Dude, yesterday sucked ( Read more... )

Let me just say it now, I HATE the MCAT. Like, a lot. The plan was to spend most of yesterday working through some MCAT style Physics problems. That totally didn’t happen. An hour in and I got so frustrated with my apparent lack of comprehension that I decided to call it quits. Even attempting to study in the sunshine didn’t really improve my mood ( Read more... )

Despite the lack of updates, I am indeed still alive. It's just that work and the MCAT have taken over my life at the moment. I'm still hitting the gym on a regular basis. Since my knees have decided that they hate me, I've been drifting more towards the bike than to running lately. The fact that it's easier to watch tv episode on my iPod while ( Read more... )

Sleep was better last night. Better... but still not good. I think the last time I slept through the night was last summer in Berlin when I was sick, exhausted, and drugged. So I guess I'll settle for better-than-crappy sleep. For now ( Read more... )

Tired. The stupid thunder storm kept waking me up, so I didn't exactly get an abundance of sleep. I've felt a whole lot like I was walking in my sleep all day. Regardless, I still managed to get a lot of work done on my grant. It's really starting to take shape... which is a relief considering I need it finished before the end of this month ( Read more... )

My burst of productivity from yesterday so totally stalled out today. I did manage to rewrite a few sections of my grant to make them more readable... but as for any new sections getting written... zilch. Zero. Zippo. Win some, lose some, I suppose.

Gym this evening was good. I spent an entire episode of "Top Chef" biking away.

So. Freaking. Tired ( Read more... )

Today was all kinds of awesome. I feel like I'm finally making progress on my grant. I've got a vague plan in place. I start writing tomorrow. Then, after a few run-walk sessions on this week's couch-to-5k, I decided to try to run the rest of the session. I'd forgotten how much I love running ( Read more... )

Apparently I jinxed myself yesterday. I now have to re-do both sets of samples that I prepped for proteomics. Oddly enough, it wasn't due to something that was my fault. There's nothing I can do about it, unfortunately. So I just have to suck it up and redo it. After that, hopefully there will be an unfortunate fire that destroys all of our ( Read more... )

I've been playing around with tofu lately, and my latest attempt has turned out pretty well. So I made tofu corndogs. Basically, after pressing some extra firm tofu to drain, I sliced it into strips and let it soak in some honey mustard for a few hours. Out of the mustard, into some plain breadcrumbs, and pan fried with some cooking spray. I wasn't ( Read more... )