What I'm doing now

Updated March 20th, 2025 at 3:48pm EDT with a cat in my lap and Rasika’s garlic naan in my belly. This is the first of two meals I will have outside today, the second being at Moon Rabbit. Life could be worse.

But what I am actually working on is:

• A phase 3 study of cell therapy in autoimmune disease. People who read the protocol we wrote said that it was good. On to actually doing what we said we would.
• Several other early-stage trials, mostly in autoimmune disease, from writing new protocols to writing up the results.
• An elective graduate course on clinical trials at UMBC, which will be in its third year this fall so my co-Instructor and I may actually have figured out what we were supposed to do by the time it starts.
• Going down the book pile as my ever-growing anti-library expands.
• Watching the events in Serbia unfold, uncertain if it is a slowly-moving train wreck or a masterfully executed plan.
• Watching the Steam icon taunting me from the dock, knowing that I will never get to play Civ 7. Or Inscryption. Or finish Disco Elysium. Ludus longus, vita brevis.