Picked a date, booked the room, contacted my committee, the thesis proposal is happening. September 16th. In the mean time, my cloning is finally beginning to work again, and despite having spent quite a few hundred dollars and closing in on 3 months on enzymes, gels, purification kits, and sequencing, I'm feeling optimistic. My aims are in place, my experiments are planned and I'm slowly starting to get a feel for how to optimize the impact of my work and not just contribute to the clusterfuck that is the current state of Alzheimer's research. Life's busy though, and between going to a regional burn a week and a half ago and preparing for two lab meetings this month, I haven't had much time for Hubski. Hopefully that will change next month as I transition from experiments to purely reading papers and writing up my proposal. If there's hubski interest, I may post layman-translated drafts on a few of the proposal sections, such as why mouse models suck, why high throughput science sucks, and why I'm hopeful anyways.
Oh man... Vermont... must have been lovely!! My current favorite is Otherworld, the Victoria regional burn on Vancouver Island. Utterly enchanting. Such a lovely community of people, a small event, in a hard-to-get-to place, far away from everything. There were even whales! Plur...
Been to a few of them then? This was my first ever, and while I'd like to go again, I'm planning to take it slow and figure out in the intervening year what contribution I'd like to bring next time around. Food and personality?My current favorite is Otherworld, the Victoria regional burn on Vancouver Island. Utterly enchanting. Such a lovely community of people, a small event, in a hard-to-get-to place, far away from everything. There were even whales!
Yeah, I have been to several, and know the organizers of several more. (I've been doing the Burning Man thing since the late 1980's.) When I brought my Dad to my local regional (Critical Northwest here in Seattle), he decided we should bring apples and peanut butter: one of our favorite snacks! But we took it one step further... we made our own peanut butter, and then made flavors! Chocolate peanut butter, honey peanut butter, port wine peanut butter, whisky peanut butter... it was GREAT! And it was all my Dad's idea. I'd been telling him about Burning Man for decades, and when he finally went to an event with me, he totally embraced the whole idea. It was fantastic.