When friends of mine who really want children announce they are pregnant, it's always so hard to me to leave it at "I'm so happy for you!" and not add on "now let me go gouge out my ovaries with a rusty spoon to ensure such a thing never happens to me".

(I am very happy for her. She had a miscarriage in February -- at seven months, which is ( Read more... )

I GET TO SEE MY LISA!!!!!

I'm so excited. I have fall break (imagine that!) on the 16th and 17th of Oct (that's in two weeks!), so I'm going to take that time off of lab (my PI was very generous) and take a train down to DC (I've never taken a train!).

DC! And a train! And my Lise! I am thrilled.

I swear to god I do things besides drink in grad school.

I just can't currently remember what they are.

Oh, that's right! Science!

This is why I'm glad I'm not a tech:

Me: Ellen, aren't the PCR tubes supposed to be in this cabinet?
Ellen: Oh, we're out.
Me: We're out of PCR tubes?
Ellen: Yeah, I ordered some, but they haven't come in yet.
Me: We're out of PCR tubes?
Ellen: Yes. Try to borrow some from someone else ( Read more... )

So, let's see ( Read more... )

Adam: don't drink too much, you'll kill the brilliance and then the terrorists will win!
Me: er, i think "don't drink too much" is a bit of a lost cause for me and grad school.
Adam: when did you start hating freedom?

(Er, or possibly it was Becca, I didn't ask.)

So... I've fallen in with the "hard drinking crowd ( Read more... )

There was this boy.

And I'm pretty sure I told him I wasn't going to sleep with him.

But I can't actually remember what else I told him.

Hmmm.....

Wednesday night: No work tomorrow. One rotation ended, the other hasn't started. Have orientation at 2:00 pm, but nothing until then. Result: went out and got smashingly drunk with THE MOST AWESOME PEOPLE EVER (including my new roommate). Had serious and very drunken conversations about infectious disease and developing countries ( Read more... )

'Cause every monkey needs alone time
To eat bananas in the sunshine
It's feast or famine it's a fine line
It doesn't mean my monkey doesn't love you.Just finished Rotation #1. If you want to know anything about tRNA packaging in retroviruses (HIV, MLV), just ask. Seriously. Anything at all. Half of it I figured out myself, so hah ( Read more... )