My labmates just hung a photo outside my cubicle:


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I am not in a great place these days. Am in serious burnout mode. Not that time-to-switch-jobs burnout, but I can't get my brain around the big things and I don't have motivation to do the hard work. Instead, I'm sweeping away minor tasks I've been putting off out of tedium or unimportance. Except my boss is forcing me to write useless stuff, ( Read more... )

I don't know what's up today. I don't feel like getting out of bed, though I probably will in the next 10 minutes or so. I've been laying around for 2 hours. Part of this is I couldn't get to sleep until 5AM. I've been having more extreme than usual insomnia this week... Tuesday night I didn't sleep at all. I went to the gym at 6:30 AM and ( Read more... )

During an extensive discussion about the quality of water used in an NMR experiment in lab meeting today:

[Prof #1] What distinguishes good water from bad water?
[Prof #2] Alcohol content.

And with that, we're leaving for beer within the hour.

I haven't coded in C++ in several years. I'm writing some more serious modules now and I've forgotten most of it. I'm relearning how spoiled I am in these silly interpreted languages. Can't break to a label? using namespace std;? #include or #include "math.h" or #include or ...? don't forget that main function. I should stop before I ( Read more... )

I was supposed to give group meeting last week, but it was fortunately pushed back to Friday. Then the prof comes in today and pushes it up to tomorrow. I take this as a good sign that she's satisfied with my abilities, as she didn't seem too concerned about the content of the presentation (I offered results and she blew them off cheerfully). So ( Read more... )