Like groovy trumpets from the heavens, yeah.

I finished my presentation outline on wednesday, and today Ned said it was really a great thing to do and that I really didn't have anything to worry about for my committee meeting. Now, while I know that really I still have alot of work to do to get this thing ready, and that I have a great talent for appearing well-organized when in fact I'm still weakly informed beneath it all--it still made me feel pretty awesome to hear that. I admittedly live for approval.

Life is otherwise doing well. Sharon and I hosted a dinner and a movie night--Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I'm soo head-over-heels for the Harry Potter series. It just combines that distinct British feel of the Chronicles of Narnia with that irrepressable joy-to-read youth novel "So You Want To Be a Wizard?"

Sometimes I've wished so hard that I could do magic. Admittedly, sometimes molecular biology seems like magic: playing with DNA to create new organisms . . . well that sounds hokey, but maybe you see what I'm getting at. I think partly I've always liked wizardry because it was a practice of incantations and secret patterns that opened up the universe to your control. Well, that and you can talk to desks and such.