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general update
May. 21st, 2012 11:54 amLast Friday was Bike to Work Day, and I biked to AND from work. It was a beautiful day, and I felt so great from the activity that I kept biking and got groceries. That part may not have been the best idea; carrying a 15-lb bag without a way to tie it to the bike was hard and I broke a fingernail somehow due to keeping the bag on my shoulder while riding awkwardly along. However: I was awesome and virtuous.
I owe a proper med update, since this one is interesting logistically. (No effect so far, unless it's giving me this tension headache.) Working on a paper letter to the neurologist, since all my doctors are stubbornly stuck in the Paper Age.
Went to lunch and plant shopping with Mom on Saturday, which was lovely. We got her clover for her crummy soil, and wallflowers, and Corsican mint, perhaps a few other cute things. I got a redwood-sorrel for under the damn holly tree, and a couple of red flowers (salvia with contrasting dark stems, and a true-red millionbells) for my warm-colors garden, and something else I can't remember right now.
Sunday I cleared a bunch of Himalayan blackberry and planted the previous plant purchases: broccoli, peas, Bibb lettuces. Wim's potatoes from last year are coming up back there, and some have seeded new ones, which I didn't think they were supposed to do -- it's definitely from seed, they're a foot from the existing ones and when I dug some up accidentally they had only teeny tubers so far. Also played with a pretty neighbor cat called Blaise; no idea where it lives, soft medium-length gray tabby coat with that striking light-eyeliner effect, very sweet, probably about a year old. I think the poor thing's declawed in the front, which makes me a little worried about it being out alone, but it was jumping and balancing quite well for now, just didn't shred the weeds we were playing with like I expected.
Work's going okay. A lot of what I'm trying to do right now relies on a multi-day process that requires attention every hour or two and can fail for reasons I don't understand, which is not the best situation. If this round doesn't work out, I should have more info on how to do it right and I have a (labor-intensive) fallback plan. My manuscript for the video journal got great reviews and we're sending our response back today, so look for me as a molecular biology celebrity at some point after the video crew comes. (I reserve the right to wibble about my haircut/outfit before they come, so you may hear about this again.) Lots of editing for PI right now, which is nice.
I owe a proper med update, since this one is interesting logistically. (No effect so far, unless it's giving me this tension headache.) Working on a paper letter to the neurologist, since all my doctors are stubbornly stuck in the Paper Age.
Went to lunch and plant shopping with Mom on Saturday, which was lovely. We got her clover for her crummy soil, and wallflowers, and Corsican mint, perhaps a few other cute things. I got a redwood-sorrel for under the damn holly tree, and a couple of red flowers (salvia with contrasting dark stems, and a true-red millionbells) for my warm-colors garden, and something else I can't remember right now.
Sunday I cleared a bunch of Himalayan blackberry and planted the previous plant purchases: broccoli, peas, Bibb lettuces. Wim's potatoes from last year are coming up back there, and some have seeded new ones, which I didn't think they were supposed to do -- it's definitely from seed, they're a foot from the existing ones and when I dug some up accidentally they had only teeny tubers so far. Also played with a pretty neighbor cat called Blaise; no idea where it lives, soft medium-length gray tabby coat with that striking light-eyeliner effect, very sweet, probably about a year old. I think the poor thing's declawed in the front, which makes me a little worried about it being out alone, but it was jumping and balancing quite well for now, just didn't shred the weeds we were playing with like I expected.
Work's going okay. A lot of what I'm trying to do right now relies on a multi-day process that requires attention every hour or two and can fail for reasons I don't understand, which is not the best situation. If this round doesn't work out, I should have more info on how to do it right and I have a (labor-intensive) fallback plan. My manuscript for the video journal got great reviews and we're sending our response back today, so look for me as a molecular biology celebrity at some point after the video crew comes. (I reserve the right to wibble about my haircut/outfit before they come, so you may hear about this again.) Lots of editing for PI right now, which is nice.
