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Finally starting to feel like summer...
Well as you know, this past weekend was Memorial Day Weekend. My parents own a house at the Jersey shore which is where I tend to spend most of my time during the summer. I work as a waitress at the Beach Club Café located on 13th Street and the boardwalk. There were so many people down in Ocean City. Here is a picture of the view of the boardwalk from my restaurant.
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My house is located on the bay which is so cool. Sunrise is beautiful, especially when the water is so peaceful. Here are a few pictures from my dock that I took before I was going to work.
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It felt so great to be back at the shore. Ocean City, New Jersey was recently named The Nations #1 Family Resort. Since it was the holiday weekend, I decided to drive home to work a couple of hours and try to make a little bit of money. Even though I have an internship here in Harrisonburg for the summer, you’ll quickly learn they do not pay enough money to be able to pay the bills for an entire school year.
The only bad thing about living in New Jersey is the drive to JMU. Since I had to be in the lab yesterday morning I had to be on the road by 3:30am in order to beat morning rush hour. Oh well... what can you really do about it...
Since being back, my lab partner and I started another research project for USAMRIID. This project involves the CapD protein and the DNA of anthrax. Today we completed minipreps which are used to verify that we have our plasmids. But unfortunately our results were negative meaning something must have gone wrong throughout the process. Instead of back tracking and trying to determine where we went wrong, we were assigned another task. Tomorrow, Nicole and I will assist Dr. Coffman on some of the research that he is conducting. We will be running minipreps on his samples to verify his plasmids and aid him and Dr. Raab in any research they need until we are assigned another project. For the rest of the day, I’ll probably just hang out and catch up on some lost sleep since the weather is kind of gloomy. Great day to watch a movie if you ask me!
Posted by Kristen on June 2, 2005 08:30 AM | Link | Email Kristen
