Below are the 15 most recent journal entries recorded in Troyfx's LiveJournal:

Monday, July 18th, 2005
11:16 am	Fat Kids Don't Climb Trees I now have a user picture. I have never really taken the time to work on this livejournal thing, maybe I'll start now. Current Music: Less Than Jake- B is for B sides album (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 11th, 2004
12:14 pm	BglII I think Bgl II is my favorite restriction enzyme. How could it not be, I mean bagel 2...what a fun name. Other than that not much going on, just lab work at the USDA and school. I get a little confused sometimes, but as soon as I get the data at the USDA I will focus totally on my school work and just help out there with other projects. I am just so focused at the USDA due to the fact that this project is of my own design and needs to work!!!! (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004
11:26 am	I'm still here I think it is funny that I read this thing everyday but I haven't posted in several months. I guess going to school and working takes a lot of my time. I have been thinking a lot lately about writing a novel or a book of short stories. The problem is that I never take the time to write anything, and when I do that I don't think it is good enough for anyone else to read. I do believe I am meant for science, but sometimes I wish I had more time during the day to develop other parts of myself. I did buy some oil paints recently. I just don't have enough time to actually paint anything, and the fact that our apartment is tiny doesn't help either. Back to science. Our lab just received one of our grant, so that means money for summer. We are also getting a confocal microscope, so I'm busy making a lot of GFP constructs. I'm starting to feel a bit more at home here. I never really thought about how long it would take me to get used to the way other people do things. I also learned that academic labs are much more independent...I was so used to work where when a solution is made and everyone uses it. I spent the first few days this semester just making solutions and getting my lab bench together. I guess I will go look at my flies, I feel so mysogenistic separating the virgin females from teh other flies. And then forcing them to have sex with the males of my choosing! I have absolute power!!!!! (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 17th, 2003
1:33 pm	Franco UnAmerican I think we have become a country of complainers (myself included). It seems that we can find anything and everything to bitch about...but usually we tend to focus on the most obscure and irrelevant details of our pathetic lives. The whole Illini thing pretty much makes me sick. Perhaps we could cure the more serious ills of the world, or perhaps even Illinois, before tackeling the ever so important U of I mascot. For christ sake -the aren't called the REDSKINS or anything that in my mind resembles anything deragatory. The chief is actually portrayed in a positive light in my mind. Let's go after Notre Dame next, that "Fighting" Irish sterotype must go!!!! And if anyone else has watched a game this year, did you notice that the leprekaun is black!! A black Irishman, call in the National Guard they is surely going to be a riot somewhere! Now I've got to get back to living in irrationality (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003
6:10 pm	Teaching People Sucks!! I am now an official TA, which means poorly paid bitch that does all of shit work for BIO 101 at ISU. I don't even have enough time to start on my own research projects. Since I didn't have a lab going in I had to take 9 hours of credits, and teach 3 two hour labs...and as a result grade everything for 72 kids and keep their total grades for BIO 101...hold office hours, grade papers, etc... I am looking for fellowships to apply for, but they all want someone who is early in graduate study (since I have a MS, I have too much "experiece" for those that I keep finding). Oh well, a few years and I will be in the real world. Hi Sabina! How is Johns Hopkins going? I am going to work with Drosophila, characterizing the protein PEZ. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 8th, 2003
3:04 pm	I am one step closer to being a master So, smuend, how poorly did I do? I think you can tell me the truth now that you are not standing in front of me. I am soooooo happy to be done with that step, the last is actually defended the damn thesis (sort of almost done, need to get all of my figures together). Then I'm off to the wild world of the mighty fruit fly. I'll be a master of regulation by then so PEZ and MEG better watch out! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 1st, 2002
10:58 pm	I feel like a poorly made lifetime movie Has anyone else at some just not felt like themselves? I can't really put my finger on it, it just seems like I am not in control on my life at this moment. I think I am experiencing a lack of motivation because I feel like it doesn't matter what I do because I have no control. I am going on a short vacation next week, maybe being away from P-town will help me clear my mind. I actually think this city puts a drag on me...sorry all of you P-town natives, I really don't like it here. As soon as I get my degree I am out. I do like our new apartment better, it's finally done. It's weird though, I think in makes me tired...I don't know...I come home and then I just don't want to do anything....then again that could also be part of "my world is falling apart around me" feelings I have been having. I have been meaning to do several things for over a week now...but they still aren't done. I think I need some prozac or paxil or something. Oh well, I don't have the motivation to go see someone to give it to me. On a completely different not I thought Julie was going to die last weekend. On Thursday I made here go to the Bradley Health Center to get checked out (she had a really bad sore throat). They did a strep test (neg.), gave here tylenol with codene and said come back tuesday. Well on Sunday (at my house in the Hub City) her throat got all swollen and hurt so bad she was acutally in tears. So I made her go the the emergency room...it ended up she had an abscessed left tonsil and they totally missed it at bradley. She got some vicadin and an antibiotic. Today I think she is back to normal...but it was an exciting birthday (July 26th) weekend for me. I think I am going to go to bed no (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 29th, 2002
