02/24/09 11:34 - 20ºF - ID#47874

Wooohooo

I'm all finished with the PhD thesis committee meeting from hell, and it looks like I'll graduate some time this year.
Time for hi fives and booze with (e:hodown) and the rest of my favorite bitches.

tinypliny writes at 05:19:16 03/15/09 - Comment #46479: Cancer molecular epidemiology (focus on breast cancer and tumour immunology) :D

AND WOW. MSK! Woohoo!

businesscheese writes at 10:04:07 02/25/09 - Comment #45908: I sure did hear about that. People love to give us money for some reason. I didn't read up on the details...since I don't actually work at Weill Cornell I am a bit out of the loop.

My lab is at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, even though my degree will be granted through Cornell.

What are you piling higher and deeper in?

tinypliny writes at 06:07:56 02/24/09 - Comment #45889: Wow - small trivia. Did you know that your school has just received the LARGEST endowment (of its kind) anywhere in the world for initiating a K9 cancer biology/molecular epidemiology cohort?

Also, your school holds the future of the corn genome in its hands (or claws - hoever you choose to look at it. I prefer hands.) :)

Congratulations on the good news. My committee is meeting next month - but I am not even close to graduating.

businesscheese writes at 05:58:15 02/24/09 - Comment #45886: Aw, thanks lilho. I hope you come visit us soooooooooon.

lilho writes at 05:36:12 02/24/09 - Comment #45885: i love drunk phd scientists!

james writes at 12:12:38 02/24/09 - Comment #45876: Congrats on the martini supplies!

The thesis thingie is nice too.

theli writes at 12:08:03 02/24/09 - Comment #45875: Grats.

businesscheese writes at 12:07:58 02/24/09 - Comment #45874: Biochemistry and Structural Biology. Basically I use really expensive and dangerous instruments to try to get a picture of proteins at atomic resolution. Nerd-tastic.

I'm at Cornell. The biomedical PhD stuff is in Manhattan, not Ithaca.

Jessica, ever since we got martini making supplies at home I've had at least one per night. Dangerous.

tinypliny writes at 11:49:31 02/24/09 - Comment #45872: What is your field of focus? and NYU?

hodown writes at 11:39:12 02/24/09 - Comment #45871: I can't wait to booze it up (mostly cause I miss you ladiez, but also because I'll start to have the DTs if I don't drink soon)!

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02/23/09 05:47 - 21ºF - ID#47872

Three cheers for drinking!

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02/21/09 02:11 - 31ºF - ID#47849

Uncommon economic indicators

Women like this did not ride the subway (especially not the A train) prior to the economic meltdown.
Perfectly coiffed Anna Wintour bob, full length fur, teensy fluffy dog.

It's getting interesting.

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02/21/09 11:54 - 25ºF - ID#47845

Just your average Friday Night

Um yeah. So there I am on the A train, heading home from a work at about 8:30pm, minding my own business reading Vogue (Michelle Obama!). At about 168th Street I caught a whiff of smoke. I looked up and what did I see? Well, thanks to my stealthy photog skillz you can see for yourself.

Yup, that's right. Homeboy toooootally smoking a spliff on a reasonably crowded train. Not a care in the world. The most special moment was when the sufficiently happy houred girl next to him convinced him to share...