Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.

Tag: slice.of.life

  • New Haircut

    I have been trying out a fauxhawk for the past couple of months. This time, I got it cut shorter on the sides so the look is a bit more stark. Standing it up like this takes a good bit of effort though, so I’m unlikely to do it too often.

  • Pumpkin Carving Party

    We had a bunch of people over to carve pumpkins on Hallowe’en weekend. It was a first experience for many of our friends and the results were quite impressive. One of the pumpkins turned out to look oddly similar to one of our Biochem professor’s trademark expressions. There’s also a toothy face, a devouring face,…

  • Trick or Treat? [Updated]

    Hallowe’en is fast approaching, and once again I am caught without a costume. I was thinking of hunting down a few accessories at a thrift store so I could be Hipster Hitler, but I’m not sure how well that would go over with folks not privy to the comic. There’s also the possibility of making…

  • Exiting the Nest

    Over the weekend Rachel and I drove up to Penn State Hershey for the College of Medicine’s second look day. The whole thing was organized by the med students, and while they did squeeze a lot of information and activities into the day, I was impressed once again. I was also quite surprised by how…

  • Miscellany

    I got accepted at Penn State University! This means that I now have choices for where I begin the next phase of my education this fall. On a more trivial note, I live off of a road that desperately wants to be gravel when it grows up, and thinks that if it just accumulates enough…

  • Not Enough Hours

    Like just about everybody else, I often feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to accomplish everything I want to do. Short of jettisoning my internal clock with something like the 28-hour day (and I can see my lab’s circadian expert shuddering from here), the best I can do is try to manage…

  • Project 52

    I am not one to make New Year’s resolutions, but I did make a commitment to Project 52 back in January. Like a lot of other people I was sick of wanting to update my site, only to put it off until the interesting bit I planned to write about was no longer relevant. My…

  • Remember, Remember

    It has been eight years to the day since nineteen Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial jet airliners and crashed them into the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Shanksville Pennsylvania, killing 2,993 people. Every American watched in shock and horror that day, an event and subsequent response that has defined…