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Last night I went to San Diego for the last time of the 3 week training class. It took me three hours to go 70 miles, as I got stuck in the worst traffic EVER. I was cheered up immensely by the pharmacology banquet, which had deep fried crabcakes, bison ribs (yes), 5 kinds of gourmet desserts, and an endless supply of expensive wine ( Read more... ) -
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Why on earth is the Newport Harbor water so icky? It looks pretty clean, and the flying fish seem to be enjoying themselves, but today in class when we did the "intentional" capsize (to show that we can right the boat), it's just so darn icky - like heavy and salty. Maybe it's because of the motor oil, or maybe it's because I am uncomfortable ( Read more... ) -
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Last night I went down to San Diego again to visit the boy. This is the end of week 2 out of 3 of his pharmacology training class, which is totally the suck, but he's meeting a lot of great people and setting up some great connections (he got a private tour of the Johnson & Johnson pharm research center!). We went out to dinner at a little ( Read more... ) -
Gap Fire part 3
Update: So, my house did not burn . . . nor did any houses, actually. The fire has now burned 9,000 acres, but they predicted 500 houses would burn on Friday. Luckily, they did not ( Read more... ) -
Gap Fire
PLEASE, please keep your fingers crossed.
My parents are in the line of the fire. They evacuated (with the essentials, and the cat) but it is likely our house will burn. Our neighborhood is on all "absolute emergency evacuation" lists. Burning ash was raining down as they packed the car.
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I spent a good deal of Friday and Saturday nights here during my five years in Los Angeles. It was a haunt of all music lovers, who came for Jon Brion, Aimee Mann, Dan Wilson, and Rufus Wainright. I regretted that I'd never caught Elliott Smith here before he died. I loved it because it was small and intimate, because you could hang out ( Read more... ) -
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We went on such a self-indulgent binge yesterday. First, GameStop, where we got WiiPlay, MarioGalaxy, and Bust a Move for the Wii, then Chipotle (yummmmmm), and BevMo, where we stocked up on Sierra Nevada Summer brew ( Read more... ) -
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Lab is going surprisingly well. My experiments are working, and it seems like we may begin writing the paper soon. It's an odd balancing act between just getting the story out, and taking more time to really tease out the whole mechanism of what is causing the story, but I'm so deathly afraid of getting scooped that I think we will focus on the ( Read more... )
