Sometimes it is worth it

I received notification by email yesterday that I was granted a travel award to the ASBMB conference held this year in San Francisco. I submitted an abstract to them back in October. Although this is not an international conference, this will be my first time presenting my work at a major conference.

What about those long hours that I have been putting in at the lab? Well, it seems that sometimes it is worth it. A travel award seems to make these things worth while.