I should serve a nice, ripe brie to go with this whiney post

[asimplechord]

1. I thought more than once about extending my visit to NYC when I got the NDP notice and then the pre-sale code for the Discos' show at the Bowery, but I seriously cannot spend that time off without consequences - the day and a half I'm taking are being made up by working MLK Jr Day and the thirteen hours I spent in lab on Tuesday. (As an aside, J

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[chiralove]

Oh my goodness, people should respect sign-up sheets more than they do! On the other hand, people shouldn't slap random sign-up sheets onto things just because they feel like it, because it's a huge hassle to have to sign your name in order to spin cells for 15 minutes, but whatever. When there are sign-up sheets for good reason, people should plan ahead and sign up in advance!

I'm training the techs because the only one left who a) knows enough to train them and b) is actually there! Our lab is like, really tiny right now. :/ The last one was fine, but she ended up with some research job studying ... snails, or something over in the evolutionary bio department, which, well, whatever. Our new tech is making me want to bang my head against the freaking wall ... she almost made us tetrazolium plates, instead of tetracycline plates. Ugh. At least she's bright enough to ask questions before going off and doing these things, so there's one plus!

Our paper got rejected at the second journal as well ... two days before Christmas, lol. It's definitely going to be chapter one of my thesis (I can just paste it in, though I'm going to add a couple of results that aren't in it for whatever reasons) ... it just needs to be accepted somewhere so that I can start applying for fellowships. :/

We're going to try appealing to the journal because the reviewers praised the science and rejected it for really crappy reasons, but if that fails, I guess we'll go to PNAS. I should stop being such a spoiled bratty child and acknowledge that PNAS is an okay journal, but it feels so much like settling and ridiculousness and, I don't even know. I read the most fricking ridiculous paper for journal club this week and it was in PLOS Genetics, so I don't even know. It's all ridiculousness, and one shouldn't be bitter about it, I guess.

Time for another glass of wine, anyhow, lol. :)

[asimplechord]

Heh. Someone tried to use doxycycline instead of doxirubicin the other day. They were like, "Well, the tube said dox, so I figured it was what I wanted."
*facepalm*

The thing about the hood is that there's always been a weekly sign-up sheet - it's not like that's a new phenomenon. And I didn't just go in at 8:45 and sign out 9-11:30; I checked with people, and then signed up the afternoon before.

PNAS is decent. IDK, I find the quality variable because it's such a "who you know" journal, some papers are awesome, and others make me wonder how they got in. The longer I'm in academics, the more convinced I become that success at research is based 25% on work, 25% on intelligence, 25% on luck, 25% on who you know.