Your mind gets burned / With the habits you've learned

[ase]

First post from the new place, yay! I now have one box and random bags moved.

Other than forgetting my lunch - again - and some unfortunate spillage cleanup at work, and the part where I skipped lunch and still got out late, today was pretty awesome. Okay, maybe the awesome part was ordering at Panera, and having the cashier say, "would you like the pick two? A drink? A baguette?" and saying, "yes, yes, yes" when what I really meant was, "give me the whole menu, please. And the stuff they're serving next door, too! Food! Nom nom nom!"

Between my adventures in driving and the moving drama, this pay period is a lost cause.

Comments

[toraks.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Glad to hear you found a new place. Sorry for the moving drama, driving not going well? Or just practicing a lot?

I probably haven't told you, but I finally passed my UK drivers' test. Yay! Just took FOUR effing times... But it's done. I'm official. Now I just need to figure out how to move home so I don't need it anymore. :-S It's becoming more and more clear to me that I really need to move back to the US. Oh well. Someday perhaps!

Anyway, congratulations on getting wired in your new place! Maybe I'll be on more, but probably not. It never works out that I have enough time!

[ase.livejournal.com]

Good to hear from you! If you're not on more, I'll just have to pester you in email more often. :-)

The "moving drama" is me trying to pack up and relocate while house-sitting. I managed to spread my worldly goods across three domiciles and 20 miles! Go me!

Also, GO YOU for passing the UK driving test. We will not discuss how many times I took the US Maryland test before I passed. I would have absolutely no problems with you coming back to the US. Apply to NIH! Let me try to hook you up at work! I don't think we're doing tests for mtDNA diseases, but you never know what R&D's doing, a whole lab away!

[toraks.livejournal.com]

Hee hee, feel free to pester by email. I won't consider it such, and my response rate does tend to be better by personal email. Not necessarily much, but some! ;-p

see ya 'round! (note, this does now constitute being online more... ;-p )

[toraks.livejournal.com]

And yeah, once I get a publication or maybe two or hopefully more (and perhaps another child), applications to the world (well, immediately local and the whole of the US of A) will go out! Plus, any and all people I know who have any connections in science will be utilized (mostly, I'll contact any prof. I knew and knew me as an undergrad or grad -- hey, I knew a lot of people!! ;-p )

I might apply to the NIH or ask you about hoooking me up. But, I tend toward typical academia in my plan for my future. Just want a completely stressful life competing for grant-funding and banging my head over tenure in a tenure-track position. What can I say... I'm crazy.

[ase.livejournal.com]

Email, right. Gotta try that some time!

Good luck getting the publications out. Your academic connections are probably going to be of more use than my academic/industry connections, but I'll do my best to hook you up at the U of MD if I can. Academia has its benefits, tenure wackiness and all. Or possibly I just have warm feelings toward a place that made it my job to suck up knowledge like a Hoover. :-)

[toraks.livejournal.com]

I do really really love academia. I hate that my work is not getting me lots of papers -- the only real currency in academia. Ah well, we'll see how it plays out! I'm convincing myself that maybe staying home and being a mom for a couple of years may not be the worst thing in the world. ;-p

[yi-sen.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the new place!

[ase.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[emily-goddess.livejournal.com]

Hi. I saw one of your icons out in LJ land and, reading your profile, you seem like a cool person (your description sounds just like me: bad biology in sci-fi makes me sad). Can I friend you, oh pretty please? Or at least use your "evolution is just a theory" icon?

[ase.livejournal.com]

Hi! Friend at will. I don't go in for reciprocal friending (which may explain why I'm always puzzled by people asking, "can I friend your public blog?") but always like to see people commenting. Go ahead and use the evolution icon, just remember to credit. Enjoy!