Dear mom ( Read more... )

Only me, the following would only happen to me ( Read more... )

I want a hand gun. I know that hand guns are illegal in Chicago. BUT the same law was in place in D.C. and overturned as unconstitutional. It was overturned because Kay Bailey Hutchinson was caught carrying a hand gun. She was charged some fine, but she fought it. I mean after all, she is a high profile, female politician in a town with an enormous ( Read more... )

Yay!
Christmas Eve.
I am so broke. I hate that I have to buy presents. Aren't we too old for that stuff? I always feel if I buy some one in my family a bad gift that I will be asked to leave the family forever.

I can't wait to be back in Chicago. Family time is exhausting. Arg.

I am quitting coffee, down to 1.5 cups a day. I am totally unmotivated and a waste of human flesh. BUT it has to be done. Drinking 6-10 cups a day is just not a good idea.

Colt McCoy, I love you.

Now if Oklahoma State can just barely win over the Sooners (Stoops eats poops) and Baylor can win over the Red Raiders...

I wrote a check yesterday and as I did I asked the clerk what the date was, 9/11. I felt a background of sadness as I wrote the numbers in the top, right-hand corner ( Read more... )

Today was my first day actually working in Mitra's lab. (I don't want to talk about the Departmental retreat I just came back from. It involved food poisoning, a snoring roommate and bad adult ice-breaker games ( Read more... )

I am in Chicago!! I have been here a week or so. I haven't LJed because I don't have internet and I can't LJ at work. The desks are so packed in I fear my new co-workers, who are all 24-26 year -old stiffs, might see me journaling ( Read more... )

I met with the landlord yesterday. Actually, all of the house mates met with her. It took 1.5 hours. ugh. At the end of it, I was given permission to stay in the house until Sept. 1. Yeah! I won't have to live out of the lab ( Read more... )