Science (non) Fiction

Martha Stewart, look out!

I’ve been feeling very domestic lately – who knows why… I was reading Martha Stewart Living while working out in the fitness center this week (yes, I know, but they didn’t have anything else that I hadn’t already read earlier), and they had ‘ligher’ version of comfort foods as a special section, and I got a major hankering for macaroni and cheese – so I made the version from the magazine this night, and it was awesome, if I do say so myself! I can’t recall ever having made macaroni and cheese before – and it made tons, so I’ve had homemade lunch and some dinners for the whole week! And now tonight, I made a chocolate cake from scratch, with homemade chocolate frosting, for a housewarming party tomorrow – and though it’s a bit overcooked (hate my oven ), I think it’ll still be tasty enough – I also can’t remember the last time I made a cake from scratch – that’s kinda sad from someone who used to love to cook and bake… good news is, it wasn’t really all that much harder to make this one than it was to make the last cake I made from a mix, so maybe it’ll happen more often

In other news, the paper is almost ready – we finally got the updated version from our collaborators, and have made all the changes/additions we need to (I think) – it was a long day Friday with Dan coming to me every few minutes with something else that needed to be added, or that I’d forgotten about – and I’m soooooooo glad that this headaches is almost over! And, when I talked to Dan earlier, he asked about how I felt about authorship of the paper, which had been something I’ve been worrying about – and when I said that I felt like, given the representation of the data in the paper, that even though it pains me, Laurie (grad student up north) should be first author – but then he said, given how much of our work was necessary to get the rest of the figures (ie, we made the mutants and strains used throughout the paper), that we had more work, that the figures weren’t really representative of the amount of work – so I sai, well, ideally, if we could both be listed as co-authors (noted as ‘these authors contributed equally to this work’), that would be best – and he agreed (and said it’s what he wanted to suggest)! Yay! So I feel a lot better about it now, since most of my usable data is going into this paper – and I was worried I wouldn’t get enough credit out of it… so yay!