Miles continues to be a cutie.  Robert took him to the vet this week, and apparently the reason he hasn't been eating is because he prefers canned food to regular dry dog food... well we tried the easy way of putting water in with his food first and it seems to work!  Good thing, b/c he's lost 4 lbs since he's come home with us- that's a lot when ( Read more... )

Sandro asked me this morning if I'd like to accompany him to this McNair recruiting conference in Wisconsin in November, and how could I say no to the boss?  It looks like a weekend where undergrads can see what graduate school is all about or something like that.  Now, why they ask the shy kids to go is beyond me.  Hopefully I can be helpful ( Read more... )

I am so not focusing like I should for this next test.  I'm so close to being done!!  It doesn't help that the TA problems have been pretty easy and I usually know the answers (ok, well that part IS helpful, for other reasons) so I had this mindset that 'oh, I don't need to study as much'.  It's totally going to bite me in the butt ( Read more... )

-Last conference with Luo was today (http://path.upmc.edu/CMP/fac41.htm this is who he is, in case you wondered... I never knew he was an MD as well!).  It wasn't bad, I actually think this rotten block helped me better analyze papers... although I wish that could've come about in a less painful way!  He returned our critique and was like, 'some of ( Read more... )

I went to ONU to visit Robert this weekend, it was fun as usual.  We went to a party Friday night as our 'cardiac arrest' costume... I really need to stop dressing up as things that people are not intelligent enough to figure out or even think funny.  Oy, lol.  I thought we were cute anyway.  I brought some of my scary movies to watch and he took ( Read more... )

My conference just had our mind blown!  We were in there a total of 50 minutes.  Fifty.  Wowww.  He was totally non-argumentative, even when Emily tried to play devil's advocate on a figure he was just kind of like, eh. Whatever.  Luo was in a rare boring mood today... not that it's totally a bad thing, but whoa.  We just breezed through the ( Read more... )

The Good:  I passed my exam!!! :-D  In fact, I did a lot better than I anticipated.  The average was a 65 (I told you it was hard!) with a standard deviation of 12 I think.  Anyway, I was well above the average and not too far from the high score... much closer than last time.  Some people still failed, one person actually got a 28%... ouch.  ( Read more... )

I am being a good girlfriend tonight and not bothering Robert since I know he has crazy midterms this week, I'm proud of myself... even if I'm just refocusing my chatter on LeeAnne, haha.

Today in conference we had the conference director observe our little session in response to our complaints.  I don't know if he was told that we made a fuss about ( Read more... )

I'm already getting addicted to this stupid coffee again, argh.  Felt like death in class, got some more, now I'm getting wonderful withdrawal symptoms.  Blah.  Conference today was a total trip, 2 hours and we only got through 4/7 figures.  AND he never called on me to explain a figure, so I better not get docked points for my 'lack of ( Read more... )

Today I was in the lab for yet another whopping 2 hours, but I got to pour 2 agar plates, woohoo!  Small victories, haha.  Very small... However, I'm delighted to say that the plate that got messed up was not one that I poured.  My PI came into the lab today and we talked Cincy food (Montgomery Inn, Skyline vs. Gold Star).  I think he was down ( Read more... )