I had a minor (well, actually pretty major in that I actually had bad dreams this morning because of it, I think) freak-out yesterday. I use excel to analyze my data and make pretty graphs and I've been running the same experiment over and over and I've really only gotten it to work once in the last 3 weeks (for reasons like, I keep killing my ( Read more... )

It feels like fall now so I'm thinking about it. I'm looking out the window (also, I love that my lab has windows. Windows! What a concept!) and the sky is perfectly blue and the trees are kind of wagging around and everything just kind of looks crisp but not too cold and I'm very satisfied. Maybe I'll plan a hiking trip for this weekend.

How does one learn to "network" at events like conferences. It isn't a skill I have. I went to my first HD conference over the weekend (actually, I skipped the last day because it was long and the last day looked really boring). The first day was kind of fun and interesting. The second day was on the kind of thing I'm working on but it really ( Read more... )

Oh my god! I think I'm going to have a heart attack! I think my experiment actually worked. And I mean it this time!

I made a resolution at the beginning of the summer to try to go to TKD at least two out of Mon., Wed. and Sat. each week. For a while I was good but last week I got stuck at work really late during the week. I ended up taking friday afternoon off and going in because I was invited to come in and go over what I need to know for 3rd Dan. Actually ( Read more... )

I know how siRNA is supposed to work and I know that I'm supposed to be able to show that I've knocked down my stupid gene of interest (everything is stupid) by doing qRT-PCR but after about 11 months of trying I can't show it. Not in the mouse, not in the HeLa cells. Oh yes, people seem to think the protein levels are lower, the mice, they ( Read more... )

Woo hoo! The government doesn't think I owe them any money. The government, in the form of the tax inspector person even wishes they could give me more money but since I didn't give them more money to begin with, they can't. This whole experience has gotten me thinking though. What exactly is the hiring process for tax inspector. From what I ( Read more... )

I don't think I've ever been this busy before. That is probably not accurate. I just don't remember being this busy. I missed Tae Kwon Do class on monday because all of a sudden it was 6:00PM and I still had two hours of work to do. Then yesterday I was here until 8:00. Despite that, I'm still not getting everything done. On top of this, I am ( Read more... )

So, I'm engaged. This is certainly something I wanted and was looking forward to but I can't help thinking its very scary. Nor can I help thinking about the fact that I was engaged before. I'm a little worried about being serially engaged. I don't think of myself as someone who wants to be married all that much. In fact, I certainly didn't ( Read more... )