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April 2010

Water soaked lotus

on Monday, 5th April 2010 - 21:33

Beginning at HHMI, a subtle push in the right direction!

on Monday, 5th April 2010 - 21:33

Starting work in a position in Prof. Stephen Harrison's lab at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Boston.  I'm looking forward to getting my hands dirty again and to be in the thick of things.  The last 6 months doing freelance has had its ups and downs and all in all I find that I'm more suited to a semi-structured life of working by day, and superhero freelance geek by night.  The writing will continue as will the web developing. 

Pipet. Image c/o stock.xchng.com

on Friday, 9th April 2010 - 22:50

Survived my first week ;-D

on Friday, 9th April 2010 - 22:50

As the title says, survived the first week - not that it was at all hard.  I think I'm going to like my new role at the Crystal Lab (a.k.a.

Subha Aluth Avurudhak Veva!!! - Happy Sri Lankan New Year!!!

on Wednesday, 14th April 2010 - 6:30

Started off the Sinhala Avurudha with boiling milk, milk rice / kiribath, and some pirith chanting.  The color to wear is green and we did all of this starting at dawn (roughly 6am). 

Wishing everyone who reads my blog a very prosperous, successful, happy, health-full year!!!

Dust on the horizon...

on Wednesday, 21st April 2010 - 6:46

Have taken in one of my cousins as she waits for her flight back to London.  Can't believe the mess caused by a giant quantity of dust in the atmosphere!  That said, am thrilled to be able to finally host our first guest and am enjoying her company. 

1st plant to die - sweet basil.

on Wednesday, 21st April 2010 - 18:11

I need to include pictures at some point - but my garden seems to be doing well.  The only death so far has been the Sweet Basil and I think its probably because there's been frost in the mornings (which kills it).  Everything else is hardy and thriving.  Maya spends her time on the balcony sniffing all of the different scents.  We've got lavender, rosemary, cilantro, sage, parsly, dill, chives, some strawberry plants and a tomato plant.