This week I rehearsed and then presented a new sing-along song on the Plasmodium falciparum life cycle at the Seattle Parasitology Conference.
Working on this song with my colleagues Ryan Choi and Janis Weeks was fun in several respects, but my favorite moments of all came when I got to say things like: “OK, let’s take it from ‘Hepatic cells get hijacked’….” Or: “All, right, one more time from ‘Rings, trophs, schizonts, merozoites’….”
I’m not much of a bandleader and probably never will be. But I love the fact that, once in a great while, I get to issue maestro-like directives such as these, which sound totally ridiculous in isolation, but actually make sense in the context of my life.
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