Always ask the good questions.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratulations to Bebo for being awarded one of only three prestegious Molecular Biology Training Grants!!!
You go Bebo!

Lazy Day in the Lab

Alison at St. Mary's Glacier
So today my big goal is to finish writing my CRI grant application. This would get me $25,000 for next year which actually wouldn't mean much for me but would make my boss really happy. I wouldn't even get a raise but then I can put it on my resume. Isnt' that better anyway? I would get to go to NY again for the Cancer Vaccines Conference and I really want to go to that--especially if we can score some Daily Show tickets!

Monday night I went camping with my lab. I brought Bebo along and he went fishing. Ritsuko, a post-doc, and I were in charge of dinner. I brought brats and buns and condiments. Ritsuko brought baked potatoes, corn on the cob, grilled vegetables (paprika, onions, peppers, and sliced hot dogs), potatoe salad, Inari-sushi (home made & crazy good!), sweet bread, and octopus mushrooms. I haven't downloaded the pictures of our hike up the mountain yet so I'll fill you in on that later.

Yesterday I bought some shelves and a peg board for all my tools. Then I cleaned the basement. You wouldn't believe the difference! I'm pumping myself up to drywall one of the rooms so now that everything is clean I don't have any more excuses not to just do it. Watch out! That's Melanie with a nail gun!!!!

Meeeeegggaaaaaannnn!!!!!

AAAAAaaaAAAHAHhahhhh! You are driving me crazy! You are a POOPer! You will not call me back and now I'm supposed to be leaving to climb a 14er with you and you are not even in COLORADO! Should I go anyway? or should I stay here in case you get a new flight and I need to come pick you up at the airport? What is going on?????????????

Happy Birthday to Aidan!

To my favorite brown eye-ed nephew--

I would like to wish you the best 3 year anniversary of your day of birth EVER!! I hope it brought all the joy and excitement of the original celebration! Cheers to you!

-Your loving Auntie who misses you tons and acres!!
Auntie Melanie

HaCkER!

I have succeeded in screwing up everyone's links so they now come to my blog!!!! (evil tone..) HA, ha, ha! Computer illiteracy strikes again!

Cutest!

2nd Post

OK, so I'm at work on my lunch break. Just read my last post and I sound 14 ("stuff and things and stuff"). I think I heard somewhere that details are what make writing interesting so maybe I'll try and add some of those. Last night me and Bebo and Haggard played a little 3-handed euchre and I womped them! Bebo was in the negatives for the entire last game. That's always fun. I made goulash. We're tyring to cook all the food in the house to save some cash. The night before I made yummy yummy pork-chops and the night before that Bebo made that chicken that mom made last time she was out here. We really need to skimp of the spending since I only have one roommate for next year (Rhea my friend in the micro deparment). I'm excited for her to move in Aug 1st. She has a kitty named Dakota. I always want to call her Alabama. Bryan and Jeff are moving out which is fairly depressing. They're moving in with a work friend out to Wash Park--the "cool" nieghborhood for young, popular adults. I'll miss them cause I know we won't see eachother half as much as we do now. Lunch break is over so I'm off to mutate some DNA!

Busy Bee

I have been busy lately with things and more things. We had our 21st Annual National MD/PhD Student Conference on Kara's Birthday weekend (Happy B-day to the biggest sis). Largest turnout ever with 280 registered attendees. It was a hit! I'm still getting compliments. Once I got back from Keystone Alison came to visit and we went to the Stampede, played euchre, went to the Art Fair in Boulder, Went hiking up to St. Mary's Glacier, went fly-fishing, had a fish-fry, saw Pirates of the Carribean II, hiked at the flatirons, and stuff. It was so great to have her in town, I wish she lived out here! Megan is coming to visit next. We're going camping with my lab and hiking a 14er. Then Mom and Randy are coming out for a week. I have lots of visitors planned. As soon as I get a chance I'm going to Roanoke to visit.

Work has been going pretty well. I've been so busy with other things but seem to be getting things accomplished anyway. I have a rotation student which helps. I need to register for the Immunology retreat in Breckinridge and write a grant application but other than that I've been chuggin away trying to get some clones so I can get my vaccine made. I'm having peptides made now so that we can immunize with those until the vaccine is made. Hopefully I can get some results by the time I need to turn in my grant application.

That was a quick catch-up. Next time I'll try and make it more interesting or possibly even funny.