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bridget

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About Me

i'm a motorcycle-riding entomologist/plant pathologist seeking to unravel the mysteries of the soybean aphid's endosymbiotic bacteria. if that doesn't pique your interest, nothing will.

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roma

i just got back from a week in rome last night ... which is completely amazing considering that i had to fly through heathrow, which has been mired in fog for the past few days. visibility there was l...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:50:00 GMT

puff (lived inside the sea)

i got a freshwater pufferfish for my fishtank! he's cute, he eats a ton, and his name is puff. i guess i should have mentioned first that my tank stand crisis is over - i found an oak bombe chest and ...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:50:00 GMT

broken

bubba the iguana broke one of her toes. crazy beast. i think she may also have hurt her tail. i have no clue how she does this ...she's been sleeping under my bed lately, too. it's quite strange to wa...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:27:00 GMT

fishtank update

so i've gone to every pet store in town - and i don't like any of the tank stands that are available. they're all so underengineered, and i don't like the thought of 200lbs of glass, rock and water ha...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:29:00 GMT

new running shoes

i got new running shoes this weekend. turns out i under-pronate, which is sorta rare (i run on the outside of my foot, instead of landing on the heel and rolling inward toward the big toe). that also ...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:42:00 GMT

sooo hot

it's over 90 degrees out. so gross. but luckily i don't have to do any field work right now. poor undergrads :)and i'm an idiot who can't close a pcr machine correctly, allowing all of my reactions to...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:23:00 GMT