Actually, what I should be doing is reading 60 year old journal articles for my Ion Channels class (yeah, you can actually take classes devoted to ion channels. It could be worse really... American roommate is taking classes about genocide. She says it's how to prevent it.. but you never really know). The papers are actually awesome (I'll spare you ( Read more... )

A meme that I've had kicking round for a couple of weeks (from
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I just heard that Edmund Hillary passed away this morning in NZ, and because I'm feeling more shocked than I should be (he was 88), I feel the need to share the news.

In case you're sitting there going 'who the fuck?', this was one of the first two guys to reach the top of Mt Everest (he'd never say which of them was actually first, and it's really ( Read more... )

Meme time again, following a bunch of flisters who've posted the first of these:

93% Dennis Kucinich
91% Mike Gravel
83% Barack Obama
81% John Edwards
80% Bill Richardson
79% Chris Dodd
78% Hillary Clinton
77% Joe Biden
35% Rudy Giuliani
26% Ron Paul
23% John McCain
21% Mitt Romney
17% Mike Huckabee
14% Tom Tancredo
9% Fred Thompson

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Ganked from
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Check it out - after weeks a while back thinking about it, not doing it, driving
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Partly in the interests of balance, partly because I'm bored and my (always decent) procrastination tendencies are currently spinning out of control, and partly because since the writers' strike is denying me the Daily Show and Colbert Report, and thus my weekly dose of outraged/hilarious political ranting, I have an urge to point out one place ( Read more... )

Someone last week (and I can't remember who it was exactly, but nevermind) expressed to me their sympathy for having the misfortune to arrive in America in preparation for an election year, I think since it makes it more insane than usual....

...now, I didn't really agree, because I quite like being in the midst of all the insanity, because a) what ( Read more... )

Having an indulgently lazy weekend this week: laundry, cooking (I now have stuff in the freezer that ought to feed me for the week, yay!), cleaning the bathroom (French roommate and I went through experiments with baking soda and boiling water this morning so that hopefully it'll take less than half an hour to drain the bath after anyone has a ( Read more... )

 Hmmm.... to update, or not to update?

Okay, quick update: I'm good, New York is still awesome (although at times freakishly irritating, as with this morning when three subway stations (mine and the ones on either side on the line were closed so the police could investigate some sort of accident),  grad school is starting to own my soul...

...yeah, ( Read more... )