When this cat snuggles with a patient, the patient dies shortly thereafter.

My poster presentation to the judges went well.  I should have included the sequence alignment of APETALA 3 genes I used to design my primers.  My only disappoint was more people didn't stop to chat with me about my research.  I was expecting professors from the department who I knew to stop by and see what I've been up to in the molecular biology ( Read more... )

I did not want to go to work tonight, so I went in late.  This is so unlike me, that my coworkers were worried about me, and were assuming worst case scenarios ( Read more... )

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So scientists are suppose to describe their methodology, so their experiments can be replicated.  So when I finally received a journal article that was suppose to have the methods used, and it was wrong paper, I was angry.  Something as important has methodology should not be mis-cited.  I do have the correct paper now, but I had to find the author ( Read more... )

My student loan payments have been deferred until I graduate!!

Yippee Skippee!

That's ~25% of my monthly income  freed.

I have basic cable television at my new apartment.  I find that watching grotesque health shows of other people suffering, make me feel strangely optimistic about my own life ( Read more... )

My mind has been split by molecular genetics and developmental anatomy.

I think I'm going to do a portrait of a shoot apical meristem in a gray suit.

Here's some sections I'm proud of:


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My money is tied up in an account transfer from bank 1 to bank 2. Bank 1 reports the check has been transferred. Bank 2, says the check has not cleared, and will not give me the amount in full. Money I cannot use ( Read more... )

Half of december down. Half to go ( Read more... )