My science writing for the mass media class is *really* getting to me. I need a writing class as a distribution requirement, so I took the least boring-looking one that I could find, which was this class (there weren't a lot of options). I didn't think it would be too hard, so I signed up to get actual grades. Well, I got my first papers back a ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't know, I work part-time in a plant biology lab that does a lot of genetics-related work. If you're doing research that's remotely genetics-y, you'll probably have to use PCR, which is a technique for replicating a particular portion of DNA ( Read more... )

Looks like the pain I get from stress might become a weekly thing, toward the end of Shabbat. I start thinking about all the stuff I have to somehow get done when Shabbat is over, and the next thing I know, I'm hurting all over. Gah. I also end up with temperature sensitivity, which has been worse today than last week. So if I touch anything even ( Read more... )

This Is My Life, RatedLife:

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Several days ago, there was an article in the Cornell daily newspaper about how every female college student should go to the pharmacy and get some Plan B pills to keep on her dresser. The premise is that of *course* every college student is having sex, and of *course* there will be times when you're too drunk to use a condom, or just don't care ( Read more... )

When I get stressed/overwhelmed by things random body parts start getting unexplained sharp pains. To give you an example, as I was reading my textbook struggling to understand stuff, wondering how I was going to get my homework done, my hand got a sharp pain for about 3 seconds, then maybe nothing for another 5 seconds. Then my elbow for a few ( Read more... )

This past Thursday, I was supposed to go to a day long poster session/social gathering type thing with my work. Okay, great, I get to sit around all day, listen to people talk, and get paid for it. I never bothered signing up for work emails, so I asked one of my co-workers where it would be. He told me it would be at a particular park, so I looked ( Read more... )

http://www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm - Learn what food additives are under-tested/cancer-causing!

Jesse's escapades (another sleep-conversation)
Jesse: That was cool.
Me: What was cool?
Jesse: The... BIGMAN!
Me: What did he do?
Jesse: You don't remember?
Me: No.
Jesse: He took the story seal off the universe and put a new one on.

Last night, Jesse and I were taking a nap, and when I woke up, I realized that we'd overslept and it was 1 AM ( Read more... )