Going on my second trip of the summer, tomorrow at 5am is when I leave.

Why is anyone awake at that time? Especially pilots? That's just wrong.

Snowbird, Utah - Botany & Mycology 2009 conference here I come! I hear there will be booze?


...glad I'm missing the Heat Wave coming here in the Seattle area...have fun suckers!

So, July 13th - a day after my birthday, by the way - I go to Corvallis, Oregon.  This is for an undefined amount of time, but I have go to Pullman for a week or so, then be back in Seattle by the 22nd, to go to Snowbird, Utah for five days.  Then, back to Seattle to go to Pullman, until the end of September.  At that time, back to Seattle, where I have to find a place to live and start school within a few days.  Yay!

This can also be described as such:  USDA ARS lab specializing in DNA sequencing technologies (Corvalis) -> USDA ARS lab specializing in wheat pathogens (Pullman) -> Botany and Mycology 2009 conference, where I present my work with penicillium phylogony (Snowbird, Utah) -> UW orientation (Seattle) -> USDA ARS lab in Pullman again to work for around 9 weeks.

Then, I start my Junior year at UW...in nothing at all related in all this previously mentioned stuff. 

I'm required to take pictures...so, I'm sure all of you will love to see my pictures of a Mass-Spec or a pyrosequencing machine.

If anyone wants some Chad-time, do it soon!  Also, feel free to help me pack and move all my stuff out of this house in ten days.

Can you get sick for only an hour?  

Anyone ever heard of this?

http://www.ptk.org/

I'm a UW student. Just got accepted, woooooooo!



...not like it was hard, but yay!

Poop.

So, I'm technically done with my first degree. I know, I know, AA - big woop. It only took me 10 years and a lot of screwing around/money. Finished with a 3.0, which is great considering that less than a year ago I had a 1.12GPA.

I still have to finish my final Organic Chem class next quarter - but, that'll be easy *guh* Don't take a year off from something like OChem, just an FYI.

Hopefully, UW gets back to me soon so I know if I need to plan on starting my Biochem, Cellular Biology, and Genetics in Fall. I'll have to put off applying for Neuroscience another year, 3.0GPA isn't good enough to get in.

This Summer I can have an internship at WSU working in one of their labs. I'm not 100% I want to do this, but it'll be good for my CV - once I ever need to get one of those. It's not really related to what I want to do, but I'm good at what they'll have me do. Six weeks, paid, with free room (not sure about foodage, however.)

Get to be part of an exciting grant project - assuming it all works out - that'll bring some much needed repairs to my precious Scanning Electron Microscope...and maybe allow me to do critical-point freezing to work on squishy stuff. I'll get to write some cool software and digitize/categorize over 2000 samples/data for many fungi. Woot to that, I'd like that to turn into a job, but that will be up to the PI.


I believe that is all for school stuff, pssh, like you cared. :Þ

Off to my interview at Valve, wish me luck...or hate, depending on our circumstances.

So, I have a bad habit of giving myself new projects that never get finished. If I'm lucky enough to even start them, however, I learn a hell of a lot. Breeding clocks? Learned a lot, never finished it. I got to it telling seconds and stopped working on the algorithm. SQL File system? No way I'd show that to anyone, but learned a lot. Hard drive that is mapped to the running processes on your PC? Done, not finished, but done and learneded.

I love brains and senses, and have been spending tons of time with psych books, research papers (I love UW internet journal access) - of course, wikipedia - reading up on how the brain works, as we know it today. Main focus on visual cortex...

So, new project! Of which, if you spend any time around me, you will hear me talk about a lot, neural network of neural networks, which will try and mimic the visual cortex. This will tie into the 3d memory system I've started on.

Hey, I can make clocks breed, I should be able to make an object go "ping!" when a certain integer goes in, right?

I'm wasting time until 5:30, where I can go home and not waste time at work.

Now, can someone tell me what this means? I recognize one thing in it...

Mori: Obama is dreamy.






stolen from Venger