Dear all,
I realized that I haven't mentioned the ants problem in a while. It hasn't been solved...conclusively. I have left the landlady a note about it, received no reply, didn't have the time to bother her in person, and so a few weeks passed where there were errant ants, then there were fewer ants, followed by days when I swore the ants were gone, followed by a day of finding ants in the medicine cabinet (but only on one shelf, and why is that? They came out of a crack on the wall and disappeared into a crack on the wall so it is only one shelf that was infested), followed by now, another reprieve from ants that I may have just jinxed myself out of.
So there you have it: Ant Problem by Susan. Graded I for Incomplete.
Something came up for Cathe so I was supposed to train with Linda today, except her donkey (I'm on the impression she's on a farm. The details are unclear) got sick and she's doing the vet thing today so I'm going in with Cathe tomorrow, after I seed the cells in lab for my experiment on Monday (and grocery shopping, I think I am out of non-frozen edibles in the fridge). And I have random poped blister on my hand from trying to hit people with sticks, because this is my life, and so gloves next week will be super fun. (As Lucy informed me very eloquently: "Insanity becomes you.")
I also forgot to mention that I got a twitter account again, mostly because I kept meaning to update this blog at some point during the week, to record the (sometimes insane) things happening in lab, but because it's the weekdays, I never get around to it, and then I forget all the (sometimes insane) things by the weekend. Writing blog entries take surprising amount of time, probably because I do do pretty lengthy posts and need to try to formulate my thoughts (badly) into words and then need to read over the entire thing because I have a bad habit of skipping words when I'm just writing whatever crosses my (fevered, figuratively speaking) mind. Instead last week I've started to tweet one sentence things right after they happen in lab so now I can skim back over it and go: "Ah-ha" and "have you ever heard of the word 'parameterization'?" and "here's a new one for the 'scientists are making up words again' list". No really. Really. That word's in a book and everything and yes, I am reading a real, live book ... except books aren't what you'd call "alive" in the biological sense...and this is not technically a "real" book in the physical sense, though it has the ISBN number, because it's a digital book. On evolution and systematics biology. Because I figured in between failing to get my protein to pellet I should probably teach myself what things like JTT model and BLOSUM62 substitution matrix are before I venture forth again to try to figure out how to adapt other people's parameters for my own. Teaching myself systems biology can't be much worse than teaching myself neuroscience from scratch, right? Right?
And okay so I'm still failing at finding the time to read an actual book.
Tried new recipe for chocolate cake this afternoon. It's supposed to go with pecan & coconut frosting but I'm changing the frosting completely (there's still coconut involved, but almond instead of pecans because I have them) and sort of tried to adapt a part of the batter to cupcakes. They're cooling right now so anticipation is high for both me and my neighbor, who could apparently smell them. Have not found the chance for rhubarb yet. Have scrubbed out sink, again. Why is fashion so complicated? Why does my jacket have a random zipper leading to nothing on one sleeve? Why am I still typing all these random things?
Right.
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