Tue 2 May 2006
Figured I’d post since I haven’t in awhile. Things have been going fairly slowly here for the past week - lab work has been slow because my primers weren’t ordered when Ke put the order in, so I ordered them on Monday and they should be here by tomorrow. In the meantime I’ve been working on the paper Xiulian and I are writing about BACE1 and BACE2. I think it’s going well. She originally did her part in endnote and word and I had a bit of difficulty converting her referencing system to mine so I could use Bibtex, but now that I have that all figured out things are going a little smoother. I just can’t stand the fact that it can take so long to do simple formatting things in bibtex/LaTex the first time you have to figure them out… I just hope people don’t think I’m slow because I’m so slow working on actual content, heh. The next time I have to use the endnote references from one of the lab poeple though it should be relatively easy to convert the file to bibtex, but for now I mostly just have the structure down and the flow of her writing changed, with some of my NRSC 500 CIHR grant intro mixed in. I think it’s going to be a long week… this week’s lab meeting was cancelled, which is good since I don’t have much data cause I didn’t get my primers, so this week I’ll hopefully get some data results and have the paper completed by Monday.