My cousin just posted a picture captioned “my first night with my son” and it’s him and a little tiny baby and his friends are all like “aww” and my family is all posting “WHAAAAT?”  Like…. WHERE DID YOU GET A CHILD?

naturalshocks:

You want screwdrivers? Have some screwdrivers. 

Graphite pencils and fineliners on A4 tinted paper.

clumsyoctopus:

flower language has always been an intense source of disappointment for me

like, they all mean really generic things like “love” or “forever” or “i’m sorry” 

i thought you could combine flowers

like you could just send someone a bouquet and from the combination of hibiscus and posies and tulips they’d understand “the rebel leader is dead, rendezvous at the docks at 8, bring the dog, you will need lighter fluid and  a large tomato”

You have underestimated the power of the language of flowers.  I would recommend using a series of bouquets though instead of a single one.

The rebel leader is dead.

• Lobelia (malevolence) for enemy—I assume the rebels are the enemy here
• Thistle (nobility) for leader
• Black rose (death)

Rendezvous at the docks at 8

• Lemon blossom (discretion)
• Magnolia (love of nature) for outdoors,
• Oat (music) to represent octaves and the number 8

Bring the dog

• Arborvitae (everlasting friendship) for man’s best friend
• Straw (unity) for bringing things together

You will need lighter fluid and a large tomato

• Light pink rose (desire) for wanting something,
• Laurestine (a token) for bringing actual objects
• Azalea (passion and caution) for fire/lighter fluid
• Nightshade to represent tomato (not a flower meaning, but tomatoes are related to nightshade)

mymindpalaceisatardis:

DID THAT KITTEH JUST 

JUST HUG IT’S HEAD 

BECAUSE YOU PETTED IT’S TUMMY 

WHAT AN ADORABLE KITTEH

Comp paper to-do 

Sections I still need to flesh out in my introduction:

• Mitochondrial dysfunction (1 paragraph)
• Melatonin drug (few sentences)
• Melatonin receptors (2-4 paragraphs)
• MT transgenic mice (3 paragraphs?  Maybe?)
• Project introduction (1 paragraph)

Sections I need to revise based on committee comments:

• Methods - add specifics about equipment and reagents, add portion about melatonin assay
• Aims - add details about caspases

Stuff I need to add to the results section:

• Aim 1 behavior results
• Current aim 2  results
• Aim 1 brain weights

Other to do

• References
• Come up with a title

I have 4 committee members: my PI, two graduate faculty from my home department (one who was chair of my qualifying committee, one who I’ve pretty much spoken to twice ever), and then Diane.  Diane works for my boss and manages daily functions of the lab, but also runs her own small (2 person) lab that does stem cell research.  She is faculty but not graduate faculty.

And of all the people, she is absolutely THE MOST HELPFUL PERSON.  She is always willing to talk to me about my project, my writing, my proposal.  She’s helpful when I have personal (or rather personnel) issues in the lab.  She replies to my e-mails pretty much instantly with thoughtful and useful feedback.  (My PI replies to e-mails rarely and if he does, they are, in their entirety, two letters: “ok”.)

And look I’m just really really happy about Diane, okay.

siricerasi:

Adam Copeland, Eric Balfour & Lucas Bryant: Magazine Edition

Haven filming: Day 7

Got my first feedback from a committee member about the bits I sent out Friday.  Woo!  Also, she generally thought it was fine and was more interested in a tangential bit of the project (side data I will need to validate the main data).  Good good.

Student health has agreed to refill my birth control prescription even though I don’t qualify right now for student health coverage because I’m not registered for classes yet.  I explained the deal to them (I won’t be registered until my comprehensive is over, in 2 weeks, so I can’t come in yet), BUT I am completely out of packs, and they agreed to refill me with a three month set so I can come in when I can once I get my registration sorted out.

Thank you for actually acting like human beings.  I appreciate it.

whedonesque:

The last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired ten years ago today on May 20th, 2003

amanda-gayfried:

nextyearsgirl:

scienceing:

One half of the humans are female, so one half of the scientists should be female.

- Bill Nye at the Storytelling of Science at ASU

Dawkins looks so disgusted

Probably trapped in a traumatic flashback of being oppressed by women and religious minorities

I feel like the Sims is lying to me…

hardlyalec:

Favourite New Who stories ♦ 1/? ♦ Midnight

Now, listen, all of you. For all we know that’s a brand new life form over there. And if it’s come inside to discover us, than what’s it found? This little bunch of humans, what d’you amount to? A murder? Cos this is where you decide. You decide who you are. Could you actually murder her? Any of you? Really? Or are you better than that?

transqueery:

(Reuters) - A South Carolina couple sued doctors and state social workers on Tuesday for subjecting a 16-month-old child born with both male and female genitalia to what they say was medically unnecessary and irreversible sex-assignment surgery while the toddler was in foster care.

The state and…

I just don’t want to write anymore, okay?  I mean I have the material, and actually have a good deal of the parts written separately, but I have to string them together and make them English good and no.