cluster of updates

You wish you were Kevin right now. Because if you WERE Kevin, you’d be enjoying a big piece of this:

Blackberry-lemon swirl cheesecake. My own creation. So…it turned out not QUITE as set as I’d hoped…it still was yummy. mmmmm….

Knitta alert:

Socks for mom are almost done. The more astute of [...]

Continue with the birthday wishes below…

Conversation in the lab

ESC: *making a buffer* It’s always bugged me…why isn’t SDS called SLS?

N: what?

ESC: *points at bucket* “sodium lauryl sulfate” – SLS

N: that’s not SDS. SDS is sodium dodecyl sulfate

ESC: what?

N: we should have some…*looks at chemical shelf*

ESC: but…this is what I’ve been using for [...]

Happy Birthday, My Love

Today is my sweetie’s birthday. Send him some love, won’t you? I know I will be

dress!

MY WEDDING DRESS IS FINALLY IN!!! OH MY GOD I AM SO EXCITED!!!! Now I have to find a place to get it altered. The seamstress the store works with is “full” through the end of the year. Dammit.

gah! yay! uhhh…blargh!

Holy crap! I JUST SENT MY FIRST EVER FIRST DRAFT OF A PAPER TO MY COMMITTEE AND ADVISOR!!!

I feel like I’ve just thrown up part of my soul, then attached it to an email. It’s a feeling of exultation and nausea…all at the same time. I’m not exactly sure what to feel. Also, [...]

explains alot…

on the phone with mom

ESC: so…I finally decided to see a psychiatrist

Mom – Oh?

ESC: yeah. so I’m on some medications now.

Mom – which ones?

ESC: – wellbutrin to help me focus…

Mom – oh! you know your brother was on that for a while. They also use it to help [...]

oh YOU wanna piece of me, too?

or “ESC must hate all charities.”

Fuck you, Salvation army.

We had an almost perfectly good washer/dryer set and a slightly worn and wobbly armchair sitting in the breezeway, just BEGGING for a pickup.

I have tried to call your pickup line all week. Always, it is either busy, or I have been put [...]

Dear charity organization,

I believe your name is “clothing for a cure” or something like that. A cure for what? I don’t remember. But I doubt it’s a cure for sucking ass.

For the past month….MONTH! There has been a number on my caller ID. CURE CLOTHI it read, with a local area code. This number would [...]

all over the map, but very calm about it

It’s day two of operation Drug Me Up!

Waaay too early for me to be making any conclusions on the wellbutrin. It won’t kick in for a while yet. However, the clonazapam has kicked in immediately and is pretty damn amazing. Except for the fact that it makes me very tired all the time. [...]

shrinky dink

Today was my very first appointment EVER with a psychiatrist.

diagnosis: bat shit crazy

HA! just kidding, of course. I am more bird shit crazy.

I knew this day was coming. For years now, I knew something was wrong. I couldn’t pay attention as well as I used to. I couldn’t focus. I would [...]

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