I’m writing a paper for Biochemistry right now. It’s an 8-12 page paper about a current topic in Biochem, very narrow & based on journal articles we can find related to our topic in the past 3 years. As such, it’s supposed to be a very technical type of paper. 

Well, here’s a snippet of my introduction:

Imagine the following scene. Someone is tasked with the following challenge: Take 46 skeins of yarn and compress them tight enough to rest on the head of a pin, making sure to devise a system for preferentially choosing and using certain parts of certain strands of yarn whenever needed. This seems to be a herculean task; however, this same type of feat is accomplished extremely efficiently within every cell in the human body.

Yep, just more of the already plentiful proof that I’m a teacher, not a scientist.

So, I’m posting this a few days late, but I’m trying real hard to keep current! :) I’ve just recently decided to start keeping an observations journal, requiring myself to make at least one entry per day. The observations can range from the grand to the mundane: 

• vivid description of a color
• a name I like
• possible story/poem titles
• story ideas
• music, books, art pieces
• musicians, writers, artists
• you get the idea

Oh yeah, and I bought some baby chickens. :-O