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strange to update, because not much occuring except for work cut with hi-concentrate procrastination.
procrastination? yes. Yesterday, PJ and I went to see another PJ (Harvey) as part of the New Yorker festival. quite pricey, but the music (and not the jabber) made it quite worth it. Wednesday, my mom is coming to town for the first time since i've been at AECOM which should also be fun. She'll be in town for a book makers' guild conference - but should have time between events to check out some of the gastronomically delightful haunts i've amassed since she's been last here. She'll be here through the weekend, and it sounds like Is will make it down from RPI, too - which is pretty awesome. i haven't had a chance to see her since she's moved back to school due to work.
work? 10-12 hour days on an extremely technically challenging project is not good for one's confidence. At the same point, it's amusing to tell myself that only one other group in the world collects my *control* population. needless to say my experimental population is quite a bit more insane. In 2 weeks, I have a work-in-progress for the department, and its not my desire to show slide after slide of degraded RNA. but then, does a single microarray of data suffice? not without significance. hopefully another array will be sent out tomorrow, or 2 next monday - and if that realtime PCR works, that'd be fantastic but in 2 weeks? and what does it mean if it's not the guts of what i want. what does it mean to show that in a presentation?
presentation? well, that's the thing. an hour in front of my scrutinizing department. it will make me stronger, if it doesn't keel me in the meanwhile. it would be better if i could concentrate on that presentation but then there's seattle.
Seattle? yes - the weekend before Halloween in which I am speaking at a session on Social Medicine at the annual American Association of Medical Colleges to tell others how to get a social medicine course organized at their institutions. It sounds like a great opportunity - but still. I have to give a run through of that presentation this approaching Thursday to one of the heads of the Social Medicine Department at Montefiore hospital. This is one of those things where yes, I know that science has to be my #1 priority right now. However, depending how this session goes in Seattle could open wide doors for a future career in social med and future career is very important, too.
oy vey. so i should get back to work. but i miss yoga very much.
Nada - R&R weekend at Kripalu in November??????
also, will be in Minnesota for Txgiving c PJ. (not Harvey). Tanya should have been there. : (
procrastination? yes. Yesterday, PJ and I went to see another PJ (Harvey) as part of the New Yorker festival. quite pricey, but the music (and not the jabber) made it quite worth it. Wednesday, my mom is coming to town for the first time since i've been at AECOM which should also be fun. She'll be in town for a book makers' guild conference - but should have time between events to check out some of the gastronomically delightful haunts i've amassed since she's been last here. She'll be here through the weekend, and it sounds like Is will make it down from RPI, too - which is pretty awesome. i haven't had a chance to see her since she's moved back to school due to work.
work? 10-12 hour days on an extremely technically challenging project is not good for one's confidence. At the same point, it's amusing to tell myself that only one other group in the world collects my *control* population. needless to say my experimental population is quite a bit more insane. In 2 weeks, I have a work-in-progress for the department, and its not my desire to show slide after slide of degraded RNA. but then, does a single microarray of data suffice? not without significance. hopefully another array will be sent out tomorrow, or 2 next monday - and if that realtime PCR works, that'd be fantastic but in 2 weeks? and what does it mean if it's not the guts of what i want. what does it mean to show that in a presentation?
presentation? well, that's the thing. an hour in front of my scrutinizing department. it will make me stronger, if it doesn't keel me in the meanwhile. it would be better if i could concentrate on that presentation but then there's seattle.
Seattle? yes - the weekend before Halloween in which I am speaking at a session on Social Medicine at the annual American Association of Medical Colleges to tell others how to get a social medicine course organized at their institutions. It sounds like a great opportunity - but still. I have to give a run through of that presentation this approaching Thursday to one of the heads of the Social Medicine Department at Montefiore hospital. This is one of those things where yes, I know that science has to be my #1 priority right now. However, depending how this session goes in Seattle could open wide doors for a future career in social med and future career is very important, too.
oy vey. so i should get back to work. but i miss yoga very much.
Nada - R&R weekend at Kripalu in November??????
also, will be in Minnesota for Txgiving c PJ. (not Harvey). Tanya should have been there. : (