Zzzzz...

Weekend full of nothing, and twas great! Didn't go to the lab at all!

Done! For now...

The first 'done'. Feels great to finally be finished with benchwork. Other than a minor loose end to tie up, this is the first 'done' before reviewers of the paper or thesis requests more experiments. Of course it'll still take a while to write up said paper and thesis and defend it, it's good to hit the milestone. All planned experiments done. Couple weeks behind my original estimate and probably a bit before what my committee had thought. Now I can offically say "I'm writing".

Now, to get a job...

Old times

Was invited to a get-together with some high school people by a friend who didn't inform me that it was her birthday. Had a fun night out with friends I vaguely remember. Ah like I said, my memory's pretty bad, and I'm no better at keeping in touch sometimes. Many familiar faces, lots of catching up. Very interesting what paths are possible. Went to play pool, late night snacks at BP's and called it a night around 3! Krazy!

Vroom!

Spent some time with a friend's new baby and it was so fun pushing the stroller through the mall! Maneuvering around shelves, keeping it in motion so she keeps sleeping, trying to not flip it over in the fast corners, wee! Some people were giving me odd looks though. What's your problemo? I don't look fatherly to you?! Bah!

(right ≠easy) * thing

Oh I really hurt somebody today. I feel absolutely HORRIBLE! Dating suckdidlyucks.

Is it better to hurt or be hurt?

Amy Amaryllis

I've been bitten by the blogbug, and here comes my second!

Since everybody and their dog has a blog, my plant was feeling left out.

Go visit the glamourous life of Amy Amaryllis!

It's a bit pathetic how much more of a life my plant has than me... :o(

So how were your holidays?

Fine, it was good. Oh wait, where'd my arm go?

That's what this is for I suppose. It's been a busy couple of weeks. At the lab almost everyday probing blot upon blot. I'm sure I have a healthy glow from the P32. It had been theorectically possible to finish lab work, but alas, that didn't happen. Too many needed repetition and extra washes. Time for a new goal.

It was great to have friends visit from Toronto, Boston and other places. I managed to spend some time with them so it wasn't all work! Got some socks (but green and not red as pictured)from friends in Ireland too!

Went skiing at Marmot and got stuck on the chairlift! I was trying to unload, and a clip from my backpack got jimmied in the seat. Then it managed to support my weight a bit off the ground, dragged me through an orange fence and finally stopped when I went through a safety circuit, which was the only reason I stopped since the liftie was sleeping! But everyone was watching and it was pretty funny. If only someone had a camera!

Hey, and the eye tick that I've had since November seems to be gone!

Cue ball

My dad just told me he's been quite worried because he's been finding lots of my hair everywhere lately. OMG! I'm so scared! I don't wanna go bald! I bet it's the radiation at the lab. Actually, it's probably because I've been maintaining longer hair last month and I often pull more out during various styling operations. Phew!

Would you happend to have any grey poupon?

I honked at a car straying into my lane after a turn today and it swerved back into line. Even a car has body language and this one said *flustered*. Now that the honk is almost universally understood as 'fuck you', I only wish there was a friendlier way to alert the other car, as I didn't mean to be mean. Perhaps a 'ding ding' sound, or a quick 'quack' like when you rub a Mac the wrong way. Of course, I've always been a proponent of an option in cars to have a mic inside attached to a loudspeaker on the outside for such purposes, and of course the instances when a 'fuck you' needs to be delivered and understood unambiguously.

All the daisies in the world

I just had a perfectly nice date doing perfectly nice date stuff with a perfectly nice girl. Nay, she was much more than just nice; beautiful, smart, and we seemed to fit like eggs and bananas (?). And the date was more than nice; we had lots of fun seeing an amazing Christmas lights show while talking through the mist of peppermint hot chocolate in the air. And yet, this may be a perfectly nice end...

So what's wrong?

Why is it so hard?

What variables must fall into place?

I need step by step instructions for dating. Awkward!!!

Look ma, no hippocampus!

Wow, my own blog. Something else to neglect. I suppose this serves a purpose to a degree so I'll try to promise to try. My goal is that someday, I'll tell a friend that someone stole my jack in the box head antenna ball and he'll say, "yeah, saw it on your blog, let's hunt down and torture the bastard". I also think this will be useful in the future after I procure a wife, as I've heard there's lots of *talking* in marriage. I can simply refer her to my blog at dinner time.

A new year, a new blog...