But I overestimated. After not getting particularly sick for a few years, I caught a nasty cold from my roommate complete with coughs and joint pain. I really want to take a sick day, but I have a clinical manufacture next week and the lead formulator decided to tweak the formulation so I have to recharacterize it by tomorrow...yep. After quite a ( Read more... )

I just got a tent for the Keys, and it's huge :) Somehow I managed to set it up in the dining room (despite taking up most of the room) by myself without snapping the poles. Also, its name is Grindelwald...I kid you not.

Pictures are here and here

The decision was finally made (passive voice because I received a voicemail informing me of said decision); I am moving back to Pennsylvania permanently in January. The good: it looks like all expenses will be covered and PA is a cheaper place to live than NJ. The bad: I have to pick up and move again. My rotation into a preformulation BR support ( Read more... )

This is what abstinence-only education produces: irony.

That is all :)

All I have to say is that I called it (maybe even first!). Check it out: http://tighroslin.com/images/Cylons2.jpg. Thanks to Mango for the link.

Merck still has not made a decision about my assignment in Jan. 2009. It is still between a temporary assignment for a year and a permanent assignment in West Point. It is currently a secret to everyone except for the senior management how this reorganization of things is going to go. My job is not in danger, but the way the managers and groups are ( Read more... )

Merck is a strange place, maybe because it is industry or maybe it is because they are especially disorganized. A new member of senior management joined right about the same time that I did and is reorganizing the groups again. The idea before was that I would do a rotation at West Point (Montgomery County, PA) for a few months and then come back ( Read more... )

This was the last weekend for me in State College for a long time and the very last time at the Bucket. It was a fun weekend though it was also bittersweet. I went running every day around State College and that brought back memories of all the different pretty routes and all the time in jogging class and all the time spent trying to clear my head ( Read more... )

Why does not major retailer sell beach umbrellas and beach chairs in mid-July? Why is there already back-to-school stuff festooning the seasonal section of big-box stores? I called like 5 stores in the area on Friday trying to find a beach umbrella and not one had one. Hello, it's bloody hot outside! Have you checked the Garden State Parkway? It's ( Read more... )

One month ago, I moved to New Jersey and it seems like it happened so much longer ago than that. I guess since I've been running around for moving things, working, going to Boston and State College (several times), there hasn't been much down time. I still need to do some things to adjust to being here, like meeting new people and actually spending ( Read more... )