Another Hobby

Go Figure

2008-10-19T18:06:48Z

I go into the lab every weekend for cell culture. In the three months or so that I have been going in on the weekend I have not run into anyone because I go in so early. Today I was feeling lazy and desided to wait to shower and change clothes until after I got back from the lab. I had that wonderful freshly fucked look about me as I walked into the lab this morning. My naturally curly hair flying every which way, wearing the same clothes from the day before minus a bra, just the picture of beauty. Well, most of you should already see what happened next, I ran into like 6 people. Yeah, Monday's gonna be fun.

kiwichomper @ 2008-10-18T22:10:00

2008-10-19T03:47:17Z

This past week seems s surreal now that it is over. I survived my first test, a three hour long essay test written by four different professors. I have no idea how it went, I seem to have repressed those three hours of my life. The last thing I remember was my professor handing me the test, and the next thing I know I am sitting at the pub. Okay, so I exaggerate. At least it wasn't quite as bad as the serial killer mouse debacle.

As I was driving back from visiting my grandma today, it hit me that it is really Fall. The leaves are starting to change, it's cold enough at night that my two goldens want to curl up in bed with me for warmth (a sure fire sign that it is time to turn the heater on at night), and I find myself drawn more and more towards long sleeve shirts every morning. For some reason I responded to this realization by buying myself two dozen flowers and a pumpkin.

Cocoanuts

2008-09-13T03:43:54Z

I freaking LOVE working this show. Cocoanuts is an old Marks Bros. show, and every night I pick up on another joke. I was a little weird though sitting up in the catwalks updating my lab records while Harpo ran around whistling and humping people. Good times,good times.
The only problem is that every time I work a show I gain weight, after about my 5th free candy bar tonight I began to see why.

Old Meets New

2008-08-09T05:14:58Z

This weekend promises to be something worth remembering. Tonight I welcomed the newest member of the family, Calista Sue, into the world. She is surprisingly cute, but she does have a patch of overy pale odd looking skin on the top of her head, and she screams like a banshee. Tomorrow I am all set to sped the day with my paternal grand father who is in town for the next week. And to round off the weekend I am driving out to the country (the real country, we're talking corn and soy bean fields, and cattle) to visit my maternal gandfather.

Why is it that you can be excited to see your family and hope that they just hurry up and leave at the same time?

Writer's Block: What happened to you today?

2008-08-01T07:12:35Z

What happened to you today?

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I hate it when people ask me what I did today. Most of the time they don;t really want to know about any new experiments I started, experiments that failed, or even experiments that succeded. When I start talking about what I do, I see eyes glaze over in disintrest, and unabashed and almost frantic attempts to change the subject or run as far away from me as possible, It's not that I do anything bad, it'sjust that I am in love with a cold hard unforgiving subject. People ooh and ahh over how smart I must be to tackle my own personal purgatory. Science is cold and harsh and unforgiving of mistakes, but she is one sexy mystery to sit and poke at. How do you explain the rush of discovering a novel pathway, or finally understanding why an oncogene actually arrests cell proliferation when all other oncogenes accelerate cell proliferation? Science is the ultimate tease, she will give you just enough information to leave you panting but makes you work hard for her full story. Your baby can give you years of foreplay before finally surrenderig herself to you, but whenyou finally break her code, it is the sweetest feeling of triumph and you can't wait to do it again. So what do I do everyday? The simple answer is I'm a lab geek.

So...I'm a Dumbass...

2008-08-01T06:48:54Z

I have a meeting tomorrow with my major professor, the on that is sponsoring me and paying not only for my education but a small stipand as well. This meeting is to discuss my project and to review my lab notebook and by extention my work to date in the lab. I am bad about keeping my lab notebook up to date, I tend to write everything in my rough notebook instead. So a normal person would spend all night trying to update their official notebook, but I have never been accused of being normal. Nope, tonight I went out bar hopping with my cousin, and bitched out her friend that was trying to use my cousin to cheat on his girlfriend. Now that bars are closed, and I am not exactly sober, I am finishing my lab notebook. Tomorrows meeting should be interesting!

kiwichomper @ 2008-07-16T23:40:00

2008-07-17T04:43:59Z

Holy crapage, I start grad school tomorrow. Eeeep!

Whoops!

2008-05-26T03:03:41Z

So I worked both the afternoon and evening shift today at the playhouse. In the first show of the night we missed a cue and half the stage was missing for a good 15 pages. After that we tightened up and the rest of the show went well.
The afternoon show was just as bad. The turn table stalled right before a somewhat complex shift and the masking screen couldn't drop because the damn actors that were attempting to stall while we fixed the turn-table, kept standing right under the screen. When we finally got the stage moved and the screen down, we only had 45 seconds to make the shift. Welcome to live theater.

