Big News

Hello everyone! Sorry about the accidental hiatus from blogging. Until May 15, there wasn't much excitement in my life. Applying for jobs starts to get discouraging after a while, and there wasn't much going on to report.

And then . . . and then on May 15 I left Dover for the final time (sad) and moved down to Somerville, Massachusetts. My lease was up at the end of May anyway, and most of the jobs I had been applying for were in the Boston area. It made sense to be here for the summer and keep applying for jobs. And then, within two weeks of moving down here, I had an interview. It was for a job that had caught my eye on Craigslist and that I had applied for a few weeks earlier. The interview seemed to go well, and the research sounded fascinating. And then, the next day at 8:58 in the morning, the PI of the lab called and offered me the job!

I am now a (temporary) employee at the Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, MA, in the department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Hopefully next week I will be an official employee (with benefits and everything!). So far the job is going fabulously, and I absolutely love it. I have all kinds of fun stories and I just uploaded about 200 pictures. Once I've had a chance to sort through them I'll post some so you can see what I've been up to, but in the meantime, videos from the trip to the zoo in January! Enjoy Alice the swaying elephant and baby Kenya the giraffe: