Good morning! Look! The flowers are just starting to come up for Spring! This has been a heck of a week. For the majority of it, I was just...."off-kilter." You know what I mean? Every morning when I woke up, I was exhausted. Every night when I went to sleep, I was exhausted. The week went by slowly, which would have been nice if I was doing fun things, which I was not. Tomorrow we go to Cold Spring to hike with some buddies for Brian's Birthday. So excited!
The ACE is gettin' me a little down, man. One minute I think my ideas are great, and the next, I'm thinking they're going to take one look at my proposal and kindly tell me to leave. Yesterday I cut out my entire 3rd aim. Then 15 minutes later I put it back in and left work feeling like I'd salvaged it. This morning I woke up and immediately knew it was wrong. It's all wrong. I'm going to trash it. Sometimes in science, you gotta know when to let go and Aim #3 - I need to let go. You're not testing what I want you to test and you're potential outcomes...well....they just aren't that important.
I'm getting myself all psyched up to pump up aims 1 & 2, and then...well my friends, we submit...and then we wait. And then if we're lucky, we get the chance to get grilled by a group of faculty. Here's to getting grilled.
Carpe diem,
J
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