So, the Phillies have a 2-0 series lead over the Dodgers in the NLCS ( Read more... )

• A is for age: 22
• B is for beer of choice: I have limited experience with beer, but from what I'd had I suppose Sam Adams.
• C is for career right now: graduate student
• D is for your dog's name: Maggie/Bandit
• E is for essential item you use everyday: toothbrush

The best part of the game was our pitcher, Brett Myers, getting walked on nine pitches by CC Sabathia with a man on second and two outs.  Myers has had 6 hits in the past three years!  He protected the plate and got a walk after being down 1-2. That kept the inning going until two batters later the Flyin' Hawaiian hit his first grand slam.  Myers ( Read more... )

So, in the news in Philadelphia recently has been the scandal over the death of a 14-year old girl with cerebral palsy who starved to death.  The Department of Human Services (social workers) had failed to check her regularly at her Mother's house, and she died.  Now the parents - the ones who callously watched her starve - are suing DHS for ( Read more... )

I went to work today.  I was bored at work.  They won't let me do anything with this compound because, as Donna says, "You may want to have babies someday."  So I sat at my desk.  I stared at walls.  I worked on a PowerPoint presentation. I daydreamed that gravity monsters attacked my workplace, sucked up a few buildings, potted plants and security ( Read more... )

Stolen (in infancy by PIRATES!) from various landlubbers.

Bold what you've read, italicize what you intend to read, underline what you love!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible ( Read more... )

I am going to write an (awful) Doctor Who fanfic in which the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline mysteriously lays off most of R&D - seems illogical! - but [spoiler alert] it turns out he has a deal with a shady alien pharmaceutical firm and will be peddling their drugs on Earth.  OH MY GOODNESS!  But luckily the Doctor saves the day and turns Mr. Andrew Witty ( Read more... )

I think I want to read David Sedaris' book(s).  Maybe.  I also ran into an old classmate yesterday who recommended "Memoirs of a Boy Soldier."

I spent most of yesterday watching CSPAN. 
- I'm generally pleased with what happened.  After Clinton made it her "crusade" to count these votes we all knew they'd manage to seat the delegates in some fashion.  Clinton's reasons for seating the delegates are transparent and it's laughable that her followers eat up her rhetoric about 'counting all ( Read more... )

I'm finally out of the cubicle at work!  I have work to do in the lab!  And, I got to play with radioactivity today - 407,000,000 DMP/mL!  It's almost worth converting that into mCi!