5.27.10 - Summer so far

So yesterday on the way home I wiped out on my bike and my backpack shoved my face into the sidewalk. I scraped my palms real good trying to stop, and I crushed the brakes into the front tire so that it can't turn, meaning I had to carry the bike home on it's rear wheel without using my palms, ha. I'm fine and Jack thinks he can fix the bike, and really I'm just grateful I didn't break anything or have any serious problems. I wasn't sure at first because I cut my forehead and there was no reflective surface around, so all I knew was that my head hurt and there was blood in my eye. Creepy. But it is actually a pretty small cut, so there you go. And luckily (a) it was a nice day out (as opposed to the rain the day before, and the rain today) and (b) I was only 3 blocks from my apartment, so it didn't take me that long to get home and clean up.

The lab job is going steady. I make and run gels and make buffers and I enjoy it. When my post-doc is busy and has nothing for me to do I read, and lately I've been reading this American History book I have from a class I never finished a few years ago. It's actually pretty interesting. I like reading about colonization and various impressive characters. Maybe I'll get into it and start reading biographies and things. Or maybe not. But it's a good way to pass time now.

I like biking home from lab (except for yesterday) because it's summer and the campus is nearly empty. It's almost like having the place to myself.

Then I finish at the lab and go home to hours of utter freedom. I'm still not used to not having homework. I certainly don't miss it. I'm looking forward to the rest of the summer of not-having-homework, and getting to meet Rocket, seeing Jill again, seeing Julie, seeing Renata, and then Julie's wedding! 

Meanwhile, this is the awesome view from the window at my desk in lab: