Another Milestone

I've turned on facebook notes to link to this blog, because a number of people have asked about our blog after we've brought it up.  And we generally want people to know about our blog so it can be easy to keep track of us as we move across the country.  I only plan to keep the link going a week or so, so that you aren't constantly bombarded with John and Dawn have updated their notes notifications on facebook.  So, if you like this, keep checking out dawnandjohnblog.blogspot.com.  If it's really annoying, you can always defriend me, and then refriend me later.

I've been trying to write 15 minutes a day, stream of consciousness so forgive my terrible spelling and grammar.

Today I've already finished most of the typing corrections I needed to fix in my dissertation, but I've got a figure to add, a figure to make, and four figures to correct.  I'm thinking that will take me a few hours to work at work, but I think it will all be done before Monday morning.  I also have to go to work this afternoon to take care of culturing stuff needed so I can purify protein this week.  There's a big difference between finishing high school or college and graduate school.  That difference is the actual end point of "Now you're done."  Almost everyone I know defends their dissertation, and then has to stick around, not just for corrections, but usually has experiment or two to finish up.  Then there's graduation, the actually ceremony, but even there, there's sometimes agreements between graduates and mentors of what sort of work needs to be finished, even as they start their next legs in life.  Often it's just writing a paper to be published on their work, but in some cases, people "take work with them" to be done in the hours they are not working at their new job, and even the occasional return from the new job for a few days or weeks to complete one more experiment.  Again, usually these "one more thing deals" are predicated on one more paper.  But, if we knew exactly what experiment to do, and what the results would be, then that's not the most exciting experiment, and probably not paper worthy.  And even with all this post-Ph.D. work, the papers don't always come, or come particularly fast.