Small steps

Prompted by the How to Write a Lot book, I'm trying to spend half an hour on a scholarly-writing task before I get up, each morning that I don't have to be somewhere early (i.e. not at the gym by 8:00am).  As a result of this, I've nearly finished the first draft of my short essay for the ASM evolution book.  Only about 3 paragraphs still to go, and I know what they're going to say!

Yesterday I started reading the revised manuscript about Sxy in E. coli.  It still needs a fair bit of rewriting work, but maybe the post-doc and I will have enough time for sitting-down-together-and-revising that we can still get it out by the end of the week.