Weeellll... seeing someone else update who hasn't done so for a long time, made me think I probably should, or something, for once as well.
Where to begin?
School is going relatively well. After pulling a four pointer out of the first semester, the second one is kicking my butt despite feeling easier. I need to study more or something; but at least I have half the tests left to rock out on and redeem myself. I just actually have to do so.
Also, Rachel's mom, sister, and her sister's two kids were up for most of the week, so that had my preoccupied. Her mom is so awesome... she got us a lot of stuff we needed to use to start to work on making this house nicer.
Lab work is lab work. Trying to isolate a small pox protein and get it expressed has turned out to be a bloody challenge to say the least. It looks like my latest attempts I spent an entire week on have failed. Sooooo, probably have to use a different cell line or something. Mmm, biology technobabble.
I'm also in the process of choosing a professor to perminantly do my lab work under. My advisor for my Ph.D. dissertation they will also be. Therefore, it's not an easy decision. I have interviewed three of six already with two more coming today and another tomorrow; but it has only left me even more unsure of who I want to go with. Incredible research going on in the school right now. Three I know of are set up to do amazing things now, and I'm coming in at just the right time that if I go with any of them I have the potential to be the one to snag a major breakthrough. Urg, part of why it's so hard to choose; that and I'm not sure what intellectually stimulates me the most. What do I want to work on, intellectually and physically, for the next four or so years? Who would I get along best with for that time?
Therein, in short, I have no time for art or anything. Studies I need to allow to comsume me again, as I've slackened a bit and gotten stung for it. And now that I'm on the eve of starting my own research... alot of things are going to have to change--namely I'm going to have to start, on my own inititive, looking up journal articles and reading everything I can in my field related to my topic of research.
Maybe, maybe.. one day I'll start reviving art as a hobby and flooding my pages with eye bleeding art till one day it isn't so painful to look at. But, don't hold one's breath XD. Life is too busy now with things necessary for my progression and survival. I'm still around and commenting and looking at what people make, as that doesn't take much time, so I'm not gone from DA. I'm just not going to be doing any art in the concievable future, which may be years.
But we'll see. The future is never certain from our stand point.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Friends:
More people whom I watch:
Club you must visit:
