Whew!

I slept nearly twelve hours last night. Just flopped down on the bed and I was /gone/ until about nine-thirty this morning. Then I was Productive, as I walked down to the Financial Aid office, and got my awards corrected, as I'm only doing 6 hours in Fall and Spring, instead of nine. Now all I have to do is fill out whatever housing forms they want, and I'm cool. Also, must get new parking sticker.

When I came back, of course, I was sticky from sweat, so I took a shower, and now I feel marvelous, dahlink, simply marvelous. I've got my multicultural interview done, I just have to type it up, which I'll try to do today. Then I have to pick a research topic for my final paper. And sometime try to study for my midterm. *pant pant pant*

It's a Friday.

Coolness!

CHARLESTON, SC, United States (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist has developed a process to grow cow cells into full-size hamburger overnight but he can`t get anyone to invest in the process.

Vladimir Mironov, a biology researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina, said the process involves taking immature cells that develop into skeletal muscles from cows -- or pigs, or chickens, or turkeys -- and fusing them to a protein that, with the help of steroids, grows into big hunks of meat, The Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier reported.

The newspaper said the process isn`t exactly cloning, but more like cattle farming through chemistry.

The scientific procedure has been published in tissue-engineering journals, but Mironov says he can`t find any financial backers, Post and Courier says.

'In business, who pays to make a product nobody wants to buy?' Mironov asked. 'You show this technology and say, `Do you want to try the meat?` and they all say, `No.`'

But Mironov says the long-term benefits of the technology could outweigh the negative public perception.

He told the newspaper: 'It`s not Frankenstein meat. It`s like hydroponic tomatoes.'

Hell, if I had enough money to invest in this, I'd give it to him. For that matter, I'd eat the burgers, too.