jinian | lots of good today

Finally met with last quarter's advisor to go over data. (Accordingly, finished graphs.) Found an odd difference in one tissue between genotypes otherwise identical. Hmm. Got asked yet again if I didn't want to come work on THIS tangential project; refused yet again to commit. Received a silly little bout of applause from advisor alone. Hee.

Got keys to new house, and started finding things they need to fix. It was a little too dark to do the move-in checklist in full, and one lock is stiff to the point of failure. But soon, new house! It still doesn't feel real. We have abundant volunteers for moving help, and may yet have a need for them, so stay alert!

Found a Taiwanese restaurant near the new house! Oyce, what do I eat? Wound up going to Kozue for good and interesting Japanese food tonight: ginger pork with mixed stir-fried veggies and roasted sweet-potato cubes, plus obligatory unagi nigiri and ume-shiso rolls.

May have found the problem with recent PCRs, which would be good. Almost certainly found a workaround for one of my persistent trouble spots, which would be excellent (though doing it depends on solving the first problem.)

And! I got into my summer course! Hurrah! I didn't get quite as much financial aid as I'd hoped, but it's workable. Five weeks of living and breathing the evolution of metazoan development; three quarters' worth of graded credits. Sweet!