i'm back

the seminar was good. i'm slowly understanding more and more - this isn't going to make sense but i'm going to try anyway . . . my lab does T cell studies, inaki (eun's husband) does B cells. so, when we did the study of purposely giving people virus we looked at both T and B cells. the computer comes up with a dot plot where basically each dote resprents a cell. thne you tell it to compare this color to this color - the colors being different cell receptors. then, you can figure out what percentage of the cells have what receptors by putting a block around different groups of cells and telling the computer that those are what you want to look at. so - for all the T cell receptors, i could ask people around the lab what looked right and if i was picking out the right populations. the B cells - not so much. so, during his presentation he had a lot of the markers i had looked at so i got to see his version of the same graphs. that may seem little - but it was a huge warm fuzzy to me to know what was going on and to have seen those types of plots before :)

yersterday - jess was working and edgar was not so we got to have some down time at my apartment. we hung out for a while and ended up falling asleep together for like an hour. then we showered, found food and went to this new bar that a girl from chang's is working at. its called daisy dukes and is a country western bar so edgar was super excited. the music was fun - upbeat country and kind of old school 80s rock (pat benatar, poison) the place was PACKED! and there is a mechnical bull. yup, edgar rode it. so did the other chang's people we met up with. it was soo funny :) this one guy (that i didn't know) rode it a couple of times and was AWESOME! including the last time i saw him when he took his shirt of and showed that not only was he a great bull rider, he also had a washboard stomach, amazing arms and oh my god did his back look nice, all shoulder muscles flexing while holding onto the bull . . . ahh, a moment of silence for that boy's body . . . .

and tonight, after work we are going to go to gen's apartment and have a little technician party. a bit lame, yes - but we're going to play games and hang out. i'm excited :)