…I could, in addition to other unnamed duties and pleasures:
- blog on a daily basis
- twitter cleverly and multiple times a day
- check out and properly use all those social media for scientists – all my PDFs are still not imported into Mendeley, much less tagged
- teach my lab members wiki markup and make them use the online notebook
- play my clarinet more than twice a year
- think of and carry out those experiments on the cells in the culture room
- cut my own histology sections and do more experiments
- find new contractors for remodeling the apartment
- oh yes, take up knitting again. Purl, that is.
- do my tax forms (I don’t owe any money. Yet.)
- think about investments (with the money I’m not paying to the US government)
- keep my home immaculate
- water and weed my garden enough
- et cetera, ad nauseum
Off to Paris again tomorrow for another hurried round with my PhD student, visiting student from the Netherlands, masters’ students preparing final reports, and visiting my postdoc and her new baby. Among other interactions.
But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near…
Heather, that was an amusing list! Thanks for the laughs. Everyone says to make time, but it never really works out that way, does it? Have a wonderful time in Paris. :)
i just read about your research on your lab’s site! I mostly read papers about cranial vs trunk neural crest last semester. I also explored if NCCs were more progenitor or stem-like. Sean Morrison’s lab is about a mile down from my house so I was looking forward to working with him this summer but his lab is completely full!
If only there was enough time! I think my list would be fairly similar to yours, although I would replace play my clarinet more than twice a year with take karate lessons. I have always wanted to do that.
et cetera, ad nauseum, that’s on my list too! There are a few fun things on your list, definitely pick up the clarinet and knit one, perl one.
Caryn, go for it (wax on, wax off as Mr Miyage would say).
Mine doesn’t have the et cetera,.
My list is strangely similar to yours, except for the knitting, and I did learn Perl (well, just enough to be dangerous).
Heh. I’m actually not that crazy about knitting per se, but I am frustrated at all this useless expertise I now have. In so many domains.