I just went into the bathroom at work, and on the ground in the bathroom was a can of black spray paint as well as a partially spray painted propellor, about a foot and a half in diameter.

mmmmmmkay.

I am currently writing a fellowship application, and I swear to god, if I ever hear the words "opportunity", "experience" or "valuable" again, I might just scream. Nothing like those three words, especially in combination, to make you feel like a complete and utter tool ( Read more... )

OK, I'm almost done with Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and I really like it, but I was ready for it to end about 200 pages ago. Seriously, I just want to read something new, and I keep not being done with this book ( Read more... )

International Talk Like a Pirate Day is as good a day as any to start updating my LJ again ( Read more... )

I read an article in the NYTimes today about a radio station designed to be played for dogs and cats while they are alone in the house (logically at www.dogcatradio.com). So I decided to tune in, since I'm alone at home, and kind of bored. And they're playing Eurythmics! And Ricky Martin! And all kinds of other happy entertaining music! So far ( Read more... )

OK, so I was planning not to be whiny about my neuroanatomy exam on Friday, to not post angsty LJ posts about it, to be calm and just take up the time that it takes typing this studying ( Read more... )

fun ways to study for an exam: review the different ways to kill people with neurotoxins.

of course, that doesn't really help me with the whole memorizing equations thing. I'm going to see if I can get away with only knowing Ohm's Law. Gross oversimplification? Perhaps. But a damn logical equation.

Very briefly ( Read more... )

I've been looking through the same list of faculty for nearly two months, trying to decide who to contact for rotations. Since I'm now looking at everyone's description for the 80th time I'm noticing minutiae on their CV. For example, one guy in the department published a lot of things in the journal Pain. How cool would it be to published in ( Read more... )

OK, Harvard's backwardness redeemed itself--we got free food when we turned in our registration papers. Think of how much free food we missed at WashU in all those semesters of online registration ( Read more... )