I'd been waiting and waiting on the letters to nature paper to be accepted, but it's been almost three months since submission, and lav still hasn't got back to me. I'm guessing that the reviewers asked for more work to be done...

 

Slow. But one piece of good news is that a paper my current PI recently submitted (a few weeks ago) in which I am fourth author got accepted. And hence my first paper is going to be published, in JGH. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. I hadn't heard of it either, till now... Oh well...better than nothing.

 

I love being home...looking forward to kbox tomorrow. PI's away again for a week. Hope my clones grow.

 

Interviews are getting easier and easier, and I realized that the more at ease I am, the better a response I get from the interviewer, who's more interested in talking about Singapore weather and the A*STAR program than my research. haha. But I'm tired of socializing. I prefer to be alone for 90% of my day. 10% of interaction is just nice, and it has to happen when I feel like it. Forced social activity is just plain tiring. Even stressful. Especially when the students I'm interacting with are evaluating me for how well I'll fit into their program.

 

Rained today. Warm and humid. California was cold and humid. Why does it have to be humid everywhere I go?