tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54920062011-11-26T13:18:13.956-05:00Knitting like a crazed weasel. For a knitting blog, surprisingly devoid of knitting. Science, grief, life, bad jokes, politics, and way too many youtube videos.Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018163887117725118noreply@blogger.comBlogger3201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492006.post-34375093350510645032011-11-26T12:57:00.002-05:002011-11-26T13:18:13.966-05:00

Learning to breathe. Again.I have for a few weeks, now, been taking time to breathe. Finally. I had a regular spiritual practice at other times in my life, and have been doing some daily meditation. I'm grateful to have found material to work with that feels true to me (here, if you're interested). It makes sense to me to be aware of, and consciously try to work with, my own energy, and

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Didn't this used to be a blog?Yeah, I know...Hello again! Wee hours in the middle of Anime Boston, here, and life continues to hurtle along just barely within my grasp. Academics: nearly under control. Ditto emotional life, ditto balance, etc. etc. et friggin' cetera. I'm a little annoyed with myself for missing the Dr. Who thing that was broadcast tonight, but this is, in fact, not a very

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Crazed Weasel arrives at Spring, barelyHoly crap.Way too many things have been happening, and continue to happen, and I'm in a constant state of triage with a lot of it, to borrow the encapsulation used by K. D continues to be a force for happiness in my life, my family...is having a lot of Stuff happening (mainly of the not good variety), academic life continues to be extraordinarily

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Crazed Weasel ... QuarterlyNot drawn and quartered, either.Yes, I should be studying for quals. Or sleeping. Or something. But I'm not.A lot continues to happen, and the time stretches and bends. It feels like the semester just started, and like I've been doing this forever. I can barely remember what it felt like to know nothing about how to work the electrophysiology rig I use. It seems

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Fire? Frying pan? Can I get back to you on that?I keep telling myself, hey this whole scheduling thing is going to settle down any minute now. Still waiting for that to happen, which is not helped by having no time sense whatsoever. It is, after all, Labor Day weekend, which throws off all kinds of things - good problems to have in this category: too many cookouts to try and go to.Not so

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Fast forward to the next partWell, it's been quite a while. The show opened, ran, and closed, selling out both weekends - which was awesome! Grad school stuff starts this week, and I'm not really ready, but it'll still happen. I am excited and scared and... happy.Relationship stuff has been interesting. Still seeing the same guy, which is really lovely, and seeing another one too, who I met

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The saga continues (and doesn't everyone's?)So it's been just over a month, again. In that time, I have:- graduated from Harvard at last (Bachelor of Liberal Arts, field of study Biology, cum laude)- which involved finishing coursework, for which I got really good grades, hurray (this seems miraculous, but I suppose I'm pretty good at neuroscience after all)- and then I had a big party- (and yes

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UpdateYes, yes, it's a ridiculous hour of the morning; I fell asleep on the couch and woke up and am now weirdly awake, and one of the prerogatives of my life now is that I can stay up if I feel like it. I may feel like hell afterwards, but I know about that, too.So a lot of stuff has been going on. I have, oddly enough, been knitting on a more regular basis, which means mainly that I see some

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Brown!It's really happening. I'm still a bit stunned. Brown University's PhD neuroscience program has offered me a place for this coming fall. Apparently the admissions committee were unanimous in wanting to extend me an offer. I got word this morning that administration approved an increase in stipends, and that the formal stuff will be arriving in the next few days.Sure, I've been working

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Blog? Oh, yeah.Back again, having deleted the too-much-information post that was making me paranoid, but thank you, Lucia and Suzanne and Mel for your comments.I have been doing a lot of finishing of stuff: pirate mittens, finally finished gloves, two pairs of socks, and taught myself how to make a granny square. So the long-marinating Noro Iro will go from bag o' yarn to lovely afghan & is on

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Cozy, and doneSo the grad school applications? All done, with time to spare. One program now wants me to email scans of all my transcripts - apparently their main admissions office is slow handing over materials - so ok, I can do that. Suzanne, I did apply to HMS BBS - I think a couple of my recommenders are in that dept. one way or another, via the stem cell institute - and YES the people are

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Disjointed update postGrad school apps in progress - I'm in a better headspace than I was last week, certainly. Which is good. So that's getting done.I'm doing a lot of bustling around the house and getting things taken care of, generally. I now have a new chainsaw that works! And used it this morning on the embarrassingly large pile of wood lying around. It's a little tidier now, but will

