green day/jimmy eat world: september 3
of montreal: september 11
the decemberists: october 10
death cab for cutie: october 17

this is gearing up to be a fabulous fall

even if, currently, i am (very begrudgingly) beginning to pack and move away from this perfect summer.

my dad came to the cape last weekend to visit. it was fantastic - toured woods hole, saw a film festival movie, biked aroundt he vineyard, visited beaches, poked around rocks looking for tidepools, watched yellow submarinei took him to the airport in providence on tuesday morning. and the second he walked into the terminal - i burst into tears ( Read more... )

i've been failing in my attempts at the 101 in 1001 thing. or at least, keeping others updated as to how i'm doing.

i bought dookie. finally. what a fabulous album. about time i actually owned it.

i also applied for and received a credit card. woohoo. for gas and purchases over one hundred dollars only. the first of which was today, buying a ( Read more... )

i feel like i've been disillusioned by what actually being a scientist, an investigator, means.

not that i don't want to pursue the sciences, but...

there is this attitude amoung scientists
"i have my ph.d and therefore i am better than you ( Read more... )

oh good. i managed to break the centrifuge (in another lab since ours is broken) this morning while doing a chelex (dna extraction ( Read more... )

i rode my bike home from work on friday. and somehow, during the day, the chain had fallen off and i failed to realize this. so when i got on, right in front of the mrc, the pedals wouldn't move since the chain wasn't moving and i tipped over. now i have a gross bruise on my leg, a scrape right near my butt, and wounded pride. (i swear, i can ride ( Read more... )

101 update ( Read more... )

does the movie tagging apply to the movies that i specifically own? or to the collection that is shared together on the shelf in the apartment? because some of those are brad's although i suppose that makes them partly mine. but i'm still just going to do the ones that i bought/were gifts to me because he has too many and i haven't even seen some ( Read more... )

inspired by my cousin ( Read more... )

tucson is over until winter break. pleasantly brief, but stressful. i'm glad its done. my sister is graduated, family and friends seen, truck/bike acquired ( Read more... )