On Wednesday, 14 minutes before deadline, I submitted my grant application to the NSF. As this entailed writing 3 essays and taking 2 GREs (general & biology) in the course of 5 weeks, life's been hectic. But now all I have to worry about is arranging summer fieldwork, additional grant applications, a grad school, advisors, etc... ARGH ( Read more... )

Two quotations that live on my work computer ( Read more... )

The deadline approacheth; therefore I need to beat my grant application into submission in the near future. GAH. First I have to do some research & e-mailing to make sure nobody else has had my idea. Although, since my idea requires travel throughout coastal northern Africa, I'm guessing...no.

Spent last weekend in West Virginia, at Library Boy's family reunion (he couldn't be there, but I was). It was fun and I learned to play pinochle (with help ( Read more... )

Would you believe that after almost 2 years of total inactivity, LiveJournal still doesn't delete your page?

Wicked cool.

I'm off to Cincinnati! With my Mom to drive with me- it's a long story. Come visit me when I find an apartment! (This will be sooner rather than later because Library Boy is spending his Spring Break in fabulous Ohio, and I don't fancy entertaining him at my cousins' house.)

Hope your New Year is as nice as mine has been, so far!

OK, so remember how, many moons ago, I baked some pastries for my Mom's tennis luncheon, and was so pleased with them that I announced my intention of posting photographic evidence for all to see?

I thought not.

Anyways, for whom it may concern, I have finally gotten around to doing so: Diabetic coma

Alton Brown is my personal hero. The man has the world's coolest equipment. He has a flame-detailed KitchenAid, for heaven's sake ( Read more... )

OK, maybe I'm just being a massive idiot here, but does anyone know how to open the door on J. K. Rowling's website? (You know, the door that you get to by clicking the hair elastic on the desk?) When I mouse over the handle, it jiggles, but I can't seem to make it open by mousing, clicking, or any combination thereof ( Read more... )

So, you all know that I very recently officially accepted a job in Cincinnati. In the time since then, I have been flat-out offered a job in Texas with the professor I was so excited about before, and forwarded a job ad (with the implication that I'd have a very good chance at the job) in Hawaii.