Went down to a seminar this afternoon, and saw my young apprentice helping the speaker set up the projector. I had just seen a reasonably interesting result fall out of my microarray data.
So I nicked a piece of paper from another postdoc, went back and stole her pen, and scribbled this:
My young apprentice was appropriately interested.
Now, after another couple of hours looking at more species, I'm seeing definite patterns. I still don't know what they mean, but at least there seems to be the possibility of an answer, and I'm beginning to be excited in my ignorance, rather than frustrated at it.
