it's so cold

every inch of my body is searching desperately for some semblance of warmth in this freezing microscope room; it's cold in here and it's miserable outside

there's no where to escape 

At least Ryan's staining is ON POINT; these microglia are beautiful 

It's kinda driving me crazy that even a 17um stack takes 20 something minutes to acquire, and I'm not even doing this at my ideal 0.2 um step

I'm not sure if 100X with 0.18 pixel size is better than 60X with .2 or even .1 steps

I CAN'T FEEL MY TOES AND I HAVE TWO PAIRS OF SOCKS ON 

I splurged on this really beautiful sandalwood body wash that makes me feel like Cleopatra, and the scent of that plus lavender body oil and a knockoff Le Labo 33 is carrying me right now 

I'm like walking aromatherapy for myself 

WHY IS IT SO COLD 

"When we are tired we are attacked by ideas we thought we had conquered long ago"

Nietzsche 

I guess your solution then, wise ol' Freddy, would be to not be so tired. To get enough sleep, and give unsolvable problems a rest. To let things go; to let things happen, to let people happen

To just stop and take a break

Oh if it were only that easy my dear dear Friedrich. What did you even look like? Did you have a lover? What did you say to girls?

I was listening to another Trevor Noah interview today because I love the way this man thinks; it's so simple and nonplussed and straightforward. He has this preternatural ability to cut through the nonsense without any more sentiment than is absolutely necessary. 

He was telling Dax Shepard that the scariest parts of a horror movie are the pauses...when everything is normal and quiet and someone's just washing the dishes or folding the laundry because you as the audience KNOW that something is just ABOUT to happen 

You're like anticipating the dread; you can't like trust the calm

He said that the least scary parts of the movie are the parts when shit is like actually really going down, when there's screaming and blood and stuff (I don't actually know, because I hate horror movies and haven't seen one in 25 years)

It's funny because just a few days ago I read this essay about listening to Schubert, and how Schubert uses strategic silences in his compositions, as well intentioned contrast

And how it apparently makes Schubert, well Schubert 

And I'm in this weird space, I'm in a silence 

But I'm not sure if it's a Schubert or a Scream III 

the most gorgeous nature Neuro cover I've ever seen is out and it's about tau EVs ahhhh

It's like a gustav klint painting but something that's supposed to look like extracellular vesicles