Friends and neighbors, lend me your ears. Well, your eyes, at any rate. You think I can’t hear you being all snarky? I can hear it loud and clear.

Life has been pretty decent the past few days, although I’m over this weather. On Thursday (I think) I wore shorts to work. Friday? Not so much. A record low, in fact, on Friday night. I’m sure that you in more northerly climes don’t want to hear me whine about it being below freezing tonight, but there you go.

The chickens, however, seem to love the cold weather. We’re not doing anything terribly exotic to keep them warm…we figure that since their breed was developed in New England, they can handle a cold night or two. We put up some barriers to cut down on the wind, but that’s about it. They seem happy, if their egg production is a valid readout. It seems like every time I open their door to make sure they have water, etc., there’s at least one more egg in the hay. Earlier today we had more than two dozen in the fridge, all laid within the last three weeks. We managed to foist a dozen off onto our friend who is giving us piano lessons, which leaves us with a far more manageable number. I mean, a dozen is three quiches. With two dozen, you’d better be eating eggs every day. Speaking of a quiche, I’m going to try to make a cauliflower dill quiche tomorrow for dinner. One of our cauliflower heads was ready to harvest today and my mother in law gave us some fantastic-smelling dill. I think that’ll be nice.

My piano lesson this week was okay. Not great, but certainly not terrible. I haven’t practiced enough the past two weeks and could feel it during the lesson. This week I get to start playing with my left hand, which should be particularly interesting. Just scales for the time being, but that’ll keep me occupied. I need to make sure I practice for at least a half hour every day.

So what else is going on? Work is decent ATM. My RT-PCR has (so far) been nicely reproducible, which makes me happy. I need to expand my experiments to some more tissues now, but it’s looking good so far.

That reminds me. Hey, Amanada? Ada? Are you reading this? Do you have any extra pups due to be born soon? I’ll try to remember to go wandering around tomorrow, in search of mice.

I’ve got about two weeks to finish collecting data before my month of presentations starts. In March, I think I have one presentation scheduled for each week. That should be fun. I’m scheduled to present at our group meeting on the 1st, have a committee meeting the week of the 12th, am presenting at the joint epigenetics lab meeting on the 19th, and am presenting at the Biochemistry journal club on the 27th. Fun. At least my talk should be well-rehearsed by the time I get to journal club, eh? :-D By the end of this week I want to be finished with the RT-PCR experiments and have a LM-PCR film that shows something. It doesn’t have to be completely clear or legible, but it should show something. I’m completely over these blank films.

I had something else I wanted to write about, but it has escaped my mind. Hopefully it wasn’t important. Heh. Of course it wasn’t important, it was for my blog. How important could it be? To bed, to bed…

But how can I go to bed when Keegan is so cute, curled up on my pillow? Naturally, it’s my pillow that he adores.

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  • Current mood: restless
  • Current music: Livin’ at the Corner of Dude and Catastrophe, MC Frontalot feat. Brad Sucks
  • Current drink: Sam Adams seasonal white ale