Hmm, I haven't updated in a long time. I guess the biggest piece of news is that I passed my qualifier at the end of august, which is good because I'm still a grad student, but bad because I'm still a grad student! My committee was very impressed with my presentation and knowledge on the subject, and therefore so was my advisor. Speaking of my ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a while. Here's a rundown of what I've been up to ( Read more... )

Whenever I get to work superearly, as in before 10am, my herculean effort to do so is never rewarded. Today, for example. I got here at 8am so that Allen and I could begin embedding tissue in epon, only to discover upon my arrival that we have to wait for the boss, TK. TK has not shown up yet. I poured a gel, then sat down to read some papers ( Read more... )

Last weekend my BFF, Karen, married her beau Brian. It was a lovely ceremony and fun reception. I'll post a picture later if I can figure out how to do so ( Read more... )

"There wasn't a shooting victim that didn't have less than three bullet wounds in them," one of the doctors on the scene told CNN.

Lately I've been saddened about the tragic loss of life at Virginia Tech. These were beautiful people, each with a unique history and unique contribution to the world, gunned down in the prime of their lives. What could possess someone to do such a thing. According to news reports, Cho Seung-Hui was a disturbed loner, lost in a world of vicious ( Read more... )

My favorite show, The Sopranos, is finally back on TV afters a long hiatus. This is the last set of episodes, and viewers are eager to see how it will end. I first started watching the show upon hearing buzz about it's gritty and often gory portrayal of mob life--there was a book at a yardsale with Sopranos trivia--because I wanted to get my ( Read more... )

Sadly, not much has changed since my last post. I'm still working an absurd amount of time. The committee meeting is in two weeks. I haven't achieved the objectives that they laid out for me, but not from lack of effort, and I've got some other data. The stuff that I'm running tonight (the machine should finish at 10:30 if it doesn't shut down ( Read more... )

These days I have been ( Read more... )

My mom's surgery was a success. At 50, she has the lower back of an 80 year old, with significant degeneration in the lower spine. The disks and vertebrae begin to degenerate, causing nerve irritation and pain. My ma would feel pain in her hip and radiating down either leg, which led her doctor to believe that she had hip dysplasia. A regimen ( Read more... )