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so went to edit the visa application today...and I apparently left it at work...which means i have mega busy day ahead cause I want to work out, need to finish an experiment (fortunately it's trial and I have lots of incubation times), go to a meeting to satisfy my programs ethics training requirement, and read a bunch of papers to discuss w/ my boss tomorrow (who is so cute when she says over email that she is sorry she hasn't been more accessibly --- honey, I've already talked to you more in 2 weeks than I talked to my old boss in a year!). Hee.

Thank god I told one of my friends that there was no way I'd be able to eat lunch w/ them today.

Now off to be a good girl and work out then take some glucosamine so my shoulder would stop hurting. As well as figure out how the hell to stop popping it....it makes it feel better for a bit, but i know longterm it's bad. Siiiiigh.

Ahh well, at least I got to start my day out right w/ two lovely reviews from fff.net on camo ch 6!! cassiee, as usual, talked me into doing the responsible thing and uploading it there since I'd already done the previous five.

POINTS

Awww....Look what cassiee made me:):) It was hard to choose between that and shdwdrgn's jeppypal icon, but sigh...have to show off this one for a while to keep my resolve strong!!

Well damn

I was very productive at work today despite arriving late and having shoulder ache still. Finished up the 3 day protocol w/out any grievous errors I hope. Though I have concluded I'm too stupid to use the timers that the entire lab uses (that or these timers were made by apple. Who knows.) so I need to remember to take the one I had earlier appropriated from the other lab to use as a kitchen time *cries*.

Was supposed to go to an ethics talk today to satisfy my ethics requirement.....but it was canceled because the speaker had a death in the family..which fine..I understand. But would it be too much to ask for the sponsoring body to post a sign on the auditorium?? Also just realized a few minutes ago that while I was there I ran into a good friend of one of my very old ex's (ie, the asshole). Odd. and she better not have given me her laryngitis. *glares*.

But all was not lost. Emailed one of the people for the program to determine if perhaps the training on ethics of human subject research I had to do for children's hospital to get my ID etc could qualify.....after a couple of messages, the lady said it could!!!! Woohoo!! Score one.

Read a bunch of papers after that. Attempted to get tickets to museum for friend who is coming to visit this weekend, but she still doesn't know how many people are showing up...and I'm just like, I almost wish she wouldn't come cause I'M TIRED. It's hard working a full 5 days a week and using your brain and stuff. *also glares at pit she lives in*. And wrote up one aim of the project I'll be working on in pretty good detail I think. So yeah:) Will have stuff for the meeting tomorrow! :)

And now I feel like crap. I think it was all the walking in the cold ass wind (hello weather service, could you get something right?? It never got to no frigging 60 degrees today..I don't know if it topped 55 to tell the truth) in just a tshirt plus the wind and all the damn dogwood. You'd think the allegra would work better for it now that it doesn't have to fight the miceys. But the smell of some chemical in the lab probably didn't help either. I'm so super sensitive after that semester of physical chemistry in college in which none of us realized till close to the end that the reason we felt ill after 5 hrs on experiments was cause the fume hoods didn't work.

But I did get cd mailing boxes. So i need to saran wrap the cds since I don't have a case and then take them for postage. Hopefully will accomplish all that by the end of the weekend.

Now still feeling cruddy and all I want to do is sleep. But I've got to clean this place at some point, do MORE laundry (really, some days I'd rather burn it), and should really read a few more articles. Plus so many other things piling up.

And dammit, still no james marsters cd.

Ugghh...Republicans....some one explain it to them.

I know, they probably don't care if Medicaid goes kaput on the basis that those people probably don't pay taxes. I really think we should make it so that politicians recieve their health care through Medicaid!!! Then our grandparents wouldn't have to choose between food and medicine!

From the Daily Kos as usual:
The House just passed a compromise budget plan worked out between House and Senate Republicans. Via the LA Times:

WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders in Congress announced agreement Thursday on a 2006 budget that calls for new belt-tightening in major domestic programs, even as it allows $106 billion more in tax cuts and leaves a $382 billion deficit.
The agreement also paves the way for adoption later this year of legislation to expand oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a top White House priority.

The vote was 214-211, with no Democratic crossovers. Total cuts to federal benefits programs under this plan are approx. $35 billion, with Medicaid shouldering the largest cuts. From a Bloomberg story:


Medicaid "is growing far too fast for us to be able to afford it," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican.
We can't afford $10 billion for health care for Americans who otherwise won't get it. We can afford yet another $106 billion in tax cuts. Got it.

Should be a Senate vote tonight or tomorrow, where it is expected to pass by a similarly narrow margin.

And as a plus...you just know the Republicans are going to portray any Democratic "nay" votes as a vote against the working man. Who cares about Medicaid and the environment after all!!

LMAO!!

Hmmm...I get the feeling that Bush speaks from scripts without reading them...or comparing them to previous ones!! From Think Progress:

“My administration is doing everything we can to make gasoline more affordable. … I applaud the House for passing a good energy bill.”
– President Bush, 4/28/05

“An energy bill wouldn’t change the price at the pump today. I know that and you know that. … I wish I could simply wave a magic wand and lower gas prices tomorrow.”
– President Bush, 4/20/05

Yes yes, you are getting political spam tonite.

Sooo....complete transfer to private accounts didn't fly. So now, you can buy treasury bonds to supplement your retirement (here's hoping the dollar doesn't devalue much in the 20 years before you retire) plus whatever you get from this version of Social Security:

President Bush just said:

I propose a system where benefits for low income workers will grow faster than those that are better off.

He is referring to something called “progressive price indexing.” Progressive price indexing means huge benefit cuts for the middle class. Here are the numbers from CBPP:

Progressive price indexing would reduce annual benefits for an average wage-earner who is 25 today and retires in 2045 by 16 percent…For an average-earner who retires in 2075, the benefit reduction would be 28 percent or $7,629 in today’s dollars… From Think Progress.