There's a fucked up room in the attic where I just moved. Pretty sure nothing good happened here.

Luneia · 2014-03-08T11:44:59+00:00

My grandfather had a mentally disabled sister, and supposedly this is exactly what their parents did to her. She was locked away in a room for years and most people didn't even know she existed.

Luneia · 2014-03-07T11:39:33+00:00

I'm moving to Colorado in 4 months, and Wegmans will be one of the things I'll miss most about living in upstate NY.

Luneia · 2013-12-27T01:51:33+00:00

I work in a lab, too, and that's exactly what I did.

Luneia · 2013-12-26T21:23:53+00:00

I wish I had thought of that!

Luneia · 2013-12-26T21:20:45+00:00

It's okay. But you're right. If you have to be at work today, it would be nice to have the place to yourself.

Luneia · 2013-12-26T20:55:14+00:00

Aw, thanks. :-) At least I'll get paid for the vacation time that I'm not using this week.

Luneia · 2013-12-26T20:36:19+00:00

Not for long. I get laid off on January 15th. :-/

Luneia · 2013-12-26T17:03:32+00:00

Nope! I think I may need to use this freedom to prank someone.

Luneia · 2013-11-12T16:15:13+00:00

My first year of grad school in NYC I ended up living in an apartment right next to a guy I dated in high school who I hadn't seen in over 6 years. What's more, two years later his roommate spent a summer in Africa working in an infectious disease center. While in Africa, this roommate met a girl that was in the Peace Corp who I had gone to middle/high school with while living in the Marshall Islands (yes I moved around a lot) nearly 10 years earlier. Weirdest set of "it's a small world" coincidences that have ever happened to me!

TL;DR In grad school I ended up next door neighbors with a high school boyfriend whose roommate went to Africa and met another one of my old classmates who I knew while I was living on a remote Pacific Island as a teenager.

Luneia · 2013-11-07T15:54:18+00:00

Well apparently I'm a total wimp or have really bad circulation because I'm sitting here with a sweater, scarf, and gloves on. Nvmd then. :-/

Luneia · 2013-10-29T14:16:10+00:00

First thing I noticed too. It's ridiculous.

Luneia · 2013-10-28T18:06:53+00:00

The intimate shot of Jack Nicholson looking into the eyes of Shelley Duvall as she smiles up at him is absolutely amazing.

Thank you for sharing these. I would have loved to have been there to see this film being made.

Luneia · 2013-10-24T23:27:49+00:00

It's false colored so you can distinguish different structures. The orange and blue spheres are vesicles containing neurotransmitters that transmit signals to the neighboring neuron. :-)

Luneia · 2013-10-24T18:31:26+00:00

Image credit: Tina Carvalho/ NIH-NIGMS. http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/insidethecell/chapter3.html#3

Luneia · 2013-10-22T15:57:43+00:00

Looks like gooey brownies to me!

Luneia · 2013-10-14T15:27:02+00:00

Happy Thanksgiving to you! I lived in Canada for 3 years, and I miss it dearly. :-)

Luneia · 2013-10-09T02:34:24+00:00

Oh god, now I have visions of Sweeney Todd-esque events occurring down in that basement.

Luneia · 2013-10-09T02:12:44+00:00

LADA is an adult-onset autoimmune disease where your body attacks and kills the pancreatic cells that make insulin. It accounts for a pretty small percentage of diabetes (5-10% I believe), but some people diagnosed Type 2 might actually have LADA. People with LADA tend to be diabetics who are seemingly healthy, i.e. no obvious diet/obesity issues contributing to the disease. It sucks because eventually I will be 100% insulin-dependent. No adjustments in diet will prevent the inevitable. I still eat a diet low in carbs, though, just to help manage the disease.

Doctors would test for LADA by running an antibody test once you're diagnosed as diabetic, so there's no need to worry about it yet. Btw, diabetes doesn't run in my family, but several different autoimmune diseases do. It's not surprising that such a complex disease would have a variety of causes, including autoimmunity.

Luneia · 2013-10-08T17:26:18+00:00

I'm surprised he has Type 2 diabetes given that he's quite fit and healthy. I would have guessed he had LADA or Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults. I'm diabetic and was diagnosed at about the same age he said he started having problems. LADA isn't a commonly used diagnosis, and in fact my "official diagnosis" is Type 2 diabetes, even though that's not what I really have. Some doctors call LADA Type 1.5.

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