummed
I don't know what possed me but I started goggling my mentor's name and seeing some old papers written by people in my research group and then I saw one we'd done together and then I saw a paper must have been done by a post doc as a follow up to my work and so I goggled my maiden name to see my grad school papers and Damn my best paper didn't come ( Read more... ) -
I am officially tired of thunderstorms and hail
we've had a week and a half of bad storms and I'm really ready for these to stop
Sunday I watched Mesmer and there's a part where the blind girl hears thunder before her parents, I was trying to convince my boy dog it was just TV thunder, it wasn't, a few minutes later the tornado sirens went off. Today's suppose to be better but I have no -
Very Geeky post
I attended a mandatory conference in Colorado Springs (about an hour south of where I live and work) for NIH MORE program directors (of which I'm one). What pray tell is NIH MORE? Well NIH stands for national Institutes of Health (that's the 20 + government agency responsible for research, training, public education in various areas of health and ( Read more... ) -
Birthdays! Birthdays! Birthdays!
Today is my stepson Clark's Birthday. Tomorrow it's my longtime friend Mary's b-day and then Sunday it's my birthday and my cousins' Judy and Marc's birthday (they are I think 2 and 7 years younger than me). Bill call's June 6th tween day because it's between Clark's b-day and mine. I think I'm suppose to go to a VW club picnic tomorrow for my ( Read more... ) -
I waited weeks for that!
If SVU is the best thing NBC has to offer and Zebras was its finale for this season, well NBC is in as much trouble as GM.
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Question for my f-list
When one of your favorite shows is about to have a season finale how do you cope, do you browse the internet looking for spoilers, do you read or write fan fic ( Read more... )