Monday, January 19, 2009

January the Eighteenth

*wakeup* (~8am)
Hot water heating
Morning baking
Relaxin'
Baked cinnamon apples with raisins, pecans, and vanilla ice cream
White vinegar soak
LS for Conviron check...
Patent Review polishing
Home for pizza
*crash* on the floor...
Back to Fenske
Rhodo sample transfer
Waterin' the plants; fixture musical chairs
Laser sales update; unpacking, testing, labeling...
Back to Garden House (~1:30am)
Major bathtub scrubbin'
Shower
Internets and Banana Bread
Eleven days of blog catch-up! (to 5:15am)
Grapes, soy milk, tortilla, cheese, black beans, green peppers, hot salsa, dill

What a week...

Planning for tomorrow (Monday):
  1. No classes! No classes usually for me, but everyone has off for MLK Day
  2. Rice wraps for lunch with Annette?
  3. Finish off Patent Review site; transfer to PASS space, set access controls
  4. Continue monitoring MR26 Rhodo
  5. Outline CERS paper

January the Seventeenth

*wakeup* (bed a while after midnight, up at 8!)
Conviron Fistfight, round one
Breakfast for lunch with Annette (pancake mass-production)
Bike with Annette to the library
Lab junk
Pilot Plant dH2O fiasco
Conviron Fistfight, round two
The rather magical Fifth Floor
Inside the ceiling...
Conviron Knockout
Bike down to Garden House
Dinner with Annette (Halogen Pizzas, with tomato, jalapeno, green pepper, and dill)
Intermittent unconsciousness...
*crash* (three points for the bed couch)

January the Sixteenth

*wakeup* (late morning)
Straight to the lab...
Rhodo Harvest Setup (rather rushed)
Tutoring (Chem 212)
Rhodo Harvest, cont. (includes MR26 cryo, inoculation)
ChE 340 Review Session (late)
Harvest completion; supernatant pH, flash-freeze
Very very short Fenske Couch nap
4.5lbs of Fenske kitchen pasta...
Dinner
Patent Website work
Back to the apartment....
Dinner II, music, relaxing
Daily Review
*crash*

January the Fifteenth

*wakeup* (on Fenske Couch, 1:30am!)
Fenske Kitchen dish clearout
ChE 340 Feedback Form creation and distribution
Trips back-and-forth, Garden House and Fenske
  • Food transfer...
  • Geobacter LCD dropoff
HD troubleshooting - dead! RMA!
BMB 474
ChE 597C
Apartment nap
Thursday afternoon tutoring (Phys 250)
Quick Redifer dinner with Annette
Labwork; more Rhodo
Apartment: dishes!, major cleanup
Dinner II
Music relaxing
Shower
*crash*

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