Miscellaneous

Trying to work around my class schedule has been sufficiently challenging. Next week I'll be attempting something that will, most likely, take me five days to do. Given that I have classes three days a week, I will probably be on a very tight schedule.

I have also managed to wow and amaze one of the PIs this week by running part of a GWAS (Genome Wide Association Study) on Ivy. He was amazed by the computation powers of a netbook and reminisced about the days when he was doubtful whether the student could run GWAS calculations on a regular laptop. (Well, some of my classmate's computers did crash, but they shouldn't have, given they're running on 2G of RAM while Ivy has only 1G and a lot of them are REALLY new laptops.) Ivy has pretty good specs though, all things considered. Things have updated enough since when I graduated from high school that Ivy's specs are, in fact, better than Daemon's. Zen has the super shiny WXGA display screen, but it's also 1G. In terms of processors Ivy is on Intel Atom and Zen on dual-core. Daemon is still on Intel Pentium M. Wait. Zen is supposed to have 2G I think, 'cause dad installed an extra one. Whaaaaat?

My coverslips finally came in during lab yesterday, along with a trashbin that no one remembers ordering, so that caused some excitement for a while. Unfortunately our lab tech wasn't there yesterday (I think she's out sick) so our hypothesis could not be validated one way or another.

The recycling bin for my apartment complex has disappeared. What. On. Earth. What the heck would someone do with two dusty old recycling bins? (They're the blue plastic ones.) I am boggled. Then I asked my neighbors. It turns out that we're getting them replaced with smaller ones since the large ones are too heavy when filled (it's over a hundred pounds; the neighbor guessed at around two hundred but the point is that I can't drag it out, I don't even try). Well then, hopefully the new ones arrive soon. My place doesn't exactly have a lot of room to store empty containers of things.

February should be exciting! I also volunteered to host a student for my department for recruitment weekend (the first one) so we'll see what I get signed up for. Meanwhile, I'll need to make a note to myself to remember to house clean again in the beginning of February. And get snacks.