Wow. My birthday was kind of a blast.

It started Tuesday of last week, with lab meeting cupcake owls. They turned out unbelievably cute, with big oreo-cookie eyes and banana-runt beaks. An ornitologist complained about ear tufts and stuff, but they were cute, and the whole lab just kind of stared for a whole five beats when Bev and I opened the box.

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*Takes a big breath ( Read more... )

I got confirmation that it's official, and I'm so excited!

Today's golden nuggets, courtesy of the online notes I'm studying off of:

*"You need vasculitis to have vasculitis"

*"Testicular infarction. Not cool."

And, here's how I've been motivating myself to study: phylab.mtu.edu/~nckelley/Focus/

I have something I want to announce. The only phrase that describes how I feel about it is "super stoked." I'm thrilled, but I have to wait to announce it until I get an email saying it's official. I've been checking my email every three seconds. This is driving me nuts. No way am I going to be able to study...

A troubling trend has reared its ugly head in my bibliophilic world. I'm fairly sure I've posted at least once about this, but I feel the need to justify the fact that I'm not in lab right now by elaborating.

The scenario: you walk into a friend's house. She has an artsy couch, with tasteful throwpillows. Behind it, a bookshelf, filled with books. ( Read more... )

I've been surprisingly homesick for the good ol' college days. I'm not really sure, but I can point out a few things that have happened lately ( Read more... )

As you all know, my life-long ambition has been to be the proud recipient of a garden gnome. Every year for Christmas and birthdays I am promised in no uncertain terms a garden gnome, and every year I am disappointed. Well, no more! Evan the garden* gnome came home with me yesterday night and has found a loving home here in good ol' B-more. No more ( Read more... )

 I'm looking for a hip phrase that you would use in IM chat that has "PCOS" as its acronym. Something along the lines of "laugh out loud" for LOL. Any ideas?

There's something about impending doom* that makes the day go by in a rush of adrenaline ( Read more... )