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[prog]

Things are going well. I am getting emails that say things like Yes, small molecules are transferred in nanoliter amounts from library plates to assay plates. The assay plates have the same cells in every well and are plated in the microliter range. And I more or less understand what they mean, and now I am eating a peanut-butter cookie.

I think this is my greatest skill, maybe the only real skill I have: I can pick up on interesting things very quickly through osmosis, enough to be useful with it, and to figure out the right questions to ask. Watch as I make little data representations of chemical-handling equipment with Perl, which will eventually fit into programs that the researchers bustling about down the hall should find quite useful. I would have to take several semesters' worth of biochemistry courses to grok what those researchers are actually doing, though.

But, hey, I just might. I get to go to school (at Harvard or elsewhere) as a benny, either fully or partially covered (I forget... I think the coverage level has to do with how on-topic the classes are). Um, need to clear up my schedule a bit first, though.

Starbucks has pretty good cookie but their coffee actually is pretty bad. I am drinking a "Mild" now, because it tastes slightly less charred than their other kind, and I fall down without coffee now zzzz. I'd rather drink it than Office Coffee, but there's nothing like the Diesel or the Someday 'round these parts. I guess I can hit Dunkin's if it gets too hectic.