no, I won't be skiing
In a few hours, I'm off to Snowbird, Utah for a week at BontaniCon 2009 (also known as the BSA/MSA joint annual conference). I think they like to host conferences in beautiful parts of the country just so we can feel extra-depressed about spending all day in an air-conditioned conference room talking about bioinformatics techniques.
Actually, I'm excited about my weekend workshop -- ecological approaches to analyzing complex community datasets -- but then, I don't have a deeply-ingrained terror of learning to program in R, the way some of my labmates do. Later in the week, I'll present a poster on my data from the Mexico trip I went on last summer, and then I'll be entirely stress-free (or so I hope). Maybe they'll even let me go outside and see the sun, once or twice.
Actually, I'm excited about my weekend workshop -- ecological approaches to analyzing complex community datasets -- but then, I don't have a deeply-ingrained terror of learning to program in R, the way some of my labmates do. Later in the week, I'll present a poster on my data from the Mexico trip I went on last summer, and then I'll be entirely stress-free (or so I hope). Maybe they'll even let me go outside and see the sun, once or twice.