I really want to get my current Hei/Misaki story finished, but I have a serious lack of time to write this week. I spent all evening finishing up an article for my boss (first time I've ever been asked to write a review...fingers crossed that I did a decent job!); it's now almost 11pm and I have to put together slides for a poster that I'm ( Read more... )

Just spent the last five and a half hours trying to cut a 2700 character abstract down to 2300. Thought I had it, only to realize that authors and affiliations count towards the limit too! Argh ( Read more... )

Happy Buy Nothing Day ( Read more... )

The Door Wars continue. If you know that you're not coming back to your desk for four hours, and you know that everyone else in the office prefers the door shut, why can't you take one second to shut the door behind you when you leave, for those four hours?? So aggravating.

Do you ever have those weeks where you have so much to do, that you can't even get started? And if you try to put together a to-do list, it would just ends up being "Do All the Things ( Read more... )

After work today I need to swing by Office Depot to pick up some printer ink, so that I can print out the letter disputing the validity of the claim that I got yesterday, and send it to the collection agency ( Read more... )

Sent the boss an email outlining a proposed set of experiments that a grad student and I worked out, and got back: "Wow, great work, folks! Let's order the reagents ( Read more... )

I had a one-on-one meeting with Dr. C this afternoon (which went pretty well; I'm finally starting to get a project defined). But she told me, "I ran into your PhD adviser at the meeting in Africa. I don't like her."

LMFAO. My PhD adviser, if you remember, gave me a bad reference that almost cost me this job. It's such a relief to know that my ( Read more... )

"This is a publication - it should look like one!"

"You may be sitting in front of a computer all day, but you're not thinking!"

"This is insulting!"

*puts in headphones*

I'm doing three things this week: 1) Learning a time-intensive cell-based calcium assay; 2) preparing info on 5-HT2A receptor glycosylation for a meeting Friday morning (still not entirely clear on the purpose of this...antibody validation? I think?); 3) working on responses to reviewers' comments on a manuscript from my last lab, which includes a ( Read more... )