I know... really bad at this whole posting regularly to my lj kinda thing. And no, I will not make it a New Year's resolution to change that, because there are other things I'd rather try to do.. like... stop planning for events that aren't happening in the forseeable future. I'm speaking, of course, of my really bad (girly) habit of planning my ( Read more... )

is basically what i am right now. i'm so over grad school. i was fine, actually, until recently. and now i just want to get out. but i have 2 more years. which isn't that much, i know, but still. i haven't had my 1st committee meeting yet, so right now isn't exactly the time to be thinking about graduating since they're the ones that tell me ( Read more... )

something that bothers me, on occasion, is the fact that some of the cars in the parking lot at my apartment complex have bullet holes in them. about a year or so ago, there was a mustang that had a couple of bullet holes in the door on the driver's side, and now there's a small white car that has a bullet hole in the passenger side. so... maybe ( Read more... )

i'll try to make this the least nerdy and scientific that i can. i got to the last step of my protein isolation protocol yesterday, and it was basically waiting for acetone to evaporate away (which only takes about 20 minutes) and then putting some sample loading buffer on it to make it ready for use. so after about an hour i notice that all the ( Read more... )

i used to have a back-up plan ... in case this whole graduate school thing doesn't work out. i haven't really thought about it recently, but i think that it's about time to think about it again. in case the whole renewal doesn't work out, you know. so it used to be that i was going to be a back-up dancer for a boy band, but boy bands don't ( Read more... )

uhm..... so i'm basically a slacker, and for a little while i completely forgot about lj. sorry to those people out there that have read my lj for entertainment purposes... long incubations in lab and such... anyway, so i guess it would be appropriate to tell everyone what i've been doing the past 5 months ( Read more... )

i don't know what strikes people not to use their contact list when they text other individuals, but maybe it's something we should get into the habit of doing. i mean... i guess it could be faster just to type in someone's number rather than going through the contact list, especially if your phone's old fashioned and doesn't let you search by ( Read more... )

i came across an interesting discussion today that's made me rather pensive. someone asked the question "why cure cancer?" or any other disease since disease seems to be the "natural" way that the earth balances births with deaths. and that disease may be the one way that the earth is naturally "fixing" the problem of overpopulation. at least i ( Read more... )

well... it's saturday night, and i'm disappointed with this weekend. yesterday was my labmate's birthday (yay andrea!) so we went to the tennessee state fair to "mullet-watch" ... only there were no mullets to be seen! i've seen more mullets in wal-mart! so because of the lack of mullets, i decided that we should play popped collar vs. mullet... ( Read more... )

is done!!!! i've passed, in case you hadn't heard some way or another. and it was really anti-climactic getting it all over with. because it's not fun, and the relief that you feel afterwards is not equal to the stress that you felt before it happened. i mean certainly there were times that i was overtly ecstatic, but most of my friends are ( Read more... )