Goals

We are hosting another iteration of the small meeting we had last year, and I am in charge again.  Mostly, this is very cool.  I'll get lots of exposure, it helps build the reputation of our institute, and it will be a very cool meeting. But, I don't want people to see me as a postdoc who organizes meetings instead of doing research.  So, now it's my mission to push, push, push this one special experiment far enough for me to have something neat to present. 

There is some perfume I want real bad, but it is super expensive.  I have decided that I will buy it when all of my PhD papers are accepted for publication.

Progress

So I didn't meet those goals I had for December, but I'm still chipping away at them. Let's revisit them, shall we?

1. Submit a commentary piece based on the meeting we hosted.  Waiting for the last coauthor!

2. Turn around the manuscript that was rejected over the summer.  Stalled.  It's next up.

3. Draft manuscript for special issue paper.  I sent a very decent draft to the primary coauthors today!  Cross your fingers that they will turn it around in time for the deadline.

4. Work with PI to revise big manuscript.  Done!  Submitted to GlamourMag the day before break!  So far it hasn't been rejected.  Even if it gets denied without review, it's a HUGE relief to have this thing basically done.  PI has been in a great mood this week all because this giant log-jam is gone.

5. Establish protocol for sample processing.  We tried out some things, and hopefully will have it finalized tomorrow.

6. Finalize protocol for lab experiment.  I got my shit organized.  Next thing is to make it happen in the lab.