That said I’m really happy with my application this year. That doesn’t mean I think I’ll get funded, but at least I’m sending in my best work. In the lingo of high school sports coaches, I left everything on the field. No half measures. No wishing I’d just tried a little harder.

Assuming I don’t sleep for the whole weeked, I’ve got some interesting things planned. A post on just what genetically engineered crops really are on the market, and what traits they’ve been engineered for (The anti-GMO movements strawberry-fish hybrids aren’t coming to a store near you), and I also want to talk a bit about what it means to publish a genome and why some are way better for the kind of research I do than others. I am also going write up a summary of the conclusions we came to about corn’s public relations issue’s on yesterdays posts, people pointed a lot of good ideas I’d missed.

While I’ve been worrying about my application, ya’ll managed to set daily daily and weekly records yesterday (and the week still have three days, counting today left!). Though some logic about number of readers/# of linked blogs that makes now a suitable time to add Pie-ence to the list of James recommended blogs. The author is a Canadian grad student studying botany at UBC. Be sure to check out his review of Tomorrow’s Table (the book that came before the blog, and needs to get all the publicity we can mange), and this write up of a paper on whole genome duplications in plants which I actually cited (the paper not the blog post) in my NSF proposal today ending a moment of panic about not being able to find a good estimate of the age of the pre-grass tetraploidy. I owe you one Greg!