I am a bioinformatics badass

Hell yeah, you freaking bitch of a 50K basepair sequence!!!! I just went through your whole sorry line of ATCG's with BLAST!!!

Ok, so this is really great, but I'm no where near done with this little bugger. I've still got to go back through and make sure most of the sequence is covered by the genes I've found, then try to figure out what the genes of unknown function might be, THEN write up a poster about it and include some possible research I could do on two genes!!! BAAAAAAAHHH!!!

Ok, sure, you wanted to read all that didn't you? DIDN'T YOU!!??? I've decided that staying up late is alot like binge drinking. You can easily make a habit of it and it seems fun while you're doing it but you wake up the next morning with one big WTF. OH well, here I am, I'll probably be asleep by 2.

6.5 hours of sleep for me typically.

I'm also feeling a bit sick--my intestines are audibly gurgling and that CAN"T be good. My throat was sore this morning and one of my lymph nodes was swollen. This is a strange, half-assed sickness indeed!

The plans for hawaii are flying fast and furious now, back and forth over e-mail. As always, Dad wants me to find the best bargain. I just want a place to stay. He tends to make me feel like a lazy scaredy cat, which maybe I am. I just want a place to live, and it's my money that'll go to housing, so what the hey, I'll let it slide. The advertisement for the room said "looking for mellow people" seriously. . . so I've GOT TO BE MELLOW--or else!

And it sounds like I'm not the only one with the travel bug!

Love,
-Amber-