I am taking a break from mind-numbing lecture review. There are eight days until the final, and after tomorrow night I will be about two lectures behind on reading and review. But some of this is really basic, so I can focus on the parts that are blatant and cruel memorization, more difficult material, or new to me. If I never hear another lecture about a restriction enzyme ever again, I'd be really okay with that. And apparently I have finally absorbed the fundamental rules of Hardy-effin'-Weinberg equilibrium. Application is still going to be an adventure, but that's why I put in a leave request for next Monday.

In the meantime, meme from twistedchick:


Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is futile." or "Resistance is useful."

• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions

( 1. You have been given unlimited travel money and a year away from any responsibilities. Where will you go? What will you do? (It can only be used for travel expenses.) )

So apparently I am answering meme questions instead of finishing my lecture review. Really, can there be a few hours more in the day? Just a couple? Please?

By six minutes and twenty-two seconds into the first episode of Leverage I was already a little in love with Parker and Alec. I know, you're all shocked.

This morning M. took a personal day - I renewed my vow to never date long distance before catching the late bus - and tonight I made pancakes, which we ate with M.'s vanilla soy ice cream and caramel topping. Except for the part where I didn't do a bit of laundry, or get any GRE studying accomplished, or pack my lunch, and stayed up past my bedtime, a successful evening.

Five words from charlie_ego: ( apocalypse, biology, cooking, graphics, Butler (the last is time-dependent... I just got a whole bunch of Octavia Butler books from the library and thought of you :) ) )

If anyone wants to play, the rules are out there.

Happy Monday morning! (Oh shoot, I'm late out the door!)

1.) If you saw me in the back of a police car, what crime would you assume I was accused of?

2.) The wishlist thing: I don't like it. I am picky, and like buying things that are exactly right. But this year, I will say: GIVE ME YOUR FILM.

You know you have old 35 mm film left over from the dark pre-digital days. Donate it to Project Retro! For your contribution, you get the warm and fuzzy feeling that you have Done Charity with something you weren't using anyway.

I also want peace on Earth and goodwill toward men, and maybe some fiction that is awesome. However, gender-bending intersectional postcolonial comedy with large explosions is, um, hard to come by.

3.) It's Christmas card time! Or maybe a nicely signed "my 2008 in 1 page or less" holiday letter. And me lousy at keeping my ADDRESSES.XLS file current.

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