Ok, three days before the March of Dimes grant is due. It is now crunch time. Another grant due July 25 which is the day I leave for Portugal and the Herpesvirus meeting where I have to give a talk. And I totally don't know what I'm going to talk about ( Read more... )

I got my first grant rejection letter as an assistant professor. Oh, yay. Didn't make the cut for the internal ACS grant. Oh, well, I kind of knew that would happen. Its pretty tough to justify infectious disease research (even if it is a real problem for cancer patients) to cancer wonks. They all want you to cure cancer. Whatevs. As if * ( Read more... )

When I got up this morning, I was not inspired by my breakfast options. Plain yogurt and granola or milk and cereal. So I had donuts from King Soopers instead. I believe that cancels out all that bike riding I did last night after work. I went for a ride with one of the guys from my WTS group--we rode the Clear Creek Trail, which goes all the ( Read more... )

Cripes! Where is time going ( Read more... )

The offense I take to dandelions in my grass is a distant second to the offense caused by early morning Denver traffic stupidity. And I wish it didn't get me so riled up. Grr ( Read more... )