Pfft. Whatever. All my friends know I'm a nerd, so the fact that I spend an embarrassing amount of time marathon-ing X-Files and Doctor Who shouldn't surprise anyone.

I can pretty much never sleep on planes, mostly because I'm extremely weird about touching/being touched by strangers and terrified about waking up leaning on the person next to me or something. Also, I think I would truly flip out if someone behind me put their un-shoed, un-socked feet on my armrests. Wow, reading…

BOOM! Roasted.

Dear Perpetual ManChild - It's been 4 years now and even though I thought I'd gotten over it, my blood still boils when I think of how you broke up with me. Thanks for telling me we needed a "break" (whatever the fuck that meant) and then "officially" breaking up with me OVER FACEBOOK so that all of our friends knew…

Ew.

There's a course in flow cytometry held yearly at University of New Mexico/Los Alamos that's a great place to start if you want to get into it. It can be sort of pricey but the lab experience alone you get with it is worth it. I have to do a lot of flow for my job and it really helped me.

I'd say anything that dovetails with the pharma industry, i.e. immunology/neuroscience/cancer research. Flow cytometry and assay development are two really good skills you can apply to just about any field, and you can easily gain experience with both in most research grad programs.

Thank you for this. I've been considering applying to PA programs, and the general public's misconception about what PAs do (and the tremendous frustration that must come with having to explain it to people again and again) is one of the things that always makes me have second thoughts about it.

I know you say you don't want to take on more debt, but if your background is in biology, getting your Master's will open up tons of opportunities for you (both in the kind of jobs you can get and the money you can earn - I speak from experience on this.) Scholarships and assistantships won't erase your debt burden,…

Vaping vamps? Is this some sort of lame Twilight crossover? I'm confused.

Ugh. As much as I bitch and complain about UK TV shows ending too soon, at least they don't drag on for ever and ever past the point of anyone caring.

Heh, this was actually many years later. It's much worse coming from a 27-year old guy, haha.

Ugh. :-( I think seeing a loved one suffer like that is a million times worse than losing them suddenly.

I can't decide if I'm attracted to or scared by Cumberbatch in that cover pic.

Yep. This.

Same here, but I was imagining kicking the shit out of him. What an ass.

I've had many lousy Christmases, but none compare to what some of you are going through. My worst was when I was 14 and my grandma died on New Years Eve (totally unexpected). Then, a couple years ago, my mom had been sick at Thanksgiving and was just barely starting to recover when Christmas came around. My then…

It's me! I love it.

Agree 100%. Why he's not insanely popular in the US right now, I'll never understand.

I think someone mentioned Green Wing but I'd second that - totally bizarre but consistently hilarious. Also Spaced, for the same reasons.