Things are going well so far. I finally got those bloody peptides in last week. So far the results are promising and I'm moving towards finishing the expts needed for my manuscript. I am thinking i need more 'functional' expts so i'm working on those too. But unfortunately for whatever reason the cell culture expts are not going so well. A critical cell line manages to get infected every two weeks, and it grows slowly, to boot. Then, various plasmids are not behaving like they should. Anyway, i'll figure out those issues i hope. I'd like to get the paper out in June, but my fear is my old advisor will be difficult (as usual) and demand a boatload of further expts before submission. I have a bit more leverage now though. Its a delicate situation though.