Submitted!

Hooray, the CIHR proposal has been submitted. We think it looks good - we've incorporated just about all of the suggestions of our two internal reviewers, and we didn't have to cut any of our little illustrations to fit it into the 11 pages.

We took a break from proposal-polishing this afternoon to drag our visiting Chinese grad student to the pub to watch the hockey game, telling him that he'd otherwise be kicking himself for missing such an exceptional Canadian cultural experience. And it was!

Now I'll get into the lab, tomorrow morning, to start working on the preliminary techniques for the optical tweezers experiments. Things like figuring out how to get the cells to stick to coverslips without killing them, and how to tell that I haven't killed them.