I crapped this out in approximately 2 hours, including most of the research. I'll have to do a bunch more work to actually make a cohesive presentation. And it's not as technical as I'd like but my advisor told me to provide as much background information as possible, since not everyone in the audience would be familiar with epigenetics or ( Read more... )

Uggghhh. This sucks ( Read more... )

Almost done with intensive spanish. Thank goodness. Then I have about a week and a half to research and memorize all of the science shit I need to know for my comprehensive biochem exam the first weekend of feb. All stuff about green fluorescent proteins ( Read more... )

To all my seattle friends: I apologize that I've dropped off the face of the earth. I don't make very good company right now. My parents have split up and I just feel like hiding.

Gah. Still trapped at house. I think I'm going to journey out tomorrow and hike up the hill to Target, because I'm that desperate. My mom is on the warpath from being cooped up with us all for too long, I'm bored out of my skull, and I haven't had a chance to finish my christmas shopping yet. And I haven't been able to see any of my friends yet. On ( Read more... )

My fish died today. He hadn't been eating the past 3 days, and was pretty listless. I came back from my afternoon class and he had passed away. He was such a spunky little fish, and I loved him a lot. He was pretty old for a betta fish, almost 3 years ( Read more... )

I just shat out quite possibly the world's most convoluted and improbable organic synthesis ever. It's for my physical organic chemistry class. Stupid nitrogens with their stupid odd-numbered electrons, always up in my business. And where the hell am I supposed to come up with extra protons in a basic environment? Do I pull them out of my sleeve? ( Read more... )

So, this is what it's come to: Eating cake frosting out of the package at 2am with a bag of popcorn, half-intoxicated still because one of the hockey captains brought a couple of 40's to practice and we polished them all off before blundering onto the ice like a bunch of drunken idiots (the best way to start the week), freezing my ass off because ( Read more... )

Lithium is good. I like it. Except it makes me very thirsty, and if I don't drink enough water (a.k.a. shit-tons) I start to get woozy and pass out ( Read more... )

I did some very labor-intensive blood fixations recently. It's my blood! Wooo. Here are some of the results, viewed in the Scanning Electron Microscope.
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