...I own a copy of "Little Earthquakes."

Yeah, yeah, it's about time. ;-)

I keep thinking that it would be interesting to write a book about what things I've learned since leaving home that I really wish I had known when I was in high school, or just what kinds of things my younger (female) self, growing into independence, should have known about the way things are. This grew out of a conversation with meestagoat, and thus my ( Read more... )

I think, therefore I blog. This time, about what it means to live independently.

I have been lax in my MS society support recently, and just looked up my local chapter. Turns out there's an NJ Metro chapter, with about a dozen different walking events this spring. The closest to me is definitely the North Brunswick walk...which is April 18. So, soon ( Read more... )

I was just getting ready to post this long, self-pitying post on how much I've been disappointed by JDate. And then I found this interesting sounding guy who sent me a flirt, and we chatted for awhile now. (Forty minutes? Not sure.) He gave me his number. Invited me to call or text. (Dammit, I'm going to need a texting plan. Oh, yeah, we ( Read more... )

My night off has moved into working on the lecture I'm giving in a couple of weeks. My topic: zoonotic disease. The focus will be diseases that can be transmitted from one mammal to another, since I'll be guest lecturing for my advisor's mammalogy class ( Read more... )

Fireflies!!!!

:-D

Okay, fellow foodies: my friend hosts a "Thanksgiving in July" party every year, and it's Saturday. I have no idea what I want to bring. In the past, I've made my mom's candied yams (with bourbon and brown sugar :-9) and pine nut stuffing - maybe also pumpkin piñon bread. I need to spend most of my time between now and then working, but I can ( Read more... )

My friend Gaby and I are trying to learn how to use a program that lets you see and manipulate the published 3D structures associated with proteins we're studying. In attempting to figure out how to change the background from black to white, I stumbled across a how-to for making mugs with your favorite molecule (which cited this program). I am ( Read more... )

The Boston Globe has a fantastic collection^ of images that have come out of Iran in the past few days.

Warning: there are some graphic and disturbing images, but you have to click each one to gain access.