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A medium-length update
Aug. 4th, 2010 10:48 pmIt has been way too long since I updated here! I have been lazy.
So! Number of things. I went to Alaska for a week and a half with my family. I have an album of it up on facebook. (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2137002&id=13300614) Got really sunburned up on the harding ice field, saw lots of glaciers. A bald eagle perched on an ice floe. Bears, dolphins, whales, otters, marmots, all sorts of wildlife. We picked 7 bags of mushrooms... oh, Russians. Also got to eat all sorts of very fresh things. Freshly-caught halibut, caviar straight out of the salmon, RED CURRANT (which I hadn't seen since the last time I was in Russia), blueberries. Lots of very interesting hikes and things - Dima Pruss does geocaching so for a few of our hikes we followed unmarked trails which led to places identified only by GPS coordinates and cool little boxes of things.
Back in LA-land, our (now brevia) paper finally got accepted. Finally. I'll post a link here (and there, and everywhere) when it gets published. That took for-frickin *EVER*.
Other than that, research may be starting to pick up again. I have data on bacteria, and am doing things with it. Yippee. We have our microscope up and entirely running, which means that nowadays once every few weekends I have to stay up here to babysit it. Will try to make that coincide with the West LA Game Days, but that probably won't be enough weekends.
Otherwise I'd probably run off to San Diego just about every weekend, since I'm not liking the place I live all that much. It's loud, there's construction outside, the downstairs 'common area' still looks like a storage yard... I've been being told for about 4-5 months now that 'X and Y will get better in a few weeks or a month, really!' and I don't really believe them anymore, but so far I've had relatively little incentive to do anything about it. I spend my days in lab and most of my weekends at Nichol's in San Diego, and thus not that much time at home, and thus lazyness triumphs.
I didn't have a chance to go watch to the LA open last week. Too busy, it was just my second week back from AK...
But yeah, that's the deal around here. Grad student life goes on. Still fooling around with #ebz, is still fun.
So! Number of things. I went to Alaska for a week and a half with my family. I have an album of it up on facebook. (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2137002&id=13300614) Got really sunburned up on the harding ice field, saw lots of glaciers. A bald eagle perched on an ice floe. Bears, dolphins, whales, otters, marmots, all sorts of wildlife. We picked 7 bags of mushrooms... oh, Russians. Also got to eat all sorts of very fresh things. Freshly-caught halibut, caviar straight out of the salmon, RED CURRANT (which I hadn't seen since the last time I was in Russia), blueberries. Lots of very interesting hikes and things - Dima Pruss does geocaching so for a few of our hikes we followed unmarked trails which led to places identified only by GPS coordinates and cool little boxes of things.
Back in LA-land, our (now brevia) paper finally got accepted. Finally. I'll post a link here (and there, and everywhere) when it gets published. That took for-frickin *EVER*.
Other than that, research may be starting to pick up again. I have data on bacteria, and am doing things with it. Yippee. We have our microscope up and entirely running, which means that nowadays once every few weekends I have to stay up here to babysit it. Will try to make that coincide with the West LA Game Days, but that probably won't be enough weekends.
Otherwise I'd probably run off to San Diego just about every weekend, since I'm not liking the place I live all that much. It's loud, there's construction outside, the downstairs 'common area' still looks like a storage yard... I've been being told for about 4-5 months now that 'X and Y will get better in a few weeks or a month, really!' and I don't really believe them anymore, but so far I've had relatively little incentive to do anything about it. I spend my days in lab and most of my weekends at Nichol's in San Diego, and thus not that much time at home, and thus lazyness triumphs.
I didn't have a chance to go watch to the LA open last week. Too busy, it was just my second week back from AK...
But yeah, that's the deal around here. Grad student life goes on. Still fooling around with #ebz, is still fun.
