A short pause, a temporary slow down of pace...

It's been a (more than usual) busy week and this trend will continue in the next two weeks. I've had the first part of my committee meeting and in the coming Monday I have the second and main part.
Finally after many agonizing a time, a project I came up with and work on seems to fall into place and more data and good results are coming in. I'll just say it has to do with revealing the role of a certain protein in neurons, using mouse genetics and molecular biology methods (I'm sure most of you didn't make it to the end of that sentence). 

Also, this Thanksgiving weekend, I need to work to generate some important data, perhaps some that I can use for the meeting. Also, I've just been given word that a big experiment I've been working on has been completed and now comes the time of data analysis. So I'll start on this as well this weekend.

So naturally all this will cause my productivity level here to decline in the coming days and delay the reviews I'm working on. But they will come. So I apologize to those fine musicians and labels who sent me promo cd's and are waiting for the reviews to come on.

Also, feel free to let me know in comments or at avestin AT gmail DOT com what kind of posts do you want to read here, what kind of music covered, what albums and bands are you into or have discovered lately and anything else that comes to your mind.

I'll now leave you in the capable hands of Mono:

Not Procrastinating. Working. Really.

That's right, I'm a middle-aged woman working in a paper inundated office...
Actually if you look in that picture of me, you'll see how neatly organized are all these papers right behind and around me. So now you know it's a fake.
 
I did not have any time this week to write or even prepare a post due to work and other things I have to write (like the update to my PhD thesis committee, which I need to schedule a meeting with soon to present my progress, or lack thereof...).

However, I have some new albums I've gotten and am excited about, which I will write about soon.
I'll also post a short account of the Magma show my wife and I saw in NYC this past Monday night (oh, so you have time to go to shows in the city, but not to write posts do you - I hear you say; What can I say, you caught me red-handed...).

I've also been splurging in online cd shopping again when I shouldn't. Naughty boy (I've had my wife punish me; with whip and cream no less... cream-whip, get it? yeah, I know, I didn't laugh either).

In the meantime, you should sink your teeth (actually, ears would be better) in:
Orbs - Asleep Next to Science (for prog-rock)
Samsara Blues Experiment - Long Distance Trip (for psych rock/metal)
Martriden - Encounter the Monolith (death metal)
Sky Architect - Excavations of the Mind (for prog rock)
The Claudia Quintet - Royal Toast (for jazz)

Ta