A magnetic pull north, but also west
Hey folks! Well, the free-floating anxiety concerning my seminar at the end of the month has hit. It’s always silly, but now it feels especially silly to be getting worried about it: it’s not for a grade, and--even though it’s a 45 minute talk—all that means is that I have more time to do background and cover my new data. Mainly, there are at least 4 directions I could go with my project right now and I’d rather be focusing on that instead of putting together a talk. But oh well. Once I do this, I don’t have to worry about it again. But it seems traditional that I should worry about it, and therefore procrastinate on it.
My current grad-student experience story is that I rode an empty bus on Sunday night during a snow advisory to chase a big male squid around it’s tank, wash him, and then flip on the lights so he would expel all his bacteria—which I then collected. I was not looking forward to squid wrangling—squid are smart, visually astute, and can shoot a jet of water or ink if they are cranky. It went surprisingly well, and I managed to get to the bus stop on time. . . only to wait 20 minutes on a dead-quiet
All this just to get some bacteria for the experiment I’m doing today, and now they are growing slow. . . grr.
My big exciting news for today is that “
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