Archive for 2008
Why isn’t this a holiday?
Election day should be a national holiday. How on earth am I supposed to concentrate on my exam?
GO VOTE
I don’t care if you have to get up at 5am or if you’ve got the worst cold of your life or explosive diarrhea or you have to stand in the rain for 4 hours. This is an important election. Besides, if you don’t vote, you don’t get to bitch about anything for the next […]
Proposition 102
Tomorrow, in addition to voting for a new president, people in Arizona will be voting on Proposition 102. Prop 102 would add the following to the Arizona constitution: Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state. A similar measure, Prop 107, was on […]
Mnemonic devices
Homosporous plants are exosporic: homos are out!
Things go wrong
I woke up at around 4AM today with a migraine, took some drugs, and went back to bed. I got up an hour later (I love mornings!) feeling well enough to work. I went to a nearby coffee shop to study for my plant morphology test. About 8AM a woman wearing half a bottle of […]
PSA: Go get your flu shot!
Ouch 🙁
Wild Rice with Butternut Squash, Leeks, and Corn
I love butternut squash, but I get tired of pie and bread and soups sometimes. This recipe was delicious.