Monday, January 19, 2009

January the Fourteenth

Extraordinarily early-morning Fenske/LS visit (Conviron shift)
*CRASH* (all frickin' day)
Snow biking to Boucke
ChE 340, Section 2
Fenske; Amalie's laptop RAM research
Patent Review site construction
Unplanned Fenske *crash* (~10pm)

November the Thirteenth

Impossibly early morning planning...
90-minute nap
More Rhodo harvesting, corn shift...
Ultra-fast Garden House shower
Tutoring! (Chem 212)
Class! (first classes of the year)
  • BMB 474
  • ChE 597C
  • BMB 402... not!
Redifer lunch in the lab office
And the sink became a pond....
Lab maintenance with Sydney (pipette tips, glass pipette fun)
Twenty-minute nap...
KnowHow, but Phys 250 tutoring is cancelled
*crash* (90 minutes, spread-eagle on the big conference room table)
Back to Fenske....
Wegmans shopping with Ben and Annette
MORE Rhodo Harvesting
46 with Annette
Back to the apartment...
MASSIVE comm restructuring: email redux, new AIM...
Shower
Buddy List cleanup
All-nighter #...?

November the Twelvth

Finishing up ANOTHER lab overnight...
Mom NSF stuff dropoff
Breakfast @ Garden House
*crash*
Annette stops by with Subway
Trek back up to Food Science...
Fenske: Amalie, ChE 340, and Patent Review work
ChE 340 (x2), Take One
Rhodo Sampling
Karmaa going-away dinner with Annette, Ben, Bryan
Apartment tea
Back to Fenske....
Keycard pickup from Ben
Rhodo Sampling (midnight)
All-night Rhodo

November the Eleventh

Rhodo Experimental Design
KnowHow emails
EOW Submission
Algae and Corn... Conviron shift
Rhodo sampling
Back to the apartment...
*crash* (early afternoon, until 6am!)
Shower
Dinner with Annette (spaghetti and stir fry)
Banana bread!
Late-night banana bread with Ben and Annette
Midnight return to Fenske
Lab form standardization
Google Docs, Sites cleanup
Rhodo Update email
Serious 'Team Rhodobacter' overhaul

January the Tenth

*wakeup* (2pm!)
Patent website development
Banana bread planning with Annette
Pizza experiment #2
Workout >> Shower
Annette visits (8pm; wrap leftovers for dinner)
Nap
Disturbing YouTube Videos: child beauty pageants
Annette dropoff
Bike to Fenske
Experimental Planning
Weekly Review
Experimental Execution All-Nighter

January the Ninth

*wakeup* (10:30)
ARPM tour (11:00)
Salvage pickup with Brian and Galen (also got an HDPE trashcan and a table)
Met Annette at Garden House...
Lunch with Annette; walk to Food Science
Lab: Rhodo dilutions
Textbook dropoff in 46
Long day in the lab...
Bike to meet Annette en route (10:45pm)
Midnight dinner (tortillas, cheese, salsa, brown rice, sauteed vegetables, avocado...)
Pizza experiment in the halogen oven (delicious, if messy)
Late-night Annette delivery
3am snowstorm bike ride
*crash* (5am)

Thursday, January 8, 2009

January the Eighth

*wakeup* (7:30am)
Walk with Annette
Workout
Shower
Daily Review + V8
ARPM tour setup
Lunch with Bryan and Annette (pasta, potato wedges, soup, toasted cheese sandwiches...)
Lunch cleanup
Salvage with Brian (~4pm; picked up a huge tackboard)
Goodwill and RX with Brian
Dinner with Annette
Gattaca (take two)
Walk back...
*crash*