Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Dictyostelium discoideum: Aggregate, Migrate and Culminate

Despite the crazy bustle of the past few days, I have the energy and mental capacity to contain emotions. I feel I have been chaffed raw and yet feel almost... incomplete. And I feel pure anticipation of the peace that tomorrow brings yet restlessly stagnant with regards to the pregnant wait that lies between now and then.

I won't even attempt to deny, that the reason for this discerning state arrives tomorrow.

And it is funny (yet again) how the heart hopes and long while the mind logically wait and calculate and the body expresses the unparalleled conflict in terms of racing blood and dizzying visual images.

But I am happy, truly happy, and at peace with the knowledge (or lack of) that lies within and beneath. I am happy.
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On a note of hilarity, in the study of the interesting life cycle of Dictyostelium discoideum, slugs may stand on their foot to form a fruiting body. Phallic structures never fail to amuse and entertain a class of geneticists to be. Yes we are that geek.

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