Re: hello from DC

['Robert' <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: "Reimers, Mark (NIH/NCI)" <http://www.mail.nih.gov/~reimersm>
 > Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:43:35 -0400
 >
 > Hi Robert,
 > How goes it? Is Marriage OK? Or at least as OK as living together?

Yes, quite similar except with much lower taxes :-).

 > How goes
 > the job search?

Not great.  Happily, I am getting a phone interview with Alexa.  The
position seems pretty similar to what I was doing at Links_2_Links (when it was
Links_2_Links, not Continuum nor Topical_Net nor Light_speed).  I would really
like that.

I also will be talking with this company Netli.  It sounds far less
interesting, but I'll take what I can get.

I've been finding out lately that my real problem is my interviewing
skills.  I'm going to be working on those.

 > Spring came early to Maryland; in March the first bees were peering
 > impatiently at the unopened buds of an Oregon grape by the back door; now
 > the tulip trees bloom. Cherry trees carpet the capitol mall.
 > From freezing rain six weeks ago, we went to shirtsleeve weather, and then
 > freezing again, and now to summer! It's too hot to bicycle in anything but a
 > t-shirt and shorts.

The weather here's been up and down, too ('though, no frozen rain).  A few
weeks ago, it was quite warm -- mid 80s (farenheit).  This morning, it was
39F.

Overall, it's a lot drier than the east coast, which my computers like :-).

 > My new job has too many projects, although some are quite interesting: 
 > We're studying drug resistance of certain cancer cell lines, and trying to
 > attribute it to certain transporters. We are looking for compounds effective
 > against cell lines resistant in these ways.
 > We're also studying methylation of a key metastasis protein (E-cadherin)
 > across the cell lines used for screening.
 > I'm also involved in a major clinical study of invasive breast cancer --
 > trying to identify conditions in the surrounding tissues that enable
 > invasion.

What's really cool about working for NIH is that everything can be open.
(I remember a few years ago, this guy who worked at NIH released all this
source code for a speech recognition front-end and the NIH welcomed the
release.)  It's like, half of the companies that my friends work for, my
friends can't tell me what their company does!

I'm glad that you're enjoying Wash, DC so much.  I hope you and Simon have
been able to get together.

 > Mark Reimers, NCI & SRA
 > Bldg. 37, Bethesda MD 20892
 > 301-402-2706
 > NB. I read e-mail once per day

That's fine.  Job searching is pretty exhausting, anyway.