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Baaack

And it's good. I like the basic html thing and the way the post page is organized. The lack of lj cut will be missed but this is familiar, and this blog and I have history.

I woke up earlier than usual this morning of course, the end of daylight saving having not affected my circadian rhythm in academia yet. Consequently I had almost an hour this morning that was open. Needless to say I was very productive -- I went to school early, sat down in the biomed library, and finished half of the project (nephrology and sodium transport this time) that's due this Friday.

It was excellent timing, since we just got another project on diabetes mellitus today. (Type II, I think, though it'll have more to do with the specific molecular signaling downstream and the type of diabetes shouldn't matter as much then.)

We had a seminar in the lab today. It was more computer programing than structural biology and so I understood slightly more than I otherwise would have. A very good feeling all around.

Ah yes, I went to Lucy's over the weekend after I figured out that I have nothing immediately due (the lack of syllabus made things unpredictable and annoying). The traffic between SD and LA on the Friday That Is Halloween is pretty spectacular. In the bad sense. There were lots of cops around the LA region too, which I had plenty of time to observe.

LA has weather, but now SD does too: it rained this morning. (Admittedly now we're back at the blue skies again, which is nice and will perhaps make my apartment less damp and depressing.) (Damp apartments depress me.)

Lucy and I made The Pie That Is Supposed To Be Filled With Peach, But Perhaps Isn't, Really. It was still pretty good though, and now we both know what to do if we want to make a genuine peach pie. We also took photos, which Lucy will post some day before December, and toasted to Kate Not Dying, as Lucy got a call from her during pie-time that made us think the toast should be in order.

Anna, we have a photo for your to prove your good influence on our dietary health.

Also started Christmas shopping. Not the whole presents/mailing list, though, which I will work on sometime this week after the kidney thing and before the diabetes thing.

Unrelated:
This comic is completely true, by the way.

2 comments:

Lucy said...

I hope the weekend was fun and relaxing despite the bad start with the traffic :) But hey, now you've battled the worst haha, so you've got nothing to fear.

p.s. When you post to lj you can also do the "html only" thing when you're typing your post.

Susan said...

I know. What can I say? I just like this version better.