Now
As of 4th of May, 2025
Very personal things
Seven months into parenthood. Actually, I am starting to think about my parental leave, August towards December.
Work
Protein science, SAR-driving assays, small molecules, LIMS administration. Doing quite some biophysics lately.
Study and projects
Still plans on a semi-personal research, inspired by the last year’s Landrum and Riniker paper on activity/affinity values deposited publicly. “Biochemical consciousness” tells me that there are more caveats in tackling extreme potencies than are commonly accounted, and coincidentally I have been dealing with extreme affinities lately at work.
Suddenly realized that I have been daily driving FreeBSD on a personal laptop for half a year. Not sure if it qualifies for a project though.
Reading
I have a horrible habit of reading multiple books in parallel, primarily because I don’t want to laser focus during the evenings and weekends.
It’s a little stupid to talk about books before finishing them, but here’s what I’m reading now:
- “Chemistry and Pharmacology of Drug Discovery” — very repetitive composition-wise.
- “The Scar” by China Mieville — what a masterpiece.
- “Harry Potter och de vises sten” — almost finished, the very first time I read an actual book in Swedish. Funny enough, I never read the first Harry Potter before.
Playing
(…I started “Baldur’s Gate 3” two and a half years ago, and still haven’t finished it.)
Sport
Even though I was skeptical, I am doing really good. Consistently, I drag myself to do a workout two times per week and at least once for a 5 to 10 km run. Feels good.
At least this New Year resolution is not failed yet.