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I’m sick of the waiting game. Let’s play Hungry, Hungry Hippos! (10 points to the first person who identifies the source of that quotation. Double points if you can also identify the episode it was in). In non-waiting news, here’s an update on my thesis progress:a a draft of chapter 1 (I’d say about 80% […] →Read more
While taking a little break from work, I was perusing some blogs and saw on this site (which I had clicked on a link to from Dave’s site) a new fun toy on the net! Frappr lets you create maps of where you and all your friends are. You can also use it to map […] →Read more
Although I’m generally a logical, scientific-type of person, I must admit that I am superstitious. Case in point: when I first emailed the profs in California about postdocs positions, I put their replies into a folder marked “postdoc” (I’m a bit neurotic about keeping all my emails, so I have a well-developed e-filing system… I […] →Read more
Hey All! I’m back from Stanford now! During my trip, I typed up some stuff for the blog… so this entry is pretty long… hope you enjoy it! Single Serving Friends (29 Nov 2005) I’m writing this entry at YVR, waiting for my flight to Portland, where I will catch my flight to San Jose […] →Read more
My M.Sc. supervisor retired shortly after I left there. My current supervisor’s lab is closing. And now I’m in Ottawa and the Canadian government is about to fall… Was it something I said? →Read more
Had a nice trip to Montreal yesterday to meet with my potential post doc supervisor. He seemed very nice, the facilities are excellent (lots of fun new toys that I would get to play with — X-ray, DEXA, CT, histomorphometry set up, genetic knockout mice… good times). The lab was a lot smaller than I […] →Read more
I’m in Ottawa! Staying with Sarah & Dave (who we all know and, based on the comments on my previous posting, love very much) and their two adorable cats, Gunther & Moe…btw, to anyone who hasn’t met the cats yet, Sarah & Dave are now officially crazy cat people… but don’t tell them I said […] →Read more
… on several jet planes, actually. First, I’m off to Ottawa to stay with Sarah and Dave for a week… Ottawa will serve as home base for my visit to McGill on Wednesday to meet the prof there in whose lab I’m considering doing a postdoc. I’m staying for a week because (a) Sarah & […] →Read more
So, I emailed the California profs one more time, just to let them know that I had an offer and to see if there was any interest there… I was having horrible thoughts that I’d accept the McGill offer and then the next day one of the Cali profs would call and say, “I want […] →Read more
So I talked to the guy from McGill again today and he offered me a post doc position in his lab, starting April 1. I have two weeks to let him know my decision. After I got off the phone with him, I had a horrible thought — this couldn’t be a really elaborate practical […] →Read more