Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Filamentous Tangles of Tubulin


Been a while, eh?  It gets tough to write every day when things get busy.  And things HAVE been busy!  I've been working a lot at the museum, doing a lot with Tarantino, working towards this team at the playground, taking classes, doing my internship, planning my trip back to MN for a bit.  It's getting pretty exhausting!  By the end of the day the last thing I want to do is sit down and write a blog that I'm sure no one reads but me (and all I ever end up doing is going over it thinking how I could have written it better).  Add to that trying to have a social life and I've got a full plate.  I've been writing a two woman sketch show with my friend MaryCait and we meet tomorrow night which is exciting!  We need to send out our submissions by tomorrow so they get back on time to MN for MN fringe festival so I think I'll do that tomorrow night as well.  If we get in, then I'll be back in MN for a lot of this summer.  That'd be great.  I miss people in MPLS and I'm excited to be back.  I really feel too that I need to start traveling more.  I'm catching a really bad travel bug.  If I could find a job that sends me around the country, that would be ideal.  I'd love to get paid either to travel, or to do something that allows me to travel while I do it, like writing or painting or photography or math.  If someone paid me a ton of money just to do their taxes yearround I'd do it if I was getting paid enough to travel.  A couple science tidbits for you:  Bees can understand the numbers 1-3.  That's not many numbers, but when you're a bee, I suppose you probably can only visit two or three flowers before you're overloaded with pollen and need to drop off your shit to the hive.  One through three is all you'd need.  Also, the science news website is a little ridiculous sometimes.  Sometimes the news stories are great and profound but today one of them was about how when cells get old they let in the "bad stuff".  Duh.  That's why old people end up in hospitals and retirement homes.  Because they're weaker.  Their cells weaken, allowing for easier disease transmission.  Come on!  Science news, you can look at the big picture and figure that one out, I'd like you to put more interesting articles up please.  You know, the kind that make me go "what?!  Wait a minute...I want to read the rest of that article because I'm sure you explain how that works..."               Thank you all for reading my evening rant....I'll write tomorrow morning!          

Hope you have a great eve   


Lis

1 comment:

Improvised For Life said...

I read!


Also, there hasnt been an article on science new yet, but I heard on NPR that climate change is irreversible. Or so some lady says. It's pretty much because the ocean is soaking up all our C02 - like a good ocean would - and that means soaking up heat. So the ocean is getting us by, but even if we stop our shit and cool the earth, the CO2 will come out of the ocean, and all the heat with it. Bad ocean!