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Recent Highlights in the Life and Times
Feb. 6th, 2007 06:36 pmTonight I am slurping soup. It's not the sort of soup that would make one leap out of ones chair, exclaiming, "Oh glorious soup!" but it is hearty and filling and has leeks in it.
I had planned to go to the gym this morning, but I was so tired last night that I went to bed early and slept in late.
Today I heard a talk by a professor who studies voltage-gated intracellular calcium channels. I don't expect you to understand what that is. For me, it was a chance to reminisce about the neurobiology I used to do when I was an undergraduate. Back in the day. I still find the stuff interesting, but I'm just not motivated to study it myself.
We got a package with some new sharp forceps in it, which made me realize how dull my forceps were and made it so much easier to glue miniscule ants to tiny paper triangles (that is how one pins ants). And you thought your job was tedious at times.
As I walked home from campus, I saw J sitting in a bench and we had a lively discussion about teaching. I commented that graduate students who graduated from ASU always seem to have a harsher opinion of the undergraduates they teach than those of us who graduated elsewhere. J said it's probably because the former undergrads have a better idea of how lazy their peers are. I don't pretend to know why this is so; I just find it to be an interesting phenomenon.
Tonight I will read up on a certain variety of statistical analysis. Then bed, then rowing and trying to figure out what's going on with this San Diego boat situation.
Tra la.
I had planned to go to the gym this morning, but I was so tired last night that I went to bed early and slept in late.
Today I heard a talk by a professor who studies voltage-gated intracellular calcium channels. I don't expect you to understand what that is. For me, it was a chance to reminisce about the neurobiology I used to do when I was an undergraduate. Back in the day. I still find the stuff interesting, but I'm just not motivated to study it myself.
We got a package with some new sharp forceps in it, which made me realize how dull my forceps were and made it so much easier to glue miniscule ants to tiny paper triangles (that is how one pins ants). And you thought your job was tedious at times.
As I walked home from campus, I saw J sitting in a bench and we had a lively discussion about teaching. I commented that graduate students who graduated from ASU always seem to have a harsher opinion of the undergraduates they teach than those of us who graduated elsewhere. J said it's probably because the former undergrads have a better idea of how lazy their peers are. I don't pretend to know why this is so; I just find it to be an interesting phenomenon.
Tonight I will read up on a certain variety of statistical analysis. Then bed, then rowing and trying to figure out what's going on with this San Diego boat situation.
Tra la.
