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Can I just say for a second that I'm fucking sick of people saying that our brains are "wired for" this, and "wired for" that? Particularly with respect to such things as language and music! This is what happens when people don't understand the theory of evolution. Yes, our brains are hooked up in such a way that facilitates language, and ( Read more... )

Drunken mice!

Today I was notified that Ting and I were In Trouble ( Read more... )

Woke up this morning to discover that my left eye was swollen almost entirely shut.

Missed class because I had to wait for it to shrink back down to size.

How gross.

Finally have time to post.

The neuroscience conference was pretty good, despite the creepiness of the hotel Ting and I stayed in (pitch-black lobby that you expect strippers, mafiosi, and corpses to be in? Check. Planters full of wheatgrass lining the hall? Check. Hideous pumpkin-orange window treatments? Check. LARGE WINDOW PERMITTING ( Read more... )

I am bored and whiney, mostly because lab stuff isn't going so well. Last Friday I stayed in lab until 8 or 9 at night, running a series of assays to confirm an experimental result I got over the summer. The data was going to be used in a paper that would have had my name on it. Unfortunately, the assay data turned out exactly the opposite of ( Read more... )

unintentional irony award for the day goes to....

The patient in the hospital lobby this afternoon. A youngish man, he was pushing himself along in a manual wheelchair. He almost ran into me, then stopped short and let me go ahead. It was while I was thanking him that I noticed that his t-shirt read "I DO ALL MY OWN STUNTS."

I was sitting peacefully on the couch munching a cookie, when Iggy vaulted up next to me and took a HUGE bite out of the cookie, then ran away.

Woke up this morning to the words that any woman longs to hear first thing upon waking:

"Honey, you gotta get up. Iggy caught a mouse and it's not dead yet."