http://rmfo-blogs.com/drea Life, science and faith - not necessarily in that order Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:41:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, it's official. I have been granted my Doctor of Philosophy degree in Microbiology and Immunology from Wake Forest University! I am a real doctor, though not the kind that help people. I will officially be a December 2008 graduate (missed the August deadline by 2 weeks!), though I won't ... http://rmfo-blogs.com/drea/2008/08/15/just-what-the-doctor-ordered/ So. I have been delaying updating here until I could say something real. And I now can. I will be defending my PhD dissertation this coming Thursday August 14th at 2pm, starting with an open seminar (feel free to come if you'd like!) and then a closed session with my ... http://rmfo-blogs.com/drea/2008/08/08/finally-4/ I stole this from Kari, who was not exactly sure what this list is, but it has something to do with the National Endowment for the Arts’ Big Read program, though she couldn’t find this list on their website to verify that claim. Apparently the NEA estimates that the average ... http://rmfo-blogs.com/drea/2008/08/02/how-many-have-you-read/ I know, it's been forever. I will do a real update soon, but in the meantime, I wanted to let anybody who is still reading this about a fun new website called NoiseTrade. It's a website where musicians can get the word out about their music, and you can get cheap ... http://rmfo-blogs.com/drea/2008/07/04/noisetrade/ Just some good things happening in my life right now (or now-ish): ~ Good, deep conversations with friends about important (and some not-so-important) things ~ Knowing that going to see WICKED is only ONE MONTH AWAY!!!!! (SO excited!) ~ When experiments actually work correctly reproducibly, and move my work forward instead of backwards ~ ... http://rmfo-blogs.com/drea/2008/03/18/these-are-a-few-of-favorite-things/ OK, I know it's been forever since I've posted. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting til I had some solid answers about the future, but as it seems my life will stay in a state of semi-chaos for a while longer, I figure it's time to catch y'all up ... http://rmfo-blogs.com/drea/2008/03/14/playing-catch-up-2/ Sorry I've been so absent lately. But to distract you from the pain caused by my lack of blogging, I present you with more excellent LOLcats. :) moar funny pictures moar funny pictures moar funny pictures moar funny pictures moar funny pictures moar funny pictures moar funny pictures moar funny pictures and my current favorite: moar funny pictures http://rmfo-blogs.com/drea/2008/01/30/hehehe-3/ I submit the following photo for your viewing pleasure. Mom brought back these shirts from her trip to Disney World last year (without us, I might add), and we finally got around to taking a picture of us in them this Christmas while Matthew was home from Cali for the ... http://rmfo-blogs.com/drea/2008/01/04/thing-1-and-thing-2/ So here it is, the long-awaited book list for 2007, the whole point of me keeping track of what I read this past year. All in all, it was a really good year for me, reading-wise at least - having an idea ahead of time of what I wanted to ... http://rmfo-blogs.com/drea/2008/01/03/2007-book-list/ We used this Advent prayer in church a few weeks ago, and it struck me again with the paradox of Christ's incarnation among us that we celebrate at this time of year. Almighty God, who, having created all worlds and mankind, has profoundly pitied us; who has come to us ... http://rmfo-blogs.com/drea/2007/12/18/the-paradox-of-christmas/