my eyes go where I say so

[asimplechord]

+ Can't find my TBPID cd. I took it to work and listened to it. Listened to other cds. Went to stick it in the cd player again (because we are discouraged from loading music onto our computers), but it wasn't in its case. Huh.


+ The Idiot...

He kept asking me for HRP this morning. I asked which one he wanted.

"HRP."

"Which HRP?"

"HRP."

"Which species?"

"HRP."

< holds onto very last nerve, which is twinging >

"What species? Rabbit, goat, or mouse?"

"Ah, < insert protein name here > antibody."

"That antibody is rabbit, so you need the rabbit-HRP. Here."

I just. SPECIES IDENTITY IS IMPORTANT. The wrong one will give you a blank film.

Whatever he's getting paid, it's too much.


+ Melissa Etheridge tonight at the Wortham Center. *flaps hands* Is it silly that I'm excited to go to a concert where I'll actually have a seat for a couple of hours, rather than standing all night?


+ Off to Iowa tomorrow AM. Our flight leaves Intergalactic at 7am, which means we have to be up at ass o'clock to be there on time. Not my choice - I don't see why we couldn't have taken a later flight - we still have a freakin' 3 hour drive once we get to Minneapolis-St. Paul to get to BFE. I want to hear zero bitching from MrIris about travel this year, because this is twice - twice - inside one year that I've gone to middle-of-nowhere Iowa for his family stuff, and he's been to my family stuff not at all in the last two years.


+ I went to get coffee from the coffee shop downstairs, and the thermos from which I filled my cup said "dark roast", but when I took a sip it had the distinct flavor of artificial hazelnut. Blech.


+ Ticketmaster, thanksmuchly for the "presale" notice, since the Houston show for the Kings of Leon ISN'T having a presale. Also, please to not be selling out GCH tickets while I am away from the intarnets.


+ FIRE DRILL, YAY! < / sarcasm > Seriously, no one leaves their lab when it's announced that the alarm is a drill. WHY ANNOUNCE IT?


+ Have avoided SPN spoilers thus far. But I'm starting to get excited to see what happens with Dean-in-hell and Sammy-all-alone.


+ Also, work-related? The PC I have on my desk is old. Like, at least five years old. It doesn't have enough juice to run some of the data acquisition software that we use for imaging, so I have to export files from some pieces of equipment in a format that it can handle. I can't even have Excel and PowerPoint and Photoshop open all at the same time, which poses a problem for data analysis and presentation.

We ordered a new PC for my desk a couple of months ago. It arrived over a month ago. I had to file a help-desk ticket to request that IT actually install it, and I'm still waiting. Because I am not allowed to take it out of the box, plug it in, and install XP. And the IT person has been too busy for the last four weeks to unpack it and put the XP disc in the drive.

Comments

[chiraljhae.livejournal.com]

Although it seems redundant to say that the idiot is made of fail, it's still very apt. Major, heavy FAIL that seems worthy of a support group. I'm just saying.

Have fun at the ME concert. I've seen her twice and really enjoyed it.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I seriously think that it's a language problem. When we speak to him, he nods and says yes no matter what we're telling him. It's like that's the automatic default, whether or not he has any clue what's being said. We have a new post-doc (a real post-doc, this time) who is also Chinese but who speaks English very well, and who speaks to him in Chinese. I'm hoping that will make communication a bit easier.

I feel bad, because it's like the only time I talk to him, I get irritated because he's doing something he shouldn't or we're talking at each other without getting our points across.

[chiraljhae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that does suck, and I can't think of a polite way to go about it. I was thinking that maybe you could ask the "real" post-doc if they could ask him something in Chinese, but that probably would send all kinds of wrong messages. But then again, coming to work in a place where you don't speak the language and have no way of effectively communicating with the other members on the team probably isn't the best plan either. Or maybe I'm being harsh because I've had a craptastic day. Either way, I hope the new person helps this situation out. I'm still sorry that you get the tail end of what seems like fail, though.

[a-carnal-mink.livejournal.com]

You seriously have an airport called "Intergalactic"?? :D

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

:) Nah, it's Intercontinental. I just call it Intergalactic because it's a huge, sprawling complex on the ring road that's the outermost perimeter of the Houston metro area. I have this mental image of Houston and its environs similar to the Milky Way galaxy, with the dense center and the surrounding swirl.

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

I hope the show is/was good!

Also, safe travels, babe!

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Dude. THREE HOURS OF Melissa. And her guitarist went to the David Gilmour School of Rock, I swear. :D