soundtrak: coldplay: the hardest part
this week has been special, especially yesterday. i didn't have internet access for awhile (heavens forbid), but we just got it back this evening. it's been extremely humid (more than normal) for the past couple of days and the major thunderstorm last night really didn't help, but it did cut off power (and my la. add on top, i had complete insomnia last night and woke up majorly late this morning (everyone didn't even bother to wake me up). my sequences were sequenced today, so i didn't have much to do in the lab and left early, which was good because i was particularly restless today (heat, no sleep and no work will do that to you).
finally, bush is using his noggin and funding the malaria fight. quoted from linked article:
Because the disease is highly preventable, the money will pay for approaches such as providing insecticide-treated sleeping nets, encouraging greater use of insecticides indoors and financing a new generation of anti-malarial drugs.
ah, but you see, that's only part of the problem. giving money for new anti-malarials is all good and dandy (if the parasite doesn't gain resistance from those, we hope), but many of the people (i.e. children) that die from malaria don't have the money for the drugs. if a vaccine was avaliable, then all a child would have to do is recieve one treatment and be set for life. but of course, that wouldn't be cost affective for pharmie companies; they want to make money, not help people. in the end, it's always about the money. nice try bush, but try harder. the trick is to be affective.
dinner on sunday was interesting. (mr.) forrest is still the same old forrest, except with a wife and kid. it was me, Y, B and the mututal friend that we went out with last time, who i will call 'ana; we all went to high school together and had forrest for history.
we played catch up for awhile, talking about the time between junior year and now. forrest stayed at our school for about two years before he ventured out and travelled most of the world, expanding upon his political science career. we talked about other classmates; the ones we kept in touch with as well as the ones he kept in touch with (apparently, forrest ran into 'ana when she was living in brazil). it seems that all of my high school class works/lives/thrives in dupont circle, including forrest. i'm surprised i haven't been called out yet. i know it will come eventually.
we played with his daughter, who fell asleep on my chest (i mean what baby can resist 'the human pillow'; no, i didn't give myself that name). after dinner, we talked about what we remembered from history class, the state of secondary education in maryland, then and now, the political climate, the war, and a bit of science (for my sake, the only scientist). it was a very stimulating conversation than ran late into the night.
forrest mention how he still had the cards that he made us fill out on the first day of class, with our name, what we like at the time and the most important: where would we see ourselves in 10 years. the interesting thing was that he also made our parents fill out similar cards, asking what they would see their child doing in the next ten years.
"i think i can remember what your mom wrote," forrest remarked. when i mentioned it to her, she claimed she forgot, but i know she wrote down 'doctor'. i mean, come on, it's a given.
got good feedback from, at least, one of the labs that i emailed about a rotation. i don't know if i'll have things set up in the next two weeks, so i can finish up in the lab that i'm currently in and go on mini-vacation. if not, i just might take some time off anyways and visit mic before she goes off to her lab assignment for the summer (in the carribean; i'm jealous...).
no plans for the 4th, other than sleep. i was invited to this party, but the guy didn't give me directions. if he doesn't stop by the lab tomorrow, i'm not making the effort. i ain't all that pressed. and anyways, i can see the fireworks on pbs. sweet.
peace.
this week has been special, especially yesterday. i didn't have internet access for awhile (heavens forbid), but we just got it back this evening. it's been extremely humid (more than normal) for the past couple of days and the major thunderstorm last night really didn't help, but it did cut off power (and my la. add on top, i had complete insomnia last night and woke up majorly late this morning (everyone didn't even bother to wake me up). my sequences were sequenced today, so i didn't have much to do in the lab and left early, which was good because i was particularly restless today (heat, no sleep and no work will do that to you).
finally, bush is using his noggin and funding the malaria fight. quoted from linked article:
Because the disease is highly preventable, the money will pay for approaches such as providing insecticide-treated sleeping nets, encouraging greater use of insecticides indoors and financing a new generation of anti-malarial drugs.
ah, but you see, that's only part of the problem. giving money for new anti-malarials is all good and dandy (if the parasite doesn't gain resistance from those, we hope), but many of the people (i.e. children) that die from malaria don't have the money for the drugs. if a vaccine was avaliable, then all a child would have to do is recieve one treatment and be set for life. but of course, that wouldn't be cost affective for pharmie companies; they want to make money, not help people. in the end, it's always about the money. nice try bush, but try harder. the trick is to be affective.
dinner on sunday was interesting. (mr.) forrest is still the same old forrest, except with a wife and kid. it was me, Y, B and the mututal friend that we went out with last time, who i will call 'ana; we all went to high school together and had forrest for history.
we played catch up for awhile, talking about the time between junior year and now. forrest stayed at our school for about two years before he ventured out and travelled most of the world, expanding upon his political science career. we talked about other classmates; the ones we kept in touch with as well as the ones he kept in touch with (apparently, forrest ran into 'ana when she was living in brazil). it seems that all of my high school class works/lives/thrives in dupont circle, including forrest. i'm surprised i haven't been called out yet. i know it will come eventually.
we played with his daughter, who fell asleep on my chest (i mean what baby can resist 'the human pillow'; no, i didn't give myself that name). after dinner, we talked about what we remembered from history class, the state of secondary education in maryland, then and now, the political climate, the war, and a bit of science (for my sake, the only scientist). it was a very stimulating conversation than ran late into the night.
forrest mention how he still had the cards that he made us fill out on the first day of class, with our name, what we like at the time and the most important: where would we see ourselves in 10 years. the interesting thing was that he also made our parents fill out similar cards, asking what they would see their child doing in the next ten years.
"i think i can remember what your mom wrote," forrest remarked. when i mentioned it to her, she claimed she forgot, but i know she wrote down 'doctor'. i mean, come on, it's a given.
got good feedback from, at least, one of the labs that i emailed about a rotation. i don't know if i'll have things set up in the next two weeks, so i can finish up in the lab that i'm currently in and go on mini-vacation. if not, i just might take some time off anyways and visit mic before she goes off to her lab assignment for the summer (in the carribean; i'm jealous...).
no plans for the 4th, other than sleep. i was invited to this party, but the guy didn't give me directions. if he doesn't stop by the lab tomorrow, i'm not making the effort. i ain't all that pressed. and anyways, i can see the fireworks on pbs. sweet.
peace.
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