Shift Crew

2008-05-24T03:50:53Z

Cons:
No one knows/cares who we are
We have to watch the same play night after night for over a month
I have the sound track from South Pacific on repeat in my head
Splinters
Having to spend all night in the dark
SHHH!

Pros:
Who needs the gym?
Black is very slimming
An up close view of a certain DAMN SEXY actor that walks around either shirtless or unbuttoned all night
Lots of page breaks to stare and fantasize about a certain DAMN SEXY actor under the guise of watching for my cue

Must remember- NO LICKING the actor while he's on stage...no one said shift crew was gonna be easy

And the Bitch Award Goes to...

2008-05-10T03:15:26Z

This has been the week from hell. First off there is a girl at work that is a catty, passive aggressive bitch who is so very much out to get me fired. I find myself fantasizing about doing evil evil things to her. Unfortunately she is the darling of the office, excuse me while I puke.
In all fairness I too have been a bit bitchy this week, part of it is the fact that I am getting back-stabbed at work by little Miss Perfect, and part of it is I am sick. It's always fun when you have to puke in a cup because you are stuck in rush hour traffic when you get sick. I have found that red wine is my new favorite treatment for a stuffed up nose. It may not cure you, or even treat the symptom, but after a couple of glasses you just don't give a damn.

Rewards

2008-04-30T02:19:16Z

Yay! I have two new aquariums. A ten gallon full of goldfish, and a five gallon full of guppies. Yeah, that's right I go for the goldfish and the guppies; but who knows one day I may just come home with a molly or two.

All in all a wonderful reward for surviving 150 slide extractions, god only knows how many blood extractions, a bone marrow extraction, and last but not least ewey gooey cell pellet extractions. Damn I'm good at getting things to give up their DNA.

F**king Neighbors

2007-09-24T02:23:01Z

A while ago one of my neighbors asked if we could cut down our 100 year old blue spruce because his wife did not like looking out the window and seeing it. We basically said fuck off but in a much kinder way. The next week while we were all out he had tree cutter come in and started to strip all the branches from the side of the tree that was visible from their window. Thank God one of us came home early and stopped them before too much damage was done. They have since moved away.

Now, today I came home from running errands to see another one of my neighbors out cutting something down with a chainsaw. Well we have a very large and hilly yard with lots of plants and trees, so it wasn't until Guinness, my dog, ran down to the lower back barking his head off that I realized that the guy was in MY yard cutting down MY saplings without ever having asked for permission. The SOB didn't even look embarrassed that he got caught.

What is wrong with people! If these same people saw my dog stop to sniff something in their yard while we were on a walk they would be out there shooing us away, going on about keeping my dogs off their property, yet they have not qualms about jumping over a fence and hacking away at the trees growing in my yard without ever voicing any complaints or asking my permission.

What do people have against trees? If you ask me tress and bushes and flowers are a thing of beauty. I do not use fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides on my lawn. Because of this I have squirrels, birds, rabbits, all the neighbor animals run away to my yard. I have beautiful plants and beautiful grass. Yes we have bugs, but we have lightening bugs, and butterflies, and ladybugs. What is the point of living in a house with a huge yard if you kill off everything that makes it worthwhile. Who cares about a bug free lawn when it means that you never get to see butterflies are fireflies. WHo care about never having to go outside and pull weeds when it means all of your flowers are going to die as well. What has happened to our connection to nature? What has happened to the wonder and joy we used to experience when we went outside and chased lightening bugs around the yard? When was the last time your lawn was free of chemicals?

Yes I walk around outside barefoot, I take a blanket out on warm days and sit under a tree and nap, I stop and take notice off all the flowers that have finally bloomed, I see that the two burning bushes in my front yard have fruit on them, and I do go outside and play in the rain. Call me a tree hugger if you must, but ask yourself why loving nature is such a bad thing.

kiwichomper @ 2007-09-23T09:43:00

2007-09-23T14:56:36Z

I am a serious arachnophobe. Over the years I have been able to tone down my fear from hyperventilating to just being paranoid. I have a heightened "spider-sense" if you will. If there is a spider nearby I see it. Knowing this, you will understand why I am so proud of myself right now. THere are two spiders that have been living by my computer, one is a fairly large spider and the other is a very tiny spider. They have been here since May, and I have not tried to shoo them outside or gotten someone to kill them. I do glance over every few minutes to make sure they are not leaving their webs to come towards me, and if I see any movement in my peripheral vision I have a knee jerk reaction of oh-my-god-they-are-coming-for-me.