5:38 pm	my life is so pathetic I have nothing to write Sorry I haven't written in a while, but I am pretty much a boring person. I have been working and taking two class, and pretty much nothing else. Things at work are actually going well, I will have everything ready on Tuesday to do a fungal transfromation with both orientations of my gene. I may actually get some sort of data to base a thesis on. Now I need to focus my attention on finding a real graduate school to attend. Bradley is so worthless, I don't think I'm doing my best here because I think the place is worthless. I would love to go somewhere that has real professors doing real research. Jan's silly microsatellite research really just gives me a headache since she doesn't know what the hell she is doing. I've decided I just hate people in general...well except for Sabina and my internet girlfriend Lizbabe. But now Sabina is either going to die of a severe leg infection, or move to Germany. I think what I need is a trip to Europe...now if only I had some money. I sent off my application to the govt...but who knows how long that will take. I think I will just become a hermit, until I can't stand it anymore...then maybe I can interact with the retards that make up the general population without feeling the need to shoot myself in the head. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 13th, 2002
4:45 pm	i haven't done this in a long time I guess my live is just boring and pathetic, I don't really have anything to write....but I feel guilty about not ever posting anything. Well, on a happy note I still have cable without yet paying a bill. On a sad note my phone bill came today and it is $150 because of transferring my service to a new location...I think it's all a big scam. I don't even talk to anyone on the phone, yet I still seem to have obscene bills. I dont' really enjoy taking to summer courses, especially when on is 2.5 hrs and the other is 4 and on Wed. I have them both. I think I will be very tired for the next 4 weeks, and then I will at least have a bit of summer. On a completely different subject, I just sent off my application for Sabina's job. I feel a little guilty about that, almost like I took it away from here. My luck some veteran will get more points than me...because in this whole govt. plan veterans get a bonus just for being veterans. Oh well, it's out of my hands now. I seem to have written a lot for not having anything to say...so now I feel good about myself. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 4th, 2002
8:05 am	Where are all the books? I was watching the "Cribs" marathon on MTV this weekend...I don't really know why, and I noticed that none of the people they visited seemed to own a book. There were no bookshelves, no libraries in their ridiculously large homes...do people not read anymore? They did have their own movie theaters, bowling allys and anything else imaginable, but no books. I think what I found most sickening of the entire program was how stupid these people were...they didn't deserve to be rich and live like that. I know if I were to come into great somes of money I'm sure I would waste some of it...but these homes are horrible...why would anyone need half of the things I saw? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 30th, 2002
11:57 am	I get new carpet!!! I get new carpet today...but I need to leave work now to move all of my shit. At least by tonight I will be living in luxury. woohoo!! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 29th, 2002
11:32 am	I just want some carpet.... The floor guys were supposed to put my kitchen floor in yesterday...but they didn't bring enough glue...what the hell? Don't they do this for a living? Shouldn't they know how much glue is necessary? Anyway, it should go in today, but it has to sit for 24hours before I can put anything on it...so that moves carpet installation back until friday...so I will be wearing the same pair of jeans (mind you the only one's that I can find because everything is packed in boxes) for the 6th day in a row today...and I guess I will still be wearing them on Friday...but on Saturday I will be in clean pants!!! The landlord is giving us this months for free though, so that's $375 I can pay bills with...like my VISA since I have to eat out everyday becasue my apartment isn't done! Another bitch post...maybe I won't post again until I am cheerful. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 27th, 2002
11:49 am	I get new carpet and kitchen type flooring tomorrow!! I'm happy, but I just can't stop thinking, what do they want me to do with everything I own? We moved in Sat., can't really put anything away because of the new flooring going in every room...so I have a couch, computer, and TV that are of use to me, everything else is in a box on the floor. The girl that lived here before is fucking gross, I can't even walk on the carpet without shoes on...you just get covered with dog hair, I don't think she cleaned the bathtub, and the kitchen was disgusting. The landlord is the nicest man alive, but he is about the slowest man alive as well...we told him that we would not move til Sat...we could have moved in on last Tuesday...guess when he had the guy come in and paint...Sunday...what the hell is wrong with people? A whole week without us in here, but he chooses to do everything after all of my shit is here. I can't believe what a bitchy post this has turned into...I sound like Sabina talking about gay boy! I just got the new NOFX CD...45 or 46 songs that weren't good enough for our other records, that is a bit of sunshine on my clouded day. And the cable is still hooked up here, so at least I have something to watch since I can't unpack anything...but I think I will go clean the ghetto apartment today. When we were moving out on Saturday I think the neighbor Walter was smoking up because the hallway reeked, I think I got high just walking back and forth through the hall. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 23rd, 2002
3:40 pm	Celebrity Wresting is the Greatest Thing Ever Created! Did anyone else see Screech from saved by the bell beat the hell out of the old guy on Wed. night. I didn't think he had it in him. And it was nice to see Darva Conger getting some good publicity...well I guess any publicity is better than no publicity, right? I wonder what will be next...OJ vs. the cop that testified against him...Gary Condit vs. Bill Clinton...Monica Lewensky vs. Chandra Levy's corpse...I don't know...I can only wait for the next installment. (15 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 20th, 2002
12:54 pm	hey troy, i set up an account for you...it has the same pass and everything...now we can talk together etc. you can pick whichever one you want. and i can put on princessjennifer on here (9 Comments |Comment on this)