blatantly wasting time.
I'll start with this, my most interesting web-related addiction (which is to say that Craigslist is probably not that interesting to others, although I really am addicted):
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/59118
avclub is pretty cool, if not a little slow on updates, but this chick is funny and a chick and a writer and it all seems pretty sweet to me. So that's what I'm sharing with you. Sidebar: Toby Keith's "Should have been a cowboy" is easily one of my favorite country songs of all time. So catchy. After that, he became the CURRENT president of 9/11.
Other stuff: Still want a different job, but only because I don't think I should stick around A2 much longer. I like the job I have now, though, with the mice and everything. I would like more money (dur), and so I'm thinking of moving off campus after my lease ends. The only thing is that if I move off campus, I have to consider the added costs of driving and parking at work. I really like walking.
Also, I want a laptop. I've been without for about a year now, and it's been okay. Last week I had two presentations and so I had to come and stay at work until 11pm just to use the computer. Stupid. I'd get a Mac, but I'm just using firefox and sometimes Paint, so I think a less-expensive PC should be okay. Can anyone tell me the difference between Compaq and HP? Why are HPs more expensive? (Abhik, shut up.) Anyway, shooting for 14.1 inch, under $750. Waiting to pounce on sales.
In work-related news, I learned how to flush bone marrow yesterday. Who called it in high school that HeatherG is too jittery and epileptic to actually do careful procedures? We're talking about putting a needle into the end of a mouse bone, as if pulling out the bones wasn't hard enough. See? The mouse stuff is pretty cool. Ooooooh, except the other day, we got a call that one of our mice was retaining pups. The animal facility told us that we needed to euthanize the mouse as quickly as possible (since she was probably in pain and would probably die of shock at some point anyway). So the bosslady told me to euthanize, but harvest the organs, so we don't completely waste a mouse. In my head--because apparently as both a biologist AND a woman, I don't know anything about pregnancy or female physiology--I imagined that i'd cut this mouse open and there would be babies screaming and wiggling and just like everywhere in her belly. I think I pictured them as worms. Sick. But, even though she was still dragging a part of a pup (yeah. like out of where the pup was being born and then decided to stay half in. so there was like a tail and a paw and an umbilical cord STILL ATTACHED grosss.) it turns out that mice, too, have a uterus, and that's where the pups were, except the one that was causing the problem in the fallopian tube as an ectopic pregnancy. bad news.
Well. Enjoy your breakfasts. I have work to do.
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/59118
avclub is pretty cool, if not a little slow on updates, but this chick is funny and a chick and a writer and it all seems pretty sweet to me. So that's what I'm sharing with you. Sidebar: Toby Keith's "Should have been a cowboy" is easily one of my favorite country songs of all time. So catchy. After that, he became the CURRENT president of 9/11.
Other stuff: Still want a different job, but only because I don't think I should stick around A2 much longer. I like the job I have now, though, with the mice and everything. I would like more money (dur), and so I'm thinking of moving off campus after my lease ends. The only thing is that if I move off campus, I have to consider the added costs of driving and parking at work. I really like walking.
Also, I want a laptop. I've been without for about a year now, and it's been okay. Last week I had two presentations and so I had to come and stay at work until 11pm just to use the computer. Stupid. I'd get a Mac, but I'm just using firefox and sometimes Paint, so I think a less-expensive PC should be okay. Can anyone tell me the difference between Compaq and HP? Why are HPs more expensive? (Abhik, shut up.) Anyway, shooting for 14.1 inch, under $750. Waiting to pounce on sales.
In work-related news, I learned how to flush bone marrow yesterday. Who called it in high school that HeatherG is too jittery and epileptic to actually do careful procedures? We're talking about putting a needle into the end of a mouse bone, as if pulling out the bones wasn't hard enough. See? The mouse stuff is pretty cool. Ooooooh, except the other day, we got a call that one of our mice was retaining pups. The animal facility told us that we needed to euthanize the mouse as quickly as possible (since she was probably in pain and would probably die of shock at some point anyway). So the bosslady told me to euthanize, but harvest the organs, so we don't completely waste a mouse. In my head--because apparently as both a biologist AND a woman, I don't know anything about pregnancy or female physiology--I imagined that i'd cut this mouse open and there would be babies screaming and wiggling and just like everywhere in her belly. I think I pictured them as worms. Sick. But, even though she was still dragging a part of a pup (yeah. like out of where the pup was being born and then decided to stay half in. so there was like a tail and a paw and an umbilical cord STILL ATTACHED grosss.) it turns out that mice, too, have a uterus, and that's where the pups were, except the one that was causing the problem in the fallopian tube as an ectopic pregnancy. bad news.
Well. Enjoy your breakfasts. I have work to do.