Proteomics
Dec. 16th, 2003 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
opabiniaJust got back from a presentation by the freakishly brilliant Colombian medical fellow. Let's call him OV. It was a fantastic, intricate, detailed, difficult, and highly significant discussion on the benefits and problems faced by the researcher who performs proteomics work.
Not ten minutes into the one-hour talk, I was seized by a powerful thought: I don't give a shit about any of this. It's interesting, it's important, and I even understand a lot of it, but all I want is a house, two cars, and a dog. The mind-bending power of well-performed 2D gels and DIGE analysis and monstruous software and custom-built high-throughput LC machinery does nothing for me. I'm glad it exists, I'm glad there are people as smart and passionate as OV working on this stuff, and all that, but I wanted out of that room. I stayed because I like OV, and I think he likes me enough to help me get a job somewhere else.
If ADInstruments came back to me with the same offer they made back in... 1999? -- I'd take it in a heartbeat. I've learned, too late, that it was a risk worth taking.
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Date: 2003-12-16 11:30 am (UTC)damn. i feel so far away and removed from that dream of mine right now.
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Date: 2003-12-16 01:09 pm (UTC)pax
Date: 2003-12-16 02:33 pm (UTC)Given a cat-free wing, a basement litterbox armada, and very frequent vacuuming, I could live with a 3-cat household. I would, however, require that a wiener dog, or an equivalently awesome canine companion, be added to the mix.
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Date: 2003-12-16 02:36 pm (UTC)4-cat household. better in pairs.
I would, however, require that a wiener dog, or an equivalently awesome canine companion, be added to the mix.
of course. a wiener dog or a pug would be perfect. then again, a lab is good too, as long as they learn how to deal with the cats.
Weiners.
Date: 2003-12-16 02:44 pm (UTC)Re: pax
Date: 2003-12-16 02:49 pm (UTC)Too many, unless you plan to vacuum daily. The cat hair would drive me crazy.