I am looking for distraction and/or motivation. There's an opening in a lab that does research on opioid receptors, and I'm reading some papers and holy fuck GPCR signaling makes me crazy.

So comment with a pairing or character and a prompt and I'll write something. And then I'll go back to reading. D:

Crossposted at http://asimplechord. ( Read more... )

+ Yesterday was my last day at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. It was weird. Everyone wanted to chat or have hugs and seriously, I still had SO MUCH work to do, that was not a productive use of my last day ( Read more... )

14 days left ( Read more... )

+ Bonnaroo happened. I didn't take pics, really, and I'm not going to talk about each act, but Frank Turner was as amazing as always. Nas never disappoints. I still don't get the appeal of Macklemore. And I'm not even a casual Beatles fan, but JFC, Paul McCartney can put on a show. Three hours. It was like watching living history. And really, who ( Read more... )

I was trying to explain to Post-Doc that I have to use the confocal microscope to take slices of the cells I'm imaging because they are mitotic and therefore round like beach-balls, where interphase cells are relatively flat, and that various parts of the cellular structure wouldn't be in focus if I simply focused on one plane ( Read more... )

I just. There's no practicality or common sense. None.

I was doing some data analysis in my office when Post-Doc came in and said she thought the CO2 incubator was leaking. So I went in, and yeah, Y-connector on the tubing that runs from the CO2 tank to the incubator was hissing. Did she close the tank, to stop the over-pressure? No. Did she check ( Read more... )

Like, shouldn't having a PhD mean you have some common sense? I'd like to think so. But in my lab, APPARENTLY NOT ( Read more... )

1. Aaron has pneumonia. Apparently there's a mini-epidemic in our 'burb of runners coming down with it, and their expanded lung capacity makes them not realize how sick they are until they are REALLY sick. The doc gave him a shot and a scrip for an inhaler and antibiotics, and he was noticeably better last night, so I think he'll be okay in the ( Read more... )

1. this Gally-squared primer2. the Devils finally won one last night (even if it was in a shoot-out. against the Sabres ( Read more... )

Today's random:

- Does anyone else find it odd that ESPN broadcasts zero NHL games, but they've put out two ads featuring Henrik Lundqvist in the last couple of months? (The Swedish chef one was AWESOME.)

- Signs for the departmental seminar have been posted. I keep looking at this and wondering how the dad from American Pie had time to be an ( Read more... )