Today I am sending off my first cover letter/CV for a medical research position. As much as I absolutely adore tinkering thoughts and sentences to perfection, this-shit-is-stressful-yo. Especially when you have a grand total of no scientific research experience. I have to say, I'm really looking forward to the day when my resume even remotely ( Read more... )

First, you take a day, and heat it up to 60 or so degrees ( Read more... )

Perms ( Read more... )

Frequent rutting destroys futons. Metal frame futons with lots of bolts specifically employed to guarantee system integrity. Metal frame futons which utterly decompose into their various component parts as they are being transported away from the scene of collapse.

Apparently, lovin' actually consumes metal bolts. Who knew?

Why do people abdicate intelligence so easily, in order to cling to someone else's conclusions ( Read more... )

Snow: the universal softener.

I wish the city could look and sound and feel and smell like this all winter long.

Crystalline purity for all senses, before the salty black spatters in.

Malady time: I caught severe bronchial pneumonial plague of death syndrome the minute my volunteer shift was over, and as of right now, I've survived the cough of rattly death and entered a headal cloggage extravaganza. This, despite having taken extra precautions about suiting up as indicated by warning stickers on patients' doors ( Read more... )

It is grey and rainy. But, we have season 2 of Babylon 5! Love love love that show ( Read more... )

Last week, we calculated what would happen to the vapor pressure of butane inside a lighter, were you to throw it into a fire. Conclusion: perhaps the warning label isn't sufficient. DON'T ( Read more... )

I just typed up a presentation I have to make tonight on the derivation of Gauss' Law from Coulomb's Law. It involved many many math symbols and Greek letters, and I nearly copy/pasted the computer to death. I will hand it out to everyone in my class, and they will throw it away as soon as I am finished speaking. I would too, if I were them. I ( Read more... )