photo theme thursday: wooden

wooden

yep, you got it. this thursday's theme is wooden. the above are my first real pair of high heels. i got them for 9th grade promotion, at which i was the valedictorian.  they're still my favorite pair of shoes to this day and they've had to be repaired multiple times because i've worn them so often.  in case you're still wondering how this fits with the "wooden" theme, it's because the soles are wooden.  they make an awesome clacking sound when you walk in them - not the horse kind of clacking sound but a "there's a girl coming down the hall in some hot shoes" kind of clacking sound.

anyway, i've been busy working all week.  it's been kind of crazy at the pharmacy with all the boys gone for a week but it's been fun to just have the girls again!  we get to have conversations that we could never have when the boys are around.  today, for instance, we talked about cervixes.  cervices?  whatever.  (not as weird as it sounds when you know that two of the girls are pregnant)

tonight i used my $14 for $7 groupon to gourmandise with my bcff (best chemistry friend forever; she's probably dying that i called her that considering that she's a biologist and really didn't like chemistry all that much), heather.  she and i took quant analysis together in the summer and were lab partners.  our project was about the amount of estrogens found in effluent waste water and tap water throughout the salt lake valley.  good news: no measurable amounts of estrogen found in tap water.  bad news: high levels of estrogen in waste water.  why does that matter?  i'll tell you why.  we're turning our male fish into girls!  and when there are only girl fish, there are no baby fish being made.  when there are no baby fish, soon there are no adult fish.  no adult fish, no birds that eat the adult fish, and so on.  second bit of good news: this CAN be reversible with proper water treatment.  anyway, you can read the entire report (references included) if you want.  i think it's pretty awesome.  that project is also what solidified my decision to go into research.  it made me realize that 1) i'm not completely incompetent when it comes to working in a lab and 2) there are other types of chemistry besides organic (le gasp!).

finally, i thought i would mention that the U of U Pharmacy Cup and Champagne Brunch is coming up, in case anyone has a spare $150 sitting around that they'd like to put to (semi) good use.