I realize that on this blog I rarely talk about my work. It's all about travel and adventures. I've been tying together lots of open ends from my job in the University of Washington Statistics Department. I've written a book chapter for Gene Essentiality: Protocols and Bioinformatics. I submitted a paper about the chapter to a bioinformatics conference in Hong Kong. The paper was rejected which bummed me out. I finished analyzing the bird data in R Bleiweis. (1998) Fossil gap analysis supports early Tertiary origin of trophically diverse avian orders. Geology, 26: 323—326. I am so happy that the last one is done because I spent a lot of time trying to draw conclusions that weren't supported by the data. I wrote a grant for funding next year from the Werner-Gren Institute. Surprisingly, I haven't heard back from them. I'm cleaning up my gene essentiality paper and working on new branching process theory.
But alas, this is the end of my academic career. It hasn't been working out and it's time to move on. Like last fall was the most important time for the work that I'd do in New Zealand, right now is the most important of prepping for a job in the US. In addition to preparation, I'll be traveling. I can't leave any stone unturned. Next week I'll be back in Los Angeles for a friend's 40th birthday. Ray is visiting in late November. Margee is talking about celebrating New Year's in Sydney. My last paycheck is March 8th. This trip is not over by a long shot.
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I probably will be back in market research. I have a lot of contacts in the Boston area. That is why I haven't been too worried about hurrying back to the US and finding a job. I worry that with housing prices imploding, I'll be moving back into a recession. I worry that I worry too much.
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