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Mental break better than mental breakdownEch.Things have been pretty unsettled around here, what with coursework and ... well, mostly coursework. In fact almost exclusively coursework. And I seem to spend most of my bloggish time online pottering about on Facebook rather than reading actual, er, blogs. Or updating. Oh, well.I am edging up to having to really truly start my applications to

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3 yearsAfter I dug up a paper I'm supposed to read for class, I ran a search for dh's work, keyword "nebula" (that being mainly what I understand his work to have been on). Turns out he got cited a month after he died. Anyway, here's the cryptic export of the list of 4 papers the search turned up, on which he's author:FN ISI Export FormatVR 1.0PT JAU GOHARJI, AADAMS, STI THE C/O ABUNDANCE

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Fairly random thoughts(Yes, yes, when do I NOT fill this space with random thoughts)Running is going well. I've managed to go further two days in a row, now: 2.6 miles yesterday without stopping and 2.7 miles today. I'm trying to run for 30 minutes straight and am nearly, nearly, nearly there. I also seem to have twisted my ankle, which hurts in only a very specific spot when I move it in a

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Grinding away WIN!The attic had possibly 500 pages of receipts for medical procedures, but almost nothing in the way of actual medical records - reason #7,258 why American healthcare needs fixing: nobody cares about the information but boy, do they care about payment.SO: Having found an immunization record from when I got booster shots at UMass in 1988, I went to a clinic and bought me some

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Grinding awayToday's tasks are:1) Dig around in the attic to try and find some of my old medical records. I need to submit immunization history to Harvard and my OB/GYN's office is the most recent source, and they claim that it's too hard to find them. Awesome, eh?2) Go up to HealthStop and get some booster shots. Which didn't get done at my checkup this spring because they wanted my OB/

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MilestonesRunning is...working. Now that the plumber (who was here to fix the water-raining-into-the-kitchen problem) and the roofer (who gave me a huge quote to fix the roof so we don't have water coming in down the walls) have gone, I can go run.It's now later in the day by a lot than when I'd like to be running. But I still want to do it. Yesterday I ran about 1.5 miles without needing to

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Hmmm...catch-up...Facebook has been fun for the last.. oh, who knows, couple of months? But I'm pretty long-winded, which doesn't work so well as a status post.So I'm reading a lot this summer, now that I have a good chunk of time where I'm not taking a class, no not even one. I'm doing an internship at the Museum of Science, which is every bit as cool as you think it might be, plus I keep

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Perhaps I'm beginning to wig out...So I'm working chem problems this morning, trying to get to full mastery and total domination so that I can score brilliantly on the test Thursday.And I'm having trouble calculating K for a reaction. I've already correctly calculated the standard free energy change, which is -29.03 kJ/mol - that's no problem. But I'm trying to use the equation where the -29.03

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Happy Spring and Happy Easter!A very happy song for you:Go on, dance.Have a great day, everybody!

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Back on yer headsErghhhh...Back in classes, back to working my butt off. Honestly, that butt ought to be nonexistent by now. Check it out: (I'm procrastinating again of course) This week, I had final draft of paper due for bio this past Tuesday, exam in chem last night, bio GRE in the morning at oh-fuck-o'clock, exam in cognition coming Wed., plus more draft material due, problem sets due, and

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Spring BreakIt's spring break according to Harvard's academic calendar. This means I have time to get caught up on work! Whoo hoo! Chem problems to prepare for the next (of three total) exam, which is right after break, and I also have the Biology GRE Subject Test to study for. Which I sort of forgot about, and lo, it's coming up.The concession to anything like a vacation is that I've been to

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Um, happy March!Feb. 2? Wow.HI!! It doesn't feel like I've been offline--what I've been is sucked into the Facebook vortex, is what's happened. Feel free to give me a shout over there if you haven't already; I will send you a virtual drink and everything.The new semester has started, chem is not wrestled into submission yet but I'll get there, I swear, as god is my witness. Cognition exam on

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Because it's there?I must share this with you. Try not to speak:There. In other news, kitty with tooth abscess is now home and feeling much better. Good kitty. And I have booked the whole trip to Atlanta for my cousin's wedding now, except for pet care, which I will for once do more than three days before we leave.I want to go to Iceland.And Mexico, again. Sigh.oh, hey! knitting content! I

