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Janel's Place

Sometimes sparks of genius just have to be typed.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

For the one-half of a person out there in the world who might somehow care someday for some unclear reason, the "other" LIM kinase listed on flybase is not a LIM kinase. It is a LIM protein. Another rabbit trail, no rabbit. I've been afraid to try and think of all of the good reasons that I am in a graduate program because CRAP what if I can't think of any? That would be sad. Instead I will write down my novel thought of the day, which came about 2 hours after flipping though yet another book on prayer. At Walmart. There is nothing new under the sun. And of course, that is not even a novel thought. We have to seek God because humans got NUTHIN. Maybe the best thing gained from today was a nice quote. "I'm made of wax. What are you made of?" Now that I've shared that there is no reason for anyone to go and watch "Night at the Museum." Complete waste of time. Well, not complete. I now know who the 26th president of the United States was. The day ended well, however. I picked up some ice cream and root beer and made a float in celebration of my future exit from graduate school. Day unknown, year unknown, but sometimes you have to celebrate early. Calling things that are not as though they were. Maybe tomorrow I will find a green fly WITH curly wings. Oh no! Stop that optomism!

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Sigh 

You know what? If I were God I would have stopped with the invention of the gorilla. Kind of like people, but a lot nicer. Maybe I would have made a planet specifically for alpacas. I would not have made fruit flies until after I had made hell and then I would have put them there. My favorite janitor just came through and he had a big smile on his face as usual. He would deserve to live on planet alpaca.

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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Whatever 

Hooray. I'm sitting in the lab eating my brother's girlscout cookies because he said I could. I don't deserve them, because I messed up my fruit fly crosses. But at the end of the day it is far better to have messed up your fruit fly crosses and be going to vet school in August than to have messed up your fruit fly crosses and not be going to vet school in August. There's always that. Someday I will give new legs to llamas, I will help cats with chapped lips, I will kill parasites, I will graduate. Overall excitement levels are waning at the moment because 6 cups of coffee have caused my neurons to fuse all across my brain and hundred of thousands of vesicles have gelified to the consistency of boogers and the best they can do in terms of firing is to send a pathetically weak shock wave through the glom. The hum of the lab is really soothing though, and my brainslime is telling me that I love it here, and discovering some bad crosses simply is another growth phase. It is a piece of truth that will make many slightly askew sets of data fall into better alignment and my pursuit of truth will leap from the bog of confusion with new energy.

The confusing elements of life can all be partitioned into well-categorized vats of questions. The question of how many chromosomes Jesus had is an interesting one that can go into a vat if you want it to, but if we can all agree that this is a different vat from the one that asks if He existed and if He was God on earth then perhaps our conversations can be less ridiculous and more pertinent to a genuine pursuit of truth. How about these two: 1) Is the Bible a record of things that actually happened? 2) Does the God described in the Bible fit my criteria for fairness and worthiness of my servitude? Well? Same vats or different ones?

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Eowyn

If I were a character in The Lord of the Rings, I would be Eowyn, Woman of Rohan, niece of King Theoden and sister of Eomer.

In the movie, I am played by Miranda Otto.

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