Quite the relaxing weekend. On Saturday Brad and I had brunch at the house of one of his colleagues. They are both from New York originally and are really fun to talk to. Very easy going people. They live in a part of Dallas that is nearby the residences of some of the richest people in America. We went on a drive in the neighborhood and I saw some of the largest homes I have ever seen in my life. Palaces is the only word to describe them. I cannot imagine where or how these people got the money to build such houses. One even had its own baseball field…ridiculous if you ask me. One highlight was we got to see Mary Kay’s house, its pink and girly. All in all in was a delightful drive. The light was autumnal and if the temperature had been cooler it would have been a perfect November 1.



Sunday we woke up late and I just cleaned the house up while Brad did his usual of playing Sim City 4. We went out to half price books to dump some old magazines, I got $5 for them. Not too bad for taking trash out. Later we went to dinner at Chuys and gorged ourselves on some really good tex-mex. We love that place, the margaritas are really good and its in one of our favorite parts of town. Hopefully this week will go fast and will be relatively painless and we can do this again.

Work has become such a trial for me. I grow increasingly more frustrated with the situation that I am in there. I took this job on the assumption that I would be at the ground level and would be helping to build the molecular biology research in the plastic surgery dept at UTSW. That implies that the department had a desire to improve their research in molecular biology. I have to discover that the department has no desire to make any kind of foray into molecular biology and I am not quite sure why they needed me. I will never again take a job that I am not 100% certain of what it exactly entails. Next time I interview I am going to check out the P.I. on Ovid and check out his publications and also ask what current projects they are working on. My boss is a hack, a nice man yes, but a hack. He is a sell out and is just a servant to the asshole that is the chairman of the department.



My plan: study like a mother for the GRE, prepare an amazing application to the graduate school here and get the hell out of this situation and do some real fucking science and not this plastic surgery bullshit. I was told I’d be working on the genetics of wound healing. I havent done anything of the sort, additionally my boss doesn’t even pretend to know genetics.



A little tip for everyone. To truly remember the krebs cycle remember Cindy Is Kinky So She Fornicates More Often. Citrate, Isocitrate, alpha-Ketoglutarate, Succinate, Succinyl CoA, Fumarate, Murate, Oxaloacetate. Fuck you plastic surgeons I know the krebs cycle, you sick fucks, you arent doctors, you’re fucking masochists.

Neglect. I have neglected my blog. Well in the past week things have been mostly status quo. Brad and I had an interesting experience on Wednesday night. If you know either of us personally you may inquire, otherwise you may not want to know.



I have been utterly miserable the past few days. I have been working out a lot lately and I think I have overtrained. I did arms last Wednesday and had a very intense work out. The next day my arms were sore but I am usually after a work out so i really didn’t think anything of it. However on Friday when I went to work out again, after two excercises my arms were on FIRE. I couldn’t finish and then on Saturday my arms were useless. It’s the worst feeling ever. I can barely lift the brita in my fridge for some water. “I want your arms.” Hehehe its an inside joke…the magic of jen the spirit of na.



Brad and I browsed at apartments this weekend also. What a fulfilling and frustrating experience. We cannot stand where we live now and cannot wait to move. We most likely move to an area called uptown here in Dallas. The apartments are nice and everything is right there. Your apartment could be right over a café, restaurant, or some other business. Its very urban and it appeals to us greatly. In addition to all of that the people that live in this part of town have real jobs that require them to go to bed every night no later than midnight. So the chances of us being woken up at 4am by bongo drums and guitar from a courtyard are virtually nil. Anyone reading this that lives in the Dallas area or might be moving to Dallas, do not live at a Power Properties apartment unless you want to be forced to watch movies outside and drink margaritas out of a soft serve ice cream machine with an impish fag named Wesley.

Thank you Nate! Read here



Okay so this guy DID break the law. However, he does reveal and underline an important point about airport security. Its a farce. Before September 11th it was just local minorities and elderly individuals who worked as the "security" personnel at airports around the country. They were all employed by various "security" contractors. The only thing that's different after September 11 is that now they all have the same employer and the same uniform and they all have the same patch on their right arm that says "TSA."



