This week has been...I dunno...strange.  Something about it just doesn't seem real...I can't quite place my finger on it.  I don't know if it's because of the new mandatory sleeping and eating policies I'm enacting in my life to keep myself from burning out, or the way things have been going in the lab, or the elections, or what.  Maybe some ( Read more... )

I gotta say, this weekend was one of the best I have had in a very long time.  Am I the only one who thinks it's really sad that my favorite weekend of the year is daylight savings...when I get an extra hour of sleep?  Yeah.,..

Friday night was the harvest festival at church.  We had a bunch of games set up for the kids to play to win candy, as well ( Read more... )

After reading Lyssa's post on Palin, I just had an epiphany about politicians...the reasons the stupid ones are running for president is because they're being selected from a pool of stupid people.  And it's our fault, because we never work on keeping the pool intelligent.  I suddenly realized what we need to do to fix this problem.

Who are the ( Read more... )

Well, after much reading and falling asleep at my desk, I've finally finished going through all propositions on the California ballot.  We've got some decent ones, some stupid/pointless ones, and a handful that are clearly attempts to just rip off money from California.  Here we go:

( 12 propositions of christmas )

I after seeing someone else's post on Prop 8, I guess as the supposed hard core fundamentalist Christian I should make some kind of post too.  After all, isn't that what the good Christians are supposed to do?

For the Christians who feel they have some need to go out and wave signs around like idiots and tell the whole world they're going to hell ( Read more... )

Last three nights in a row (or is it 5?  I don't remember) I've been up until 2 am.  The last three days I've been working in the lab for 12 hours a day.  I think I've been getting about 5 hours of sleep a night.  I'm tired.

Well, it's official.  I am now truly a graduate student.  I just started an enzyme assay (I think) having absolutely no clue what I was doing.  I mixed everything up ahead of time, discovered some frustrating information about NAD's solubility in water, and now I just put everything in the plate reader for it to measure the absorbance of the NADH ( Read more... )

Heh, so much for posting more often.  Oh well.  Dr. Liao and I have been somewhat clashing heads a bit more lately; both of us are frustrated with my lack of progress, and he's pretty much given up on trying to figure out why I don't seem to be excelling.  He's reached the conclusion that I'm smart, I'm hard working (I think those late midnight ( Read more... )

Yeah, busy week this past week.  Weird results in lab = lot of extra work to figure out what is wrong.  Good news is tonight I'm testing out a plasmid that will hopefully solve my production problems in one of my types of bacteria.

Sunday we kicked off the new school year in sunday school; brand new batch of kids and some fresh ideas for teaching.  ( Read more... )

Alright, so for the first time in a long time, I have a plan today that involves sleep.  I've got a meeting in half an hour, go to meeting, get home by 6:30pm, go to bed by 7:30-8pm, and wake up by like 4am or so.  That way, I can easily get to campus by 5, and start my 24 hr growth curve experiment.  I love it ( Read more... )