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Art goal for the immediate future (e.g. the coming semester):

• Practice rendering environments in pencil and ink. Doesn't luve make it look fun? Gosh her marks are just the prettiest.
• Continue Weeklyish Watercolor Landscapes, with an eye to values, lighting, foliage, and texture.
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Having a perversely bombastic evening, courtesy Nick Cave's Live Seeds. I did a lot of covert record-shop trawling this weekend (covert because if I pretend to imagined observers that I'm not buying CDs, clearly I'm really not!), and ended up back at Planet Records, which has relocated a couple blocks out of Harvard Square. They, finally, had scads ( Read more... )

These days I keep mostly-typing mostly mundane entries, leaving them for a few days, and then coming back and deleting them. I hate to be infected by the "LIVEJOURNAL IS DYING" woe-and-lassitude, but it seems I can't quite keep it from creeping into my subconscious, on top of busyness and assorted weirdness. Merh ( Read more... )

• Completely destroying your sleep schedule for the 50th time: -50
• Living on rice cakes, chocolate, and bananas for a week: -20
• Accidentally scattering rice cake crumbs into knitting drawer: -5
• Only results, two mediocre papers and a body that thinks sleeping more than 3 hours a night at any time earlier than 5 AM is weird: -75
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a.k.a. what I did over my spring break - go on an unexpected five-day research cruise, back in Bermuda.


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Hyello all, I'm back with yet another photo-dump. Let me welcome you to this one with the help of... CAPTAIN EPPY.


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Hullo everyone! Just wanted to apologize for my sporadic flist-checking; I'm at my summer internship now, and access to the precious Interwebs is limited to a couple of areas. I'm actually in Bermuda - which, yes, is very sweet - doing research on bacteria involved in red tide events (aka Harmful Algal Blooms ( Read more... )

Guess who finally got the whole-cell PCR to work? MEEEEEEEEEEEEE

*dances in a circle*

I am so ploud. This means that we can actually start screening libraries before I leave for the summer!