15 year old me is very happy.

When I was in 10th grade, my Biology class went to a day-long seminar about DNA, the Human Genome Project, telomerase, recombinant DNA, and other cool and topical genetics news. I loved it, and talked about it for months afterwards to anyone who was foolish enough to ask me what I was learning in school. For a brief period (ok, about four years and most of my preceding childhood) I seriously considered studying genetics or otherwise going into SCIENCE. I stopped seriously considering this when I helped my ex-boyfriend get through his organic chemistry class (twice), and I decided that the sciences were not for me. There are still days, though, when life in the lab is more appealing than life in the library. Imagine: getting to see the results of your labor in the form of charts, graphs, numbers, and (if you're lucky) actual organic matter. Oh, to have tangible products of an academic pursuit! But I digress. My point here is that 15-year-old me finds this scarf really freakin' cool: (Yes, it will look much better when it's blocked.)