Pretty Good Weekend
I went to see my parents and mess with the bees. They seem to be doing well -- not filling up both supers we gave them, so we consolidated into one, but then we are giving them foundation rather than drawn comb up there, since I don't actually have an extractor and have accordingly been harvesting as comb honey. We did take a couple of frames from them, and it looks like there should be a few more coming. Two isolated cells have pink honey -- or at any rate honey that is distinctly reddish by comparison to the rest. It's very pretty.
I also joined, or applied to join, the Biochemical Society, admittedly for entirely mercenary reasons -- my PI and I want to go to the RNA conference in Edinburgh, and the cost of membership (at least for me) is less than the amount of the resulting discount on the registration fee, as well as making me eligible for a student travel grant.
Irritatingly, however, attendance is by application -- apparently they're going to review everybody who registers and decide how many they can take and which ones. Which is all well and good, except that they just started registration and will not be announcing who got in until after November 4, by which time it will probably be much more expensive to get flight and hotel reservations. Sigh. Well, maybe there will be some way to get an estimate on the probability ahead of time... Maybe if I submit my poster abstract and they like it I'll have a better chance.
And on a completely different note, I have ordered a neti pot. (This after improvising with a funnel and measuring pitcher -- I had some success but entirely too much spilling.) Actually I bought two, in case anybody in my vicinity decides to take it up, in which case we'll have saved on shipping. I suspect I could have bought one locally, but all the places I tried calling said they didn't carry them. Probably vacuuming more often would be the place to start, though.
I also joined, or applied to join, the Biochemical Society, admittedly for entirely mercenary reasons -- my PI and I want to go to the RNA conference in Edinburgh, and the cost of membership (at least for me) is less than the amount of the resulting discount on the registration fee, as well as making me eligible for a student travel grant.
Irritatingly, however, attendance is by application -- apparently they're going to review everybody who registers and decide how many they can take and which ones. Which is all well and good, except that they just started registration and will not be announcing who got in until after November 4, by which time it will probably be much more expensive to get flight and hotel reservations. Sigh. Well, maybe there will be some way to get an estimate on the probability ahead of time... Maybe if I submit my poster abstract and they like it I'll have a better chance.
And on a completely different note, I have ordered a neti pot. (This after improvising with a funnel and measuring pitcher -- I had some success but entirely too much spilling.) Actually I bought two, in case anybody in my vicinity decides to take it up, in which case we'll have saved on shipping. I suspect I could have bought one locally, but all the places I tried calling said they didn't carry them. Probably vacuuming more often would be the place to start, though.