I know, I know
I’ve disappeared. I know you’re all edge-of-your-seat anticipating an update.
What’s happened these past few weeks? Not much. Working, relaxing. And sometimes, chillaxing.
We’ve brought in a statistician for our paper. I’ve actually learnt some stats now, it’s exciting. We missed the deadline for the one journal, but Paul doesn’t seem terribly upset. I think he sees it as a chance to write a pure bioinformatics paper, which we’re both interested in doing. He knows what he’s doing.
I moved my second monitor to work today. I read somewhere that adding a second monitor increases productivity by 30% regardless of the task. That’s why I brought it in, of course. Productivity.
Oh, exciting news: I have a bed. Other furniture, too, but the bed’s the most important part. My parents came to visit the weekend after my birthday with a rented minivan. It was good to see them. My mom was obsessed with the car’s builtin GPS gadget, so my dad ended up having three backseat drivers (one of which spoke only in urgent beeps). I hope for his sanity that mom never buys one of those…