We were creating slides from different bacterium in microbiology lab today. Dude, it's so cool preparing smears!! First, the loop has to be sterilized and dipped in water (for solid smears). Then, a colony is taken from the solid stuff, and spread on the slide. After that, it has to be air-dried. Once it's dry, we flame the slide real quick to fix  ( Read more... )

Last night was interesting. Jeff, Kathy and I were sitting in the coffee house talking about what our kids' names would be. Kathy came up with this one: David for a boy and Cassidy for the girl. How great is that??

Here's a picture of my cousin and I drunk


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My thumb is healing so beautifully!! I don't have to have it covered anymore, which rocks. I was tired of wearing those awful band-aids. The only thing that kind of blows is that I'll have a scar. At least the scar won't cover almost of all the burned area; it will just be where it was burned the most. Rock on.

The first day of the quarter wasn't that bad. The only bad thing is that I have an 8am class Tuesdays and Thursdays. I'll get used to it ( Read more... )

Yesterday was by far the longest work day ever. And we were just growing cells and inducing to turn off bacterial production and turn on protein production. Gotta love that IPTG (it's a lactose analog ( Read more... )

It's 1:15am and I am still at work. Protein purification is a pain in the ass. And today isn't the long, hard purification day. It's tomorrow. Well, actually, it's later on today. Whatever...you all get the point ( Read more... )

The first week of school is going to be totally busy. Monday and Tuesday will be the most dreaded days. Why?? It's protein purification time. I kind of didn't want to work next week, but oh well. The original plans for purification were today thru Sunday. But since Luis' brother is getting married on Sunday and he's in the wedding, we had to ( Read more... )

Hello Everyone!!

My parent's are going to Hawaii for 8 days in October. This means that I get to be semi-home alone. Lab BBQ!! Hehehe...it's gonna be great. Good times. EEE! Can't wait. But then again, it'll be midterms week and the only thing that I'll be worrying about will be passing and figuring out what to eat. But it's still super

Hello everyone!! I am sitting in an internet cafe with my cousin in Tepatitlan (and hour away from Guadalajara). It's so cool. A bit jet-lagged, but I'll manage. Oh, and guess what? It's raining over here. NO!!! That means that I probably won't be able to go the zoo. Bummer. I really don't care that much cuz all me cousins are way too cool ( Read more... )