An Ode to Sphingomonas
All summer i've spent here in this place
With yellow bacteria all up in my face
We're supposed to wear goggles but i never do
I'll probably spill acid in my face like a foo
During 8 hour gel, PCR and ligation
I go online and read up on playstation
Genetic engineering has many hurdles
Just to make mutants, like ninja turtles
But I'm an expert, you know I'm a pro
Don't know why these reactions won't go
I spend my time designing cool primers
Setting the autoclave, and forgetting the timer
There's no kids to talk to, everyday all the same
Thank goodness my friends spend their time all on AIM
Each week at noon my lunch is PB and J
Plus looking at pics of Jessica Alba all day
Although this job has easy breeze charm
Beware ethidium bromide, which can cause your genes harm
But I've said it before, and I'll say it real funny
No matter what happens, I'm still in the money!!

An Ode to Mike's Blog's 3 Year Anniversary
Although its often lame
I love it all the same
Throughout these long years 3
The only one who laughs is me
Mike's Blog is the greatest
B-A-N-A-N-A-S!!

The joy of endless med school secondaries;
Hardest to answer that shouldn't be hard for me: "Describe a problem in your life"
Least Creative: "Share with us something about yourself . . . which may help the Admissions Committee to assess your interest"
Most conceited: "Explain your interest in [this school]" (answer=you guys are the best school ever!!)

One of the cool things about my backyard is the great view. Not only of the hillside and the freeway, but more importantly the backyard of the old asian dude who lives below us and has a really big pool. I was hanging out in the back the other day with my good friend calvin, doing his usual sniffing of dirt routine, when off in the distance i hear the greatest song of all time, wake up by hilary duff! Wondering where this wonderful music is coming from, I take a peak down to the old dude's backyard, and there he is, with a cd player sitting outside on a chair, and hilary duff's new cd playing! Obviously the first thing I did was check to make sure he didnt just steal mine, then I looked at him and laughed (in spirit, now out loud cuz he could probably hear me). If old asian dudes can still enjoy hilary duff's music in their backyards, then maybe there's still hope left in this world afterall.

I just reread some of my "overly optimistic predictions" for the padres and realized that none of them are going to come even remotely close to happening, with the notable exception of "winning the west". So as long as that happens and the dodgers and dbacks continue to suck rat malarchy, then its all good.

Padres: *record unimportant* - still 1st place

For all my fellow Alphabet Movie Game warriors, check out these movies; Youngblood (a band, AND a movie with Patrick Swayze), You Can't Go Home Again (Dutch movie, but I was pretty close), and eXistenZ (ok, so not technically an X movie, but good enough).

So I'm over at costco with the almighty Mother, looking at plasma tv's, and my mom tells me about all her plans to buy a 1000 inch tv and get satellite tv so she can watch all the shows she wants like suze orman and dalai lama specials. Then the unspeakable happens, and i start explaining to her how we dont need a new tv, since my sister never watches tv, my dad "only channel surfs when he's done with the newspaper", and the only shows i watch with any regularity are padres games, sportscenter, and lizzie mcguire. Then my 13 year old self popped through a time portal and shot me with a machine gun, yelling "You FOOOOL!!!". Haha. Anyway, i dont know what to think now that the day has come where I have to argue with my mom not to be extravagent, and she tells me that we need new technology.

I also started reading some of the harry potter books, all out of a desire to find out what this horrible and graphic ending is that has children all across the world crying. Turns out these things are actually pretty good!! Goblet of fire was good fun, and i was quite surprised how dark and evil the ending was which makes me excited for the movie. Calvin agreed when he chewed up my harry potter dvd box.

At work for 3 hours, and my supervisor still hasnt showed up. I'm getting paid too much. *my 16 year old self just popped through a time portal and stabbed me with a chain saw*

Happy August!

"What do you call baseball players who don't take steroids? Dodgers"
-Jay Leno, my favorite comedian of all time cuz he keeps bashing the bad guys. BLAH HAH HAH HAH!!

So rather than spend my spare time reading the latest WWE and MLB news, recently i've been perusing all the exciting health care stories courtesy of all the easily accessible med school web sites. Lots of interesting stuff, especially this one article I read on this year's UCSD med school graduates, which included a 40 something year old man that was graduating the same year his son was finishing his undergrad at UCSD!! And, there was a student who became pregnant during med school, so she ended up taking finals in her hospital bed, even having to use a microscope while in the process of creating life out of her own body. Amazing. So i guess we can forget the pregnancy excuse for getting out of a final. "You're going through labor? But you can still WRITE can't you!?"

And after all 7 of my champion sphingomonas proved to be nothing more than monumental fakesters and failures, the lone colony that grew out of 11 plates that were about to be thrown away ended up being what we wanted. These guys are weirder than our old yeast friends (but still prettier!).