Rural Ypsilanti residents get creative to ensure mail delivery | The Jamestown Sun | Jamestown, North Dakota

Rural Ypsilanti residents get creative to ensure mail delivery | The Jamestown Sun | Jamestown, North Dakota

This is a neat story about my Dad's hometown, Ypsilanti. It features my cousin Doug Beckman, who is the rural mail carrier for that area. I was just out in Ypsilanti last weekend and was amazed by how much water is out there. It has been a long winter for everyone back home, and this spring was full of even more suffering for everyone. My Uncle Terry is slowly getting his house back in order. The power of the water is unbelievable until you see it up close.

I am doing another 1 h. stimulation of cells followed by 12 hours of incubation today. I have plenty to do, but I am exhausted from work late last night on revisions and getting up ass early this morning to get on the bus by 6:30am. I would like to castrate whomever decided to do road construction on Como Avenue AND Hennipen at the same time. My little condo escape is now really cut off from the lab, making my commute, which used to be easy, VERY stressful.

On the bright side, I did plant some flowers last night. This normally makes me a little sad, as it was one of the last things I did with my father before he died. I have a feeling that planting will always have that association for me.

Well, my timer says I have 6 min. until I remove my treatment....then I can get a giant espresso and hopefully get some work done.

Wish me luck!

PHD Comics: Did you get it?

PHD Comics: Did you get it?


This web site helps captures some of the humor of being a graduate student. I only wish they had a MD/PhD character.....

After a hellacous end to last week it should not be surprising that I have the urge to not do anything at work. In fact, this afternoon I am at my desk at home attempting to start on my paper revisions. I don't have many to do, so I know if I start I can't use it as an excuse for leaving early anymore:)
Mom is in Texas this week until Thursday, then we are painting my kitchen. Matt and I just experienced a "plumbing" emergency, and had to pay through the nose to get it fixed. So much for a new furnace this year, it looks like our bathroom remodel comes up first......ugg!
Well, enough procrastination today. If I get motivated I will post before and after pictures of our dining room/kitchen after it is painted.

Mr. Thomas O'Malley hates it when I disrupt his sleep schedule.......he is a cat for Pete's sake....I pay the freaking mortgage and should be able to work at home when I want to!

'Saturday Night Live': Justin Timberlake brings the funny back | Prime-Time TV commentary | last night, Television | Ken Tucker's Watching TV | EW.com

'Saturday Night Live': Justin Timberlake brings the funny back | Prime-Time TV commentary | last night, Television | Ken Tucker's Watching TV | EW.com

I couldn't agree more!

No Good Bad Day

Fact: Our awesome cell culture technician is out on a well-deserved vacation
Fact: Our "lab manager" comes into the lab twice a week, max,
Fact: Cell culture requires carbon dioxide to survive
Fact: The door to the -80 freezer needs to remain closed to stay at -80
Fact: Three years worth of irreplaceable samples are in the -80 freezer
Fact: Undergraduates should NEVER be allowed to work in a lab unsupervised
using equipment they have never seen before
Fact: I want to the rip the f*cking head off of undergrad responsible for leaving
the door the -80 freezer open, and the person who brought them into the lab
to f*ck stuff up (just because you like the kid does NOT mean he should be
doing stuff that affects EVERYONE in the lab, have him wash your
f*cking dishes in your lab, NOT MINE), and the "lab manager" who does not do
his job.

All of these facts contributed to a really bad day in lab for me.
How long until I head back to Med School?