official work update
okay so things have improve at work drastically. I still don't have a clue what I'm doing, and don't actually get to do a whole lot in the job, but at least I feel somewhat accomplished today...I finished my animal care and use compliance online training, my first step to being able to start working with the mice. Tomorrow I have a hands on trainging, then I just have to hand in the paperwork and hopefully by next week I'll get to start working with the mice. R still does all the work and I only get to watch, but luckily right now all we are doing are Southern Blots, which the first steps are similar to western blots and I've done those. Tomorrow we start the new stuff which I haven't done. We did go down to the mice room to remove the weaned mice from their parents and catalogue them. This stuff boggled me a bit, since I've never worked with mice, and R isn't very good at answering questions I ask, and not being able to to the work myself makes it hard for me to understand. Dr. Emily is never in lab actually, which is alright in a way, though once R leaves for grad school it may be bad cause I'll be all alone in the lab then, with almost no human contact. I need to make friends at work, but it's hard. There's only one other guy who works in my lab area and he always wears head phones so I'm disinclined to try to start a conversation. To top it all off I eat lunch with R, and she doesn't like eating in the cafeteria, we just buy our lunch and head back to the lab.
On the home front everything is going splendidly. My roomie is cool, she appreciates the Don Hertzfelt short film Rejected and introduced me to the cartoon network show Robot Chicken which is a really funny show. I haven't gotten to spend too much time with her since she's been with her family a lot, but my mom did and mom approves and if my mom approves then I know she's a cool person. My part of the house is a bit minimalist at the moment, but that will change this weekend when the rest of my stuff shows up and I get more furniture to fill up the room. I have a vanity table which is nice and I need a sofa for my den, but my bed is comfy and now that it's cooled down a (little) bit I can sleep on it with out feeling like I'm dying of humidity. my bathroom is realy small and cute, I love it. I have shower curtains and matching bathmats, and something to hold my shampoo and shower gel, and really what else do I need? I want to replace the fluorescent lights but they don't bother me right now. I do need a bunch of rugs since it's linoleum on the floor, but I like it. And there's a dog named Marvel, which makes every bad thing worthwhile, I've missed having a dog in the house.
So my life is doing all right. I still feel a little lonely and bored at work, but I have a sort of friend in Amanda (she already invited me to her friends b-day party, it's a costume party). And this weekend Chris comes, which will makes me insanely happy. it's weird being on my own, but I'm okay, and I thikn everything will be great in a few weeks when I get more used to it.
On the home front everything is going splendidly. My roomie is cool, she appreciates the Don Hertzfelt short film Rejected and introduced me to the cartoon network show Robot Chicken which is a really funny show. I haven't gotten to spend too much time with her since she's been with her family a lot, but my mom did and mom approves and if my mom approves then I know she's a cool person. My part of the house is a bit minimalist at the moment, but that will change this weekend when the rest of my stuff shows up and I get more furniture to fill up the room. I have a vanity table which is nice and I need a sofa for my den, but my bed is comfy and now that it's cooled down a (little) bit I can sleep on it with out feeling like I'm dying of humidity. my bathroom is realy small and cute, I love it. I have shower curtains and matching bathmats, and something to hold my shampoo and shower gel, and really what else do I need? I want to replace the fluorescent lights but they don't bother me right now. I do need a bunch of rugs since it's linoleum on the floor, but I like it. And there's a dog named Marvel, which makes every bad thing worthwhile, I've missed having a dog in the house.
So my life is doing all right. I still feel a little lonely and bored at work, but I have a sort of friend in Amanda (she already invited me to her friends b-day party, it's a costume party). And this weekend Chris comes, which will makes me insanely happy. it's weird being on my own, but I'm okay, and I thikn everything will be great in a few weeks when I get more used to it.