I have been through airport security several times since September 11th and honestly its not that much more secure. All they did really was buy some expensive equipment and put more conspicuous signs about restricted items. I highly doubt that the TSA employees take their jobs any more seriously than they did before they were federalized. Therefore BRAVO Nate for exposing the chinks in the so-called armor. I don't trust the TSA so whenever I fly I keep my OWN eyes open for suspicious people and suspicious acts. Lets all be a little more proactive.

Fantastic day! It started when Brad and I work up and we discussed how terrible the Bible is. When you think about it the Bible is a collection of stories about people who were slapped up and down the street by God and they still loved him. Umm okay these people are deranged. Its so transparent that the Bible was written to promote poverty and stifle individualism. Take the story of the tower of Babel; here you have people that just wanted a challenge and sough knowledge so they tried to build a tower to the heavens so they could see and talk with God. What does God do? He destroys the tower as they are building it and scatters the people of this civilization all over the world. God loves you remember that. The worst is Job. The man who lost EVERYTHING to God and yet he still loved him. Sadistic fuck that God. I'm not a Satanist or anything but is Satan the embodiment of evil or is he the pursuit of truth and knowledge? How can we ever seek to know things about the universe around us if we don't do so empirically? Therefore why not try things out of the established rules of society and see what the outcome is. Within reason of course there are certain rules that we should obey like not killing one another, stealing from one another, etc.



After our philosophical salon in bed we woke up and got some lunch at subway where we realized once again how lucky we are to be gay. We will never want or ever have children. I felt sorry for this dad I saw today at subway, his children were playing him like a harp from hell. It was awful they had complete control of him. Do you think kids know what they are doing sometimes or is it just that humans seek power at every stage of their lives?



After subway we rented bikes and biked the whole 8 miles around White Rock Lake here in Dallas. What a fucking beautiful experience. Fall is just starting here so the trees are yellowish green. The air was cool but it was completely sunny but light wasn't harsh it was perfect. The lake water had small wakes across it caused by the several small sailboats on it. In the distance we could see the downtown skyline. It was an idyllic bike ride.



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The Bible is evil but life is good.

DISGUSTING: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100179,00.html



That is the most disgusting piece of editorial journalism I have EVER read. Arizona the next recall state?!!! What is going on here people. I love how ultra-conservatives are hijacking democracy. Every democratic governor is now in danger because of the ridiculous recall in California.



I believe that Matt Hayes, the author of the commentary, is truly sick in the head. He believes that it should be law that people provide ID for proof of citizenship before receiving medical care. It can be inferred from his article that he feels that MOST of Arizona's budgetary woes have to do with the fact that illegal immigrants are receiving medical care in AZ and not paying the bills. Guess what asshole American citizens do the same damn thing. Its not just illegals. Furthermore, the budget issues in EVERY STATE are due largely in part to the tax cuts that our fearless leader enacted because the federal government has less money to give to the states.



Mr. Hayes fails to recognize that a law requiring proof if citizenship before medical attention can be received would apply to everyone. If it didn't that would be a form of discrimination. It would be racial profiling if it was done purely is someone "looked" as if they were not an American citizen. Therefore everyone that would go into a hospital, whether you were bleeding out of your head, your arm was torn off, or you just broke your leg, would have to provide proof of citizenship. That sounds great. I can just picture it. Corpses piled up in E.R.s all over the border states because they couldn't get their IDs out fast enough so they just had to die. Well at least the state didn't have to spend money to save their sorry and possibly non-US citizen asses.



In addition to expressing his admiration for human life Mr. Hayes also shows that he has no respect for democracy by proposing that Arizona is the next recall state! Governor Napolitano hasn't even been in office for a year!!! Another recall in this country in any state would be a sign to me that democracy has been broken. Because I believe in the foundations of government in this nation, another recall would cause me to seriously consider moving to another country and never return to this one because it would never be the same.

Yesterday my lab took off early and we went to the state fair of Texas. It was a very enjoyable fair experience. Texas has got its shit together. The fair grounds here are permanent and they have really nice gardens and spectacular art deco utopian society buildings all over the grounds. It was like being at a worlds fair rather than a state far. For some reason there were less bizarre people than I normally see at a state fair, in fact everyone was downright normal and CLEAN. Its odd because if you just walk around the city you see tons of questionable characters. I had my first real corndog yesterday too. I had the original "Corny Dog," it was quite delicious. It was a perfect day for the fair too. The sky was clear and the temp was cool, another nice autumn day. No more to report.