Things that come X years after the fact
- After 9 years studying/working in this institute, finally have a powerpoint presentation with the picture of a baby on it. And I have been so successful at avoiding doing it as well =='
- After 3 years of professional work, another 4 years of postgrad training, another 4 years of undergrad and another 3 years of high school biology, it finally occurred to me, one cloudy Saturday morning while walking among the bushes in the hills and batting away buzzy flies: transcription = make a thing readable = make a gene readable to the protein-producing machinery via RNA (aka RNA synthesis from DNA template), translation = make a thing understandable = make a useful product from a gene (aka protein synthesis from RNA template). It's one of those times when you read a word so many times that it starts to lose meaning on you, then one day the meaning just randomly comes back.
- After 12 years of having a niece and 2 years of having two nieces, I finally know what to get for them for the holidays. They might or might not appreciate it, but meh.
- After 3 years of owning a car, 4 years of active driving, 10 years of having a driver's license for cars and 13 years of driver's license of any kind, finally ran over wildlife while I was driving. It was around 10 at night, after successfully slowing down for more fortunate possums and wallabies, on completely deserted country roads on a drizzy night. The sensation of the car being bumped around, while knowing exactly what it was that the car was running over, was not brilliant. Nope.