Okay, here we go with a semi-reboot of this webspace, as the new year carries on...

So grad school has been crazy; I find myself still trying to fight between multiple directions on which to pursue research wise. I'm told learning how to focus is part of the learning process, but I would rather pursue all avenues when I seemingly lack the foresight to see which directions are going to pan out. It doesn't help that being my 5th year in, I'm mildly panicking about my future and if I can bundle my work together into a decent 1st author paper so I can get a post-doc...

On the upside, there are many interesting pieces of data to follow-up on which I consider a better problem than no data, or negative data that beaches a line of inquiry.

So my main goals right now are to get myself organized with where I am in various experiments, since I have a nasty knack for setting up too many fly crosses and then not being able to follow-up on them or forgetting what they were for. Also, I just need to take pictures, pictures, and more pictures; I have a ridiculous backlog of slides of over two months. Somehow I need to find a way to not get so stir-crazy everytime I go into microscope to fry my embryos with lasers.

As for the future of this space, I'm hoping to catch up on things of note from the last few months since I moved back in August, as I re-painted my room, partied, found new video game(s) to sate my penchant for fantasy. Additionally, other features include the week recap, and more free writing as I attempt to reconnect with the some old hobbies. Maybe, hopefully, my zany, neurotic point of view has some insight worth reading; however, at the end of the day, I realize that this may only be an exercise for myself.