Happiness
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Day four, 8 days since home, 5 days from our destination
It’s been 8 days since I left home and it’s the 4th day at sea. We’re getting further off shore now, so the water is nice and blue. I’m expecting the sky to start sparkling with stars free of light pollution by tonight. We had to head inland a little yesterday because one of the Continue reading
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10/10 further from shore, but not far enough
The best way to deal with seasickness is to take a nap. As soon as I start to feel queasy, I lie down in my bunk and when I wake up I feel better. I have tried to power through seasickness before because there is a lot of work to do, but it only prolongs Continue reading
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Setting sail
* Unfortunately, due to the low bandwidth on the ship, I can’t upload any pictures. When I return home, I will post many. MANY!* The drive to Newport, Oregon to meet the RV Atlantis was beautiful. Coming from Florida where the days are only now dropping into the 80’s, the weather in the Northwest has Continue reading
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10-4
I’m on the second flight toward the first destination of my current adventure. I’ll be in Portland, Oregon in 3 hours. I’ll stay there for two days before I travel to Newport, OR with my boss, my fairy godmother Beverly and my fairy sister Yeong. It’s been 6 hours since I left Michael tearfully at Continue reading
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The Gordon Research Conference experience 2016
Notes from my 3 hour Delta delay at LaGuardia airport I am reflecting on the last 7 days that I spent at the Gordon Research Conference (GRC), Molecular Biology of C1 Micorbial Metabolism conference in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. The GRC meets every 2 years to exchange and present ideas from experts in the field Continue reading
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Do better
So many things have been happening that I don’t know where I should start. I have been working very hard trying to maintain balance between two very important parts of my life every day, week to week for almost two years in addition to taking care of my home, my husband, and my animal babies. Continue reading
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Finding Balance
This last semester, the start of my second year in graduate school has been extremely challenging. I’ve had a lot of challenge in my life, but navigating new challenges, or a unique array of old ones sometimes can be very exhausting. I took a genomics class, taught two Biology 2 lab sections, and still tried to get Continue reading
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The Next Level
I have been living in Tampa for exactly one year and 3 days. On July 31, 2014 I drove from Philadelphia to Florida with my 3 cats to start a new chapter in my life. As a new year of graduate school begins, I am tentatively outlining my agenda for the coming semester. My current Continue reading
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Rewind to October 30th, arriving in Manzanillo
Before flying out to Mexico on October 30th, equipment and chemicals had to be shipped to the research vessel Atlantis which was docked in San Francisco before sailing to meet the science group in Manzanillo. When preparing for a research cruise every experiment to be preformed must be walked through meticulously, and everything that could conceivably Continue reading
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Feet on the ground
The band width on the ship was a bear. I couldn’t update as frequently as I would have liked to because of connectivity. I’ll catch up next time from the beginning of the cruise through my leave from Costa Rica. Copious notes were taken, data was collected, tears were shed which sprung from frustration and Continue reading
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