Sounds good to me! Although I recall the comments for "Defeatist" being pretty positive overall, so I don't think you have too much to worry about there.
Haha, glad to hear it! Poor Nate, everyone enjoys his suffering.
Ah, cool! I had a feeling you might be molbio, although since you seem to like prehistoric pokemon a lot, I figured paleontology was also a possibility. Though there's a difference between liking fossils and liking spending all day picking them out of the ground with itty-bitty little tools...
Anyway, yeah, I do computational stuff, primarily genome assembly and comparative genomics. Hope you're enjoying your rotations! I didn't realize PhD programs lasted that long in the UK; I thought they were usually only two years. you cannot escaaaaape