There has been much debate on a campus list-serve lately about the media’s tendency to exaggerate/understate climate change issues and how this influences the public’s perception of the problem. I don’t know if the gloom and doom reports are affecting change or reducing the scientific credibility of the issue, but as I was eating some yogurt today ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday
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Your Lucky Underwear is Blue


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Monday:

* …um…can someone remind me of what I did on Monday?

Tuesday:

* There is a volunteer shadowing me at work. I appreciate the extra help, but it’s a little weird because the guy is my age and education level. He want’s experience in the coral research field even if that means he has to haul water and I’m happy to oblige.
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You Are Likely a Third Born
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I know I’ve been a little below radar lately, but I have been preoccupied with hacking up a lung.

So to bring you up to date:

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So, it occurs to me that I should post…

Two weeks ago I had 'the blah'…I decided that this was caused by some sort of virus that makes you chronically fatigued and generally ‘eh’ feeling.  I’m a microbiologist…I should know.
Last week I was feeling better....

Saturday: hosted paint your own pottery bridal shower for
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Friday I talked tadpoll into entering a photo contest that our local city paper was hosting.  She entered two b&w prints and I entered these three prints.

Saturday morning I had to take my car in to have a tire fixed (darn nails in the road) and went out for breakfast with madd_hadder.  Yesterday afternoon we all gathered at bearmar’s house for a baby shower for our ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night ( Read more... )