Heading to bed, so here are the stats ( Read more... )

Everyone was up and dressed before SuperWhy! came on PBS. I have washed and dried two loads of laundry, folded and put away one of those. Vacuumed while the boys were having snack. Scrubbed all the toilets.

Brought down the 12-18 month sack of clothing to go through for Leo, because he doesn't have any jeans that fit him right now. I found several ( Read more... )

With the love and support from my family and friends, a terrific amount of hard work, lots of blood, sweat & tears (LOTS of tears), and five YEARS of graduate studies...

I have finally done it.

I completed my oral defense.

The only thing standing between me and the diploma stating I have a Ph.D. is minor typographical revisions to my written

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 Last week was busy. I don't quite have the time to update on everything that happened, but wanted to put down a couple quick facts:

• Guest lecture for WCC on Weds night turned into full-on voice disappearance Thursday.  This was upsetting
• Voice came back slightly for committee meeting on Friday, but was paired with an ear infection. Luckily, the NP ( Read more... )

 I am completely overwhelmed.  I am here on Monday, back from vacation, fuzzy headed and sick, trying to pick up the pace on my experiments so that I can finish up one manuscript before Little Bee arrives.  Now I'm trying to add to that plate and apply for faculty teaching positions at universities across the east coast and I'm FREAKING OUT about ( Read more... )

 3 student seminars given over the past 2 years and this one received the most positive feedback from members in the audience.  I even managed to get the whole room laughing in my answer to one crotchety old prof's question.  The review afterward with the course directors was a little less positive than ones I've had in the past, I think they're ( Read more... )

29-May-2009
Dear Ms. Purington:

A manuscript titled Pentapeptides displaying mu opioid receptor agonist and delta opioid receptor antagonist properties (jm-2009-007483) has been submitted by Dr. John Traynor to Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

It's submitted!  Everything on my end is completed!  Now we just have to sit back and wait to see if it's ( Read more... )

Jake was denied in-state tuition yesterday.  He got the letter in the mail ( Read more... )

( LUCK )