Mika-Big Girl

I'm Going to Dallas

I'm sitting in the Salt Lake airport right now. I'm going to Dallas for a research conference- I'll be presenting a poster on the research I did over the summer in Mario Capecchi's lab.

The last few days have been completely insane! I think I'm going insane. Don't ask me why but I waited until last night to re-format my poster. Could have been the midterm in advanced molecular biology and a midterm in physics that ate up my entire weekend. I thought it would take a few hours... HA! I was up until 3:00 messing around with it and frantically trying to print it out at Kinko's around 8:00 this morning.

It looks pretty good right?

I started throwing clothes into a suitcase around 3:00AM...hopefully I didn't forget anything important.

I'm excited to see the friends I made over the summer and to get away for a while.

I'm also curious to see if everything really is bigger in Texas.

In Loving Memory...

Sugar has been part of our family for nearly 11 years. She passed away tonight from pneumonia. I loved this cat. We all loved her- she was well taken care of.

Not many cats have traveled across the world and back. Everyone loved Sugar, you could tell they were amazed by her voluptuous size.

Every morning when I'd get up and start getting ready for the day Sugar would waddle over and "talk" to me. I would always talk back of course.

She's not going to be there tomorrow morning and that makes me really sad.