I'm at work today, but just for the morning. I tried to get here by 7:30 so I could leave (with a good conscience) at 11:30 instead of 12:00 - stupid train blocked my way. I did get here by 7:45, though ( Read more... )

Don't wear a mini skirt with no tights to work when you work in a meatlocker. I am SO COLD! Look cute...but that doesn't outweigh the whole "cold" bit. Brrrrr

Second day back at work, and second to come in to find my computer in an endless "trying to boot Windows" cycle. Luckily there are two other networked computers in here that I can use...but I want to be at my desk! And I don't feel good...dratted cold... I just wanna go back to bed!

I've been shuffling bound journals all day, and I feel like my arms are gonna fall off! I feel so accomplished, though. I have a severe lack of shelf space, and I've been procrastinating about shifting shelves for probably a year (it's hard work!). Right now I have an entire shelf cleared, which amounts to quite a bit of growing space, considering ( Read more... )

Ok, people. I'm on vacation. 2 days of personal time plus Monday. So, what do I get when I come home from my kids' last-day-of-school activities? A message from some secretary (couldn't ever actually figure out who exactly it was) trying to find a book I ordered for a dr. I ordered this book on my credit card in exchange for immediate cash from ( Read more... )

I find myself in a good but stressful situation. I seriously overbudgeted for this year and need to spend some money. See, I started in November and had to turn in my budget in May. There were things that had been budgeted for FY '05 that I wasn't sure about, but didn't want to cut them in case they appeared out of nowhere before the year was up. ( Read more... )

So I'm doing good at staying on task today. The problem is, the things I'm doing are BO-RING. So far: read my e-mail, cleaned my desk area, added books to the catalog and started putting labels on them, retrieved a couple of articles. Other things on my to-do list: read the Onfolio user guide, complete another section of the online HTML training, ( Read more... )

Here's one of my pet peeves.

When I'm retrieving an article for someone and when I go to save it in their folder I realize that I've already gotten this article for them sometime in the past. If it were print, I could understand not keeping the article. But this is a PDF - surely you file these away somewhere???

I look down and see the word I had jotted down on a pad while talking to someone on the phone: cancer. Now, how helpful is that when I work in a friggin' cancer center??? That would be like writing down the word "book" in a public library...

So I'm editing a paper and formatting the references with EndNote. I get to reference #16 which only says "regional lymph node spread." Nothing else. No author, journal, date, anything. So I e-mail the prof and ask if he has the rest of the citation. He replies, "I have no idea. Can you find me such a reference?" Can you imagine how many articles ( Read more... )