long day...longer night...
it's been a long day. maybe not because of the actual length of the day or the amount of work actually accomplished at this point, but because most of it was spent trapped in a very large office BY MYSELF. our lab office is only at the extremes, either there are a ton of people in it working on various projects or looking for random pieces of non-existent equipment or there is just one or two people and the occasional giant cockroach (actually there are probably close to 2 million which had infested the cursed dana building).
today i got in in the morning (way to go!) and started off by logging on and reading part of the Michigan Daily to check out the news as well as all the critiques of the horror that was the UM vs Notre Dame game (now known around our apartment as 'the game of which we do not speak'). well it took a while but one of my former students/labmates came in to take a few jabs at the michigan game (he's an illinois fan, so you gotta take what you can get) and just shoot the proverbial, well, you know. my advisor came by and eventually the search for equipment ensued...
i think that was pretty much the last human contact i had until i went out for lunch. man was it HOT out there! either way i still went to pancheros and got plenty of hot sauce on my burrito, but even that wasn't quite right, why, you may ask? because for the first time ever (at least when i have been there) they were OUT of CHICKEN. although this may not seem like much of an emergency to the rest of you, i pretty much eat the exact same thing from there every day with a few variations, but nothing so drastic as replacing chicken with beef. all that being said, it turned out to be pretty good, and i was glad to be among humans and away from the blattodeans for a little while.
i came back and things were pretty much how i left them. except for a brief face-off with my archnemesis regarding how quiet i was (seriously) when we were all hanging out last friday there was little more contact until i left the office.
i hope i NEVER have to go through that again. if this is the life of a true researcher, you can count me out completely. i'll teach jr. high so long as i don't have to sit in a lab all freaking day (in order to teach at the U level you unfortunately have to get a higher degree). i am beginning to think that i could GSI (graduate student instructor...what i have been doing for most semesters) for the rest of my life if it was necessary...i really love that job, and research work just blows.
ok enough of that ranting. i had to take a nice 2 hour nap (typical david style - you know where you wake up and don't know if its morning or night or what day it is) to shake off the sour taste of my lab imprisonment and now i will be up for the rest of the night working on thesis stuff (what? no social events for an evening? yeah, those are definitely tapering down this week!)
rest assured the craziness will soon be continuing, but not without some decent work completed in between. and now its time for some Ben & Jerry's Half Baked ice cream...
and for completely random purposes (maybe its because i am fish-sitting them while damon is up in alaska) here is a pic i took of damon's tank:
today i got in in the morning (way to go!) and started off by logging on and reading part of the Michigan Daily to check out the news as well as all the critiques of the horror that was the UM vs Notre Dame game (now known around our apartment as 'the game of which we do not speak'). well it took a while but one of my former students/labmates came in to take a few jabs at the michigan game (he's an illinois fan, so you gotta take what you can get) and just shoot the proverbial, well, you know. my advisor came by and eventually the search for equipment ensued...
i think that was pretty much the last human contact i had until i went out for lunch. man was it HOT out there! either way i still went to pancheros and got plenty of hot sauce on my burrito, but even that wasn't quite right, why, you may ask? because for the first time ever (at least when i have been there) they were OUT of CHICKEN. although this may not seem like much of an emergency to the rest of you, i pretty much eat the exact same thing from there every day with a few variations, but nothing so drastic as replacing chicken with beef. all that being said, it turned out to be pretty good, and i was glad to be among humans and away from the blattodeans for a little while.
i came back and things were pretty much how i left them. except for a brief face-off with my archnemesis regarding how quiet i was (seriously) when we were all hanging out last friday there was little more contact until i left the office.
i hope i NEVER have to go through that again. if this is the life of a true researcher, you can count me out completely. i'll teach jr. high so long as i don't have to sit in a lab all freaking day (in order to teach at the U level you unfortunately have to get a higher degree). i am beginning to think that i could GSI (graduate student instructor...what i have been doing for most semesters) for the rest of my life if it was necessary...i really love that job, and research work just blows.
ok enough of that ranting. i had to take a nice 2 hour nap (typical david style - you know where you wake up and don't know if its morning or night or what day it is) to shake off the sour taste of my lab imprisonment and now i will be up for the rest of the night working on thesis stuff (what? no social events for an evening? yeah, those are definitely tapering down this week!)
rest assured the craziness will soon be continuing, but not without some decent work completed in between. and now its time for some Ben & Jerry's Half Baked ice cream...
and for completely random purposes (maybe its because i am fish-sitting them while damon is up in alaska) here is a pic i took of damon's tank:
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