Amazing Accomplishment

Last night around 8 pm I went to do our weekly grocery shopping. I hadn't been able to get it done over the weekend, so I just went after I got home from work and ate some supper (I have found it is a bad idea to go grocery shopping on an empty stomach). Anyway, for the first time EVER, I remembered all 3 of my reusable fabric shopping bags, and all my groceries fit inside (barely, but I managed to make them fit). Which means, NO plastic bags from yesterday's trip! Yep, here I am, saving the planet one plastic grocery bag at a time. Maybe you should watch for me on the news, I may just be sitting in a tree in front of a bulldozer, refusing to come down....

Life as a PhD Student

Life as a PhD student can be tough. I love PhD comics because it takes my life and somehow brings out the humor in it. I love them all, but this has always been my very favorite one:
"Grad student etiquette"
This comic seems so appropriate most of the time, but it rings even more true today because I walked in to some very nasty data when I came in this morning. So please, please, please, don't ask me how my research is going! I'd much rather talk about the weather.



P.S. An old friend I hadn't talked to in years called me last night. It totally made my weekend. Don't you love it when things like that happen?