Today I read a note in rolling stone. It was snoop dogg calling johnny cash's boy named sue 'gangsta'. it was sort of the most brilliant thing ever.

Also, I'm really enjoying having a few days off for the holidays. Fitri and joe are in town, and fun is being had by all.

I love working with flies!

Well well. I'm sitting in the thirsty mind in south hadley massachusetts waiting to meet up with Stan, my old advisor. I came out here for Amanda's wedding out in Acton and kind of figured what the hell. After this I am on my way to Yale to party with Jakob, my friend from Friday Harbor. Then back to California and back to work ( Read more... )

Settling more into my time in Davis ( Read more... )

Seeing Stevie Wonder last night was so. great. I'm not sure what to even say about it, I'm still fairly in awe that the whole experience actually happened. Driving home, I just kept thinking that I couldn't believe I had just seen Stevie. He played for three hours, all his great songs. He sounds as good or better as he does on his albums live. Just

You might not know this about me. I'm afraid of bathrooms. Just public ones with vents in the ceiling. When I was five I watched a scary movie where a monster climbed out of the vents in the bathrooms of a school and killed bullies. When I was little I used to stare at the vents while I peed and then bolt out of the bathroom as fast as I could. I' ( Read more... )

it makes me nervous when I use an herbal product and under the ingredients they capitalize both the genera and the species names. You'd think they figure that one out, since they should know about this stuff....

Well, I'm back in Davis and it has just been nuts ( Read more... )

I am tired. Incredibly, bone wrenchingly tired. Too many late nights out combined with long days drawing embryos and the last vestiges of my sanity are seriously threatened. Tonight I am going to stay in and read Breakfast of Champions ( Read more... )

I'm on an island off the coast off washington, hung over and about to go try and track down some orcas. Embryology is amusing, we draw graphite portraits of embryos all day. But its a little like summer camp. Meals at certain times, class at certain times, we march around. I saw a Minke whale and some porpoises.