My month of presentations is over! Woo! This afternoon I gave my last Biochemistry Journal Club presentation and I think it went pretty well. Well, I think the first three-quarters went pretty well, then I started to feel the effects of my lack of sleep. Plus, the last few figures were extremely repetitive and it felt like there were a dozen slides of the same thing again and again. Anyway.

Oh, and I get to be a guinea pig for a new evaluation procedure. I think it’s a good idea…we don’t usually get a whole lot of feedback on our presentations, so providing everyone a form to fill out will give at least some minimal feedback. I’ll let you know how it goes.

On Friday and Monday I got to teach the little med students a little about molecular biochemistry. The med school thinks that all of their future doctors should have some lab experience, so there’s a two-day lab course for anyone who hasn’t worked in a lab before. They do a little Southern blot and a couple of PCRs and then never have to worry about running a gel ever again. :-D It’s not a bad gig, actually — $600 for two days worth of work (and availability to answer questions afterwards) — and it’s actually a little fun. I mean, I got paid to hang out with Val, Amanda, and Vijay and didn’t even have to go to the lab. How nice is that?

On the homefront, Emma and I have built one new garden bed and are working on a second. The seeds I planted a month ago are growing well and…well…I didn’t exactly think this thing through completely. You see, it’s time to move the seedlings to the garden bed and we’re a wee bit short of space. Oh well. It’s a great excuse to borrow the rototiller and build the new beds in the back.

Seedlings, Week 4

Have a happy evening. Type to you tomorrow!