College textbooks are a huge rip-off

nikki | July 26, 2008

I’ve been reading some articles here and there about how some college textbooks are available online for free downloads, but every time I try to find the free downloads I can’t find them. I’ve been looking for them because I want to be able to tell my friends and relatives where they can get these [...]

HIV vaccine

nikki | July 20, 2008

I was reading on the time.com website that a clinical trial for the government’s most advanced HIV vaccine candidate has been scrapped. The vaccine was to be a two-shot injection and was supposed to work by activating the body’s cell-based immune responses to HIV.
The trial has been scrapped largely because the previous trial of [...]

Today I had to pick up a friend from Union Station

nikki | July 14, 2008

This past weekend a friend of mine was traveling from DC to Philadelphia, and decided to take the Amtrak train.  I agreed to take her to the train station, and pick her up again.  She had never taken the train to Philadelphia and didn’t know what to expect.  So on Friday I drove with her [...]

Crockpot chicken for supper tonight

nikki | July 8, 2008

My roomie Shelly brought home a crock-pot this weekend that she bought at a lawn sale. She said that she had a great recipe for a chicken that her mother used to make all of the time that she wanted to make for us this week. So she went to the market and [...]

Humidifiers in the summer

nikki | July 2, 2008

You might think I’m crazy, but I run humidifiers in the summer. I run dehumidifiers in the basement, but up in the living areas of the house I run humidifiers in the main rooms that we live in. I only started doing that last summer when I noticed that my thumbs were developing [...]