#owl studies

My desk is SUCH a mess, I haven't cleaned it in ages (yikes). Hoping to get all of this done today but the cleaning might take a while. Let's hope I don't get sucked back into playing video games after lunch. And that someone leaves me alone enough so I can get some stuff done. :)

2018 Art Challenge Day 48 Animals

Finally got to draw some actual chemistry structures instead of poring over math I don't understand. Organic chemistry is like my comfort zone, to be honest. It helps to be back here sometimes.

I did get around to reading that paper I talked about in the morning. I still need to figure out what exactly all the jargon means before I actually understand all the experiments and how the different compounds used fit together. Right now I only know that dihydrofolate is reduced to tetrahydrofolate (interestingly this has the same acronym as tetrahydrofuran, which can be confusing) by dihydrofolate reductase using NADPH as a cofactor. Enzyme mechanisms are interesting.

Other than that, I signed up for a poetry course on Coursera and drank some pomegranate juice. I didn't like the juice much but oh well. At least I got a good photo out of it.

Got through around 50 pages in our bioinformatics textbook yesterday. Started reading a new book about algorithms, but it may be a little too advanced for my chemistry-addled brain to understand. :D

And I also have to work on my presentation for next Friday. I've chosen an article that's completely out of my field, so I'll need to make handwritten notes, looks like. Back to the old days of actually writing to understand things.