Work has been very good now that my coworkers and I have been working really hard and I am learning new things.  There was a period where we started a new project (no more cigarette smoke), and all I could do was shadow my boss and watch him do mouse surgeries, mouse  dissections, and the benchtop work involved in analyzing tissue derived from ( Read more... )

Apparently Amgen has suffered some setbacks, inspiring this journalist to say something that doesn't really make any sense.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-amgen9aug09,1,1332567.story

"Founded in 1980 as AMGen (Applied Molecular Genetics), the company pioneered products based on advances in molecular biology that have enabled scientists to use ( Read more... )

I just presented my data at an Atherosclerotic Research Center informal meeting.  It took about 15 minutes and was in front of like 25 people including a bunch of MDs and PhDs and MD PhDs.  When I first started studying and practicing, I had a bout of "I'm stupid and I can't do this well."  Now I feel accomplished and empowered. Back to work!

My car died.  It's in the shop.  I'm using my mom's car.  I don't know what's wrong or how much.  It was chugging and not responding or engaging after pressing the peddle.  The problem manifested itself on and off in between actually engaging.  It's probably something with the transmission. I might buy my mom's car from her if necessary.  I have a ( Read more... )

A.  Finished online traffic school! Woo hoo! I read all the lessons and it took me seven and a half hours with short breaks.  Thanks to madbard for discussing the idea of copying all the lessons into a word document and then using the find tool to search for the answers to the questions.

B. Work is good.  My boss figured out something we were doing ( Read more... )

In the vivarium, where they keep the animals, some animal handler knocked over lots of our cages and the mice got out and were irrevocably mixed up.  My coworkers lost thousands of dollars and months worth of work.  The handler was working with bad vision or something.  He was fired.

There's a hip hop song I hear on the radio that has these lines:
You ain't
'cause you not

Which is a way of saying:
You aren't
because you're not

Which are two ways of contracting the same thing:
You are not
because you are not.

This common identical soure of two different contractions pleases me.

Gone to visit relatives and Shlomo in Michigan tomorrow until the 30th. I'll also get to see Shlaura/Laurmo (schweet!). After I come back I start my job search.

Highly recommended: super-glam funky music by the Scissor Sisters called "I don't feel like dancing". It's really gay and really awesome. You can search for the video on launch.yahoo.com if you have a yahoo account.

On Friday I bought in for a $10 cash poker game and came home with $59. I could not lose. We were playing pot-limit and I kept betting the pot. Not once did I stone-cold bluff - I had a piece of every hand I was in, usually at least top pair. I got lucky and I didn't back down to people trying to scare me away ( Read more... )