Here is a link to the Nobel Prize winner(s) for medicine this year. Al Gore may be getting all the spotlight, but these guys may be making it so my nephew can live a very long and healthy life! The stem cell research they are doing in mice have lead to the isolation of the Cystic Fibrosis gene. Which is a good thing! Maybe within the next 5-10 ( Read more... )

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I'm such a lurker...I love reading posts, but I rarely post myself. So without further ado...I present, A POST!!!! Things are pretty good right now. I have a stupid sinus infection/allergy thing going on right now and it's kicking my ass. I SWEAR when this is gone I am going to start exercising!! ...maybe ( Read more... )

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: North Central

"North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
The West

Boston

The Midland

The South

The Inland North

Philadelphia

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Being the first person to drive on fresh snow ( Read more... )

1. Do you have any big plans for the next month? Grandma's 90th birthday party in North Dakota ( Read more... )

It's 1am and I can't sleep, so I am drinking more diet Coke. Just to make sure I am up ALL night. I leave for Elmira on Sunday, I am hoping this is my last trip. I interviewed for a job here in town today and it went very well, they can't pay me very well, but no one here in Montana really can. It's a pretty small company out of Seattle, but I ( Read more... )

For all 3 of you who read this, 1 already knows, so this is for the other 2. My sister had her baby two weeks ago. Look at my icon to see the cutest little boy on earth. Everyone is great. It's almost 1am here and I just gave Kiernan back to mommy. I let her have some sleep without him in the room to wake her with every little noise. I have ( Read more... )

Things have been pretty boring lately. Just traveling here and there. Still not loving the job, but not hating it either. I am going on my first job all by myself next week. In Bucyrus, OH....sounds like a pit if you ask me. I am pretty nervous about going on my own...but everyone says I'll be fine. Then yesterday one of my old co-workers here ( Read more... )