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Easing inA gentle start to the semester. Settled on what I'm taking, finally, and am having a bit more frenzied running around to try to get my paperwork filed for Special Student status, which means I'd be allowed to take a couple courses at The College rather than only at The Extension School. Which would be nice. Not the end of the world if I don't get approved, either.It's really nice to

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BSG, and math, and consoling myselfHave now watched the re-play of Battlestar Galactica so I could see the part I missed - ahh! Such fun. Interesting ideas to play with and fine acting and a rollicking good time had by all.Have been in shock over crappy grade on one of my finals, but I've now done the math and I should still come out okay for the semester. I finally got around to checking how

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Snow. Again.Well, so much for driving down to DC for the inauguration. It would have been really fun to hang out with my cousin, but we got about a foot snow starting Saturday night, and I would have needed to leave Sunday, and I couldn't even get out of my driveway until about 7 pm Sunday - grocery store was out of reach, never mind another city. Le sigh. Yes, I do have a shovel. But I just

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And... exhale(waves) Hello again.Yes, Lucia, I'm still here. Or here again. Or something. So as of tonight, my finals for the first semester are ALL DONE. Whoo hoo! It was beyond frantic trying to get everything done, but it is, now, not as brilliantly as I'd like, but completed (however half-assedly) and handed in and Finito. I made a powerpoint slide show and did a presentation and wrote

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Winding down, winding upIt's been a luxurious several days of no schoolwork, seeing relatives, hanging around with my kids, thinking about things other than schoolwork...nice. Baking. Made our own version of the Odwalla "strawberry c monster" with youngest, then we concocted our own blueberry-banana-blackcurrant smoothie thing. Fun! Today, I got around to digging up the tax records and

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Powerless – The Postscript: Dispatch from a disaster areaWe had one remaining wire across the driveway, and the plow guy almost snapped it a few days ago. I called Comcast last night, and was able to remain calm and reasonable and everything. Didn't even cry once. The young lady put the work request in for "escalation," which I guess is the magic word, and this morning, a cable guy was

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Powerless – The Denouement: Dispatch from a disaster areaSo. Power is now back; we got it Thursday afternoon, just in time for the new storm. I still have the cable company's wiring across my driveway, which the plow guy is finding to be, um, challenging. But electricity is nice to have.Wed. night I began to seriously freak out and called the power company a couple more times, at which point

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Powerless – Day 4: Dispatch from a disaster areaThursday night around midnight, a big hunk of beech tree crashed down and took our power line with it. I felt the house shake. Trees kept snapping in half all night long. It was a scary noise, especially since I couldn’t see what was happening—is the next one going to hit the house? Is everything broken now? Are there any trees left to fall?

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Some excitement to go with those Lewis structuresHuzzah, the semester of gen chem at UML is now DONE. I had my final exam last night, and I think I did pretty well. All the fiddly bits that I was sort of fuzzy about are now not so fuzzy in my head. I think I learned some stuff! Whee! Lab finished last week, so I'm not At Lab right now (which I would be otherwise).Yesterday afternoon was a

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Hurtling alongWell, hello there!Thanks for a lovely time cookie-ing, to the cozy group that made it. I have now re-made a batch of cookies, this time in an edible version.Back up just a bit, there. I made two kinds of cookies for the swap Friday: pecan balls like my grandmother used to make, because usually somebody makes some and I love them and ... well. YOHM. The other kind was supposed

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"Crazy as an onion..."…in hell!” My uncle has a startling way with words sometimes.Family stories:Apparently Uncle Dan was a real loon (crazy as an onion, even). I don’t know; my cousin and I both remember that he was fun. He did magic tricks, mostly pulling nickels out of our ears. And he was happy, and seemed to like us, which goes a long way with children.Grandpa was something else. His

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"Redemption is a messy business."--from "This American Life" on the radio today.I've been slacking off after the two exams and one paper and a problem set. (Translation: I haven't done any chemistry problems.) Feels downright luxurious. In reverse order: Littlest guy and I played Rock Band, we made some lamb stew, and I poked around Harvard Square for a while - hey! Harvard beat Yale today

