I now have a user picture. I have never really taken the time to work on this livejournal thing, maybe I'll start now.

I think Bgl II is my favorite restriction enzyme. How could it not be, I mean bagel 2...what a fun name. Other than that not much going on, just lab work at the USDA and school. I get a little confused sometimes, but as soon as I get the data at the USDA I will focus totally on my school work and just help out there with other projects. I am ( Read more... )

I think it is funny that I read this thing everyday but I haven't posted in several months. I guess going to school and working takes a lot of my time. I have been thinking a lot lately about writing a novel or a book of short stories. The problem is that I never take the time to write anything, and when I do that I don't think it is good enough ( Read more... )

I think we have become a country of complainers (myself included). It seems that we can find anything and everything to bitch about...but usually we tend to focus on the most obscure and irrelevant details of our pathetic lives. The whole Illini thing pretty much makes me sick. Perhaps we could cure the more serious ills of the world, or perhaps ( Read more... )

I am now an official TA, which means poorly paid bitch that does all of shit work for BIO 101 at ISU. I don't even have enough time to start on my own research projects. Since I didn't have a lab going in I had to take 9 hours of credits, and teach 3 two hour labs...and as a result grade everything for 72 kids and keep their total grades for BIO ( Read more... )

So, smuend, how poorly did I do? I think you can tell me the truth now that you are not standing in front of me. I am soooooo happy to be done with that step, the last is actually defended the damn thesis (sort of almost done, need to get all of my figures together). Then I'm off to the wild world of the mighty fruit fly. I'll be a master of ( Read more... )

Has anyone else at some just not felt like themselves? I can't really put my finger on it, it just seems like I am not in control on my life at this moment. I think I am experiencing a lack of motivation because I feel like it doesn't matter what I do because I have no control. I am going on a short vacation next week, maybe being away from P- ( Read more... )

Sorry I haven't written in a while, but I am pretty much a boring person. I have been working and taking two class, and pretty much nothing else. Things at work are actually going well, I will have everything ready on Tuesday to do a fungal transfromation with both orientations of my gene. I may actually get some sort of data to base a thesis on ( Read more... )

I guess my live is just boring and pathetic, I don't really have anything to write....but I feel guilty about not ever posting anything. Well, on a happy note I still have cable without yet paying a bill. On a sad note my phone bill came today and it is $150 because of transferring my service to a new location...I think it's all a big scam. I don ( Read more... )

I was watching the "Cribs" marathon on MTV this weekend...I don't really know why, and I noticed that none of the people they visited seemed to own a book. There were no bookshelves, no libraries in their ridiculously large homes...do people not read anymore? They did have their own movie theaters, bowling allys and anything else imaginable, but ( Read more... )