Schork

Steve and I were wondering what to call my grad school: I go there every day and I get paid for it, so it's kind of like "school"... But I get a degree out of it so it's kind of like "work"... Eventually his friend Rob figured it out for me! It's SCHORK!

So far grad school is going fairly well! I like the project I'm working on and my supervisor and I get to play with the cool new fluorometer later this week!
With the cool new fluorometer I will get to take pictures that look like this:

Only not of leaves... Of algae!
I will be able to compare different cell lines much quicker and more easily. Cells doing different amounts or types of photosynthesis will appear differently.
So that's really cool!



My sweetie and I spent our first weekend out of school at my dad's cabin... We thought we were going up for a nice relaxing weekend of drinking beer, canoeing, firepit and sleeping in... Well, we got in a nice canoe adventure and then we got roped into helping my dad rip the deck off for the reno guys to come in! So much for relaxing!
I'm not a lot of good for manual labour, so mostly poor Steve had to help my dad, but I will pretend that I was of pivotal importance!

Anyhow, we did get some firepit and beer into our weekend and we got a nice picture of us at the lake, so it was a good trip after all!!

I know it's a little cheesy, but I love this picture!