JN told me his dad passed away last night. He seems to be taking it really well, especially considerin that he won't be able to go to the funeral as his visa has expired and it takes about a month to get one once he gets back to Korea. Normally that wouldn't be an issue, but his wife is 8 months pregnant and he really can't leave her alone here for so long.

Am finally working on this little (or rather reasonably big) project of EHDs. The job of checking references turns out to be larger than expected as some of the same genes have different names in different species. I am almost done with the first part--alas, the first part is also the shortest one. But I figured I might just get better at it as time goes on so it might go faster.

I have the worst case of runner's trots. I thought that it would be all back to normal by now but apparently not.

Our Beethoven concert is tomorrow. It's good collaborating with Korean choirs. Some nice Korean lady made 200 sandwiches for all the singers yesterday, including water and bananas. And they are providing our dinner tomorrow too!