But I am well on my way to kicking my biggest fear! Next stop, World Domination!

Friday Night Fun

2007-09-16T22:33:29Z

Friday I got a call from one of my coworkers asking if I ended up with his hair-lamp and if so could I get it back to him sometime this weekend. Well we live about an hour apart and I really didn't want to make the drive, but it turned out that he was coming into town for the night to hang out with some of the other guys from work. Since I had nothing better to do I said I'd stop by and drop it off. I was not actually planning on staying the whole night, but once I got there the alcohol started flowing.

So after I crashed Boys Night at BWW three out of the four of us went over to 7 Monkeys and talked about decapitation and scraping people up off the road. Once all of that fun was over with the guys wanted to go out dancing. They both of course turned to me to ask where we should go. We ended up out at Rednecks (because one of the guys is a recovering Texan). So while Christian fell into a drunken slumber in the backseat of the car, the remaining two of us went dancing at the cowboy bar. After closing the place down, Chris drove us back to our cars. It was around this time that I realized that I lost my phone. So of course I started digging around in the still comatose Christian's pockets. Phone found I dragged my butt home only to be woken an hour later to drive my parents to the airport.

What I learned this weekend:
1) When you get a call from a co-worker telling you that there is a BWW on 144th and Center and to meet him there with his hair lamp, don't trust him
2) Don't try to call said co-worker back to ask for directions because his phone will be broken
3) When you finally find the BWW on 144th and L, do NOT take the long metal pole that holds the hair light into the bar
4) When one of the guys you"re with accidentally follows you into the girls room because they are too drunk to read the sign they are going to pass out in the backseat on the way to the next bar.
5) When you go out with a former Texan, you will end up two stepping by the end of the night.
6) Do not go out drinking when you have to drive people to the airport at three am the next morning.

Ahhh!

2007-09-14T02:33:38Z

The washing machine is spewing out water everywhere! No not just spewing, it is shooting out water projectiles...oh crap

YAY!

2007-09-07T20:15:26Z

So I got paid today, and it was way more than I expected it to be. SInce I have been so good lately I decided to reward myself with a new pair of shoes. It was a toss up between these two.

In the end I had to go with the cheeky cherries.

kiwichomper @ 2007-08-21T13:59:00

2007-08-21T19:01:37Z

Grrr, we just had our second power outage in as many weeks. But the storm that caused the latest one was really cool to watch.

Answers for eroticjames

1. Did you ever name the animals you knew were going to get e't things that indicated such? (you know calves named tenderloin and sirloin?)
Name? No. Nickname? Yes. A couple of examples are, one of the race horses that always lost...we called her Elmer, and calling any baby chicks McNuggets

2. Do you do logic problems for fun?
Yep.

3. Why is your favorite color, your favorite color?
It all started when I was still a contrary young lass in grade school. One of my friends asked me what my favorite color was. Now, I was a strange child, and the idea of having a favorite color had never occurred to me. Not knowing how to go about choosing a color that would from then on be known as my "favorite", so I asked my friend what her favorite color was. When she said blue, I immediately crossed it off my list of possibilities (I didn’t want to be a copy cat, you see). I also nixed any of the “girly” colors as well. In the end green managed to come out on top. Now when people ask me why green is my favorite color I just tell them that I like foliage, that way I get fewer strange looks.

4. What made you choose the college/university you're at?

The animal science program and scholarship money

5. Hawaii with a beach house and cabana boys, a penthouse suite in NYC and a no limit credit card, or a boat down the Amazson... which do you want to do more and why?

Boat down the Amazon. I have always been drawn to water. Combine that with my love of different cultures and a craving for new experiences, and a boat down the Amazon is me all the way.

And Life Just Happens...

2007-08-19T21:18:05Z

I was only planning on going out to listen to some music and talk with my friends. I was only going to have one or two beers. Some how though the night got away from me. Looking back it all started to go bad when Carry the owner/bar tender found out I liked Flogging Molly. That was when the free shots started coming and we all (bar owner included) headed out to either find a bar with a pole or a bar to sing in. When all was said and done I had five or six shots (it's a bit fuzzy) four beers, and ended up at a karaoke bar dancing with a short black man that was old enough to be my grandfather, named Big Al while we sang "I Did It My Way".

