I’m going camping in the San Juan Islands north of Seattle until July 6th, so I’ll be out of contact until then. Just FYI.

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Does everyone know what … time it is?

Yep! Tropical Depression One is here. I used to find this sort of thing exciting. I was very surprised to find myself physically nauseated when I saw the projection map and the little hurricane symbol in the Gulf of Mexico. I guess Katrina had a deep effect on [...]

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I’m in a bit of a pickle with a paper I’ve been writing for a while, and this post (which I had bookmarked because I thought it would have good writing tips — and it did, but not the kind I wanted) gave me a little bit of comic relief.
Actually, a lot of comic relief. [...]

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A little while ago I made a note to myself to look up the effects of atrial natriuretic peptide. We’re having an air conditioning / server issue so I took care of this while waiting. Wikipedia, as usual, had the answer:
Atrial natriuretic peptide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The overall effects of ANP release are [...]

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Two big news items:

I officially passed the qualifying exam
My advisor, Natalia Trayanova is officially moving to Johns Hopkins University, and the lab is of course moving along with her. I will still be a Tulane student, but next year I’m taking classes at Hopkins.

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