Siliceous and Delicious

It somehow took me most of the day, and most of non-wasted time Friday (what the hell did I do yesterday?), but I finally managed to annotate my PCO plot with images of diatoms. And, I did this in the least efficient yet most elegant way possible (by a completely flexible and extensible R script that will now automatically draft figures like this for any given list and number of taxon names, provided there are similarly named JPEG files in the designated image folder). Woot.

In other exciting news, finally managed to follow up on a career event in a timely fashion—sent off emails to the recruiter and a consultant from InnoSight, whom I had met at a career thing on Friday (one of three events I went to that day…). The company seemed a little more reasonable in terms of their work ethic/hours/travel schedule, so I thought it worth at least continuing the conversation to the next step. It is taking me a while, but it seems that I am learning, and getting better at this whole “networking” and “job-hunting” endeavor.

Anyhow. In five minutes it’s time for the next event to start—a presentation from the barf-inducing Bain & Co about case interviews. But, I’m tired of working and have some time to bridge before Kati comes back across the river, and I might as well learn something about the interview process if I am going to go through it with some company eventually.