Shock This!

I just had one of those experiences. It’s hard to believe that I’m still experiencing culture shock. I went to the mall today. It wasn’t the first time that I went to one since I got back to the US. For some reason this time it got to me. As I walked through the mall looking at the stores, not going into most of them, I found myself appalled by the whole thing. It was the same trendy store, one after the other. Gap, Limited, Abercrombie, then the trendy kids clothes stores with a diamond store and a coffee shop thrown in for good measure. I just marveled at the greed and the consumerism that I saw and remember myself taking part in. Wishing that I made more money so that I can buy some really powerful computer for games. Or get a better apartment without roommates to piss me off. I find myself forgetting the lessons that I was supposed to have learned. I miss India, even the armpit region. I miss the simpler life. I miss the roommate that I had there and the friends that I made. I want to go back. I want to go to a new place for new experiences. I’m excited about the future, and going for a new adventure. I don’t want to wait. I want to go now. All in good time I suppose. All in God’s time.

You ain't nothing but a sugar momma

I'm not so happy with roommates right now. I gotta get married. Man, that must be the life. You have a roommate to take with you where ever you go. I just moved to DC and my roommates suck. Hard to believe that I could know that after only about 3 weeks. But here I am getting kicked out of the house because they want some friend to live with them instead of me. It sucks that you have to sign contracts from day one to get people to live up to the commitments they make. Should have signed the lease first. Anyway if I was married I wouldn't have to deal with it. Even better if she's rich and I don't have to work. I'm all about being a stay at home dad/homemaker. If there's any takers on that, feel free to e-mail me. No caste bared. I like to travel, so it's alright if you're not in the US.


Extra Points if you know the reference in the title.

You marked your tubes all wrong

I think that many of my posts will be ranting about my job. I'll have to not do that too much. That could get annoying.

So the problem with a change of dynastys comes in the marking of tubes. You see the way one person marks their tubes isn't the way that anybody else would mark their tubes. So you look and think about it and you ask everybody else in the lab and try to figure out what they were saying. But you always end up adding the antibody at 1:20,000 rather than 1:40,000. So you get twice the amount of antibody that you want and you end up with bands so big and dark that you basically wasted the last 3 days on the whole western blot. Oh-well. Atleast it was just a test run anyway.

My friend Dave that I met in India called today. I always enjoy talking with Dave. We always laugh about the US (my home land) and Australia (his home land). It's fun to laugh about world politics. Plus Dave has a good sence of humor and was the only one at The Duncan that would get my jokes. So we have lots of laughs when we talk. I'm so glad that I went to India. I met some awesome people.

Gels, Crick, and the Metro

Hi Everybody. It's funny that I said everybody because there's probably like 2 people that will be reading this. One is my friend Lori in India. She's the reason I'm starting this. Not that I'm likely to put much more here than in my e-mails to her. But whatever. Dave is the other person that will be reading this. Dave, I'll put all the lines that I think of that I know you'll laugh at. Like "I'm bi-polar in one way", or "we don't want any adult content at the evening service". Dave we have to get together again some day. I like how you get my sense of humor. When I figure out how I'll put a link on my blog to Dave and Lori's blogs.

So, what's been going on with me? I just started working at Georgetown University. I'm a lab tech in the Neuroscience Department. I've been doing these PCRs. So annoying. In normal lab fashion it worked for the first 3 times I did it and no longer. I just started Western Blots today. That means more gel runing fun. We'll see if they go any better.

On my way too and from work I've been reading a book by Francis Crick about how he descovered the structure of DNA. Well acctually so far it's about how he thinks he was a genius child and way too smart for his time. That's not how I understood him to be. Then he writes about Darwin and how he was a genius. Again, not how I understood it to be. I got to thinking that in both cases it was an otherwise mediocre scientist bumbled themselves into fame without even realizing what they had done. I think that bodes well for me. I should be able to blunder into something. And I definatly won't know what I did.

Anyway tune in later for more random thoughts...