Still slightly agonizing over the recentish break-up, but I know deep down that it was the right thing to do. I think...I still love him, though we really just aren't similar enough to make it work. Or so I keep trying to convince myself of that for some reason. Thankfully I have some awesome friends around to help me out with that ( Read more... )

I just re-submitted my ms, so hopefully that will go over well...now it's time to have some food and read a paper for my class at 2:30. I always wanted to learn how to design a primer...not ( Read more... )

haha, I'm sure that by now, we can all agree that en masse, and typically singly as well, are panic ridden and believe anything they hear. They almost seem to enjoy stress and spreading it around to other people. I simply don't understand. Even as an undergrad I didn't really get it. But that's okay.  I mention this because now that the strike is ( Read more... )

Well today was my first day back at school since the strike has been over, and it was a pretty good one all around! We had a brief TA meeting which went well, though we found out that my supervisor's wife's father passed away last night, which was realy sad to hear. I believe that I'll be doing some baby sitting for him one or two days this week to ( Read more... )

Well the last 4 days were pretty fun times catching Chinook salmon and breeding them at a hatchery. I must say though, as huge as I thought these fish were (about 15-25 lbs and 80-100 cm in length), apparently not many years ago they were at least double the weight and about 50 cm longer!! Just goes to show how trophy fishing (as they're really ( Read more... )

A few of us from the lab are getting ready to go to Mississauga area for some salmon collecting field work for the next few days...should be tons and tons of fun! Perhaps a little chilly, but that's what neoprene waders are for I guess!  Hockey also just started yesterday, which honestly made my day!  LOL, I got a little slack from wearning my ( Read more... )

Well, just taking a much needed break here from editing a manuscript and thought it would be a good idea to have yet another procrastinating tool on my side. In reality, I was thinking about some old friends from the past and we use to constantly be in touch via livejournal. I was also convinced that it would be a good place to let out some ( Read more... )