Camping was good :) The campsite was not the least bit rustic (i.e. there was a swimming pool)--- but it turned out to tbe a great thing. I spent the whole weekend in the swimming pool, and didn't even get a sunburn ( Read more... )

Dude--- I am hopelessly hopeless in my thinking today. I am going home and hoping the apartment complex has opened the pool so I can go swimming. That sounds a million times better then staying here and pretending to be a functional human being with real project ideas.

My family is overwhelming--- especially now that it has doubled in size (due to the addition of the Finnegan clan)

So, I left materials behind for genetic samples to be collected from some of the study groups at my site in Indonesia. They were all eaten by rats--- now I am like pulling teeth to get more freakin supplies to Indonesia. Everytime I think I have a great solution to this, it falls through. Everytime I ask questions of how it is best to get them ( Read more... )

I hate early morning emails with obnoxious news. I should stop reading emails until after noon. Things that irritate me at 7am ( Read more... )

I am writing an outline for my dissertation proposal. This makes it feel real, and like I might eventually defend it and begin my dissertation work. And maybe even eventually get my degree and get outta here (in 5 more years).

Good news--- so besides my email about not being able to afford the shower---- KO's sisters complained to her Mom, and now her Mom is going to cover the cost of catering (apparently it was her idea to have it catered in the first place ( Read more... )

I don't really want to spend every weekend of my life in Philly. My weekends are for laundry and grocery shopping and cleaning and generally getting ready for the next week. If I miss all that everything is out of whack for the next week. This month, I have only been in NY for one weekend. I feel exhausted ( Read more... )

Students are irritating the hell out of me this week---- I have had (no kidding!) 15 kids come in freaking out about their failing grades. Seriously--- emotional breakdowns. Tears, confusion, emotions run rampant ( Read more... )

To save $2 a day I walk 2 and a half miles between train station and NYU lab. (Yes, I am that broke ( Read more... )