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Cookie swap time!Okay, so it looks like several of you can come to a second annual (is it really annual if I've only had it at my house once?) Knit-In and Cookie Swap! Friday, December 5. Or whatever the Friday is. At my house. So email me if you don't know where that is, okay? Okay! Let's say 7 pm? And I will have non-cookie food there, in case of cookie overload?The way it works is you

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The pendulum swings......into a more intensive, more structured, more functional mode. Did well on my chem test (which is, er, surprising)(we got them back tonight - huge curve, but still). Spent a bunch of time today getting problems done, which is the only way to get comfortable with chem problems - doing lots of them. I also did some more structured homeschooling with littlest dude, who

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Si se puedeYes, we can. So Halloween was fun, classes are still going great guns, I went to a faculty-student reception on Oct. 30 and caught up with my advisor and met the (really nice!) organic chemistry professor, my paper-writing skills appear to still be functioning, canvassing in Nashua for Obama was a bit scary at first but really good. I'm an official Biology "field of study" person now

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too funnyQuick hi, everybody (how the hell did it get to be Thursday again already? sheesh!) - this is too funny not to share. "Vlad and Boris" respond to Sarah Palin being able to see Russia, and they reply in song that yes, they can see her, too...

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So, not in glorious Rhinebeck, then(sniff) Miss you, too, Mel, and Kat and Ruth and Lorena and Lucia, at least it helps to know I won't be missing you guys, too (although I do! just won't be particularly missing seeing you at The Fair). Sniff.Busily not-being-at-Rhinebeck that I am, I've had a modestly eventful week. This weekend, I'm going to be in Cambridge intermittently, but am Planning

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Checking in...Sheepishly, to be sure. Jeez, last published on Sept. 26??? wow.So still kicking ass, still taking names - at least until the two midterms I have this week. Had a chem exam this week which was absurdly easy; a classmate and I sat in the hallway afterward going, holy crap that was easy, and other people trickled out muttering about how hard it was. We stared, eyes wide. She said

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Also takin' namesKickin' ass; takin' of names also goin' on. Yup.(Hee - hi, classmate Kat! hahaha! I will simply say, "Loverboy. Red leather." and run away while one of the worst videos ever made plays in your head, mwaahahahaha)Been a kick-ass kind of day. I seem to have perfected the "no available time ever" trick, at least this week, but it's been an absolute blast. First thing (groan,

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It was a sort of good year...So from a meme Lucia posted, here's the hits list from 1982 -1. Physical, Olivia Newton-John2. Eye Of The Tiger, Survivor3. I Love Rock N' Roll, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts4. Ebony And Ivory, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder5. Centerfold, J. Geils Band6. Don't You Want M, Human League7. Jack And Diane, John Cougar8. Hurts So Good, John Cougar9. Abracadabra, Steve

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Back to crazy. In a good way.Thanks for writing, everybody - it was a tough week, and you made it easier. Now, back on track with homeschooling the kids and with my own coursework. Classes started this week! Yay! Looks like most of them will be relatively simple, and the one really challenging one will be great. I have labmates from biochem in *two* classes with me, which is a hoot and a

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Two yearsTonight it'll be two years. Dh was pronounced dead shortly after midnight, Sept. 15, 2006. So I'm in a weird place right now.I still don't know what to say, and it's for damn sure nobody else does, either.I've been crying more this week than I have in a long while. At least part of my coursework overload is intentional self-inflicted suffering, and I know it.What I've learned:I am

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The Potions Master Will See You NowHi! I had an epiphany over the weekend about coursework and realized that if I take chemistry at Local State U (in addition to the 4 I'm already taking at Harv. Ext.), I will then be able to do the second semester of chem at HES. Which would get me ready to take orgo next year. Yes, I want to. It's amazingly good, that's why. And I could do an awesome

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Contributing to the deliquency...Well, I've already inflicted this link on a certain wooly person, and may as well wreak a bit more havoc. There's a sale at Timbuk2. You're welcome. *I love my bag to bits. There is a new secret pocket every time I look, it seems, and a tether for my keys so that as long as I remember to hook them on, I never lose them any more, and it carries my laptop and

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Insert clever titleTrying something new, here. One of the items pictured is foul beyond description. It is something like beery citrus-flavored AlkaSeltzer. Three guesses which one.And O! Irony! As I was trying to upload this next picture, the damn thing crashed again. Behold, my spunky little laptop behaving itself for the moment:I have not mentioned it, but I LOVED watching the US men's

