SBD
so, finally over with the presentation. It wasn't that big a deal because it was a small one within my lab. But it was my first presentation and I didn't want to screw up. Also, I didn't want to seem as if i haven't been doing anything the whole time. Why was this one presentation stressful? For one, this is my first presentation in 2 years! There was once when I had to present so much that it became routine. On thursday i told myself that same thing. Just another presentation -- i did feel rather rusty at talking about stuff though. Ok, next, this is the first time since Jan that I had to collect my thoughts. My project is sort of everywhere, like there are so many possibilities, so many areas to go into that i get swarm at the literature search stage.But boy was i glad to finally piece everything together, gather my thoughts, and as HJ likes to say "tell a story" =)
That very same day, I ran home from work. Though very tired, and i ran slower, i did it anyhow. 1hour to complete. It helps me unwind, i get to exercise and it felt good.
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Valiantly trying to do some protein modeling today when I knew almost zilch about it. The fun was in learning how to use it. Learn as you go... anyway with only a sequence and little homology to its closest relative, SWISS-MODEL was unable to do what I wanted.
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Felt like such a complete idiot today. So I met up with a friend for dinner and he was going on and on about this issue that has been bugging him. Causing him to loose sleep. pretty much distressing him. Of course I felt that all that was futile but sometimes, i wished that i could shut up because sometimes, when one is distress, all you ask for, however subconscious that could be, is empathy. Not opposing views, not opinions that will cause more stress, just empathy. Even if I could not fathom the gravity of the situation, I should have just kept my peace. But no, I had to aggravate it. Guess when I realised that, it was too late and no amount of remorse could reverse that.
Which led me to think about someone else. Mark always get into little arguements with his galfren (ex). Because if he knows that what she said is wrong, he will insist to correct her simply because he knows tht she is wrong. Till one day, she burst out "must you be right all the time? Can't you let me be right for once? Must you win every arguement?" It was then that Mark realised that sometimes, all he had to do was shut up. Because all he girlfriend wanted was not "truth" but someone to agree with her. Someone to "let her win". Sometimes.
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There is this peptide that we are tying to get. Its called SBD. Eric thinks that its too boring to be known as Sphingosine Binding Domain. This peptide is Steffan's pride and joy. So you guys want a more interesting/fun name... I stared as Stef for a moment and went Steffan's Big D.... go fill in the blanks youself =)
posted by eline @ 1:43 AM
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