I woke up in a good mood on Friday (sushi aftereffects?) and then had therapy. Therapist is onto me, as I have complained to Twitter already -- she refuses to hear only about the things that are going well now and directs me back to how the one terrible thing is getting its miasma everywhere. So that was hard but probably a good idea ( Read more... )

I took a long lunch on Friday and ate a giant plate of nachos -- if I get to go back to NYBG there will be return visits to OK Mr. Pancho. On the way back, I visited the exhibits on the Garden grounds.

( Model trains and Japanese chrysanthemums )

I am in bed with Nyquil and doxycycline, so this is a good time to catch up on posting about my second trip to NYBG. I made lots of tweets, and these are the herbarium-related ones with some extra notes.

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1. Relaxing post-sleepover pancake breakfast with sweetie, at almost noon.

2. Got laundry done.

3. Controlled the fuck out of the DH2 wiki.

4. $2 green mum from the grocery store remains perfect.

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Flying on Tuesday: skies like opals; two Great Lakes!; a rosy-tan dam half in shadow (as we raced away from the sun), making a lake-thallus spread in thick forest; fields with sashing between and fields without, some like old-style sequencing gels(My best guess on that last is that it's some crop sown in separate rows and harvested a row at a time ( Read more... )

Mugwort - I know this is a thing from Chinese medicine, where I think they burn it (yes, and look at all the foods too), but what is it? Oh, Artemisia vulgaris, the plant to which I am so very allergic that as soon as mine in the herb garden bloomed I sneezed for half an hour straight, and my dad went vengefully to yank it out and fling it down ( Read more... )

Yesterday I ate mac and cheese with salad (at Noodles, since I didn't figure anyone else would want to go there socially). Then there was NAPPING ( Read more... )

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Happy late birthday,
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Working really hard since returning to Seattle, where it is beautiful out (finally) and I have no energy to enjoy it. Tonight the new postdoc and I stayed late making competent E. coli for molecular cloning -- "competent" in this context meaning they're willing to suck up plasmids (circular DNA bits we design) when we freak them out by overheating ( Read more... )

Now that my presentation has gone well, I'm reasonably caught up on work, and I've had a little time to relax, we return to our regularly scheduled science geeking. In particular, a recent post on Nightshade Free precipitated a possibly excessive amount of research into the issue of Roundup-Ready soybeans. Namely, does Monsanto's patented ( Read more... )