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Grades! And taking care of things!The refrigerator chose to stop making things cold. This is really not acceptable behavior in a refrigerator. So Monday I made a bunch of phone calls! Which I hate! I hate making phone calls! This is why I almost never call people; in case you were wondering, it's not because I don't like you or don't like talking to you, it's because I really, really hate

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Strength & HonorThat's what oldest child and I have been saying to each other as we grind away with studying. It's meant as an echo of the Roman legions' exhortations going into battle, as seen in Gladiator.Biochemistry. Oof.I worked veryveryhard. (Yes, that's where I've been, I did not fall off the edge of the earth.) So now I know the citric acid cycle pretty darn well, and am pretty good

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StrengthYes, I'm studying. In between watching the Olympics' various things: opening ceremonies! whoa! and Phelps! whoa! Also women's sabre, where the US swept, including a bronze medal won by a young woman who's a gifted homeschooler, whose mom posts on one of the lists I'm on - yay, Becca!The bestest fun so far for this (closet) (sort of) basketball fan was US men against China this morning

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Extreme measures of another kindThis from a policy alert email from the American Assn for the Advancement of Science:Animal Rights Extremists Firebomb California Researchers’ Homes. In what University of California at Santa Cruz officials called "criminal acts of anti-science violence," the homes of two UCSC researchers were damaged by intentionally-set fires early Saturday morning. A flier,

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Extreme measuresThe semester ends WICKED SOON. And I have a final project that I'm diligently procrastinating, a couple of lab reports to do, some problem sets, yadda yadda - clearly I needed to take things to a whole new level. Behold, a wee little baby electric guitar and amp.Yes, there *was* a sale at Guitar Center this weekend. No, I still suck. Yes, I have at least learned to play "Wild

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Neuroscience exam, not so much(waves from under pile of papers) Hi!Had my midterm in "Brain & Behavior" a little while ago. This is one of those situations where I know the material pretty thoroughly, and feel horribly embarrassed about getting anything wrong at all. I got a few wrong. Not many, but still, SOME. And so now I'm in the throes of feeling like I am personally letting my

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Neuroscience rocks!Sigh. I got to sit in on the lecture about myesthenia gravis and botulism and stuff last night - wow, was it fun to go through the molecular action. Yay! Professor kindly said yes, it would be okay if I sat in. One of my "Brain & Behavior" classmates is in neuro, too, so I sat with her. REALLY fun geeking out with her.And our group paper thing for today is done. And -

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Not a plumber, still, but AM a novice neuroscientistI love my goddamn classes this summer. I love them. I love them.Okay okay, so today? for "Brain & Behavior"? we went to an EEG lab and got to see the whole procedure and sit in on a neurologist going over some readings with a resident, and we understood what was going on and it was sooooo coooool.And, and, and, for biochemistry, we had our

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Not a plumberWe've had some plumbing issues chez Weasel. The shower has been persistently leaking for oh, years, now - it baffles actual plumbers, too, I don't feel so terrible about that. But I tried yet more things today, and... nuthin'. Still leaking. Sigh.Of more immediate concern is the non-draining drain in the other shower. This means that we don't have a working shower. I've been

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Happy BirthdayHey, happy birthday to me!I have class later and some reading to finish (ahem), but it is still my birthday. In our family, this means birthday cake for breakfast. My mom brought some over last night to make sure I'd have some at breakfast time.I am a dauntingly ancient old lady of 44, now. Whoo hoo! Off to make coffee and do things I like to do (besides write, that is): read

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123 tag!Lucia tagged me, and, well, I think I've only been tagged maybe twice before...so here we are, with the Book Challenge. Rules:Pick up the nearest book.Open on page 123.Find the fifth sentence.Post the next three sentences.Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.Now, *nearest* book is something of a problem. I'm sitting in one room of my house which is almost entirely devoted to

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131 - 92We saw 'em last season, when they couldn't do anything right - come on, not even managing to have The Worst Record in basketball? *second* worst?! geez! - and now, they can't do anything wrong. Playing their hearts out and still losing Sunday in LA, to come back and Totally Kick Ass - sweet. The joy on Pierce's face: priceless.*Um, okay, we now return to your regularly scheduled blog..

