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I've been back in the lab this week. Things are going okay. I picked probably the most difficult lab to join. Not only do I have to know p-chem, but I have to know lasers and microwave technology and engineering and a host of manual labor skills. My kung fu training is becoming useful, as there are times I'm standing on various things holding heavy, stainless-steel flanges and trying to do something and not hanging myself on cords and wires. I could have just joined an analytical lab and taken it easy, but I don't think I could live with myself knowing I could have done something more difficult.
Andy doesn't seem all that thrilled with being in the lab. Well, that's what you get for going organic. It's just mindlessly repetitive crap. I am not looking forward to the coming semester, though. Even now it looks like it will be the busiest semester of my life. If I go to bed as soon as I get home, I may get enough sleep to get through the day. It's only four months and I'm scheduling in some things I want to do. (Like I found time for lunch on two days!) As for other fun activities, I'm not going to say anything about them until I'm sure I'm going to do them.
I intended to post on the many things I learned when I visited PA and I never did. I found out Natalie Funck is now teaching middle school Spanish at NL, so I went to visit her. Some of the things I already knew, like Randy Waltermyer married and having a kid, Ryan Waltermyer going to get married. I didn't know that Keith Peiffer and Bekah Miller were likely heading towards marriage. It seems like every time I talk to my parents they're telling me that someone else I graduated with is getting married. It's like an epidemic. Andy and Jen seem like the only ones that aren't getting married. (I'm still betting even Tim will beat them.) Andy and I had a conversation yesterday on the way to our cars about how he has something to go home to (Jen) and doesn't want to stay in lab all day while I don't mind staying in lab since I don't and it made me realize how avoiding "stupid ho-bags" (as Tim calls them) benefits my career as well as my sanity and wallet. I can even spend what little free time I get doing something I want instead of dealing with female psychoses. God rest the souls of the poor married bastards, haha!
Andy doesn't seem all that thrilled with being in the lab. Well, that's what you get for going organic. It's just mindlessly repetitive crap. I am not looking forward to the coming semester, though. Even now it looks like it will be the busiest semester of my life. If I go to bed as soon as I get home, I may get enough sleep to get through the day. It's only four months and I'm scheduling in some things I want to do. (Like I found time for lunch on two days!) As for other fun activities, I'm not going to say anything about them until I'm sure I'm going to do them.
I intended to post on the many things I learned when I visited PA and I never did. I found out Natalie Funck is now teaching middle school Spanish at NL, so I went to visit her. Some of the things I already knew, like Randy Waltermyer married and having a kid, Ryan Waltermyer going to get married. I didn't know that Keith Peiffer and Bekah Miller were likely heading towards marriage. It seems like every time I talk to my parents they're telling me that someone else I graduated with is getting married. It's like an epidemic. Andy and Jen seem like the only ones that aren't getting married. (I'm still betting even Tim will beat them.) Andy and I had a conversation yesterday on the way to our cars about how he has something to go home to (Jen) and doesn't want to stay in lab all day while I don't mind staying in lab since I don't and it made me realize how avoiding "stupid ho-bags" (as Tim calls them) benefits my career as well as my sanity and wallet. I can even spend what little free time I get doing something I want instead of dealing with female psychoses. God rest the souls of the poor married bastards, haha!