Jan 22 2008
TWO fire alarms today. Within one hour. How in the world is anyone around here supposed to get any actual work done with fire alarms at least once a week?!!!!!!!!
At least when we were at RFS I could slowly contaminate myself with radioactive and toxic chemicals from the air… in PEACE!!!
Jan 15 2008
or rather, it’s already been lost:
Mosquito: 9 course feast on me, 2 on Ryan (and counting)
Me: 0
I woke up a few nights ago at 4AM to intense itching on my arm… stumbled into the bathroom and saw an angry red bump glaring back at me. I returned to bed, pep talking myself into thinking that *perhaps* the offending bugger had left the bedroom… and just as I was drifting off I heard the infernal buzzing near me and knew that sleep was going to elude me. Instead I decided to curl up with a novel in the living room.
An hour later a sleepy Ryan peeks out of the bedroom, telling me to come back to bed… and we leave the light on to stalk the mosquito. After about 30 minutes there was still no sign of it and I concluded it must have passed out in food coma and wouldn’t bother me again. Oh, I was so wrong…
The next evening I started scratching my face… then my left hand… then my left arm… then my right arm… I found five red spots.
The next morning I found more…
Can I declare defeat? Surrender? Something?!!
There must be some way to barricade my entire apartment with a non-toxic form of DEET… right?!!!! Maybe I need to change my research track from stem cells to mosquitoes… bioengineer a strain of mosquitoes that don’t feed off humans… but feed off of disgusting flies…
Did I ever tell you I hate bugs? Except for the pretty, useful, or industrious ones that don’t bother me.
PS. Happy Birthday Dad!!!!!
Jan 14 2008
Found this awesome artist today who creates fun art with everyday objects and some wire… and it reminded me of someone and his hate for bananas…
Jon is your alter ego the orange? Wait, that would imply you eat your prey…. hm… I guess that doesn’t work.
Jan 09 2008
“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.”
Andy Rooney, American journalist
Jan 07 2008
If so please email/call/comment… ::FOUND!!:: Thanks to all who responded!!!
We got a cool beer making kit from Nathan for Christmas… and no, the kit doesn’t include the pot, no, we can’t do it in two batches, and yes, it needs to be an actual pot we can use on the stove.
The lucky owner who lets us borrow said pot will get first dibs on our homebrew!!! (or first dibs to pass on it, depending how it goes…)
Jan 02 2008
My resolutions for 2008:
1. Finish my dissertation.
2. Find a ‘real’ job. (’real’ means it pays more than $30k/year.)
3. Go on vacation. Somewhere that is not California.
Hopefully in that order. But hey, I’ll take it as it comes.
As a side note - I really hate resolutions. I feel like they’re there to mock me and say, haha… you haven’t completed your [fill in the blank] resolution yet!! And so I haven’t done any resolutions at all for years… maybe ever… but this year I just don’t want to think about the alternative. Really. Let’s just not talk about it…