Work, Food City, and Various Thoughts...

Sun going down behind the train tracks...

Food City is our favorite grocery store! It's the best place to buy super cheap Mexican food, just make sure you know how to speak Spanish, because your transaction with the cashier will probably not be in English.

My bike ride back to my apartment on Speedway...it's a pretty busy road, with a great mountain view.

Entrance to the Medical Research Building, where I work. I don't think I've ever actually seen anyone sitting at these tables... ;-) The past few weeks have mostly been a big blur. At work every day, I either take care of my cells, feeding or splitting them, do experiments (which is basically taking pictures of groups of beta cells with a microscope/computer at specific timepoints, with variables of glucose concentration and after adding different ligands or drugs used for insulinoma), or analyze the data from the experiements using DOS and Excel. Tomorrow I'm going to learn immunocytochemistry.

The highlight of our week is the trip to Food City on Friday nights. The grocery store is...more than a little sketchy. It's about a mile and a half walk from our apartment, in a strip mall with a "Factory 2 U", "Dollar General" (where we got our potentially deadly pan), and a "G Town". We all stock up on our tortillas (made fresh daily!), Mexican cheeses, avocados, limes, cilantro, and all the other specialties of Food City while practicing our Spanish (most of the signs in the store are in Spanish). On Saturday, we figured out the bus system, which is not fantastic, by any means, but it got us to the mall, a used bookstore, and CVS. On Sundays, I usually ride my bike to church (3 miles each way, in the hot, hot sun), then go swimming, and get in some relaxation time.