i made a lot of progress on work stuff in the past couple days. i
don't remember how much i described of this before, so forgive me
for any redundancy. we have a bunch of expression data for a
mixture of molecules and enzymes (an insane amount of molecules)
and i'm supposed to make a method that predicts whether a given
molecule (not from the data) will interact with a given enzyme
(from the data). my main problem so far was how the heck to make
sense of the data i was given. but i figured it out today and the
numbers are actually making sense, which i'm happy about. now it's
a matter of extracting the right substructure information from the
molecules to have some meaningful features. 

other than that, i've been looking at some more apartments. there's
one that's amazing but the lease start date is not great. the hope
is that someone will notify the leasing company at the end of this
month that they'll be moving out so that there's a start date of
july 1. the real estate agent seemed to think that was likely so i
just have to call around the end of this month to see. but i'll
keep looking in the meantime.

there have been a lot of ant hills popping up on my walk to campus
lately. they have lots of little holes throughout them, instead of
the one big hole i'm used to seeing. i also noticed a ton of new
dandelions today. interestingly, there was only one patch where all
of the dandelions had already turned white. i also noticed that the
dandelions were all present around the tops of hills and not in the
valleys between them. i wonder if that's just me seeing things or
if the wind carrying the dandelion puff seeds happens to hit
those spots like the edges of a bowl more often than it would
settle in the middle. that feels reasonable. i could imagine some
kind of statistical art project like that, the problem would just
be taking enough videos or photos of spots with dandelions and
somehow comparing that to the topology. there's also this dead
squirrel that showed up about a week ago that i've learned to avoid
because it's right in the path that i'd normally walk. i still look
every time just to see how far it's come along but i get anxious
every time i do. i'm glad i look down when i walk at least because
the first few times where i hadn't learned, i may have stepped on
it and that would have been horrible.