You know that you spend too much time on LJ when you write a cover letter on MS Word, and realize that you've used HTML tags...

This evening I went to a MISA event, and they were selling giant microbes. I'm trying to collect the bacteria, but I just couldn't resist buying chicken pox, given my current situation!

I first heard about this through kimlett months ago (I was going to make a post about it, but forgot), and today cybermule emailed me the link, saying that she thought of me when she saw them (hmm, I wonder why anyone would think of me!): Awesome jewelry by Molecular Muse.

So fucking awesome. After much pondering, the ones I would get are the serotonin necklace ( Read more... )

Men are like RNA polymerase; they have no proofreading activity.

I could spend hours looking in bookstores, and when I'm in Chapters, one of my favourite sections to peruse is the science section. How I wish that I had enough money to buy (and enough time to read) whatever books pique my curiosity! However, since I have lacked a disposable income for about five years now, I rarely buy books, and try as much as ( Read more... )

This morning I had my stats final, my last final exam of the semester! I have no idea how badly well I did, however, on the midterm I left many questions blank and had no idea how to do anything, yet ended up with 52% (without scaling), so I should be OK on the final, since I kind of understood a few things. We'll see. Funnily enough, the ( Read more... )

One of the words we have to know in the last module for my CLST 301 class is anthrac-, which means "coal". Immediately I thought of Bacillus anthracis, went to check good old Wikipedia, and sure enough, there is a connectionCLST 301 is an awesome class! It combines two of my favourite things--science and words. I just love it! In my ( Read more... )

I have gonorrhea.

MISA was selling some giant microbes to raise money, and while they didn't have the ones I wanted, I decided to buy N. gonorrhoeae because it was only $7, and it was one of the bacterial disease that we just finished studying.

The latest spam email I received is from "platyhelminthes". That is awesome.

On Wednesday night, I was bored, had some spare time, and had a wave of inspiration, in addition to being a total loser, so I made a personal ad on Craigslist in the "women seeking men" section. This time, I decided to try a different approach, and post an ad that was a little different than the usual, "Hey, these are my interests and this is what ( Read more... )