GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist and her five parrots are currently relocating to Germany, where she will continue writing her blog while also writing a book and learning German. (Meanwhile, her parrots will continue to nibble on her extensive personal library.) If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, you can help pay her living expenses by hiring her to "blog" your conference, speak at your club or write articles for your publication (or by clicking on the Paypal button below). If you read an essay on this blog that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for inclusion in 
Okay, my peeps, I have made an amazing discovery! I found a pub with free wifi AND affordable beer! I can sit on a sidewalk in Manhattan (well, until my battery konks out or I run out of money -- it's a race), watching horse racing on the pub TV, watching people and cars on the streets -- all while I drink beeeeer and write essays and musings for my blog. This is as close to heaven as I will ever get, to be sure (shaddup, PZ! I'm allowed!).
OMG, there is a HUMAN SKULL on the window sill above the doors (I'm sure it's all fakey and stuff) and they are playing Nirvana on the jukebox! Excuse me while I take a brief moment to
scream!!
I am so in love!
(and for you testosterone-poisoned boyz out there, the pub features a big gallery of bras hanging from above the bar, too)
Comments
Sounds like heaven!! wish I could join you, take it easy on the beer, you still have to walk home LOL!!
Posted by: Dawn | June 9, 2006 5:32 PM
WALK home!? surely you jest! this grrl is going home in style: staggering home from the subway!
Posted by: GrrlScientist | June 9, 2006 5:49 PM
Do share the name, please! I'm sure the bar wouldn't mind some free publicity, and we Manhattanites certainly wouldn't mind som free wifi.
Posted by: ThePolynomial | June 9, 2006 6:05 PM
Bourbon Street, 407 Amsterdam
Posted by: GrrlScientist | June 9, 2006 6:12 PM
Yet another reason why I love and miss the city. Don't know if you got to my inaugural homecoming essay today, but this place sounds like a great spot for live blogging! Oh, happy day for you!
Posted by: Abel PharmBoy | June 9, 2006 6:50 PM
"In heaven, there is no beer,
That's why we drink it here,
And when we are gone from here,
All our friends will be drinking all our beer."
Posted by: Paul Riddell | June 9, 2006 7:16 PM
I'm still amazed that enlightened people can see 'horse racing' as a legitimate form of entertainment. Seing horses running wild on their own must be a great thing. But seeing and enjoying watching horses doing the bidding of the rich is beyond me. Plus, the thought that one *will* fall and break its leg and then having to be destroyed is enough for me hope this form of entertainment goes the way of chicken fighting.
Just my thoughts.
Posted by: Ben C. | June 10, 2006 2:41 PM