02 Mar 2017 - Grants and Posters
Hi there! I hope you had a good day today.
Day 06 on Lexapro. As with the past few days, I'm not noticing any more side effects, which is better than I hoped for before starting. It seems to be stimulating my appetite - even though I'm eating the same amount for breakfast as normal, I'm getting hungry far earlier in the day than is my "normal" - which is interesting, because one of the well-documented side effects of escitalopram is decreased appetite.
My mood is still overall pretty good, pretty positive. In a couple words, I'd say that I felt playful and airy today, something I haven't felt in a long time. There's a nagging suspicion in the back of my mind that the good times won't last very long, but I'm attempting to enjoy it while it's here.
I met with the professor I work with (I do research on a group of bees found in the American southwest south to South America in a pollination ecology lab) today to discuss and begin fleshing out a project that has the potential to land me a $1,500 research grant, plus a small stipend. I don't want to give away a whole lot about it, but it's kind of breaking new ground, since there's very, very little prior work in this area. $1,500 isn't a whole lot of research money, but it'd be enough to do all of the necessary SEM photography as well as fund a trip to a professional conference in the fall, perhaps with a bit left over. A bunch of people whose opinions I value have already agreed to read over my abstract and project description once I get them written up, and that makes me feel a lot better about this whole venture.
Needless to say, I'm excited.
Tangentially related, a Facebook friend got me a poster of common North American bees, and I absolutely love it. I'm not going to hang it up just yet, though, since I don't feel that I spend enough time in my current place of residence to justify it. Spaces I don't hate being in get posters, and my current living space doesn't fit that bill.
It's raining or hailing or some combination of the two outside right now. I wish I could stand out there in it, but there aren't any places nearby that are suitably quiet, and besides, I have class in the morning.
Until tomorrow.
02 Mar 2017
Day 06 on Lexapro. As with the past few days, I'm not noticing any more side effects, which is better than I hoped for before starting. It seems to be stimulating my appetite - even though I'm eating the same amount for breakfast as normal, I'm getting hungry far earlier in the day than is my "normal" - which is interesting, because one of the well-documented side effects of escitalopram is decreased appetite.
My mood is still overall pretty good, pretty positive. In a couple words, I'd say that I felt playful and airy today, something I haven't felt in a long time. There's a nagging suspicion in the back of my mind that the good times won't last very long, but I'm attempting to enjoy it while it's here.
I met with the professor I work with (I do research on a group of bees found in the American southwest south to South America in a pollination ecology lab) today to discuss and begin fleshing out a project that has the potential to land me a $1,500 research grant, plus a small stipend. I don't want to give away a whole lot about it, but it's kind of breaking new ground, since there's very, very little prior work in this area. $1,500 isn't a whole lot of research money, but it'd be enough to do all of the necessary SEM photography as well as fund a trip to a professional conference in the fall, perhaps with a bit left over. A bunch of people whose opinions I value have already agreed to read over my abstract and project description once I get them written up, and that makes me feel a lot better about this whole venture.
Needless to say, I'm excited.
Tangentially related, a Facebook friend got me a poster of common North American bees, and I absolutely love it. I'm not going to hang it up just yet, though, since I don't feel that I spend enough time in my current place of residence to justify it. Spaces I don't hate being in get posters, and my current living space doesn't fit that bill.
It's raining or hailing or some combination of the two outside right now. I wish I could stand out there in it, but there aren't any places nearby that are suitably quiet, and besides, I have class in the morning.
Until tomorrow.
02 Mar 2017
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