Sorry for the long absence. I’m busy working on a story for the next issue of Findings and between trying to figure out the science and figure out a way to tell the story right, I guess I let Gregipedia fall between the cracks.
I’ll update you more on a few news items later — like the installation of our new, more-powerful small animal MRI and the papers published on a novel light receptor in C. elegans by Dr. Ken Miller and a new lupus-related gene variation discovered by Drs. Judith James and Patrick Gaffney — but I thought I’d go a little personal for this one.
When I was doing the video component for my DNA story, I interviewed Dr. Jim Rand. When I told him that just thinking about my future health had spurred me on to eating better and exercising more, he told me, “Great. Good luck with that. It probably won’t last.”
I’ll admit, I was a little peeved. Who was he to tell me I didn’t have the willpower and the determination to stick with a healthier diet and increased physical activity? Well, it turns out he’s just a very smart guy, since he was right.
And that’s why I chose this topic for my first new Gregipedia entry in a while — because I’ve been lax on both counts. I did revert to my old, bad habits and I did let this blog sit un-updated. But I’m back on the horse, or the wagon, or in the game or whatever. I’m trying a new method of eating better (by eating the same thing every day, hopefully keeping me from having the choice to be bad) and I’m rededicating myself to keeping the blog alive.
Sure, nobody reads it, but maybe that will change. And maybe I will, too. It can’t hurt to hope, right?
