It has been a crazy couple of weeks here in Colorado! I haven’t been missing out on too much summer because the rain and the research keep me inside most days.  Research? That’s right.  I am learning everything I can about cancer and its treatments when I am not busy infecting my bladder cancer cells with bacteria (bad news).  To my dismay, I am not good at keeping them alive and evenly seeded yet, but I will be soon.  I am really excited about my project though, which will hopefully identify a mechanism of how bladder cancer cells become resistant to docetaxel, and maybe even a way to re-sensitize them.  Woohoo!

When I am not at work, fun things have been going on.  Hiking in the rain, running in the rain, and eating the delicious Indian food that my new roommate has been making, yum! I am also going to submit my primary applications for medical school any day now….

Shiny, soggy flatirons. Weird.

In other news, sometimes people ask me why I am a vegetarian.  There are lots of answers, but every so often I learn a reason in my field of biology.  Aside from creepy parasites and MRSA that often reside in meat, this week’s reason is that I like my thyroid hormones to be at normal levels.  Check it out!

Last but not least, my garden is finally becoming everything I always hoped for, and is taking over our deck.  I planted some herbs from seeds, so that will be particularly exciting if I end up with edible basel and mint for my pasta/mojitos.  Yeah!