I'm coming to terms with things better, lately. Kids are never going to sleep again? Okay, that's how it's going to be. Gotta buy a new dryer? That's how it's gonna be. I'm getting better at shutting down the catastrophizing part of my brain, and if that's even a word I sure didn't spell it right ( Read more... )

Well, my little baby has a heartbeat now. Good and strong, 160 bpm. Now the risk of miscarriage is so low I can tell everybody the news ( Read more... )

I write this from my New Computer. Woohoo! So far, it hasn't exploded. We'll see how this refurbished thing works out. I'm just happy to have something to write on again

I've had some of the best sleep the past few days. Last night I had a dream that I was wandering through a European city with Neil, and he needed to get a haircut. The first place we went was owned by an opium-fiend. Although he offered us some product I suggested we go elsewhere, which proved fortunate- we went into a mall wherein the Cohen ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

My lab is getting a lot of international media attention for our latest article. If you go to www.asu.edu you can see our picture on the main page or this is the direct link ( Read more... )

I wish so much that I could take a time-out from my life, that I could run away for a few days and hide in a cheap hotel room, living on mixed nuts and filling notebook after notebook with toxic yarns, and come back emptied of this poison and without everybody hating me. But everybody would hate me. Trust me. No one would understand this need I ( Read more... )

ok, so I'm back in the US for three weeks now and I finally have time to tell people that I am alive. My life has been so busy since I've got back here, catching up with work and things and my folks coming to town and the massive amounts of paperwork I've had to do to get my Feb. grants in on time, it's been a blast. We also bought the rest of ( Read more... )

I'm gonna be back in the Chicago area from the first of July to the fifth, and Bjarke is coming with me. It's not very much time, but I think if I get things planned out ahead of time it could be a really nice visit. So if you want to see me & B, let me know and we'll work something out. I'll be spending the 4th itself in Lombard at the taste ( ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got to train on a confocal microscope for the first time and Damn! it was a beautiful thing. Man oh man I was excited about it- I can't wait to get full clearance so I can use it after hours. Even though the one I was learning on is ten years old it still has such amazing capabilities- up to 500X magnification and you can use it to ( Read more... )