new haven apartment

so remember those nice pictures of my pretty apartment that i posted a few days ago? you can probably scroll down to see them still. well funny story.... the landlady aparently had also shown the apartment to other people who had also given a deposit and signed a lease. so she made her final decision on friday and decided to give the apartment to the other people. giant suck. erica, carolyn, and i will be taking our second choice apartment, which is still very nice, although a little bit smaller. and i don't have pictures of it yet. the bedrooms are all the same size but smaller than the other place, and the bathroom is really ugly. the good news is that we will have a separate living room and kitchen and access to the backyard for bbqing and generally being outside. it's a nice place. when i have pictures i will post them.

what was sad yesterday was that the flagstaff movie (a series of unfortunate events) was rained on and canceled. luckily we got to watch the buffy the vampire slayer movie in the mcgill lounge. good stuff.

the gods of science continue to smite me. yesterday i spent all day doing colony pcr and running gels to check if my ligations worked and all i got was a bunch of blank gels. poop. i'd post them, but what's the point; only the positive controls worked. hopefully today will be better, and i will have pretty bands on my gel and nice dna sequences. indeed.

i went to a pirates game on tuesday night with gerrit, connor and kaitlin, and the pirates actually won! it was an exciting game for the last two innings. the rest was a bit boring. my favorite part was when they hit home runs and there were fireworks. we went out to buffalo wild wings afterwards for wings and beer. good stuff.

this weekend miklos, phil, and josh are coming back to pgh and that promises to be a good time. i haven't been to hemmingways at all yet this summer (although i guess i've only been here for a week). and we will go to hooters and maybe have a bbq and drink a lot. it will be fun!

the pudgy fluffy has been hanging out in mcgill with arfie for the past couple of days. he likes it there. he will come home to the house soon though. yay fluffies!