(no subject)
UUUUGH Starbucks is a great place to study, except that the music is REALLY ANNOYING.
The new lab is wonderful. My advisor is a true mentor, in every sense of the word. I think he gets some moral satisfaction as my 'savior', too. which is fine with me. I think we think sort of similarly, which isn't going to force me to learn a new way of thinking, but since the opposite end worked out so well last time *sarcasm* I'm okay with that.
I'm now encouraged to troubleshoot and to try new things and to mix things up (example: I filled the cuvettes with water while waiting for the samples to incubate 10 minutes, rather than doing it one by one later... my boss: you filled them ahead of time? me: yes, is that ok? boss: that's efficient). I'm encouraged to go to all journal clubs and outside seminars, rather than them being a waste of time. If I screw up, he laughs.
Eventually I figure this honeymood period will be over and he'll start getting annoyed at my failings, but I just have to be prepared for that and recognize it when it comes.
The project has the potential to be very important, or to fall flat. We shall see.
I'm pretty sure that squash and pumpkin is giving me stomach issues. I'm not much caring, though. Eventually squash/pumpkin season will end.
Interestingly, since switching labs Iive gained several pounds with no diet changes. No, that's not entirely true, I've started trying a sort of intermittant fasting, as per new studies. You can get some of the CR benefits without actual CR with intermittant fasting. For whatever reason, my body is not happy with the full fast, so I do the best I can. I fit pretty well the 'adrenal fatigue' paradigm from chronic cortisol overexposure, and apparently that takes forever to heal, so likely I'll never be able to fast fully. My body doesn't like being away from food. So I usually begin with some coconut oil in coffee, and that's honestly the best breakfast energy-wise EVER. It's well into mid-morning before I start getting scatterbrained. Some days, I feel quite dizzy and weak and irritable, and I haven't figured out what separates those days from the ones that I feel fairly fine. I have yet to be able to eat all the calories I miss on the 'fasting' days, though, so I'm still CR. Yet I'm gaining weight. That's not a bad thing, in fact it's a good thing (as long as it's not indicative of something going horribly wrong), just interesting.
Life is so awesome. Awesome awesome awesome. Next week I have a committee meeting to introduce my new project. I'm actually looking forward to whatever drama will unfold when dealing with my old boss, because it's no longer my problem. That does make me a Bad Person, but meh. We all have moral failings, right? The next week is the immunology conference. Yay travel!
The new lab is wonderful. My advisor is a true mentor, in every sense of the word. I think he gets some moral satisfaction as my 'savior', too. which is fine with me. I think we think sort of similarly, which isn't going to force me to learn a new way of thinking, but since the opposite end worked out so well last time *sarcasm* I'm okay with that.
I'm now encouraged to troubleshoot and to try new things and to mix things up (example: I filled the cuvettes with water while waiting for the samples to incubate 10 minutes, rather than doing it one by one later... my boss: you filled them ahead of time? me: yes, is that ok? boss: that's efficient). I'm encouraged to go to all journal clubs and outside seminars, rather than them being a waste of time. If I screw up, he laughs.
Eventually I figure this honeymood period will be over and he'll start getting annoyed at my failings, but I just have to be prepared for that and recognize it when it comes.
The project has the potential to be very important, or to fall flat. We shall see.
I'm pretty sure that squash and pumpkin is giving me stomach issues. I'm not much caring, though. Eventually squash/pumpkin season will end.
Interestingly, since switching labs Iive gained several pounds with no diet changes. No, that's not entirely true, I've started trying a sort of intermittant fasting, as per new studies. You can get some of the CR benefits without actual CR with intermittant fasting. For whatever reason, my body is not happy with the full fast, so I do the best I can. I fit pretty well the 'adrenal fatigue' paradigm from chronic cortisol overexposure, and apparently that takes forever to heal, so likely I'll never be able to fast fully. My body doesn't like being away from food. So I usually begin with some coconut oil in coffee, and that's honestly the best breakfast energy-wise EVER. It's well into mid-morning before I start getting scatterbrained. Some days, I feel quite dizzy and weak and irritable, and I haven't figured out what separates those days from the ones that I feel fairly fine. I have yet to be able to eat all the calories I miss on the 'fasting' days, though, so I'm still CR. Yet I'm gaining weight. That's not a bad thing, in fact it's a good thing (as long as it's not indicative of something going horribly wrong), just interesting.
Life is so awesome. Awesome awesome awesome. Next week I have a committee meeting to introduce my new project. I'm actually looking forward to whatever drama will unfold when dealing with my old boss, because it's no longer my problem. That does make me a Bad Person, but meh. We all have moral failings, right? The next week is the immunology conference. Yay travel!