This was Daniel's comment about the debate last night, and I am highly amused!

Its been a full two weeks since I last posted, and I can't remember all the details to put them here, but I will fill you in on some of the more memorable things I've been up to. First off, Bill has me working once again on staining adult ascidian tissue with antibodies to see if we can stain some of the nerves. This is a "project" that we've been working on for about a year now, and things come in bits and pieces. The procedure takes me 3 days. Right now, I'm working on the third day of the second run of this experiment, and since Day 3 is full of washes I can't really do anything else but focus on the samples and goof off in the 15 minute bits in between. A full day of 15 minute bits can be tiring. Anyways we're hoping to get some good photos out of this run.

We had a breeding week last week where the fish actually spawned well, but for whatever reason no one used any of the embryos. *argh* Its weird how people complain and then don't plan for the results when I do something about it. Our color printer died and is in the shop. I'm buying a second one for Bill so he has something to work with if this happens again, and bothering the repair guys until we get it back (they've had it over a week now). As a result I've also cleaned up and sorted out the computer room: I'm still in the middle of deposing our old equipment that piled up over time, but it looks so much better now. And so much more managable. And we've started the planning for the Astyanax meeting we're hosting in March down in Mexico. I might have to build a webpage, I'm kind of hoping not though. I don't have the coding experience to set up a secure service for collecting registration payments over the web. *meep!*

Cornerstone is gearing up for the first part of its busy Holiday season with sign-ups for Harvest Festival. I'm seriously thinking of helping out there since its on a Friday night. Underground (that's the new name for the 20-Somethings group) is going to a corn maze this Saturday and hosting a Masquerade party in two Sundays from now. *grin* Actually PD has been calling me "White Mage" ever since he found my Otakon pictures. I'm highly amused! ^_^ I'm also giving rides to church to Miss Virginia who lives in the Senior Apartments not too far from my place, and my Reaching Outward class just finished this past Wednesday night. Next week I'm going to join the Financial Freedom class I think.

So between all that and work, I've been keeping myself pretty busy. I was coming down with a cold last weekend, but I think I drowned it out in the 14 cups of green tea I consumed over those 2 days. As a surprise on me I think I've been having caffeine headaches this week. Not really sure though. And is anyone else having a hard time getting up in the morning without the sun?! I'm not depressed, but I'm sure sluggish in the mornings. Wow.