Look, Mum, New Post!

My mum asked for a post.  And what my mum asks for, she gets!

I’ve been doing experiments like mad, trying to get all the results we need in time to re-submit the paper.  The reviewers liked our work, so they gave us a tighter deadline than the usual for re-submission.  To be honest, I’m a little unclear on the timeline (I’d have said we were already past the deadline, were I asked, but we’re still working, so I guess we’re not).  This will continue for the foreseeable future.  Some experiments are going well.  Some aren’t.

I write.  All the time.  It has ceased even to be a casual distraction; if I’m not working, I’m writing.  Theoretically, food and sleep should fall into that equation as well, but they don’t really do that anymore, because if it’s a choice between half an hour of writing or lunch, I don’t eat lunch; if it’s a choice between fleshing out a character history or sleeping, I’ll stay up.  This is, to most people, not a good thing, but I’d rather have the writing and the friends it’s made me than a few hours’ sleep.

Speaking of new friends, a group of us have gotten together online (mostly writers, a couple of artists, some ‘cheerleaders’) and we hang out together over the Internet every night, working and writing and talking.  My best friends in the world are ones I’ve met this way, through shared interests and shared obsessions, recognizing flashes of ourselves in each other, and so this is a good thing, is an important thing, sleep deprivation be damned.

And, of course, I’m off to the Gallifrey One Doctor Who convention in three weeks’ time.  The plan this year is to spend a night with people I know in San Francisco, road-trip down to the convention in Los Angeles together, stay there until the day after everything ends, then head back up to San Francisco for a day or two before I fly home.  I’ll be on the music panel again (in fact, the entire panel is the same as last year; we communicated in advance that we were very eager to do it together again), and this year, they’re letting us discuss the entirety of the show’s musical history, as opposed to just the newer years.  Here, from the convention’s website:

More Magic of Doctor Who Music – At our 2011 convention we focused on the unique and memorable music Murray Gold has contributed to the series since its return in 2005, but the rich history of Doctor Who music goes back nearly fifty years. We return to the joys of Doctor Who music as we open up the discussion to encompass the classic series, the most memorable pieces and themes it has brought us from 1963 to 2012.

This is going to be a far, far more challenging panel than was last year’s, but we’re all excited, and we have a lot of ideas.  Wish us luck.

Right.

I have posted.

I shall now return to exhaustive DNA sequence analysis.

Adieu.

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