So…what happened to Cheshire?

So…if you’ve been following this blog, you’ve probably noticed a distinct lack of posts. I wrote about this two posts ago, but I figured I’d share some details. For the past year, I’ve been trying to get into a graduate school. My grades are excellent-I’m one of the top in my class…it’s been a solid [...]

Random thoughts…

Cramming eight male ticks into a 1.5 milliliter vial filled mostly with cotton and sodium hydroxide is actually a bit harder than you think. It can be done, though. If you have a laptop, you can tell who the new employees are in the library with minimal difficulty. They’re the ones who go through your [...]

These are the guys I work with

Quite literally…every time I work, I deal with multiple references from this video. I usually tell them they can’t organize things by penis.

Who knew thumb-wrestling was dangerous?

Phalangeal fractures resulting from finger wrestling. Apparrently you can break your fingers thumbwrestling.

Completely random-cute animal Christmas song

Well, guys…it’s been fun but I’ve got to take a two week vacation

more music charts Pretty much true. I’m fine on the whole money thing, but I’ve got to keep my 4 point GPA. Sanity’s barely here as it is. Unfortunately, this means I’m going to be going on an administrative leave until finals are over. No fear, though…I still have a few canned posts I think [...]

OMG! Captian Planet did an episode on insecticide resistance!

Remember the old kid’s show Captian Planet? I got bored today during my O-chem lab time (I need my partner’s data…she’ll get there about 2:30 or so, hopefully) so I decided to look around on youtube. What did I find? An episode of Captian Planet which deals with insecticide resistance! Let’s see how accurate it [...]

Did you know ‘Tse-Tse fly’ is a tautology?

Yeah…talked to the medical entomology lady today. Learned something interesting about common names. In all the medical literature I’ve ever read, researchers refer to flies of the genus Glossina as tse-tse flies. Well…apparently Tse is swahili for fly. Which makes Tse-tse fly a tautology, apparrently. Weird.