I really suck at sleeping.

the Carriage House!

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Someone needs to get cracking on decoding the Ixodid tick genome. It just took me 2 days of sitting at the computer reading papers, sorting through sequences, and messing around with primer design programs to work out one measly RNA primer set.

Although when doing stuff the hard way, I learn a lot. :>

Grad schools are dumb.

I've been feeling livejournally lately, whereas my usual state is 'too cool to post'. Last night I wasted valuable sleep time going back and reading my oldest entries. It was really strange, some of them I could hardly believe that was me writing! And that's just 6 years ago. I've changed so much. Well, I still love tatu as much as I did back ( Read more... )

Just to let the world know, t.a.t.u. recently put out their new album and it's awesome. You can listen to some songs at their myspace page. I find 'Fly On The Wall' to be kind of annoyingly poppish, but the rest are pretty kickass. If you want the album you have to order it from Russia and it takes forever. Or you can download it from itunes ( Read more... )

So, on the 30th I'm moving out to Penikese, a small island in Buzzard's Bay at the end of the Elizabeth Island chain off of Wood's Hole. I'll be living at a field camp, in a tent, and working with terns again all summer for Mass Wildlife. I get to come off every 2-3 weeks ( Read more... )

I am so grateful Massachusetts forced everyone to get health insurance. For the past 3 years I haven't had any sort of insurance because I couldn't bear to pay for it. I would just like to revel in how lucky I am that I became covered under Commonwealth Care (for free!*) just 2.5 months before I really needed it. With all this eye stuff, I'd be ( Read more... )

So, my eyes are feeling better, but I can't wear contacts for a couple weeks. I have new glasses which are annoying because I haven't worn glasses since 9th grade. Everything in my peripheral vision is warped...it will take some getting used to ( Read more... )

My eyes had a very bad day yesterday. Something went wrong when I took out my contact lenses thursday night (I fell asleep in them for a couple hours and they were vey dry), and in a couple hours my eyes were in awful pain. Like something was stuck in them but wouldn't come out. I'm at Winslow's, and he took me to the emergency room at 5am on ( Read more... )