Celebratory...changes?

Posted 11:33 PM, May 01, 2008, by tjchen

Dinner was great--ended up being 16 people at Buca's, and then we went to fraiche afterwards. The pictures are on facebook, yay! Since it was my special day, I treated myself to...a talk. Heh, I decided to go to a talk by Martha Bulyk, who is at Harvard Systems Biology and a really great researcher/speaker. I made a total fool of myself when I interviewed with her...

I am up now, however, because i can't sleep.

I went to bed an hour ago, and instead my mind is swimming with all the things i need to do, and i'm finally getting excited about the new lab and thinking that maybe i actually have the ability to do this project. I just finished working with Atul (and wished I had gotten more done), but I know that I've gotten to know the lab (really great people) and I should move to the next project. Now I'm starting with Serafim. The computational problem and the biological problem are both completely foreign to me, so we will see how this goes. I'm so excited to learn it, however.

i played squash for the first time today with Sarah, Annie and Karen--I highly recommend it. I've never played racquetball, but it's similar. Apparently playing squash ruins your tennis game, and vice versa. So far, the only thing I can do decently is serve in squash, and my backhand kind of sucks because i'm afraid of scraping the wall. It's a great workout, though.

semi full weekend--trying to keep saturday open for getting work done, since I have a lot of stuff next week.

I'm so grateful for all the people I have met here, and the friends I have made at home and in college. It is great knowing that at 3 a.m., you can always call someone up and have a philosophical discussion that includes everything...from the serious to completely trivial matters, such as mucus.

Not that mucus is trivial.

Just saying...mucus is inherently amusing and disgusting at the same time.

Comments

mucus is so important! everything relies on mucus. EVERYTHING. well, the innate immune system, at least.

Comment by: liang at May 2, 2008 10:41 AM

Yeah, we are lucky to be making friends where we are right now. I talk to Patco every now and then, and he apparently doesn't socialize with any of the people in his department and prefers to just occasionally meet up with people from Duke in NYC or somewhere. It makes me kind of sad because he doesn't have any close friends there, and granted, he can call any one of us up whenever he wants... but still, just to have someone you're close to personally be close to you physically... :\

Comment by: Becky at May 2, 2008 11:06 AM