Overview

The big picture:

• I'm on the honor roll at a full university.
• I have a bicycle that's very nearly as reliable as my car*; I tend to take that for granted, but it's really good to have.
• It's getting easier and easier to ride the bike, so that I no longer have to ration my strength to make sure I can make it to the train station at the end of the day. (I'm told the effect on my figure is pleasing.)
• I'm taking this Plant Pathology course and feeling like a fish that's found water. I'm really delighting in it.
• My health is improving even further, far beyond where I thought it would. I'm still on the edge of my endurance every quarter, but for heaven's sake, look at how much physical activity and stress I have. An hour of this would have half-killed me five years ago.

Life is good.

The small picture:

• It's a gorgeous day.
• I just had pretty good Japanese food for lunch.
• My locker hasn't actually been swiped out from under me, as I thought it had been this morning.
• I managed to get a sit-down station in Hutchison's computer lab.
• knaveofhearts was able to shift things around so that I don't have to miss out on a leisurely evening on Tuesdays -- I just get it on Thursdays instead.
• I'm not behind in biochem yet.

Life is indeed good.

I have a couple minutes now to get up to Plant Path lab; I hope there's no 409 fumes to knock me out of commission. (I have my suspicions about what it was that took out my weekend.) I love this class, wouldn't want to miss it.

Edit: I didn't even get gentian violet on my Totoro shirt. :)


* More reliable, if you count the fact that the bicycle doesn't refuse to shift gears if I haven't washed it recently enough.

It's like Christmas

The Patent Office revokes patents on human embryonic stem cells that some consumer groups and scientists say had stifled stem cell research.

The US Supreme Court rules that the Federal Government can regulate greenhouse gases, and must examine the link between climate change and those gases contained in the exhaust of new vehicles. This is a direct rebuttal to the EPA's assertion that regulation was beyond its authority, and its claim that it didn't have to take action even if it could.

New enzymes may be able to convert any blood to type O, solving many problems with blood supply and opening up all sorts of other advantages. (Rh factor is unaffected, but collapsing the supply from 8 types to 2 is still dramatic.)

Some days it's nice to read the news.