I've found that I like staying in the lab overnight. I feel more comfortable, and it's very liberating, having the entire night to do your experiments. Granted, a lot of it is spent in a freezing cold room (it's the chromatography set-up -- it has to be cold, and sudden bursts of room temperature air gusting into the cold cabinet would cause ( Read more... )

I am finally, finally, FINALLY going to get paid!!! After 67 days of work! In a couple of weeks or so, yeah, but the assurance that I will in fact get paid (my contract! is done! sitting on Ate Rhea's desk!) is leaps and bounds away from making daily calls to the funding agency, practically begging them to release the goddamn check for our ( Read more... )

Okay, so I have work, right? And I'm working while starting on my masters degree, right? And I thought I could do it, right?

And I started noticing that I can't write anymore. And I went and regressed into childhood, and watched a bunch of movies I used to watch as a kid (The Last Unicorn, Flight of Dragons, The Hobbit, and, of course, of ( Read more... )