Guts and gory
Accupuncture, Holistic Medicine, Biofeedback...it's just going right in and back out again. Whoosh! The sound of information flying thru the brainspace. I'm typing from the luxury of my women's health class and am BORED TO DEATH...or at least, to the point of blogging. So,
This week? In one word, BUSY.
Next week? BUSIER.
The end of the quarter just sort of jumped up and happened when I wasn't looking. I suppose most of this is because I've been spending so much time at lab lately. Matt (Conti lab tech) and I have been trying to figure out how to make the stupid mouse BP machine give us good data. We were scheduled for the MRI on Monday and Tuesday, and that tends to suck up a lot of time. Rani and Jim have both been working on figuring out how to insert the catheter for PV-loops as of late...and many a mouse funeral has resulted. Kind of gross, with their guts spilling out and the blood (and slight smell). It can get quite gory. I think I might be doing that stuff sometime this summer (maybe?).
Good news:
1. Last week, Drew (the PI) told me about an upcoming Stanford Dept of Anesthesia dinner, at which there are poster presentations and a few oral ones. Subsequently, I was working like mad on an abstract he wanted us to submit (due today, but I sent it to him Monday to look over). I feel bad- I'm not sure how good a job I did on the paper (practice makes perfect?) but the good news is...I'm first author! Wow! Not sure this is deserved though...I feel bad because it really is a group effort and Matt puts so much time into the project.
2. URP gave me partial funding!
3. Drew is giving me more funding, that will totally cover my stay on campus this summer!
How AWESOME is my lab?
Very.
More good news: SRC in-house draw results= I get a single! Weird coincidence too, the room I'm going to be in at Lantana is currently occupied by a friend of mine, none other than Christina Chang! Yowsers. Twilight zone-esque.
What else is going? Biking wound is healed and not disgusting anymore. Need to work on 3 projects/papers for PHE (peer health educator) class, 1 big research paper for women's health class, 1 final on human nutrition (and a quiz tomorrow), 1 cultural psych final, 1 paper for ions class, 1 HUGE quiz for ions class, and...that's all folks.
June 4th is coming up and I'm getting nervous about PFC's women's clinic speaker (from American Cancer Society). She's going to speak in Vietnamese about her experience as a breast cancer survivor and Gigi (one of the managers) and I are working on advertising.
Hey!!!!! I utterly and completely forgot to talk about how senior formal went!
It was fantastic! Really fun (er...excepting a bit of Asian flush) and the SYBC (??whatever the baseball stadium in SF is) Park location was perfect! There was an area where you could go out and sit on the stadium seats, a very long corrider, different music playing at different spots, a dancefloor, and very nice view of the golden gate bridge. I went with Morgan and his friends to eat dinner at this really good (and reasonably priced) Indian food place called "Naan n' Curry" beforehand. After it, Morgan and I went to Safeway and got ice cream :) Really random food that day.
Speaking of which, have been quite busy and haven't seen him in days! :( Thank goodness for AIM...?
Not much else going on. I'd better stop messing around and start pretending to listen in class...now that it's almost over. Other highlights of this week:
1. Going running around Lake Lag is quite pleasant, but perhaps not best done in the heat of day...unless one wants to be baked by the California sun
2. Doctor Who- the old shows were terrible, but the new ones ROCK! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/)
3. I still need sleep.
4. Taking staff photos for the frosh facebook (for Okada) and we've decided on Willy Wokada and the Chocolate factory! Yippee! However, dressing up in costume for said photo? Difficult. Only thing fitting in my wardrobe is a grandpa Joe costume...don't ask :)
Adieu, m'dears!
This week? In one word, BUSY.
Next week? BUSIER.
The end of the quarter just sort of jumped up and happened when I wasn't looking. I suppose most of this is because I've been spending so much time at lab lately. Matt (Conti lab tech) and I have been trying to figure out how to make the stupid mouse BP machine give us good data. We were scheduled for the MRI on Monday and Tuesday, and that tends to suck up a lot of time. Rani and Jim have both been working on figuring out how to insert the catheter for PV-loops as of late...and many a mouse funeral has resulted. Kind of gross, with their guts spilling out and the blood (and slight smell). It can get quite gory. I think I might be doing that stuff sometime this summer (maybe?).
Good news:
1. Last week, Drew (the PI) told me about an upcoming Stanford Dept of Anesthesia dinner, at which there are poster presentations and a few oral ones. Subsequently, I was working like mad on an abstract he wanted us to submit (due today, but I sent it to him Monday to look over). I feel bad- I'm not sure how good a job I did on the paper (practice makes perfect?) but the good news is...I'm first author! Wow! Not sure this is deserved though...I feel bad because it really is a group effort and Matt puts so much time into the project.
2. URP gave me partial funding!
3. Drew is giving me more funding, that will totally cover my stay on campus this summer!
How AWESOME is my lab?
Very.
More good news: SRC in-house draw results= I get a single! Weird coincidence too, the room I'm going to be in at Lantana is currently occupied by a friend of mine, none other than Christina Chang! Yowsers. Twilight zone-esque.
What else is going? Biking wound is healed and not disgusting anymore. Need to work on 3 projects/papers for PHE (peer health educator) class, 1 big research paper for women's health class, 1 final on human nutrition (and a quiz tomorrow), 1 cultural psych final, 1 paper for ions class, 1 HUGE quiz for ions class, and...that's all folks.
June 4th is coming up and I'm getting nervous about PFC's women's clinic speaker (from American Cancer Society). She's going to speak in Vietnamese about her experience as a breast cancer survivor and Gigi (one of the managers) and I are working on advertising.
Hey!!!!! I utterly and completely forgot to talk about how senior formal went!
It was fantastic! Really fun (er...excepting a bit of Asian flush) and the SYBC (??whatever the baseball stadium in SF is) Park location was perfect! There was an area where you could go out and sit on the stadium seats, a very long corrider, different music playing at different spots, a dancefloor, and very nice view of the golden gate bridge. I went with Morgan and his friends to eat dinner at this really good (and reasonably priced) Indian food place called "Naan n' Curry" beforehand. After it, Morgan and I went to Safeway and got ice cream :) Really random food that day.
Speaking of which, have been quite busy and haven't seen him in days! :( Thank goodness for AIM...?
Not much else going on. I'd better stop messing around and start pretending to listen in class...now that it's almost over. Other highlights of this week:
1. Going running around Lake Lag is quite pleasant, but perhaps not best done in the heat of day...unless one wants to be baked by the California sun
2. Doctor Who- the old shows were terrible, but the new ones ROCK! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/)
3. I still need sleep.
4. Taking staff photos for the frosh facebook (for Okada) and we've decided on Willy Wokada and the Chocolate factory! Yippee! However, dressing up in costume for said photo? Difficult. Only thing fitting in my wardrobe is a grandpa Joe costume...don't ask :)
Adieu, m'dears!
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