Passion

This week is starting out much better than last week.

For one thing, there's no more NSF grant, and I just can't emphasize enough how happy that makes me. I hate that thing. I don't even want to think about doing it again next year.

For another thing, the city put up lights downtown. And since I live absurdly close to downtown and walk through it every day, this makes me very happy. There are now lit-up snowflakes on every lamppost on Broadway! And lights draped over the fences! And supposedly there's a giant Christmas tree somewhere around the Green, which I haven't been over to see yet, but just knowing it's there adds to my happiness. I love the Christmas season. I'm not as crazy about Christmas itself, but I love the season. It's warm and cozy and everyone starts being NICE to everyone else, and you get to drape pretty lights all over everything and no one calls you crazy.

Also, today I bought another long-sleeve t-shirt thingy, which will help keep me from freezing in the coming winter. My dad also bought and sent me a winter coat and a pair of gloves, and while I think I might try to exchange them for smaller sizes, they are my new favorite clothing articles. They're brown and softly fuzzy and soooo smooth and probably really warm. I'm super excited. I haven't had gloves or a winter coat since... um... early high school or middle school?

I thought I was being stupid in lab, but it turns out I wasn't. My grad student (the one training me) was out sick on Thursday and Friday, and I sort of flailed about the lab in despair, but it turns out that all the stuff I did was right. I have to re-do one thing because my culture was undergrown when I transformed it, but beyond that I did everything right. I'm awfully proud of myself for sitting down and reading my lab notebook and figuring out what the hell I was doing all on my own.
Even if I did assemble the spectrophotometer backwards on Friday and spend an hour trying to figure out why I had -0.0007 DNA.

Anyway. Life is good. Or at least, life is much, much better.
Can't thank you guys enough for your support. You rock.

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P.S. I need new icons. I need winter icons and icons about friendship and icons about happiness and maybe a couple about sadness. Where are your favorite icon-getting places, besides obsessive_icons?

P.P.S. This article in the Harvard Crimson, about persuading Yalies to attend The Game next week despite the suckage that is the Harvard laundry list of restrictions for tailgating, is absolutely hilarious. Someone can write.