Hello again :)!
Hello everyone,
I hope you are all well, or at least not doing badly. Well, I'm back on my LJ and it's good to be back to you all! :) Back to being able to communicate with friends as a person should-I'm almost "human" again :) Seriously though, these past couple of months have been an absolute blur to say the least, with all that's happened in the professional life :) Ever since I left off with my rant about the Russian-Ukraine conflict, which to my dismay, left me absolutely sad and angry, I decided to throw myself heavily into my work like some relentless cyborg machine. Truth be told, I am even more saddened now by the choice the Ukrainian people made which (according to all the press I saw) was to vote "Pro-Russia"- in essence, it's take-over by Russia. Ok. What they chose is what they chose. They've made their choice, and no matter what choices we make in life, there are always consequences. And the consequences have been the economic sanctions on Russia we are seeing now imposed by my country among others. Either way, I'm happy that inspite of this conflict, I still have my Russian friends who were my friends before this conflict. In fact, there was one whom I've know online for the past 7 years that I would have liked to have called as more than a friend. His English got better and better as time passed and he got more and more desirable, "cheeky", and less shy than when I first started talking to him. But alas, we drifted apart and I realized after so much time has passed, that he would never see me in the same light as I saw him let alone ever make a move towards me. Too many secrets (one most unpleasant that I accidentally stumbled upon) and too many differences in our lives/worlds. We were so close yet a million miles away from one another-the closer I tried to get to him, the further he'd fly away and this went on and on. One day I realized that I want more than this.. I want a REAL relationship with a man. Not a fantasy, not a virtual cyber-banter based relationship, but a REAL relationship with a REAL man who wants to actually pursue me. And so finally, I made the decision to throw in the towel and stop talking to him (or should I say, stop talking to "the wall").. but I'm not here to tell you all about that. What I want to share with you tonight is the fact that I've spent these past months finishing up 3 years' worth of yet more collaborative work with a graduate student who not only graduated and moved on to her current post-doc position, but also published her work. I played a big part in helping her carry out this work, and so here is the article just published last month if any of you are interested:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988375/
I am the 2nd author on this publication. Also coming soon will be 2 more publications of 2 years' worth of collaborative work on a different project with yet another collaborator, a post doc fellow with whom I have been working over these past 2 years. Yes, I've been a very busy woman, and these days I am very happy to be busy. Once again, I hope my post finds you all well. It's good to be back to LJ :)!
I hope you are all well, or at least not doing badly. Well, I'm back on my LJ and it's good to be back to you all! :) Back to being able to communicate with friends as a person should-I'm almost "human" again :) Seriously though, these past couple of months have been an absolute blur to say the least, with all that's happened in the professional life :) Ever since I left off with my rant about the Russian-Ukraine conflict, which to my dismay, left me absolutely sad and angry, I decided to throw myself heavily into my work like some relentless cyborg machine. Truth be told, I am even more saddened now by the choice the Ukrainian people made which (according to all the press I saw) was to vote "Pro-Russia"- in essence, it's take-over by Russia. Ok. What they chose is what they chose. They've made their choice, and no matter what choices we make in life, there are always consequences. And the consequences have been the economic sanctions on Russia we are seeing now imposed by my country among others. Either way, I'm happy that inspite of this conflict, I still have my Russian friends who were my friends before this conflict. In fact, there was one whom I've know online for the past 7 years that I would have liked to have called as more than a friend. His English got better and better as time passed and he got more and more desirable, "cheeky", and less shy than when I first started talking to him. But alas, we drifted apart and I realized after so much time has passed, that he would never see me in the same light as I saw him let alone ever make a move towards me. Too many secrets (one most unpleasant that I accidentally stumbled upon) and too many differences in our lives/worlds. We were so close yet a million miles away from one another-the closer I tried to get to him, the further he'd fly away and this went on and on. One day I realized that I want more than this.. I want a REAL relationship with a man. Not a fantasy, not a virtual cyber-banter based relationship, but a REAL relationship with a REAL man who wants to actually pursue me. And so finally, I made the decision to throw in the towel and stop talking to him (or should I say, stop talking to "the wall").. but I'm not here to tell you all about that. What I want to share with you tonight is the fact that I've spent these past months finishing up 3 years' worth of yet more collaborative work with a graduate student who not only graduated and moved on to her current post-doc position, but also published her work. I played a big part in helping her carry out this work, and so here is the article just published last month if any of you are interested:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988375/
I am the 2nd author on this publication. Also coming soon will be 2 more publications of 2 years' worth of collaborative work on a different project with yet another collaborator, a post doc fellow with whom I have been working over these past 2 years. Yes, I've been a very busy woman, and these days I am very happy to be busy. Once again, I hope my post finds you all well. It's good to be back to LJ :)!