Tuesday, December 13, 2005

I'm currently sitting on the couch, listenin' to Cat Power and waiting for my mochi to finish baking--I presented at lab meeting last week, so this week I'm in charge of snacks. It's a good system. I'm in favor of any system that provides you with delicious snacks during that deadly-dull time after lunch and before dinner.

We've had two new grad students join the lab--Sarah and I are the seniormost grad students, which still feels just wrong, and yet I'm warming to the idea. My experiment which had me in lab from 9AM to 8:30PM on Saturday just plain didn't work. There's a mantra floating out there in the science world, that whenever you do an experiment for the first time, "data is a bonus." And that's very, very true. Very comforting. And at the same time, man, that was alot of work and I'd sure like to have real results already!

By this time next week, I may very well be in Wheeling, WV. Not especially looking forward to the drive, but at least I'll have Chris to chat with. I'm REALLY not looking forward to the drive back--12-13 hours of just me and the road.

In general, things aren't that bad but I've never felt so angry and generally pissy. I complain about everything. I've had my first interpersonal altercation at work, but worked to smooth it over, so I guess I'm not a loose canon by any means. I think maybe it is time for this break to happen.

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