No racquetball for this week :( Possibly not next week either. I was exceptionally dumb yesterday when I went down 4 flights of stairs instead of taking the elevator. My knee was not so happy with me... it was also not so thrilled about all the walking around I did while out shopping last weekend. I'm trying to rest it and stay off it as much as ( Read more... )

It's been way too long since I talked to some of y'all... my life has been going so crazy this summer. Surprisingly, I've been able to keep out of the lab on weekends which has been REALLY, REALLY nice... I have been stuck there way too many Saturdays in the past year and a half. Soon my lab is submitting another paper - this time I am co-first- ( Read more... )

 I'm babysitting cells for someone who's out-of-town... an entire incubator full of them (when you start having to take apart the entire incubator to get to the cells you need for your own experiments, which are buried somewhere way in the back of a shelf, you know it's out of control ( Read more... )

I guess it has been a while since I posted... I am currently in the middle of being a little bummed b/c my favorite tv show (and incidentally also the only one I really make time to watch) isn't on b/c basketball is on instead. Which would be great if I cared about basketball. Oh well. There's next week ( Read more... )

This week has been interesting, to say the least :) 
It began with me being told to do nearly the opposite of what I was told to focus on last week, as far as my lab work is concerned. Which meant ordering some new reagents, pulling out the correct cell lines I needed and freezing down the others, and planning out a new set of experiments. 
Monday I ( Read more... )

Lobster. Sort of like penguin, only not.

It's completely strange. I feel like life just sort of paused for a while, and I'm just sort of hanging in the balance. Not in a bad way... but just sort of floating, suspended for a while.

Something tells me that maybe I should be more stressed about deadlines than I have been recently. Finishing ( Read more... )

I didn't really drop off the face of the earth... I just sort of disappeared in the hugeness of everything that I needed to accomplish... everything centered around my candidacy exam, and my whole life was on hold and I was being sucked into a vortex of endless studying and feeling like I knew nothing at the end of it all... life is crazy... but ( Read more... )

...any clue how to get the "friends" page to display more than just the last 10 friend-entries? I think my lack of keeping up with LJ goes back further than my list of friends' new entries ( Read more... )

I just made up a "study schedule" for the next 8-10 weeks and am beginning to grasp the concept of NO life... my boss isn't going to let me out of experiments, I need better data so I don't embarrass myself and/or my boss at a national meeting, and I have a proposal that needs major re-writing (but at least I have a sort of rough draft to go on) ( Read more... )

I should give you all a really quick update, before my lunch-break time ends... so I got permission from my committee Monday to take my candidacy exam this fall... now I am working on putting together an exam committee and trying to knock this thing out of the way before Christmas... it's the biggest thing I've done so far and it's going to be a ( Read more... )