At the health food store, in the checkout aisle, there is a stack of magazine that boasts, in one of its headlines, something along the lines of "little know type of vitamin B: kills yeast, powers up immune system, releases fat." Ignoring the obvious issues with "releasing fat", why yeast? I just--.
Have brought strawberries even though it's blatantly not strawberry season anymore (but it's strawberry) and yes, did end up regretting the decision. The fruits are kind of terrible eating so I'm dumping them together in an effort to make cupcakes instead. (This being my usual solution to things that I like to eat raw when the quality is not quite good enough to eat raw.) Last week labmate brought in pumpkin-spice cupcakes with cream-cheese frosting, which are amazing, so the being spoiled by nice people with cupcakes continue in our lab. Which is probably a good thing since I got my numerical scores for my NIH proposal on Monday, and though the actual interpretation and comments won't be available until end of November, I'm ranked at the 44th percentile, so I"m definitely not getting funded. (On one hand, woe; on the other hand, I don't actually know anyone who got funded without already having a publication under their belt --and yes that's ironic, considering that we're asking for money to fund the research for publication-- so I'm utterly unsurprised.)
I think grad school is the first place in the recent decade where I'm "average". Still not too sure how I feel about that.
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