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cherokerain and the Eyas, I had both the dog and the cheese. The Eyas said that should fill *some* kind of goal. I said, yeah..."pill the dog"! He says that would be veterinary flux, and so I elaborated; veterinary flux should include a "stinky thing" keeper card, and the stinky thing plus the dog would fulfill the goal "expressing anal glands!"
Ok, maybe that isn't amusing for anyone but me...
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Black forest-esque; devils food with cherry filling between the layers, whipped cream and merange w/ grated chocolate for frosting. For my love cherokerain's birthday party. She'll be 40 on the 15th!
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The sign says 'organic foods,' and yes, that cooler is full of cool whip. Is this better living through (organic) chemistry?
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This Samhain; year of the bat, at our house.
In past years I've done spiders, but between white nose disease, our attic squatters, and three bats in the house, I decided to do a bat-o-lantern. I'm pleased with it.
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- Location:US, Virginia, Montgomery, Blacksburg
Anyway, there's a promed app for the iphone that will, in theory, let me follow outbreaks as they happen.
http://www.healthmap.org/iphone/
I'm not so interested in soybean rust, but I wonder if it will do notifications of canine influenza, or Strep zoo. pneumonia?
- Mood:
curious
One thing I love about flying is the clouds; they're so strange and beautiful from above, a landscape of air and vapor over a deep clear sea.
This picture I took on the way too Seattle. Today I'm still finding my way home. Got stuck in Minniapolis/ St. Paul, because my flight was delayed (due to construction) enough to miss my connection, and escheduled for the next morning. They gave me a discounted hotel room (which still cost me 60$), and 25$ off my next ticket. Which seems kind of lame to me, actually. Grumble.
But I still wonder if pilots ever get so used to seeing clouds that they no longer seem wonderful, or if they're amazed every time.
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This one is for the woman in the grocery store who was harrasing the poor kid trying to shelve stuff about where to find the "carb free mayo".
He should have answered, "we've got carb free water over here, and also fat free lolipops"
I'm done.
Today slightly less brutal than yesterday, but I'm not sure my performance on clin path could bring yesterdays carnage up to a passing level (NB: the vet path section includes both yesterdays 'elective' modules and todays clin path module).
But gen path felt a little better. It remains to be seen what that actually means.
Realize; people keep saying "you'll be fine... But I'm in a room full of smart people who all have always done well on exams, and 60 to 70% won't pass.
Sobering thought, that.
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- Location:US, Iowa, Story, Ames, Elwood Dr
The histopath section is over and I seem to still be alive. I even felt like I knew most of the slides, but we'll see how that goes.
Tired. I may try and nap before more cramming of articles for tomorrow.
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- Location:US, Iowa, Story, Ames, Elwood Dr
Driving to Ames to take boards we were going right by Yellow Springs. I convinced my colleague to stop for a short hike in the Glen. Didn't go on campus at all, but Glen Hellen is the same as she ever was. Youngs has become a giant almost-theme-park thing. Haha's pizza is largely unchanged, as are the pesto calzones.
And the Spring itself still glows. Yes, I drank the water.
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- Location:United States, Ohio, Clark County
Choice bits:
"...the view of marriage as a llifelong commitment has been abandoned. In it's wake is the perverted notion of liberty that each individual should be able to live out his sexual life in any way he chooses without interference from the state."
(emphais mine)
and
"...mans basic nature is inclined towards evil, and when the exerceise of liberty takes the shape of pornography, drug abuse or homosexuality the government must restrain, punish and deter."
ugh...just...ugh.
So the state ought to be dictating, my sex life, now? Why is it that republicans are so often decrying perceived impositions on their 'freedom' (usually freedom to discriminate against someone), but see no contradiction in imposing their beliefs on other folk?
He goes on to explain that working women have destroyed the family, child abuse laws need to not restric parents fredom to discipline their kids (clearly it's important to be free to whack on your children, but not to look at boobies or decide what kind of sex life you prefer), and that children need to have 'character education' in school...I can hit my kid, but I'm not competent to transmit values to him?
He is, of course, thouroughly anti-choice (allowing no provision for rape or incest), but he also says that legalising birth control for unmarried people was 'illogical'. Draw your own conclusions from that.
In fairness, he says the thesis was "just an academic exercise", and does not reflect his current views; that "Virginians will judge me on my 18-year record as a legislator and Attorney General"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co
Yup, I sure will. I remember back when I was in undergrad and you were pressuring Radford University, which was (I think) the first university in VA to include sexual orientation in their non-descrimination policy, saying that they needed to remove that or face legal sanction from the state because sodomy is illegal. They did not remove it.
But don't take my word for it; go read the thing. And for the love of whatever you hold dear, if you're in VA, go and vote.
- Mood:
pissy
The Eyas wanted chocolate for his 15th birthday. He got it :) cherokerain makes awesome cakeage.
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Except that eye and hair color are polygenic, not really Mendelian, and can't be accutately predicted by a punnett square.
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amused
I was handed a card with a promotional code for the inflight wifi...so I'm posting from umpty-whatever feet, headed for Seattle. Soon I'll see my Bear, and Angi. And then I expect I'll go *thud* and pass out, at least until my brain thinks it's tomorrow.
Browsing the internets from above the clouds, though, it's something.
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Jamie is moving out, into her own apartment. She thought she might have to rent s truck, but it turns out not. Yesterday, I got a nasty flat, and my rim is bent. Also the check engine light came on; clearly we needed a trip to the mechanic. Our mechanic sometimes has loaner cars, which is a nice little courtesy, but this tome he gave us a loaner truck, and it's a beast. Working most of the day (and me only helping on the evening after work) cherokerain and Jamie got all her big stuff moved, including a loveseat, chair, and table we're giving her, dresser, chest, bed, and upright shelves. Soon, the Eyas will have a decent sized room, and I'll have a my own study. I haven't had my own space in years, not, in fact, since before the girls came to live with us.
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Yesterday evening nrv_magick gave me a metric fuckton of basil. Literally, it filled a five gallon bucket. So this evening I got the rest of the ingredients and made about a quart of pesto, after which the cheap little blender gave out. It's motor was smelling really bad. So I've hung the rest up to dry. Really should get a decent food processor. But...pesto, yum!
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So what do you think; bacteria to make biofules? More and better medicines? Or...
Story here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor
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