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yuck. so i have terrible cold, i actually stayed home from work. which is probably good b/c my one attempt at leaving the house today was disastrous. i feel like i've been sick more this winter than any, but i think i feel like that every year. i should have seen this coming, as the kid i was sitting next to in class in thursday did nothing but breathe on me in between sucking up his snot. i tried to turn as far away from him as possible and even put my shirt over my mouth so i wouldn't breathe his air, but it obviously still got to me. he would turn wherever i turned and lean forward when i did - it was literally like he was trying to get me sick. gross. people should really stay home when they're sick. really.
so shawn and i went to ikea yesterday. i wouldn't say it was a total waste, but they didn't have the curtains i really wanted (which of course you can't order online or through the catalogue), but i have plenty of time. and h&m was kind of a bust too - they had very little by way of maternity stuff, and even their baby stuff was slim pickins. of course i still managed to find something. i always do.
so lately i've been trying to find a job - or a post doc. normally after getting a PhD, people continue on to a post doc, which is basically another 2-3 years of "school". you are in charge of yourself, but still working in someone else's lab. i hadn't really planned on doing this, until i got pregnant. if i can find a nice mentor, i can have a couple months off when the baby is born, work from home, and also have a more flexible schedule once i get back into the lab. and luckily for me, the cancer center has grants available to post docs that they are having problems getting rid of (so i should have a pretty good chance of getting). now i just have to find a lab. there is a guy who works in molecular immunology (allergies and such) of which i have NO experience, but there is a lot of research opportunities in cancer immunotherapy. this would basically be looking at cancer as a group of bad cells that your immune system has not been able to attack, and boosting your immune system against them as therapy. to me, this seems extremely interesting and not a bad way to go for a couple of years. i'd have a lot of learning to do - but thats what those two months off are for right? so heres hoping. oh and i have to graduate. but having this position before graduating would basically be a free pass to getting my degree.

in gossip - omg what the hell is going on with chris brown and rihanna?! Shawn told me he hit her b/c she gave him herpes. drama!