I've decided to celebrate the fact that I passed my general exam in three ways:
1. I've rushed gleefully back into lab shouting, "Yay! Now I can get back to research!" But, every day this week, I've stopped and stared at my desk asking, "What the hell was I up to anyway?" Apparently, I'm an evolutionary geneticist.
2. I've joined a gym, as the university's gym isn't meeting my needs. At this (new) gym, seasoned ladies old enough to be my mammaw always run way faster than me on the elliptical machines. Just between you and me, I kind of enjoy being humbled in such a blatant manner. My friend Ryan tells me that's something I shouldn't admit to very often, so don't post this on billboards.
3. I've been re-reading old, favorite books of mine. I decided to skip Green Eggs and Ham, but have recently picked up my much-used-and-abused copy of The Hobbit. Tonight on the bus, the guy next to me said, "Man, that's so old school!" The Gollum chapter doesn't scare me as much after taking my general exam.
I'm also going to my first "big" scientific conference in June - in Minneapolis. This'll be my boyfriend's opportunity to convince me that the Twin Cities would be a wonderful place to live post-Seattle. But, how do they treat asthmatic-and-defective-bladder cats and their gay dads?
Posted by James at March 27, 2008 09:33 PM