Well, here I am again. Watching the world get dark while I work in the lab. I missed the sunrise, because I was already in here, and now I'm catching the dim shadows of the sunset from the same room.

This is my life, now and for the foreseeable future.

The Nobel Prize in chemistry was announced this morning, going to three scientists who solved the working structure of ribosomes, which are the structures in a cell that translate genetic information into proteins. We discussed this today in genetics, and watched one of the videos the lab produced. This is hands down the best molecular modeling ( Read more... )

Alright, so, it has been a while since my last update. At first it was because there was nothing going on, and then it was because there was too much going on. The time has come for a recap ( Read more... )

Things are going well

Oh my god I love this house, please let us get it, oh please

I woke up this morning with a fierce hangover, and I didn't drink anything last night. Regattas are hard as hell on the body. My whole body aches. I hotseated a race, where you get out of one boat and get directly into the next for another race. My lungs and throat ache, both from rowing and from cheering for our boats. My feet are tender from ( Read more... )

That illness I had turned out to be the flu. I've spent the week laying about, being generally grumpy and miserable, getting up only to fail midterms. Okay, I only failed one midterm. I actually did rather well on my others. And thanks to the curve my ochem professor decided to have, I will be passing that class unless I do badly on the final. Oh ( Read more... )

Yesterday, at 5 am, I got on a bus for Lake Dexter, Oregon. We had a seven hour drive, got there about noon. The second I got off the bus, my boat went for a warm up run while my teammates rigged my four. We got back from the run and launched our boat, which had never rowed together before, of course. Ali was stroke, I was three, this novice B boat ( Read more... )

So, I wake up at 5 am this morning, as usual, to take a nice leisurely shower and eat breakfast before crew. I like to start my mornings with plenty of time, or else I'm groggy and hungry and practice, and nothing gets done. I roll over and turn off my alarm, except... Oh shit. Its 5:45! I forgot to reset my alarm after we had later practice ( Read more... )

You gotta let go when they get that old ( Read more... )