it is rather discomfiting when bits of the city you live in start blowing up.


the temperature crept its way down into the 50s today. for all its promise of good insulation, this apartment keeps in no heat whatsoever. this probably means that somewhere down the road, there will be a slice of time before the day central heating comes on in which staying indoors will be intolerable. (not that i'm unaccustomed to this.)

in any case, this was incentive to stay in the lab for most of the day, where i was good and read all my perfusion papers, even though i didn't understand half of what i was reading. i think i need to sit down with someone who knows this stuff and just spend an entire day asking him questions, because right now i'm sure that misconceptions are sprouting in my head like toadstools after rain. geoff aguirre or john detre would be nice, but i will settle for lesser beings as long as they know what they are talking about.