Bored.

Why is it that I'm the only person on my blog list that's blogging these days? I mean, it's been like, two days since anyone else posted anything. When you check for new blog posts about once an hour, two days is a frickin long time. Come on people - help me out! I'm bored right out of my skull at the moment. Waiting for an experiment to finish running, waiting for lunch time to come around so I can go meet Tara for some... hmmm... I'm gonna go with PIZZA (or perhaps a burrito... or maybe the salad bar will look really good today and they'll have good soups... gosh I'm starving!), anyway it seems like all I do is wait. Waited around all dang morning for my crazy zebrafish to breed, but since apparently there's a madman running around the 5th floor poisoning fish in the middle of the night, THAT didn't happen (not really, the fish just haven't been cooperating for about, oh, a month now). I'm finished here in less than 5 weeks now, and I'm probably averaging about half an experiment a week the way these fish are producing (or NOT producing, as it were), which means I'll never finish what I'm supposed to be finishing before I leave. Which is just too darn bad, because I have to leave when I have to leave, but it sucks for the people who have to eventually get it done. I should be able to get through at least 2 experiments a week. This is crap. Sometimes it's a nice break when the fish just aren't feelin' it one morning, but when it's week after week, it just starts to get boring. Commuting 3 hours round trip only to find out your experimental plan for the day is toast - that just blows.

So, until something interesting happens to me, you'll all be subjected to my mindless drivel. Hey, don't act like you don't come here of your own free will. My experiment is finally finishing up, but I still have a few more hurry-up-and-wait steps so you're stuck with me for a little longer. I think there's something wrong with a tendon in my right wrist - the one that's attached to my thumb. I get sharp pains in it sometimes. And I've been getting them for months. WTF? What a stupid problem to have. Any ideas? I'm not even right handed so I can't imagine what I do repetitively with the right hand that would cause a problem, and I certainly don't remember any incident where I "hurt" it. Whatev. This paragraph is just downright BORING. Typing this might actually be more boring than the NOTHING I was doing before I started. WOW I'm bored. Somebody blog something PLEASE! I need something to read!

I suppose I could go check cnn.com and find out what's going on in the world. From the communist perspective of course, which is the one I prefer. I still maintain that we'd probably ALL be better off just getting our news from the Daily Show - at least they don't bother claiming to present "facts" like all the other "news" stations do. That's why I don't bother trying to find out what's going on in the world. Can't trust anyone to actually tell you.

Ciao. For now.