fic rec and science ramblings
Have I mentioned that springtime_gen has started posting? And have I mentioned that if you're not watching and reading, you're missing out?
I was going to save up a bunch of links and do a list of my favorites at the end, and I'll probably still do it, but. If you're a Neville fan, you need to drop everything and go and read A Moment In Time right now. (~3500 words. Summary: Important moments of Neville from his every school year.)
I'm a big missing moment fan anyway, and this is a collection of missing moments, so it already had a plus in its favor going in, AND it's about Neville, so there's another plus, but. The characterization in this fic is brilliant. And by brilliant, I mean spot on. And not only for Neville, but also for Ginny and Hermione and the Sorting Hat(!) and Augusta and Remus and... The whole thing is fabulous.
I can't wait for the reveals so I can fangirl the mystery author properly.
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Work sucked less today, but it's going to be a LONG week. We're starting another diurnal study this week (I moved half of my plants into a short-day chamber today), so starting on Thursday at 6am, we're going to be taking samples every two hours, round the clock, until Sunday. Every. Two. Hours.
I've been elected to do the sampling starting at 6am every day and going mostly through the day, until 2pm. Our uber-cool postdoc is doing from 4pm until 10pm, and the boss is doing midnight-4am.
But this means that on Thursday and Friday, I either have to get up and go into work and harvest tissue at 5:45 am (so I'm ready at 6am), come home and shower, etc, take the kids to school, make sure I'm there a little before 8, and harvest as soon as I get in and then every 2 hours thereafter, or I have to get up and get ready and go in at 5:45 am and harvest first thing and then work until 2pm and leave then. And I have to do it on Saturday and Sunday, too.
Sometimes science is a pain in the ass. At least I get comp time for it--I'll be writing down 8 hours each for Saturday and Sunday and, depending on which way I end up going on Thursday and Friday, at least one extra hour there, too. Of course, then I have to find the time to take all these hours I'm racking up off (I've already got 10 hours comp time I have to use, AND I've got 15 days of annual leave I have to use or lose by the end of the year).
Also, I think I need to go track down a jerk who's been hogging equipment and kick him for being rude to the Uber-cool postdoc (UCPD). Because he's not only hogging the equipment so the UCPD can't get her work done (which is stuff my boss and I need for the paper we're in the process of writing), he's hogging the equipment while being a condescending ass. Apparently, his dissertation defense is in three weeks, and he needs this data for it, because he's "got a job as an assistant professor" and so his research is more important and she can just wait, because she's just a postdoc and "he's got a real job".
Um, no. That's not how it works. Common use equipment is there to be shared, and you can't hog the equipment, even if it's your fault that you're defending in three weeks and don't have all the data you need yet. (Seriously? You're still collecting data this close to the defense? Shouldn't you, like, already have the dissertation written--and have this data already in the paper?)
I was going to save up a bunch of links and do a list of my favorites at the end, and I'll probably still do it, but. If you're a Neville fan, you need to drop everything and go and read A Moment In Time right now. (~3500 words. Summary: Important moments of Neville from his every school year.)
I'm a big missing moment fan anyway, and this is a collection of missing moments, so it already had a plus in its favor going in, AND it's about Neville, so there's another plus, but. The characterization in this fic is brilliant. And by brilliant, I mean spot on. And not only for Neville, but also for Ginny and Hermione and the Sorting Hat(!) and Augusta and Remus and... The whole thing is fabulous.
I can't wait for the reveals so I can fangirl the mystery author properly.
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Work sucked less today, but it's going to be a LONG week. We're starting another diurnal study this week (I moved half of my plants into a short-day chamber today), so starting on Thursday at 6am, we're going to be taking samples every two hours, round the clock, until Sunday. Every. Two. Hours.
I've been elected to do the sampling starting at 6am every day and going mostly through the day, until 2pm. Our uber-cool postdoc is doing from 4pm until 10pm, and the boss is doing midnight-4am.
But this means that on Thursday and Friday, I either have to get up and go into work and harvest tissue at 5:45 am (so I'm ready at 6am), come home and shower, etc, take the kids to school, make sure I'm there a little before 8, and harvest as soon as I get in and then every 2 hours thereafter, or I have to get up and get ready and go in at 5:45 am and harvest first thing and then work until 2pm and leave then. And I have to do it on Saturday and Sunday, too.
Sometimes science is a pain in the ass. At least I get comp time for it--I'll be writing down 8 hours each for Saturday and Sunday and, depending on which way I end up going on Thursday and Friday, at least one extra hour there, too. Of course, then I have to find the time to take all these hours I'm racking up off (I've already got 10 hours comp time I have to use, AND I've got 15 days of annual leave I have to use or lose by the end of the year).
Also, I think I need to go track down a jerk who's been hogging equipment and kick him for being rude to the Uber-cool postdoc (UCPD). Because he's not only hogging the equipment so the UCPD can't get her work done (which is stuff my boss and I need for the paper we're in the process of writing), he's hogging the equipment while being a condescending ass. Apparently, his dissertation defense is in three weeks, and he needs this data for it, because he's "got a job as an assistant professor" and so his research is more important and she can just wait, because she's just a postdoc and "he's got a real job".
Um, no. That's not how it works. Common use equipment is there to be shared, and you can't hog the equipment, even if it's your fault that you're defending in three weeks and don't have all the data you need yet. (Seriously? You're still collecting data this close to the defense? Shouldn't you, like, already have the dissertation written--and have this data already in the paper?)