"especially with your phenotype."

i was talking to rubi and liz in my lab today about the possibility of becoming a teacher and being taken seriously. liz was saying it would be a struggle for us because we are so young. it seems like it could be hard to get students to respect you when you are what... 5 years older than them? and then rubi goes "especially with your phenotype... you are petite and cute..." we all had to start laughing because that's when you really know you are a scientist. so liz said that next time we go out somewhere she is going to find a cute boy and tell him that she likes his phenotype. :] i suppose it would be a good way to quickly screen a potential date. i mean... if he gets that comment, he's probably a keeper. ha

in other news... i managed to get my group photo yesterday. :]
it was a good/bad day for snow boarding.
the exam was beyond awful, so it was a crummy start to the day, but the weather was basically ideal.
we got a late start up to the mountain, but it wasn't busy at all so there were no lines.
and i was doing super well, but i fell on my head.
yes. i landed on my head. [you are allowed to laugh, it's funny now that i'm ok.] i was just getting confident when my board caught on something & i just felt my head smack the ground. *luckily* i was wearing my helmet. for a moment, i thought the helmet had cracked & i had broken my neck. i laid there for a minute unable to move. finally, i felt my helmet & realized it was fine. then i was able to slowly turn my neck & realize it was also fine. yay. so i laid there for about 3 minutes crying & then i realized that no one was going to come along and help me, so i had to just get up & finish. so i did. which made me even more proud because i didn't chicken out or give up. i'm actually really excited to go again.
i can't really move today, but i expected that. my neck is also super sore & i can't really turn my head. but i know i got a good workout yesterday.
liz did really well too. i don't think i'll have too many problems convincing her to go again. mike & james had fun together. james made mike go on the steep side. mike said it was super scary, but i think it's really cool that he tried it.
radhika didn't fare so well. i think she's decided that she wants to stick to skiing. i have to admit, sometimes it's tempting to go back to skiing, but i know james just wouldn't allow that. ha.

oh yes. i was also wondering if "zwitter" would be an acceptable baby name. [NO! i am not having a baby ANYTIME soon!] i haven't run it passed james yet, but i think the consensus is already no. you see... when i was studying for the horrid exam, i was procrastinating by reading about things in the book that weren't all that important, but were more interesting at the time. so i knew was a zwitterion was and everything, but i did not know that zwitter is german for hybrid. how cool! this sent me off into wonderland thinking about the potential cuteness of naming a baby zwitter... obviously because if james and i do end up having kids one day [in the distant future] they will be little hybrids. :] i think that i've resorted to the idea of simply calling our kids zwitter-kims [or simply zwitters for short] instead of tormenting them with a name like zwitter. anyway. i guess now i know why i didn't do so well on the exam. ha.

ok. i'm off to bed. i have to wake up early for molecular biophys grad seminar. i seriously hope he doesn't have those exams graded. i don't need to face that embarrassment just yet.