It really annoys me when I mention to people that I have an interest in drug research or even going to pharmacy school maybe. The first thing out of the typical person's mouth is "oh you want to work for them? They're evil and just rob people."

I could argue for hours over this, and I have gotten into it a bit with Avi from across the hall once. ( Read more... )

So I'm back from Honduras, sitting in my office. About to skip out on work since I'm exhausted after only about 5 hours of sleep and today is a throw away day (doing some gay "team building" that no one will notice if I miss, and Mandi will cover for me).

I've decided that come September, I will be more than ready to leave this place. Not just ( Read more... )

Warning:
Honduras suffers from violent crime, especially in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, and in the Bay Islands.

Super! I just saw that today as I was looking into Honduras stuff. Yesterday I *finally* booked my tickets - I fly to Tegucigalpa (the capital city, where I'll be staying) on February 23rd and come back on March 8th, with a ( Read more... )

Don't you hate it when you have a dream that is so good, you hope to God it's not a dream....and then you wake up? That happened to me last night and it was really disappointing. The only thing I can hope for is that it'll be like one of the dreams where I end up having deja vu....but that's only happened twice, and the deja vu came on either ( Read more... )

I know it's stupid, I've only been gone a couple months & I'll only be gone a total of one year, but I'm starting to become afraid that once I come back, everything with everyone will be different and the majority of my friendships (especially those I got close to in the past year) will just not be the same. The fact that I have no real idea what I ( Read more... )

So work has been going well, and I've started going in on weekends to get a little extra done. I figure if I work really hard now, I might have some results before abstracts are due (typically December/January) for conferences, so I'd have something to present and another reason to travel ( Read more... )

I bought tickets today to come home in exactly one month - I'll be in Michigan from November 9-12. I kept second-guessing myself...tickets were over $200, I'll have only been down here for 2 months and I'll be back for 2 weeks in December, but I was really missing everyone and I know if I decided not to go, once November rolled around and that ( Read more... )

If anyone was afraid that I would like Atlanta so much I wouldn't want to come back, never fear. Last night I had my first run-in with a live cockroach, and it was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. Long story short, the roommates are gone for the weekend and I've plugged up both of their doors with plastic bags, thinking/hoping it ran into ( Read more... )

Soo i'm down in Atlanta. For a year. I may try to update this a bit more, as it's an easy way to keep in contact with a chosen few of you ( Read more... )

Well a lot has happened lately. I'll try to get right to the point and not make this thing too long.

About a week ago, papa got a DUI. I drove to Corunna at 11pm to wait until 3 am when they'd let him out of jail. My mom freaked out - but initially all she was saying was "well what is this going to do for insurance...will we have to hire a lawyer ( Read more... )