Ohohoh, Questions

2007-08-18T00:39:35Z

So cbpotts left me five questions as a get to know people game, so here are my answers:

1. Do you have any pets?
yep, 2 dogs (golden retrievers) and a tortoise

2. What do you do professionally?
Hum, right now I am a combination photographer and student (haha who would have thought that photography would actually pay the bills?)

3. If I, all of a sudden and unexpectedly, showed up at your house, what would I see?
Chaos--grass that is just shy of seeding, lots and lots of trees, flowers planted everywhere, me chasing around one crazy dog while the other more serious dog watches, a pitcher of sun tea sitting on the front porch right next to a very comfortable chair with the book I was reading right before the crazy dog opened the door and let himself outside

4. Boxers or briefs? (I had to ask someone that, I think it's a rule!)
Neither

5. What is your favorite thing in the world to do?
Wow, this is a hard one, I guess the answer would have to be dancing. So many of the things I love to do are "treats", but dancing is something I do at least two times a week and it never becomes routine and the excitement is always there

Feeling Hot and Sticky...

2007-08-12T06:40:45Z

Wow, if you have never been to an ex-stripper-come-pole-dancer's 45th b-day party you don't know what you're missing. We started out at a hot little blues bar (no seriously it was in the 90 and humid as fuck and they had NO AC) where we danced our asses off and got free shots for 1) knowing the band, 2) being the only people crazy enough to actually go to a bar to dance and drink when they have no AC. Then we went to the gay dance club down te street. All I can say is it is pretty damn hard for non-strippers to compete. Damn, by the end of the night I had danced off all the booze and I was soaked, but it felt so good and looked even better. Just for fun (taken from eroticjames )

Your Score: Bettie Page!

Our test has determined that you possess 40% Hellbentness, 42% Sanguinity, and 37% Creeps! Well done!

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kiwichomper @ 2007-08-09T21:57:00

2007-08-10T03:07:21Z

Today was 94 F and almost 100% humidity. I spent from 7am til 5 pm in an non-air conditioned and non-ventilated room with photography lights adding to the heat. So I was really surprised when I went to dance just how energetic I was. Instead of being drained I was energized. I did everything from bending myself in half backwards to climbing the pole, woohoo! Now though...the bed is calling.

kiwichomper @ 2007-08-07T20:53:00

2007-08-08T01:56:10Z

Why is it that I can set up and use multiple professional camera systems but I can not for the life of me fold up a collapsible cart?

Seriously?

2007-08-05T21:58:23Z

You scored as Faerie, Faerie: Aren't you a cute little flying person? Faeries are earth spirits. They live among each element completely hidden. They have cousins called Pixies. Pixies however, are very mischevious. They enjoy tormenting other creatures for fun. Little pranksters.. I hope you never meet one. Pixies have a bad reputation for finding a creature and clinging to them until death. Faeries can be somewhat close to a Pixie, but mostly they are loving, playful, and carry with them a child-like enthusiasm for life. Hide among the pedals of a Daisy, you are a Faerie.

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What defines a day?

2007-08-05T06:50:14Z

The day started out wonderfully. I woke up early with out an alarm, and had time to drink a cup of coffee and wake up before yoga. In yoga I had absolutely no balance or coordination. I won a five dollar gift certificate for answering questions about the ancient Greeks (I knew that minor in classical studies would come in handy at some point). Then my not-so-favorite person showed up and I got kicked off of my computer. Then the man hence forth known as @$$ told me that my youngest puppy ate my turtle (because he wanted to "get my attention") The people I was supposed to go out with didn't actually call me until reaaaaally late. A guy at the bar gave me a rose that smelled really good. I ran into a guy that I know and a girl that I am friends with. I danced and drank, and won one out of three games of pool (scratched on the break, hit the 8 ball in on my second shot).

In the grand scheme of things the good out numbers the bad, but the bad has a way of holding on to you and coating you with a clear slick anti-good varnish. My solution to this is aural bubble gum. because as we all know, gum sticks to almost anything.

so wrong...

2007-08-04T19:22:02Z

When I got to work yesterday I set my bags and my coffee down and went to help a fellow photographer carry her stuff inside. When we got all of the stuff inside and set up I went in search of my coffee. It was gone. I looked all over, I even went out to my car thinking that maybe I hallucinated bringing it inside. Right before they opened up the doors to let in the flood of people waiting outside I found my coffee cup sitting next to the sign-in table, EMPTY. The photographer in charge had dumped it out thinking that it was from the day before. There was great sadness throughout the land as I was sent out to be a cheery energetic photographer with absolutely no coffee in my system. Surprisingly everyone survived the day.