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Hee hee hee...
From a letter that I received earlier this week... is it so wrong to find this massively amusing?
...Recently, the Duke Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) was awarded a grant from the John Templeton Foundation... an international consortium of researchers... hopes to identify genetic markers associated with high levels of cognitive ( Read more... ) -
Stupid gyms
Is there any other industry out there besides gyms whose entire business model is based on locking customers into a lengthy contract, hoping that they won't actually make enough use of the product to get their money's worth ( Read more... ) -
It's alive!
So I thought I might start actually posting to this thing again, after nearly two years since my last post. A whole lot of really awesome things have happened since then, but I don't really feel like going into all that right now. If you know me, you probably know about all that already, and if you don't, then why are you reading this ( Read more... ) -
Yay, UGA
Sometimes I think that folks at GT are a little too hard on UGA, but then I see something like this ( Read more... ) -
Glee!
No posts in 5 months? Eh, I've been a smidge busy.
Finished my thesis research and wrote my thesis this semester. (Happiness)
Did my thesis defense today. (Excitement)
My committee approved it. (Glee!)
Now I've just got to make the few changes my advisor wants, then pass my final exams, then I'm done with this degree! -
Sometimes randomness makes the best recipes
Tonight's dinner:
Cheesy spicy chicken and pasta stuff- 2 teriyaki-marinated boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 4 strips pre-cooked bacon
- ~1/2 cup kernel corn
- ~4oz Velveeta
- ~1/4 cup mild Rotell tomatoes
- 1 1/2 cup rotini pasta
- 2 teriyaki-marinated boneless skinless chicken breasts
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Weight Watchers update
Yay me!
After 10 weeks in the Weight Watchers program, I've now lost a grand total of 20 pounds. Only about 6 more to go to reach my goal weight of 155; when I get there, I'm going to aim more to replace my remaining fat with some actual muscle instead of trying to reduce the number on the scale any more. -
Adventures in jewelry shopping
So, Heather and I decided to go looking at rings today (just looking! don't get excited!), and so we went to both Shane Co. and D. Geller & Son, and all I can say is, ( wow, what a contrast ) -
Mmm, cryptic...
You know, UGA, now that course registration is online-only, that means you no longer need to restrict course names to 19 characters long and all caps. Maybe then I'd have some idea what "CSCI7007 INTERN CS BUS/IND" was and why someone keeps granting me a permit to register for 3 hours of it for summer semester...