It is a Saturday and that once again finds me at the lab by myself in the afternoon. I didn't spend the whole day here. This morning I attended the annual condo association meeting. When you have an association in which over 50% of the owners are over 60 and female you get a lot of complaining at these meetings. However, this one went much better than last year's. Probably because we had a guest speaker from the St. Anthony Police department. I really appreciate Luke and the other board members, as they have to put up with a lot of crap without a lot of thanks.

Tomorrow I am spending a marathon day in the lab. 12 hour time points really suck. I will get a lot done though, so it will hopefully make the rest of my week less hectic. John and Julie both returned from their vacations. John was "why isn't more done?" My response was that we can't do everything that we are supposed to do when we have to do his work as well. Now he is suddenly motivated to get some stuff done, big surprise! My CO study is starting to wrap up. About three weeks of hard work should get everything finalize for writing. This is like a giant elephant baby....I can't wait to deliver it to the journals.

I had a hard week this week. It has been nine months since my dad passed away. On Tuesday I saw a t-shirt that one of the med students was wearing and it made me VERY angry. One angry rant to an anonymous student in the gym locker room (she made the mistake of wearing the same shirt), and an angry email later, I have received a formal apology from the anatomy bequest program at the University and their assurances that t-shirts like the one that offended me will not be allowed in the future. I am just grateful that I was the one who saw the shirts instead of my sister or mother. Grieving is hard enough without someone reminding you that you lost your parent.

Matt's trip to Europe went very well. They are talking about going again next year. He had a hard week of recovery because he had school on Monday followed by softball. He is excited about his softball team this year, as they could be pretty good (at least better than last year's), but he is VERY sore from all the practices. Matt is starting to feel his age...hehe

Gotta run, my timer is going off (I do everything in life according to a timer these days)