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  • Epiphany

    I’ve just realized something major. I’d filled out the Thesis Timeline Worksheet wrong. I actually have waaaaaay more time than I thought I did to get this thesis written. I’m a complete idiot! Here’s what happened. I had filled out this handy-dandy Timeline Worksheet from the Faculty of Grad Studies (FOGS) that lets you figure […]

  • The many facets of SOX

    So, I’m trying to find out what SOX is an abbreviation for as I’m working through my lit review chapter, so I do a Google search for “SOX-9” (the particular transcription factor that I’m discussng) and I’ve learned a few things. (1) Apparently people who work on SOX-9 don’t feel the need to ever write […]

  • Bad Grad Student

    Dave has friends visiting from out of town and I’ve been goofing off instead of writing my thesis. Bad grad student, bad grad student! On the plus side, I’ve been up to Lynn Canyon, over to Nanaimo & Victoria on Vancouver Island, watched Fantastic Four at the Silver City in Metrotown, where I also bought […]

  • Update

    I now have ~nine and a half pages (single-spaced) of my chapter 1 written… that doesn’t include figures (of which I have at least three to include) or references… and I still have to write the sections on “Fetal Programming/Fetal Origins of Adult Disease,” “Animal Models” and “Thesis Objectives” (all of which I’ve done the […]

  • In need of a massage therapist

    My back hurts from sitting in this stinkin’ chair so long, writing my damn chapter 1. More specifically, my back hurts when I get up out of this chair… like I’ve been in the same position for soooo long, that it’s been permanently deformed and screams in agony if I move. Is that normal?

  • Paper Accepted

    While not directly related to my thesis, a paper written by my supervisor, my labmate and I just got accepted to the journal Alcohol. Yay!! So now I have an article in a journal called Bone and an article in a journal called Alcohol… that’s right, I don’t believe in publishing in any journal that […]

  • Inertia

    I’ve discovered that once I get to a point where something is completed (e.g., a chapter), I have real trouble getting myself to start the next part. At first it’s like, “oh, I’ll just take a little break and watch this movie/check out this website/whatever”… and then it’s like “oh, before I start the next […]

  • Chapter 3 Draft Done!

    A draft of chapter 3 is now done and ready for my supervisor to read (and, most likely, rip to shreds). It’s good timing, because the new Harry Potter book comes out today, so I can enjoy reading it knowing that I’ve finished that. Granted, I was expecting to have my entire lit review done […]

  • Coolest.Feature.Ever

    So I’m reading an article online today (which, in itself is already super cool — I almost never need to actually go to a library anymore! I can sit at my computer all day without ever moving a muscle or burning a calorie! And we wonder why we have an obesity epidemic going on… but […]

  • Fun with Spell Check

    Apparently the word “neuropilin” isn’t in Microsoft’s dictionary. Which is fine — it’s a scientific word that isn’t common in every day usage (in case you are interested, it’s a protein involved in blood vessel and nerve cell development). But when spell check gave it’s suggestion of what word I might be looking for, it […]

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