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Because it's thereAgain, with the pictures. What is this, two posts in five months now that have pictures? Clearly I'm on a roll. (Actually I have once again found the camera doohickey and the camera at the same time)This is how the teeny apartment that I love so much looks:Cute, eh? I think so. It's comfortable and peaceful and there's a lovely breeze right now (the joys of being on the

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BLAH, hotI hate being uncomfortably hot. Really. I know, this isn't exactly earth-shattering stuff unique to Moi, but still, it's about all I can think of today.It is hot.It is yuckily hot.I am moving slowly and sluggishly. Being in air conditioning seems to make the blasts of hot air even worse.I am trying to think of cool things, and drink lots of cold water, and run my hands under cold

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Phew!Grades are in! So even after catastrophic bomb-ola on portions of my final exams, I got B's and a B minus - YAY!!!B in biology, B (god only knows what the curve must have been...) in molecular bio, B in Japanese history (again, by an act of divine providence which we shall not examine too closely), and a B- in biostatistics.Ta da! Yay! All things considered, this is pretty damn good. I

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Blast-offWhen oldest was a wee small person who rode on swings and needed a push now and then, dh used to oblige. He had a special, super push - The Blast-Off. "Ready? Steady?" "YES!" Then he'd back up, pull her way up high, and give her a running push with all the energy he could muster, and she'd sail high in the air, laughing all the way. Blast Off!!We celebrated her graduation Friday

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AftermathSort of a pun, there - I did actually have math to do yesterday, and now it's, um, after the math. Hahahaha!The biology final was okay. I'm now feeling slightly sick to my stomach over having reversed the functions of parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems; bang over head repeatedly, here. On the plus side, I did all the sample exams and actually retained a few especially

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ShakespeareSo it's now officially Okay to Discuss - MK and M and I are going to direct/produce/etc. a Shakespeare play this fall at our coop. It's been surprisingly contentious trying to get this in place, but the board agreed that another creative team would be a good idea. After five years of the same person, and various people getting so pissed off that they refuse to work with her, the

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Spring!Happy Mother's Day!The B-52's are playing Boston today - in their honor and in hopes that witchypoo isn't freezing her ass off, an oldie but goodie:I can't even remember the last time I posted photos, so here's some of the building across the street from my apartment building:And here's my wonderful building:Have a lovely day, all!

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Beer is goodAhhhh.The particular beer I had a while ago, not so much.Let's see...town elections were today! All the people who had campaign signs in my yard won! Most excellent were K. and D.'s wins - they will be good additions to their boards. Yay! So after molecular biology review session, I went and congratulated K. in person and had some wine and yakked with D. for far too long. D's

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Another day, another staggering mountain of workSo it's May 2, already, and I sort of missed how that happened owing to the not having slept more than three hours. The shift from April 30 th May 1 I sort of missed. Ditto the May 1/May 2 changeover. Um, yeah. BUT - I did get my paper finished and uploaded with two minutes to spare! huzzah! After finishing with the mind-blowing lab report I

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Online shopping, oh how I love theeSo I've been needing a new bag for my textbooks and laptop and god knows what and finally got around to ordering one - yay! Timbuk2 makes really fun, sturdy ones and apparently all the cool kids are totin' 'em. Mine is gonna be purple & green. And have a laptop compartment. And like that. Whoo hoo!Their site has a fun tool for picking out colors of fabric

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Shakespeare and Exam amongst the rubbleA belated happy birthday to William Shakespeare, who turned 444 yesterday. He doesn't look a day over 400, I swear; that's what a good moisturizer will do for you.Oh, boy. The rubble would be the aftermath of the last couple of days, remnants of flying shrapnel that used to be my tiny little mind. So hello, and welcome to the smoking wreckage. It's all

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Birthday, obsession, and school (oh, my)It's dh's birthday. He would have turned 50 today. He would have taken the day off work, grumped about the traffic for the Boston Marathon (which is today and shuts down roads all over the place). He would have been proud and exasperated with the kids and I. It doesn't feel like a gaping hole, for which I'm grateful.I have acquired an XBox 360 and "Rock

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Taxes done, etc.Happy Contributing to the General Welfare Day, everyone, also known as "this is the filing deadline for federal and state tax, ewwwww." I've been paying estimated tax, and somewhere around December realized that given the stock market losses, I'd probably owe less than I'd estimated originally. And I was right. Large refund will be coming - apparently pretty much everything I

