hip hip.
in the meantime, i have been thinking about where i want this little journal to go. when i started writing last summer, i played around with posting recipes (not successful; realized i am more of an IDEA person in the kitchen), writing about food (never a problem), making lists of my favourite songs (also enjoyable), and generally blathering. india provided a focus to my efforts for a brief window of time, but after coming home i got wrapped up in work and dropped off. i honestly enjoy having this accessible way of communicating with distant people, and i love the thought of my grampa reading what i have to say every morning over his tim horton's coffee (hi grampa!), so i will definitely continue to write. but for those periods of time when i feel tied up with mind-numbing, time-consuming lab work, i have decided to give myself a mission statement: to spread the word on what's new in science, and why you should care. i keep up on these things as part of my grad student life, and i feel very strongly about making basic research findings (particularly neuroscience-related findings) accessible and interesting to non-science people (and perhaps even some science people). i had a team blog going with a couple of friends who shared this view, but we weren't posting very often - and i felt posting to multiple blogs was getting distracting - so it fizzled out. from now on, i'll put any material i would have considered scientifically interesting for that team blog on here instead. peppered, of course, with the occasional treatise on oyster mushrooms, and frequent lists of new favourite songs.
now, on to some light reading.

1 comment:
Yay science news! And yay for becoming a PhD student. I will probably be in Toronto this July *fingers crossed*, so I can personally welcome you to the club!
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