Poll: Do you think that the average joe shmoo will have heard of the oedipus complex?

(please reply, this is important in me winning an argument with Jeremy)

Friday was fun. I ran a succesful immobilon test, and then there was a department happy hour. The department chair made a point of telling me that he was not going to look at whatever I was drinking and that there were hard lemonades in the cooler. After work A bunch of us went out to see The Devil Wears Prada ( Read more... )

I love my job ( Read more... )

So a lot of my job is like DNA Sciences, except with mice, not flies. but anyways, most of the tests have hour long periods of incubation of centrofuging or ferrissing which means I have a lot of down time. Right now my restriction enzymes are incubating/ cutting up the plasma DNA I grew inside e. coli on agar plates w/ ampicillin. Sound ( Read more... )

Shopping with Jo and Shalewa (sp?) is hilarious ( Read more... )

If you've never read Dave Barry's A Sort of History, then you should. It's funny, and as far as I know, historically accurate as well ( Read more... )

I'm working in a lab that looks at proteins associated with Muscular Dystrophy. A lot of the research is done with mice. Today, for instance, I made mouse powder ( Read more... )

worst/best idea better: The gallon-size tub of cookie dough we got at costco.

i am addicted to the food network. this is not good. There's one show with an obese southern woman who makes cakes that she eats with butter. And she says y'all with such a huge drawl that I want to strangle something. Everything she makes lacks nutrition. She tops cheese with butter and fried bacon and calls it a dish. She thows in a ( Read more... )

Seattle: it's a pretty cool place. no, seriously. It doesn't rain in the summer and it stays light out until 10 pm.