to go with the couscous, i have a new favourite sleepy song.
somewhere - vic chesnutt & liz durrett
ok.. now really time for bed.
31.1.06
sleepy food
as evidenced by my absence from internet-world, i am still spending approximately 80% of my waking hours in front of a microscope. thanks to my "careful" planning, i think i may actually have enough data collected to analyze for an abstract deadline coming up on friday. but by writing that i have probably jinxed myself. at this point, all my poor grad student soul can ask for is a phoenix of a result, to assemble and rise from the ashes of my endless boring days spent counting cells on a computer screen. remind self: i love science.
in the meantime, i just came up with the best bed time snack of 2006 so far. leftover couscous with apricots and almonds, reheated. drizzled with a little of the trial size bottle of San Giorgio Morgeto olive oil that was kindly given to me by one of the olive oil guys at the ottawa food & wine show when i told him i was a poor grad student and could tragically only afford low-medium grade olive oil. then a tiny pinch of kosher salt. mmmmm. this is the BEST olive oil i've ever tasted. i may not be lying if i told you i actually drank a tiny bit. hey, i can think of MUCH worse things to drink.
time for bed.
in the meantime, i just came up with the best bed time snack of 2006 so far. leftover couscous with apricots and almonds, reheated. drizzled with a little of the trial size bottle of San Giorgio Morgeto olive oil that was kindly given to me by one of the olive oil guys at the ottawa food & wine show when i told him i was a poor grad student and could tragically only afford low-medium grade olive oil. then a tiny pinch of kosher salt. mmmmm. this is the BEST olive oil i've ever tasted. i may not be lying if i told you i actually drank a tiny bit. hey, i can think of MUCH worse things to drink.
time for bed.
17.1.06
inspired by sounds of cell counting: a haiku
click click click click click
click click beep click click click click
click click oops undo
click click beep click click click click
click click oops undo
16.1.06
stereological irony
realized i haven't posted any top music picks since pre-India.
top 7 80's new wave revival songs for cell counting:
1. tribulations - LCD soundsystem
2. international dateline - ladytron
3. pleasure and pain - rinocerose
4. take me home - don juan dracula
5. when? (demo?) - stars
6. i am not surprised - the organ
7. white light generator - ladytron
the best part is that design-based stereology (i.e., the cell counting protocol i'm using in my current experiment) didn't become standard practice until the early to mid 90's. so, in implementing my 80's revival playlist, i'm putting myself ahead of my time. ha ha ha.
top 7 80's new wave revival songs for cell counting:
1. tribulations - LCD soundsystem
2. international dateline - ladytron
3. pleasure and pain - rinocerose
4. take me home - don juan dracula
5. when? (demo?) - stars
6. i am not surprised - the organ
7. white light generator - ladytron
the best part is that design-based stereology (i.e., the cell counting protocol i'm using in my current experiment) didn't become standard practice until the early to mid 90's. so, in implementing my 80's revival playlist, i'm putting myself ahead of my time. ha ha ha.
11.1.06
my year in cities
saw this on kottke.org, and wondered what my 2005 in cities would look like. hmmmmmmmmm.
Ottawa, ON*
Toronto, ON*
Boston, MA
Halifax, NS
Montreal, PQ
Washington, DC
Bangalore, India
wow. apart from the India bit, this is really not that exciting. goal for 2006: get to conferences in better places. apart from places i know that i will go (i.e., Whistler/Vancouver, BC and Atlanta, GA - wholehearted 'yippee' on that last one...) my goal is to finally get to New York and possibly get to Europe. the Paris is calling.
Ottawa, ON*
Toronto, ON*
Boston, MA
Halifax, NS
Montreal, PQ
Washington, DC
Bangalore, India
wow. apart from the India bit, this is really not that exciting. goal for 2006: get to conferences in better places. apart from places i know that i will go (i.e., Whistler/Vancouver, BC and Atlanta, GA - wholehearted 'yippee' on that last one...) my goal is to finally get to New York and possibly get to Europe. the Paris is calling.
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