Its Christmas!!

Merry christmas and Happy new year everyone...I'm on the road so the blogging has temporarily stalled...but I'll be back with exciting stories about those damn presbyterians, naked women at the YMCA, the strange toilets at Chicago O hare airport, how I almost missed my American airlines flight and almost got on the United airlines flight, how one should always carry bathroom slippers if you plan on staying in a hostel, and how I rule at Monopoly...

Blogging along

Its Finals week here...so there are a lot of umm..finals. I have two coming up in the next few days and assignments to submit, papers to grade etc. Finals week also coincides with the Superhero Annual Congress, where all Superheroes convene to discuss matters of grave importance, such as who shrunk Pluto, how to get our own Actions figures, why Spiderman gets all the endorsements, removing blood stains from spandex etc. So its a busy, busy time and my Blog suffers.

In other news, I can't locate the Anteroventral cochlear nuclei, I manage to slice everything around BUT the AVCN. I faithfully tread to the lab everyday in great hope, but the AVCN still eludes me.I can see it, its thats tiny greyish blob below the paraflocculus but soon as I try to slice the damn thing, its disappears ..its like its mocking me.Speaking to it in soothing tones doesnt seem to help much either. Tomorrow, I shall try using the element of surprise, jump at it from behind....To all my non-biologist readers, this is all part of the cutting edge research I do everyday.

In other, other news, this will be my first Christmas without Family in this strange land. Hopefully I will not get depressed and denounce Santa claus to little kids.

And finally, Super Lupe is the best side kick ever....I just felt like saying that.

They're coming....

I had never seen a mud puppy ... until 2 hrs ago...they are ugly as sin, they're like huge giant lizards, with little tufts of gills behind their ears and evil slits for eyes. And they look at you, as you make that incision on their ventral side, as if to say "See you in hell, bitch", which is obviously where all mud puppies end up. And surely calling them puppies is misleading. This is a puppy, even on a bad fur day, they will not resemble those diabolical creatures.
You know, they probably eat babies for breakfast.
I am off to take a nap now, I must be alert when the mud puppies stage their attack.