Not dead

No, I'm not dead. Nor is the blog completely dead. It was just in a period of stasis.

So, about the paper: it was actually kind of a big deal there for a few days after it came out. Thanks to a press release by the school (which included some generous comments from the institute which has funded us, as well as the chair of my department), the story showed up in a number of science blogs, etc. all over the Internet. Also, the school TV people came to my lab and talked to me, filmed me doing some science-y stuff, and put that on the local station. So all in all, it was a pretty exciting time. When I get bored, I still like to google myself and see if the story has shown up anywhere else. We also made it onto the Wikipedia definition of "ribozyme," which is pretty awesome.

But maybe you already knew some of this, since I was pretty shameless about posting all this stuff on Facebook.

In other news: Paper #2 is almost underway. And after Paper #2 goes out, I'll just have to try to crank out Paper #3 (of which most of the work has already been done), and then my committee will let me write my thesis. I need to get my butt moving. My graduation date is still tentative, but I am really really hoping it will be this year.

And in other news...there is no other news. I've been taking a couple dance classes here and there, and have an orchestra concert next week, but other than that, I haven't been doing much. I haven't really felt like socializing much lately. Maybe it's just a phase.