I'm slowly getting back into my lj.

Yes, its' been a year.  Yes, I owe this thing approximately 80 million theatre reviews (okay, closer to 10).  And yes, a ridiculous number of things have happened to me in the over a year since I've abandonned it.  But you know what, I don't care.  I'm not gonna apologize.  Half the reason I wasn't posting is ( Read more... )

Procrastination, it’s a wonderful thing.   When it’s not anxiety-inducing and debilitating of course. Not that I’m procrastinating now. Of course not. I’m just catching up on an lj that I haven’t updated in three months. It’s really quite shameful of me, and needs to be remedied. Right now. Instead of working on writing up my thesis. Because ( Read more... )

Hello,

Well, it’s one conference down one to go. Overall I think it went well. The presentation was fine. People actually showed up and asked intelligent questions, which was a concern since I was presenting on the last day and wasn’t talking about either ballast water or zebra mussels. That is one problem with going to an aquatic invasive species ( Read more... )

So, had a happy, if generally uneventful Easter.  Cut off all my hair.  Seriously, it's short now.  At least comparatively.  But I think I might love it.  However, given the drastic nature of the cut I do not think that it would have been unreasonable for someone to notice.  Seriously, Paul noticed when I got new glasses, but apparently not that I' ( Read more... )

Today is nephew's birthday.  I bought him special paints that only work on the special paper that comes with them.  There is an outline of a lion on the paper.  I was amused.  I also bought him a recorder.  I told my parents over the phone.  I'm sure that the strangled sound my mother made upon hearing it was meant to show approbation.  She then ( Read more... )

Subject line pretty much says it all.  I went walking outside for about 10 minutes just to get out of this building and I want to go back.  It's really really nice out.  This is perfect weather.  Why is it not possible to set up PCR reactions outside?  Sigh... it's so pretty out...

Seriously, it is freezing out today.  It was cold, windy and damp yesterday, but today it's freezing.  And this is made more irritating by the fact that only a few days ago it was actually relatively nice out (ie. the temperature was above the freezing mark.)  Today it feels like it's the dead of winter again.  It's not even that I mind the cold, ( Read more... )

Bonjour,

I have returned for an update. Lab work is still not working in general (have just discovered that along with the AFLPs still not working, I have wide-scale contamination issues! Huzzah! Actually, sadly was kind of happy about that because it does allow me to explain in part the random crap I keep seeing), or really odd. Is sad. Am now ( Read more... )

Guys, I have to write 100 words by tomorrow.  100 words of what you ask?  Of a bio-sketch outlining by background and expertise in the subject I'm presenting about at the conference I'm going to in a couple of months.  Now, I know 100 words is nothing, really it's about 8 sentences.  It's just that I really don't want to.  And I've been ( Read more... )

Oh lj, how I have neglected you.  I knew that eventually I would again of course... at least it's only been about a month and not a year or so.

The reason for this neglect, general frustration about my project I suppose.  At least the flow cytometry is pretty much settled.  If the chloroplast sequencing has magically worked I will be content, ( Read more... )