September 13, 2003

  • another profitable saturday spent at work


    which wouldn't be so bad, I guess, if I didn't have to fight with football traffic - OSU is on home game #3, which was just won in triple overtime...


    piffle, football...I really don't care - but boy oh boy, the boys who live above me do. they drink, they smoke, they jump and scream...all for football. I suppose that's not too bad, but for the one habit that drives me nuts...they like to scream..."O - H-" and then my neighbors on the other side yell back "I-O!" It's apparently a great deal of skill to spell this four letter word...


    but where was i?
    ah yes...working on Saturdays...guess i should be glad I'm not up to working sundays too...but I will be, soon enough. I'm hitting on crunch time for the master's degree. currently, i've taken all my DNA sequences and i'm lining them all up, like turtles on a log. then i have to look and see where each sequence is different, and then go into a different computer program and verify that the computer program actual is calling the base the right thing.
             well, that's poorly explained.
    *shrug* if you want more explains, i'll give'em, but be warned, it is insanely boring. It is also time consuming. Right now, i have 40 or so sequences, each of which is composed of about 800 bases. It takes about...2.5 hours to do 150 or so bases for all 40. I've already done about 7 or 8 hours? all staring at a computer screen...I cannot wait until we get a flat screen monitor!


    in other news...we are nearing D-day for baby poppage! not mine! silly. my sibs. It's baby number two in less than 2 years and it (so dubbed Lu2) is due the 21st of September. we were hoping for an early arrival this weekend...but it doesn't look good. i told her to go play on the trampoline, but she said she can't get onto the trampoline by herself. clearly, she's just being silly. ;-P


    otherwise, things are pretty quiet. got my first issue of scientific american - which i will be posting about when i finish it. it's all about brains and it is beyond fascinating and bordering on frightening. the only article i've had time to finish is the one all about "smart" pills that would allow people (all people who can afford them that is) to have "photographic" memories. it is intriguing, and yet, I'm not entirely sure i agree with the researchers...i'm leery also of fucking with my brain chemistry...dunno...any thoughts? do I have any scientific american readers out there who've finished Septembers' edition?

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  • I'm not into football much, either.....hockey is my thing!

    Congrats on going for your master's degree: it sounds quite intricated with all that DNA talk. I wish you well and much success!

    Do you know at this point if the baby will be a boy or a girl?

    I'd be leery too of a brain-altering chemical. I suppose over the years they may have it perfected, but I wouldn't want to be the guinea pig unless I was doomed otherwise.....but I suppose someone has to be the first.....

    Thanks so much for your feedback on my site regarding the question about my sn: I appreciate your input! I'm glad you're not offended by it. And it looks as though everyone so far is in agreement, in that I should keep it the way it is!!

    Have a great Monday!

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