*headdesk* *headde-* Ooh, shiny! *-sk* *headdesk*

Writing for publication/thesis work is not easy. There exists a little freedom-of-thought wiggle-room in the discussion section (where I get to kite a few ideas), unfortunately I'm seriously constrained everywhere else. First, I must write to what the data actually shows (I'll save the data, damn data, and statistics discussion for another time), and so my factual material is akin to bedrock, adn this constraint I readily accept. Second, the one driving me to the wall, the desk, or any similarly handy hard surface, is the limitation wherein I must write in High Academe Scientific.

Point in case:

However, when we calculated the fold-induction of these innate immune cytokines, we discovered that infected CIITA-Tg recipient mice produce relatively more IL-1b mRNA than those mice that received wild type T-cells (Fig. 6D).

And I spent so much time breaking away from the Passive Voice that this simply... hurts. My brain feels like a stale pretzel: brittle, twisty, with a fragile crust and a core harder than basalt.

*sigh* *grunt*

(That icon? yeah, emphasis on the MAD part.)