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...song in my head; called "In My Head"...which is admittedly rather strange.under the weight of your wingsyou are a god and whatever I want you to beand I wonder if truly you are nearlyas beautiful as I believeIn my headYour voiceYou've got all that I needand this make believe will get me through anotherlonely nightunder the weight of your wingsshould ever we meet on your side of the stereoI

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Dorky musingSo we loaded some samples of tagged spectrin onto a gel last night in lab, along with unbound plasmid bits, wild-type bacteria, intact fusion protein, and the fusion protein piece cleaved off the tagged spectrin. Tag was "GSF." In a lab manual discussion that included GST, GSH, and an entire alphabet soup of other stuff, it took me until yesterday morning to realize the GFP = Green

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And now, DANCE!Decent video to a song that just says, "Dance! Now!" So if you find yourself rockin' out, you know why (which reminds me, I definitely need to go out dancing...). It's in Swedish; I gather it's something like "Hold Me" in English, but it's soooo much cooler when I have no idea what they're saying, oui? (apologies to Anna-Karin if you've already heard this thing so many times you

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Beyond the limits of boring - the denouement(Swoosh) (Score!) Ahhh...the boring, it has been achieved in superfluity. I said things like "by framing his discussion in terms of the locus of control" and stuff. It was an explosion of boringness. It was fun, actually; I cited a totally kick-ass article by Kierstead that essentially said all previous scholarship ignored reality in favor of a

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What happens beyond the limits of boringBeyond boring. WAY beyond boring. At least that's how it probably looks.I'm in the middle (shhh - yes, my procrastination skillz are truly of the mad variety) of reading the research I've pulled for a Japanese history paper. So I am reading about medieval Japanese peasant taxation. Decline of various structures of administration and collection,

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A poemEvery now and then, I'm reminded of why I get the London Review of Books - there are columns by Ben Elton and Alan Bennett's stuff from time to time, and really good analytical writing by really incisive minds, and all sorts of fun. So here's a poem by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou:IthacaWhen you set out on the journey to Ithaca,pray that the road be long,full of

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Happy Pi Day!It's today! Today is 3/14! I suppose it'd be even more cool at 1:56, when it'd be 3.14156...but happy celebration of all things circular, mathematical, and all that.In honor of this (no, not really; I am indeed flailing around for a logical transition here), I have registered for summer school classes. I'm going to take Brain & Behavior: Research Methods and Technologies, which I

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Three down, one to goGack.Well, first of all THANK YOU everybody - Tattoo Queen and Harpy and pansarknitting and Double Helix (yes, I keep thinking "yarn" when the molecular prof talks about twist of supercoiled DNA) and Lorena and Lucia and secrethandshake - the bulk of the horror is now behind me.Molecular was pretty hairy. The course is offered for graduate credit and undergrad credit, and

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An orgy of studyingNo, not that kind of orgy.The kind where you have a heart dissection Monday, and then study in the library until it closes at midnight, and then go to lecture on Tuesday, and study some more, and then go out for tequila! yay! with your friends! who you never see! I love my friends! yay! And then you study and study and study some more, and Friday night you study and take a

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In which some perfectly good Shakespeare proceeds to suckOh, my.Soooo... I went to ART last night to see their Julius Caesar - this is the Shakespeare that's normally responsible for entire swaths of America hating Shakespeare for the rest of their lives. I think it's the default play because there's no sex in it.The brief review: Over 3 hours, and it sucks ass.On the plus side, there's a

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Oof. Also whee!Thud. Geez.Okay, so this week I had lecture Monday, lecture Tuesday, lecture Wednesday, lab Thursday, and got together with a lab partner and one other classmate to study until midnight Thursday. Oof. Midterms are coming up, and I'll have three in rapid succession. Last night I realized that I had no idea when the statistics exam was. Er, well, I checked on that pretty

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KenyaThis is for Double Helix, who hasn't seen it:The ridiculous animation that inspired the "Come to Norway" oneBrunch was fun!Things are generally fun!I am completely sick of snow, now, though.My lab partner and I better get along - I'm going to be seeing him Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Will probably suggest he practice pipette-ing with water before we screw up the next stage of

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Not JapanSigh... well, this is sort of bad news but sort of good news, too - I heard back from the summer program in Tokyo and they're not taking me. Which is a shame, but on the other hand, I really should get my basic chem courses covered this summer. And the logistical challenge of going away for 8 weeks was going to be... quite a logistical challenge indeed. I was beginning to have the

