Had this dream that I was wandering around inside the bricked skeleton of a building that was otherwise hollowed out and stripped to the bone. It was rectangle-ish, multi-storey, with narrow staircase hugging the sides of the building, floors stripped bare and no roof. A handful of people were also around, seemingly mourning its loss. For some ( Read more... )

Random bits from scattered dreams:

- A Pike National Park, which doesn't exist IRL, but apparently a Pike National Forest does exist in Colorado.

- Statistical tests of some type. In any case, p-values were involved.

- Cubic seagull figurines.

- Kayla, a childhood best friend.

- A single-bed dorm room shrouded in afternoon sun filtered through ( Read more... )

My brain's quite good at compiling random thoughts / factoids about the day and make them into a thought salad for my consumption at night. Here are the elements from last night's:

- Mom.

- Mom's best friend.

- Mount Gambier, that only resembled the actual Mount Gambier by the fact that it was a mountainous area with a lake smacked into the middle ( Read more... )

Been sometime since one of those vivid dreams. Last night's features:

- My (pregnant?) sister

- Giving my sister a lift to some unknown destination, on a thin-framed motorbike that crumbled constantly, or whenever I turned a corner or braked too quickly

- Small shops packed tightly along an unnamed street, dulled glass windows and colourful ( Read more... )

Here’s an odd thing that happened last night.

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For whenever one needs a sudden blast to the past: https://open.spotify.com/album/7uUMinHtZ0s3OJCHG802eg?si=EVyxYzYPSsSdhVdf3nCHhg

Just realised that I have the tendency to put up reminders on my calendar to reply to pretty normal emails from other people, strangers and colleagues and friends alike. Also realised that more often than not I would not actually follow such reminder and simply shuffle the reminder sticker to another spot further down the weekly schedule, until I ( Read more... )

Something weird's going on with my nose.

For the last two days I have been smelling this faint smell of cigarettes in the air, at home and at work. Which is odd, because a. I don't smoke, and b. no one in my lab group smokes (as far as I know). Although to be fair, a. one of my neighbours might be smoking out of their windows, and b. someone else ( Read more... )

Writing freaking sucks. So, here's to procrastination with the cutest depiction of leap day ever:

https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2024/leap-day-2024-6753651837110481-2xa.gif

- After 9 years studying/working in this institute, finally have a powerpoint presentation with the picture of a baby on it. And I have been so successful at avoiding doing it as well =='

- After 3 years of professional work, another 4 years of postgrad training, another 4 years of undergrad and another 3 years of high school biology, it finally ( Read more... )