be careful what you blog about

So everyone (and by everyone, I mean Hayley and Mom) were all up in my grill about postin' up (sounds way cooler than 'blogging', am I right?) I knew I should cause I've been having some glorious fun since January and I wanted you all to hear about it. But a girl's busy (I am in graduate school, ya know?). So the other day, I finally go to write about my good fortune and whatdayaknow; karma slaps me right in the face.

It was a Tuesday, which are mostly devoted to lab work and such. (Caution: nerd jargon ahead) I'd been waiting quite some time to have enough volume of my four new algae cultures to do a real filtration experiment. That day had come.

Meet my new friends Nannochloropsis, Skeletonema, and Dunaliella.

Spirulina and I don't get along so well.

I did all the filtrations, which I had expected to take at least a couple days in the lab, in just a few hours.

Skeletonema is my new favorite, in case you were wondering.

Great success. I could not be prouder of my day's productivity.

So I sit down to try and figure out what other work I could be doing with my unexpected free-afternoon time and I think to myself,

Why not just take a few minutes to start a blog post, ride my bike home in the nicest part of the day, and have some time to think about what I'll actually write. Then I'll still have a couple extra hours to finish the post and/or lay in a hammock before I have to start the other productive stuff I had already planned on doing this evening.

I'm stoked.

Yes! Great idea! I love being outside in the afternoon! 

So about this post... 

It seems fitting that I start by mentioning how the weather is showing signs of Spring on the horizon...

In the draft, I had a caption about how it's non-full-length pants season.

I dislike full-length pants. I am also anxiously awaiting sandal season.

And that's about where progress stopped. All I could think was...

Yup. Time to go home. So I packed up my backpack full of stuff, changed clothes, and loaded up to take my mass of shit (too many three inch books for a bikeride) to study-buddy extraordinaire's workjob, and he was just going to bring it when we did homework later. That way I wouldn't have to lug it all the way home on my bike.

Google tells me its a whopping 600 yards from the lab to Dan's  place of employment.

To make a short story that I really don't feel like telling shorter: I had way too much stuff to be riding up the big hill out of the parking lot. It didn't end well.

We're talkin' pretty steep here.

Approximately 100 yards into my journey...

Dammit.

I spent the remainder of the day and most of the following day whimpering.

Those productive things I thought I was doing later? None of them got done. In fact, the unproductivity extended into the next day when I took time in my first class to pretend to take notes while drawing the pictures above. And whimpered silently.

Now I want to tell you about all the stuff I started to in that post. But I'm pretty sure karma hates it when I brag-blog/blog-brag/blag/brog? So I'll be as brief as possible. 

The weather has been nice. I've been having fun. I am now the proud aunt of the cutest, squishiest human I know. This girl has skills, let me tell ya. She comes from good female stock, of course. 

Senorita Cheeks: Ms. Haven Lucille.

Kitty's been doing very well. She too is enjoying the weather. And has started dating a pair of Toms. She tells me they are very good to her.

I went to a concert in Asheville a couple weeks ago. The band, Lotus, I'd never heard of before, but let me tell you. Fun-plosion. I've never been to a show with so much groovin. Last time I danced that much was Memorial Day 2008. 


I cannot wait for this week to end. Oh geez.