“Passed on that ass.” We now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
“I’m countin’ cash in my office, sippin’ coffee with my feet up!”
Just Kickin
April 28, 2010
December 11, 2009
Win Some, Lose Some.
Well I’ve been marginally productive today.
I was awake from 1am-7am thanks to drug*-induced sleep. I was simply trying to clear the congestion and the next thing I knew, I’d been sleep for almost 5 hours. This left me wide awake, and instead of doing the right thing (reading papers, working on my document), I surfed the internet and looked at people’s outfits on weardrobe.com. So sad, but hey – you win some and you lose some. I definitely lost that one.
At 8, I decided to make coffee cake muffins. It was basically a coffee cake in a muffin liner. I didn’t have the strength or energy to make anything else for lab meeting. I ended up falling asleep from more drugs*. This led to too much spending at Wal-mart so my labmates could have a variety of food. Not doing that again. Can’t please everyone. I lost and won because there was a lesson learned.
I stayed in lab until ~9pm and got a lot of stuff done for tomorrow. It’s been so long since I’ve worked at the bench that I’ve felt somewhat awkward. It was great to get my science mojo back. I definitely WON that one.
Tomorrow I have a meeting with the Dean of the Graduate School and a departmental holiday party. I’m making Spiced Pecans as an appetizer – I wanted to make pecan pie, but they had enough desserts. I may make one anyway, and bring it in to Sunny. Then, maybe I could convince her to take some pictures for me next week to document my winter wardrobe. Sounds like a good trade to me…
I’m crashing a bar crawl on Saturday in downtown Raleigh. I went last year, paid a bunch of money, and had a good time. This year I plan to go, save that money, and still have a good time. We’ll see how that works.
*Said drugs are simply Nyquil, Chloraseptic, and Maxifed. I will not be on A&E Intervention.
December 3, 2009
Disturbia.
There are random things that going on with me… I decided to rant and rave about a couple.
1. LA the Darkman.
“Unnnhhh. Yeaaaaaah.” I have to listen to that on every Gangsta Grillz mixtape song he is on. It makes me so angry because some of them are actually good. With elementary rhymes like “La, I’m that guy. I’m so fly. I got it, I flaunt it. After this b-day sex, I’mma put a ring on it.” <— Boy stop.
2. People pretending we are tight.
I’m in the sciences. Anyone else that is a colleague is a nerd. I don’t care if you’re a lab tech or a PI – you’re a nerd. Embrace it. I recently received an email from a class mate and her lab tech (who is the PI’s wife) about a former postdoc in my lab. All capital names are descriptors I have filled in lol. See below.
DUBBSKII,
IMMATURE LAB TECH and I are hoping you can provide us with some information. We were discussing this newish postdoc in PROF DOWN THE HALL’s lab, John*, who came from the YOUR CURRENT lab. Do
you know the John, he is really slow and seems to have no clue where he is? He has drove at least three labs nuts over here in the LSRC. We have concluded that he is brain
damaged, do you know anything about this? We would love to hear your commentary about his condition if you have any.
Cheers,
and Happy post-Thanksgiving
DUMB NERD GIRL TRYING TO BE COOL*
I know the guy they are referring to, and he is very bright. The subject of the message was “mission brain damaged.” First of all, I am not friends with this girl that wrote this email. Now if this was one of my homegirls, she would say what’s the scoop on this person. What makes you, Stranger Girl, think I’m gonna let you talk shit about a friend of mine? Get a grip. And how dumb are you to send this from your lab’s email account. Burn bridges much?
3. Ebay
I just tried eBay for the first time a couple of days ago. I created an account and bid on some Michael Kors shoes that I absolutely had to have. Love? Absolutely love. And I won the shoes. I’ll post a picture when they arrive.
4. Box Factory
My Mom came to my house a couple of days ago and commented on my online shopping addiction. “It looks like you’re running a box factory.” I couldn’t do anything but laugh. It’s so sad, but true. My pockets are more than dry right now. I think I need to be on A&E intervention because every day I have 1-2 boxes at my door. I have these weird shopping spells.
5. People too Lazy to Google
If you have a question, look it up. Don’t ask me. And definitely when I suggest looking it up on google, don’t come stand by my laptop and wait for me to look it up. Kill yourself.
