December 2006 Archives

Being Christmas, I am fortunately back in the sticks, where I can enjoy all the comforts of home. Of course, this also means hat I am back to the pleasure of connecting to the internet through dial-up. Of course, that means the agonizingly slow wait for the even the most trivial of transactions, like means. And this was the case until, well, today. For a cool $450, there is now a fifteen foot antenna above the house and instant email. Amazingly, the miracle of wireless internet access has even made it out here. At this point, I would have even settled for a quarter of the speed.

The rest of the break has been good. I am quite pleased to say that my flight down was uneventful, having avoided all the hullabaloo in Denver and Chicago. And so far, my time has been quite well spent. It's been nice seeing all of my relatives once again, and I love having a brown Christmas.

Now it's time for sleep. More tomorrow.

Being Christmas, I am fortunately back in the sticks, where I can enjoy all the comforts of home. Of course, this also means hat I am back to the pleasure of connecting to the internet through dial-up. Of course, that means the agonizingly slow wait for the even the most trivial of transactions, like means. And this was the case until, well, today. For a cool $450, there is now a fifteen foot antenna above the house and instant email. Amazingly, the miracle of wireless internet access has even made it out here. At this point, I would have even settled for a quarter of the speed.

The rest of the break has been good. I am quite pleased to say that my flight down was uneventful, having avoided all the hullabaloo in Denver and Chicago. And so far, my time has been quite well spent. It's been nice seeing all of my relatives once again, and I love having a brown Christmas.

Now it's time for sleep. More tomorrow.

This evening finds me exhausted after spending a very short night sleeping, and a very long one studying. I unfortunately have much to cover before Friday, and so I fear that any shortcomings in sleep will not be met before the weekend. Nevertheless, I am pressed most severely to immediately understand the intricacies and details of the generation of a cDNA library. And seeing as that I have my exam for immunology nd infection the same day, I'll also have to understand the nuature of allographs.

In a somewhat curious fashion, I am afraid I did something to my knee, though I have no idea what. In any case, it's been killing me. I knelt down, and even my roommate could hear the joint pop. Since I didn't necessarily do anything that I know of to cause the problem, I am sort of hoping that it will just go away...

Of course, since it is the holiday season, Starbucks has debuted the Peppermint mocha, which I promtly partook of with an old gift card. Delightful.

It has been a rather long time since I posted an update here, which is regrettable. It is of course that time of year where professors insist on making me regurgitate information I simply haven't learned over the course of the semester. So of course, i am forced into seclusion at this hallowed time of year to quickly and rapidly cram as much info as I can into my rather undersized cranium. It is generally an unsuccessful endeavour.

In any case, I will try to post a bit more tomorrow. Right now I am necessarily proccupied with the receptor tyrosine kinases, their associated ligands, and the dowstream signalling pathways. Night.