Dubbskii’s Rants

November 21, 2009

Downtown

Filed under: Just Life — Tags: , , , — Dubbskii @ 3:31 pm

So Thursday night, I managed to get myself out the bed and into some decent clothes.  I went to Tigallo’s Two Step – or what I thought was supposed to be TTS.  It was dead.  Coffin.  At one point it was me, a girlfriend, the bartender, and the DJ in there.  That is all.

We wondered down the street to Bogart’s.  There was an interesting cast of characters at that spot.  One guy practically knocked over me and my friend to get to the bar/bartender.  Is it really that serious?  He eventually starts chatting us up.

He asks me if my mole is real. Seriously? Do I look like I’m drawing this shit on with eyeliner?
He doesn’t like a lot of make up. Do I have on lip liner? Now, here I throw a flag on the play.  Are you gay? And FYI, I love the gays.
He likes the way my eyebrows are nicely arched.  He’s really doing too much at this point.

He eventually lends the conversation to what he’s looking for in a woman.  Which is strange because he says that he just wants to be friends.  At this point, dude, I don’t even want to be THAT.  It was just a ridiculous evening.  I was more than happy to take it home and cuddle ALONE in my bed!

I didn’t plan Friday too well, and I ended up in the lab at 8pm.  But it was ok – I went out with some fellow science grad schoolers to Cosmic Cantina.  I love that place and their burritos.  And I was able to get a pitcher of margarita.  They took forever to get my burrito ready and everyone had their food but me.  Due to poor communication on their end, I ended up with two burritos at one point.  The girl working the register got all pissy.  I gave her the Bonquiqui look and she settled down.

Today is shaping up to be productive.  I had brunch with one of my lab favorites – Sunny – at the Flying Biscuit.  I love that place.  Too bad our experience there was only meh.  I wanted it to be stellar since I had bragged about it so much.

Since I’m in the library, I guess I should get to work.  Happy Saturday!

April 6, 2009

Alive

Filed under: In The Lab,Just Life — Tags: , , , — Dubbskii @ 8:13 am

I’m still alive.

I feel like these past few weeks I have been doing everything and nothing, all at the same time.  I am dead tired every morning and night, but at the end of the day I feel like I haven’t accomplished much.  The semester is nearing an end, so I hope this will lighten the load a little bit.

My Evolutionary Genetics course turned out to be 10 times better than I previously thought.  I forced myself to actually study for the last two tests rather than simply glancing over the material.  I pulled some pretty decent grades out the hat.  A 91 and an 88.  They’ll do.  Everyone knows grad students can’t worry about grades; we have to worry about our research.  Speaking of research… that’s been slowly going down the drain.  But I think it’s because you either do well in classes and suck in the lab or do well in lab and are completely lost in your classes.  There simply are not enough hours in the day.  There was a proposal due for this class, and I settled on sexual selection in Drosophila.  I know that sounds a wee bit vague, but we ended up narrowing it down to seminal fluid protein Acp62F and the  cost of mating in female Drosophila melanogaster. This was totally away from my area of DNA damage and repair in E. coli, but I found myself really enjoying the work and the story behind it.  I wouldn’t mind learning some fly techniques.  Add that to my science things to do list, right under Mixed-species Biofilms!

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