I used to donate to Salvation Army every time I passed one of their bell ringers - I thought it was a great cause and felt good about it. ( But, then I found out that they are VERY ANTI-GAY. )

Fuck this "democracy" shit ( Read more... )

Last night I was at a Halloween party, and somehow the topic came up of the student in my program that has Asperger syndrome. Once again, I am appalled at the ignorance and close-mindedness revealed by people who call themselves students of biomedical science, and should be mature enough and aware enough to be understanding about something like ( Read more... )

Okay, my PI officially thinks I'm retarded. I said I was worried because one of the tumor lines I'm studying looks like fibroblasts. And she said that the way we process the tumors, there are really no fibroblasts and kind of implied that I should know by now that tumors are all purely epithelial ( Read more... )

UGH!!!! I'm SO pissed. iTunes just erased ALL of my music. This is the third time it's delected some of my music, but this time it's ALL gone. I don't even know how. For the last week or so every time I booted my computer, an icon came up that said files were ready to be burned to CD. I would just ignore it. Finally, today I was getting ( Read more... )

Since I do breast cancer research, and am constantly attending talks about the environment and women's health and cancer in general, I thought I would share with you a few I've learned about cancer prevention. Cancer is tragically common, and there are simple things we can do to lower our risks. Also, some of you are likely to have already had ( Read more... )

Guys who ride bikes are hot. Especially when they wear helmets. Safety is so sexy.

( Strawberry Blonde Pigtails )

I entered the name Isabella for the Scrubs "Name the Baby" contest and it got chosen as one of the top ten ( Read more... )

I tried out TrustFlow II for LiveJournal. The following people not on the friends list for girlblue_77 are close by:

• wiccanpixie, moonshinekat, littleryoga, catwoman66, cocoancream, gossamerdream00, gemini_in_black, sweetmistakes76, graceschild, whisperkitty (300 - 350)
• blazingtempest, my_own_epiphany, shoe_gal, _symphony_, roxyppc (350 - 400)
• potterpuffs, egobeluosus, file_in_here, tennishoelaces, temptationzgirl, robyn13, xmamichula4yahx, overclocker963, anna_mathe (450 - 500)

( More results below the cut... )