Who could win a rabbit?

The 4th of July brought a nice cook out, lots of fireworks and regular old work too. Plus.....BUNNIES!

This place was lacking a bit on the cute.

I am trying to fight off the shakes so I can do some pipetting today. How about some bullets

• My trailer is leaking again. It drips right onto my head while I sleep. I don't fit in the bed to begin with so when I have to scrunch down to avoid getting wet, I don't really sleep at all. This is why I 'm all shakey.
• I had two mini-candy bars for breakfast with my coffee. It is one of those days.
• I am still knitting on the baby blanket. I meant to take pictures of it but got distracted by this.....
• You will notice on the side bar that I finally put up progress bars for my work. It was time. More on this later if I get things running in the lab.
• I just got SO excited. Under 'Sweaters' at Anthropologie there was a tab for 'Patterns'. I thought they were selling sweater patterns. Turns out there are selling sweaters with patterns on them. Given my first reaction, there is hope for me as a knitter yet!
• V is sick. Really sick. It sucks being away because there is absolutely nothing I can do.
• I lied last week when I said I was going to take the whole day off on Saturday. I will take most of the afternoon off but the whole day is just out of the question.
• They just put up the schedule for the conference I am going to. Some awesome folks I haven't ever met before will be there plus some awesome folks I have. Also, shit. I am sooooooooooooooooo not ready.

I'm off to the lab. Nothing like a little fear as a motivator!

As promised

Don't think I'd leave you hanging, promising bunnies and never delivering!
I am back at the DO and am running experiments after a day of technical difficulties. The folks here replaced a plug that last week was shooting flames at me (not just sparks!) but in doing so, had the power turned. My timers controlling the light cycle for my animals got messed up because of this power outage. Sigh. A one day set back is not the end of the world. It IS annoying though.

So far I have been running only Experiment 1 but I am on the verge of also starting Experiment 3. Experiment 2 is a field study that will wait till I have a field assistant in June. And by 'field assistant' I mean V. Anyways, Experiment 3 is my big-time-super-cool-awesome experiment. I am pretty psyched to finally be starting it but I think all my tinkering with Experiment 1 will allow it to get off the ground pretty quickly.

I know this blog has sort of just been a record of highs and lows as far as research and life goes lately and hopefully that will change a bit. There will be a big productivity push from now till I leave for the wedding. I am actively fighting the usual depression of returning to DO and really can't afford the laziness in work that has been associated with it the last couple of times. I am knitting (turning the heel of my Jaywalker this evening!), running (as soon as I finish this post) and trying not to virtually disappear for about 10 days. Of course, the bunnies help too.