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And moving on...Well, I've been venting about this a bit over the weekend - the Guy is officially History, now. He was gonna come visit, we were going to spend most of the weekend together, he bailed. Still didn't quite get it, of course. My clue was: hey, I'm free Tuesday and you have the day off! and he said, oh wow I'm too busy bummer I gotta do laundry and stuff.Yeah.Laundry.It still took

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Guitar Hero HeroGood morning :)Well, I've f*cked up times for everything, so the Requiem was in fact at 2 in the afternoon, not the evening; would have been helpful to check that ahead of time, but I've been kinda distracted. So I went to a budget hearing yesterday instead of Mozart, and today will be studying with some people from class instead of going to Mozart. Sigh. At least I'm getting

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Catching upSo I'm watching some online lectures for Japanese history this morning, and the professor is explaining power politics in the imperial court about 1500 years ago, and the emperor had a bunch of consorts. The consorts lived in separate residences, with their own families, and when the emperor was, um, up for it, according to the professor, "he'd run over and knock on the door and say,

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The oddness that is a day devoted to buying greeting cardsHappy Valentine's Day, everybody, whatever that may mean to you - my two oldest went to a "screw valentine's day, let's hang out" slumber party last night, and I had - gasp! joy! - knitting at Javaroom. Which was great! I got to see a bunch of people! Yay! Yarn Harpy gets major, major hugs and piles of astonished gratefulness for a cd

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It's just a jump to the left...Or, Let's do the Time Warp .... Again.Today was really, really fun. By which I mean, peaceful, then a bit rushed, then extremely silly. I slept in the new place, having purchased sheets and towels - and oh, yes, there is a now-assembled bed and everything - go, me - plus the essential component: coffee and the means to make it. Ahhhh. So last night, I unloaded

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Moving in a time warpGood god, it's been a busy week. Except on the knitting front - knitting, I seem to be doing in some alternate universe that uses up a minute every time a week passes in this universe. Oh, I suppose it's possible that if I spent a little more time (er, or any) each day knitting, progress would be visible. The trouble is that I have no very good sense of how long the days

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Dashing madlyWhoa, this is going to be a hilarious week...Hi! Thanks for the suggestions, Tattoo Queen and Carole - Ikea clearly is in my future. And hugs, to lots of peeps. And my dear anon. zentropa, a lot of cute smart guys seem to hang out in the pre-med classes at Harvard Extension - I'm just sayin'. They move very slowly, though. I happened on a really nice (if weird) bit of

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SplatWell, I'm up. Tried lying in bed for what felt like hours, and then finally got up and it was before 8. Sigh.The condo is now MINE. I'm making lists of things to bring in and do and stuff. Trying to figure out precisely where to put things, which is rather trick as it is a very, very small apartment. But it's a fun problem to have.I managed to slip on ice yesterday morning whilst doing

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Hurtling alongI have no sense of time. Not hours, not days, not weeks, nothin'. So January has lasted about three months for me.I have been puzzled by why I don't have expectations, or even the capacity to fantasize expectations, about any men. I think I got into the habit of just enduring whatever hellishness I was feeling over the last year and three months, accepting how I was feeling, not

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happy, happySquees of general agreeable happiness. And hugs to pansarknitting, and Lorena, and Lucia, and Suzanne (see you tomorrow!) - yup yup yup, relief and all kinds of good stuff. School wise and personal wise. So it's all good. Also I have gotten halfway through Medium level on Guitar Hero. Stuck at the moment because it looks like I've damaged my disk so that when I'm about to totally

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Done and doneWell, that was fun.The semester is now over for me. I took my bio final last night. I turned in my last paper last night. I am done, done, done for a couple of weeks, until it all starts up again. Whee! Whee, both to be done and to have new classes coming up.The bio had me so terrified that I thought I was going to throw up, but it turned out to be fine, to my never-ending

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Counting downYeah, well, it's late, and yeah, I should be doing something more productive to prepare for the stuff that ends my semester tomorrow. Er, today. Egad. Gadzooks.There's a paper open on my desktop getting some work, to be turned in tomorrow. So that's okay. And there's a final review of biology stuff for the exam, and I really don't know how that is going to go.I'm feeling really

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