Ok, fine, so it's been a while.

Bugger off. I've not been writing because I've been busy. Also, because the temperature has gone up so far here that the top of my thermometer exploded like in the cartoons showering me in broken glass and red ethanol. I've been having stitches.

Ok, so that didn't happen. What I'm saying is there have been mitigating factors.

Lots has happened. The most fun of which is, while walking in the Cornell river, I got something thrown at me from one the bridges (bear in mind that this is a gorge and the bridge is like 30-40m up. So it hit the water with quite a splash). It turned out to be an orange. So I ate it.

The important bit is this: Oh My God. It was possibly the best orange I have ever eaten. Seriously. I'm not sure if it was the meteoric impact with the water breaking up the long chain carbohydrates into short chain sugars, or if it actually was divine providence (for not a minute before had I licked my parched lips and pronounced: I could really do with some fruit).

So, yeah, that was fun.

The research is going really well and the three proteins I've tested have turned out to be crap, good and "really pretty good" at binding to their intended ligand. Which is nice. I think I might go back to formula though and combine the two point mutations from the two that worked into one, genetically engineered, super spider er... protein.

In other news, I am now in NYC. Which is large and doesn't quite live up to the hype, but I shall tell you more about that when I'm not just about to go out for breakfast.

Later

Greg