Yesterday this lady asked how to spell wise. With a S or Z. Grown woman… Seriously? I laughed loudly because I thought it was a joke and after someone answered, other people in the shop rolled their eyes at me. How was I to know it was a real life question? She then came back to trump herself and asked how to spell weird. She was sending text messages to someone. One of the stylists interjected that you can spell things anyway you like on text messages – it’s abbreviating. :::blank face::: No ma’am.
6. BBM
Blackberry Messenger may be one of the best things to happen to me in a long time. It feels like AOL instant messenger during it’s heyday. Sometimes I don’t like that people can see I’ve received their message though. Hahaha because sometimes I just don’t want to reply. And usually I don’t. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve received thousands of BBMs from my friends. I’ve highlighted two of my favorites below.
If u were candy u would b a life saver Lol
I could be crazy. I can feel myself becoming crazy.
7. Darien Brockington
Love this man’s voice. Might just love this man in general… I kid, I kid.
8. School
What the hell was I thinking? I should quit school and open up a bakery/diner. The menu would change everyday because I’m picky like that. I’m sure my customers would not appreciate that. Or maybe I would do better with a bread and breakfast. I make a mean french toast and my Mom loves my baked granola….
“Locked the CEO up
And I’m the CEO – fuck!” -Lil Wayne
November 18, 2009
Every Time
Every time I say I’m gonna do better…
I don’t.
It’s pretty pathetic, but it’s me. What else can you ask for? I’m so grateful for the *few* good friends that I have to keep me on track. The past couple of weeks have been really tough, and I’ve had trouble staying focused. I must have given myself the existential scientist talk at least 3 times a week. Even as I type this I’m wondering why I want to be a scientist. Do I really?
So strange.
Anywho, not much going on in the land of me. Just a bunch of piles of dirty clothes, boxes from too much online shopping, and a massive credit card bill to prove it.
Winter is my favorite time of year, and I love dressing in layers and wearing lots of turtlenecks and whatnot. However, mother nature missed the memo and it was 75 degrees here yesterday. So of course I looked crazy with my suede boots on. As soon as I hit the door, I had to run back inside and change. I need to check the weather more often.
Last week, a classmate passed the prelim. I was so happy for her, then the conversation turned to me and everyone wanted to talk science. That would’ve been fine, but we were at the bar!? Seriously? Give me a break!
Thursday night was a blast aside from that little portion. I went with a buddy to the Red Bull Soundclash that same night. It was Battle of the Bands: The Foreign Exchange v. Love Language. FE won and I was supergeeked.
I think this Thursday, I’ll head out to Tigallo’s Two Step, which is hosted by Phonté of Foreign Exchange (and Little Brother). I’d heard of it but never made my way down there.
October 13, 2009
Yes, I’m Alive.
I haven’t updated in ages. I haven’t really been reaching out to my friends – but there’s a reason for that.
I’ve been hella busy procrastinating. I can’t seem to lock-in on my work, and it’s getting the best of me. Plus, in efforts to be tech savvy, I overrode all my Blackberry contacts with the contacts on my computer. So imagine ~400 numbers instantly deleted and replaced with the email addresses of a couple of professors and classmates. Womp womp. What am I gonna do with that? At least I have my BBM contacts…
I’m back on my granola kick. Granola is the one thing that allows me to eat yogurt. Whenever I am working I have to snack. It’s probably best that I don’t snack on fatty food like chips and Oreo’s. So, granola seems to help me get it together without blowing up the size of a house. I make my own into bars or as loose crumbles. My recipe is loosely based on a recipe from www.joyfulabode.com.
ZDubb’s Granola
2 Cups Instant Oats
1 Cup Rolled Oats
1 Cup Rice Krispies
3/4 Cup Wheat Germ
1/2 Cup Golden Flax Seed Meal
3/4 Cup Sunflower Seeds
1 Handful of Millet
1/2 Cup of Sliced Almonds
Toast the above ingredients for 10 minutes @ 400deg F.
In a pot melt: 1/2 Cup Honey + 2 Tbsp Butter + 2 tsp Vanilla Extract + dash of salt.
Add ~12 oz of chopped dried fruit (I used Craisins, dates, cherries, and apricots) to the toasted ingredients. Pour the honey mixture over all other ingredients, and mix well to evenly coat.
The end! <— If you plan to make crumbly granola
Put down wax paper and press into 9×13 pan if you want to make bars. So yummy.
