V. excited: I'm author on three abstracts for the Botany conference this year. This will be my first big conference where I'm actually doing stuff.
The actual presentation I'm giving, about a subset of my dissertation research.
A poster I'm presenting about some independent research I'm doing.
A poster I'm not presenting, but that I have done a lot of work on.
I also am working on a new (or at least much better) protocol for genomic DNA extraction of mucilaginous cactus tissue. It's a lot easier and cheaper than the protocol we've been using, and gives me better results.
I feel like I'm doing Science.