When I wasn’t painting or scraping wallpaper this weekend, I SHOULD have been writing. Writing writing writing…it’s what I’m doing now…I mean, before I started typing this post as a method of procrastination.
aside: Writing…what’s another word for “nascent,” because I think I’m using it WAY too much.
Anyway…I didn’t write this weekend. Instead I decided to do something I haven’t done since the temperature got above 70F…I picked up the knitting needles. I have all this pink soft acrylic yarn leftover from the baby blanket…I really needed to use it up. really! I swear! driving me NUTS, here!
So I started the project featured on the cover of this book. Cute, huh? It’s not going to look EXACTLY like that picture - I’m not using boucle yarn (uhh…the “fuzzish” yarn, for the unyarniated)
I got much of it done in just two days - just working on the little multicolored parts, and then piece it together and stuff it..and I’ll be done!
So much more satisfying than writing, really.
also, “conferred.” I use “conferred” way too much.
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Very nice knitting project. But you got to keep writing there girl! Got to graduate and all! I recommend taking one weekend day off and bust ass the rest of the week!
budding, blossoming, embryonic, young, germinating, incipient, growing…
begginning, starting, primary, promising, developing….
Do you want some on french? That would take me a little longer.
Aw, ees a piggie!! Ees CUTE!
But Vince is right–all work and no play makes Bunsen a dull and horny camper.
I like Vince’s idea. One weekend day where there is no work at all. Just lazing about or getting stupid wallpaper glue off your wall.
Mmmm, bacon. We made bacon last week and I’ve been reaping the BLT benefits for days.
synonyms for nascent and conferred… hmmm…
Emerging and discussed.
Like what I got in my PANTS!
(That was “discussed” not “disgusting”)
hmmm…not sure any of those would work in context.
nascent referring to newly synthesize strand of DNA
conferred as in “this mutation conferred this phenotype.”
thanks for trying, though.
Well, then you could refer to the nascent as Baby Daddy DNA and conferred as this mutation is a serious fuck up resulting in this phenotype.
No?
Oh. Guess them there doctor types not familiar with Baby Daddy, huh?
Michael, pantz is spelled with a z. You know better.
I got no synonyms because I don’t do the science meaning of words. And obviously grammar is no friend of mine, either.
And yeah, what everyone else said. One weekend day for lazing about, the rest for working. But the pig is very cute. Must be something in the water, I started knitting again when Aimee was here.
better late than never, huh?
How ’bout “bestow” as a synonym for confer? As in, “deletion of gene X bestows this phenotype.” Seems a little 19th century Royal Family, but it could work. One could also use the phase “results in this phenotype.”
Nascent: “newly-replicated/synthesized strand.” Of course, that is not as nearly neat and tidy as using nascent.
I think that you ought to put the best introductory sentence in the world somewhere in your thesis. Perferrably in the introduction or Abstract.
–Ahem–
“Although DNA is primarily considered to be a stable structure, it is actually quite dynamic.”
HAAAAAAAAA!!!! WOOO HOOO HOOO
good times, good times……