so I moved this weekend. yay. now I'm living in a real house with J. and R. By "real" i mean not a college house -- it has a garage and a basement and is new and clean and not gross. but the most important part is that my closet is HUGE. so big I could have a closet party just in the closet. I might actually do that. it's very inspirational, in that it inspires me to feed it with clothes. also, there is a corn field across the street from our subdivision (yea, we're like, in the suburbs) and there is this big creepy-looking tree sitting out in the middle of the field. It's kind of cool and every time I see it I have this huge urge to run through the corn out to the tree. which is a little weird. however i am slightly worried about getting lost. hmmm. will keep updates on whether or not i actually get lost in the corn one day.

other things...oh! I got funding for next year. which is good. but now I am worried I might give up on leaving after I get my masters' because I am too lazy to move again and deal with getting a job. especially since the funding can possibly be extended to 2 or 3 years. I got the Cellular Biotechnology Training Program Fellowship, which is basically a group of people who all do biotech related stuff here at Michigan, and then if your advisor is affiliated, you can be nominated for a fellowship. They give them out to about a few people every year, and then you just have to take a class and meet with the rest of the people once a month and share research and stuff. Not a big deal. My advisor knows that I was thinking of just getting a masters' and says they probably won't hunt me down if I take the money for one year and then leave. which is nice, but still doesn't help me decide what I want to do with my life. sigh...