If I were religious and an asshole (and we all know only one of those is the case)  I might think that the flames engulfing Butte County are a righteous God's punishment for what the fuckers have been doing about gay marriage.  One can only hope.

I wrote my first yale250 yesterday.  Rereading it this morning made me glad that I'm starting sooner rather than later.

177!!!!!!!

so happy... never taking that fucking test again!

my grandma passed away today.  I'm officially out of grandparents.  I seem to be loosing a lot lately.

Rest In Peace Elinor Delfino

I passed my qualifying exam... I'm still kinda bouncing off the walls.

Brief update, since I should be doing final edits on my dissertation proposal:

My qualifying exam is in 20 days… I should be flipping out more about this, but I expect the flipoutage will come in the next week, peaking in 17 days, give or take, when I’ll only be able to talk about DNA repair, pull my hair out, and maybe drown myself in the ( Read more... )

desperate times call for desperate measures.
or
This makes my lovelife seem so terribly mainstream.
or
The dangers of dying young, attractive, and in estrus.


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The winner of the Ig Nobel prize in medicine was Francis Fesmire, of University Hospital in Florida, for a study that showed that intractable hiccups can be terminated by "digital rectal massage".

"Initially, gagging and tongue pulling manoeuvres were attempted with no change in symptomatology," Dr Fesmire wrote in a study published in the Annals of ( Read more... )

I can't believe its been 2 years...

Dottie sent this to me, saying I'd appreciate it...

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