Life is nice and slow while I'm at home. I've been reading a few books here and there. I've developed a taste for mysteries these days.

And the TV! Oh my. There are simply too many shows on. How does any one pick out what to watch? I think I shall stick with watching TV shows on DVD.

( What I've been writing )

William Darcy: So, George? Have you looked over the proposal?
George Knightley: As a matter of fact, I have.
William Darcy: And?
George Knightley: I do not think that anyone can accept it as is. You must rewrite it.
Caroline Bingley: But...but it's written so evenly. William, shall I mend it for you?

Whenever I am most stressed out, I have this strange propensity to dress up. And this makes me feel better.

Inspired by mklutz, I've been working away to Frank Sinatra today and I can't feel sad or stressed with him :)

Edmund Bertram: Fanny, that retrosynthetic analysis is stunning.
Fanny Price, (blushing): Why, thank you ( Read more... )

Mary Crawford: I wish to play with amylose. what I'd like to know is which one of you gentleman would like to make a glycosidic linkage with me ( Read more... )

William Darcy: You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love your tryptophan radicals. I love your radical way of thinking.
Elizabeth Bennet: No, William. There is no room for you on my project. So stay away from my radicals.

William Darcy: I don't see why we're taking this sloppy approach. We can watch for electron hopping on the rhenium system.
Elizabeth Bennet: But the rhenium system is optically silent. We won't get the full story and we'll have to do these studies anyway.
William Darcy: We can still publish on the rhenium ( Read more... )

Evil Alyson, Evil!

Catherine Morland: Henry, why do we use e. coli to express protein anyhow?
Henry Tilney: Because we didn't want to hurt their feelings. and the e. coli union would revolt.
Catherine Moland: Oh my!
Elinor Dashwood: Catherine, don't pay attention to that. He's telling you lies.
Catherine Morland: Then why do we use e. coli ( Read more... )

I wish I could be writing something else. Anything else. Writing scientifically makes me feel so...boxed in. My tone is far too casual most of time, so I feel compelled to listen to Mozart and drink tea so that I can "write brainy ( Read more... )