August 2012
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So let’s catch up like
old times because life’s moving
faster than you think.
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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
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Thoughts are rolling around my head: SIP; moving from Ohio; being home; moving back to Michigan; family; past relationships; more recent relationships (friendships are relationships); other people; present people; not so present people; generalities; what am I doing after college; why should I care what I’m doing after college; I should care; I need to look at the GRE; I need to write my...
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“I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure or name or count out the...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via 4mbivalent)
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“…the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven...”
– Sylvia Plath (via morganisthenewblack)
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Being home feels weird. Like my room has been untouched for too long. My brother is leaving for college tomorrow and its strange. Everything seems strange.
Alright, I’ve puzzled piece packed my car with a bike (no bike rack), a bunch of cooking supplies, all of my clothes, and a bunch of other random shit that I don’t know why I’m still carrying around, and soon a bunch of kittens are going to join me in the front and we’ll be off to the east coast. Though actually I’m lying because I still need to throw all that random...
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Last night in Wooster. My emotions are a bit all over the place, in light of a plethora of posts from Bridgett (love and excitement), saying goodbye to friends here (sadness and wondering), and my neighbor is burning his toast (yuck). The house smells like burnt toast and that’s not fun on a last night. I’m sleepy, a little bit teary eyed, and probably not ready for the next couple...
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Well: What a Cow Taught Me About Running →
After an injury, and an encounter with a cow, one runner signed up for every race she could, with a new outlook on marathon training.
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Oh right, there’s those emotions that come along with the leaving, the packing, the moving, the goodbyes, the reuniting, and the realizations that my SIP needs to be written and probably written well, that the GRE might need to be thought about, that my fall schedule might drive me mentally insane, that my stuff needs to all fit in a medium sized car so that I can drive myself home only to...
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How Things End | Thought Catalog →
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A few (more) things I've learned this summer:...
Go to social work events. Go to 5Ks or out to lunch or anything. Even if you’re an occasional recluse who would rather be knitting and watching Breaking Bad on Netflix or sleeping (referencing myself), go to those work related social events (even if you get lost getting there). You might end up getting tipsy off of your PI’s home brew and hearing stories about how a bunch of...
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A few things I've learned this summer: living...
If you’re out of ideas for what to do with food that’s about to go bad, and you have an idea that might be a recipe if someone out there was creative enough to actually make it, Google search it. Squishy bananas and too much zucchini? Banana zucchini muffins! Eggplants and lemons? Risotto! Oatmeal, flax seeds, and peanut butter you’re sick of? Peanut butter balls! Creativity is...
“I wonder what Ryan’s favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the...”
– Tom Morello has written a pretty bemused op-ed about Paul Ryan’s reported love for Rage Against The Machine. (via livealifethatscompletelyfree)
My money is on “The Ghost of Tom Joad”.
(via silas216)
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Don’t Waste the Drought →
The drought represents an opportunity to reimagine how we manage, use and even think about water.
This opinion article contains some good points and some meh points. The general idea is true though.
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“All great and precious things are lonely.”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via pigmenting)
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So SIP writing is fairly fucking difficult. I’m writing like one damn sentence per half hour. I’ve got all these acronyms floating around in my head: Cbf, Vrn-H1, vrn-H1, Fr-1, LT, PP, COR…there’s many more. I don’t even know what barley tastes like. Besides if it’s been in beer. After all of this I want to take up beer brewing with some malted barley and drink...
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Lab conversations
Today was a long day in the lab during which I actually didn’t touch much, because well, I’m not allowed yet to play with the radioisotopes and create a probe and blah blah science talk Bonnie shut up. Anyways, there was much waiting around so my PI and I got to talking. At random moments throughout our conversations he would throw out little comments about me that took me by surprise....
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The New Library: 9th →
the-new-library:
by Fran Hoepfner
Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
The 9th premiered on a bright day in May, the sun bouncing off the grey decadence that was Vienna in the summertime. The streets and their people busied themselves as I walked to the Kärntnertortheater around midmorning, greeting…
Honestly, I was moved to tears at the end of this! And I’m not even wine...
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I’m so back and forth. Today is one of those nights where I just want to get on the highway and head either east or west. West is Kalamazoo. East is home to New England. Either would be nice. Ohio has grown on me, or maybe not Ohio, but certain places and people here have grown on me. The people in the lab and their passion for working on agricultural genetics while not corrupting their...
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My roommate is listening to the Jesus channel on TV. Or something equally crazy with a guy talking about maggots eating him and sharks going crazy. Time for me to leave the house. Oh my god, she found another one. Leaving.
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How to train for a marathon
Me: I'll just do the online training tomorrow, I already have to run 13 miles, why not make my day even more fun with some safety training.
My PI: You have to run 13 miles!? That's crazy!? Gimme that cup, I'm giving you more beer....carbo load right?
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