So, I woke up a little early and thought I would do one of my RARE posts. Actually I mean it this time when I say there should be more posts to come, why? I am starting my own podcast! Holy crap me and my friend Adam will be starting a podcast soon, should be really funny and a lot of fun. Once I get some supplies then we will be starting it up. Here is the thing…. We REALLY need some server space for the website and a place to actually PUT the podcasts. I know there are a lot of server savvy furs out there and I just wanted to ask that if any of you have some spare server space that we could use it would be awesome, otherwise I’m gonna have to figure out how to sync iTunes to FA, hee hee. Well, time to go to class, see you guys on the air!

So, tests went well, good start to the semester. Bad start to this week. I was leaving work on Monday, on my bike, and a fucking Explorer HITS ME. He tried to get passed me and cut it just a little too close and clipped me with his mirror and I do a lovely skid on the friendly road. Fortunately nothings broken but I need lots of TLC to aid in my convalescence.
Further, about 3 hours later I go to the emergency room because I assume they have gauze there so I can improve the dressing of my wound and they refuse to even sell me any saying I had to wait 3 hours so I could see a nurse... so I went to bed and went the the campus health center in the morning and they gave me all kinds of goodies to help me get better, they rock.
In any case, thats whats happening so far. If you all are lucky I'll tell you how Dengue Fever can make you cough up blood!

This one goes out to uni_laocorn.

Eeeeeto... boku no nihongo wa jiozunoga arimasen neh.

Literal Translation: "Uhhh... The fact that I am good at japaneese does not" exist. (I'm trying to be humble, hee hee!) Now for a translation for what I said earlier about viruses... some terms that some may not be familiar with.

The sense of single stranded DNA or RNA means how it can be read my certain machinery in an animal cell. Positive sence means that's it's ready to be translated to protiens and animo acid chains right out of the gate. Now if the Positive sense RNA is copied by attaching compliment molecules (neucleotides) then you get a negative sense strand. It's the miror image of the RNA or DNA and needs to be recopied, in some way, to positive sence before it can use the machinery of the cell to make viral products. Ambi sense simply means the DNA or RNA contains portions of BOTH positive sense and anti-sense genetic information... the replication of THAT is a bit more complicated. Finally, I don;t mention double stranded DNA or RNA becuase it already has both, one side is positive sence, so in order to have a double stranded molecule you have to have the anti-sence on the other side. Clear as mud?

Sooooo, i got a reply in my LJ to the post I made. I was asked how many types viruses come in. Here was my answer:

We have Double and Single Stranded DNA and RNA. Single stranded DNA and RNA can come in 3 types, positive sence, anti-sence and ambisence. That gives us a grand total of ohhhhhhhh like 8 genomic types. There ya go. Anyone want to know about structures?

Ok, so I don't know who might be watchin' me or whatever but I guess I'm gonna give this a shot. This will be my first of what will probably be a short series of journal posts. I figgure what the hell, might as well give this a shot right? I suppose I'll treat this as academically as possible and outline what this is about. I should tell you all who I am and what I am about then I'll move into what theese journal entries are about and what you all can expect. Let's see how I do, right?
I'll start off by saying that my name is Canto. I am a single 20 year old arctic fox living in Tucson Arizona. Why Tucson you might be askin'? I'm currently a Junior at the wonderful University of Arizona. My major is Microbiology and I have a dual minor in chemistry and Japanese. I've been told that that makes me a bit of a smart guy. I plan on taking my Japanese to Japan and teach English for a year after I graduate then go to medical school back here in the states and become a doctor, one who specialized in infectious disease.
Through my 3 years here at the university I have worn many hats. I have been a gay community leader through Pride Alliance and SPRITE (so yeah, I'm a gay fox, BIG surprise to you I am sure...) and that has been fun, met a lot of fun people, I was even one of the founding fathers for the first gay frat here at UA. Currently though I have opted to steer away from these endeavors to focus further on my studies, I find that civil rights and such are best left to poly sci and law majors. People like me are best found in a lab coat and getting good grades ;), I am comfortable with this role. My other hats are, I' m sure, best reserved for future posts.
I have not an artistic bone in my entire body, so you wont see any type of art here, most of my artistic talent goes into practicing carbon ring structures for my organic chemistry class. And as for writing? Well, that goes into the lab reports I have to write. So I'm afraid I wont be very thrilling in that regard but I'll post what I can and maybe even a couple pics of myself, that is if y'all are wanting to see such.
As for the purpose of this journal, I suppose it'll be my way of reflecting back on my days and nights, sorting out myself and settling my mind when it gets a little noisy. I like to write things down, file them and keep them. Since most of my life is spent in class and such most of what I write here will most likely be what I learned that day in my various courses, some of you may find it interesting (virology and such). Feel free to ask me a question of you want, I love to answer questions! I will also talk a lot about how I feel, don't be surprised if those times are negative, I tend to vent a lot to paper and keys.
I suppose thats it for now. Tommorow being Sunday I will tell you all about my last week and how hectic it was, but I'm sure I've bored you all WAY too much with this babble already, so much for keeping it academic... By the way, please feel free to respond to my posts, I'm a nice ofx and love talking to more folks.