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asimplechord) wrote2011-01-13 09:01 pm
asimplechord) wrote2011-01-13 09:01 pm
I should serve a nice, ripe brie to go with this whiney post
1. I thought more than once about extending my visit to NYC when I got the NDP notice and then the pre-sale code for the Discos' show at the Bowery, but I seriously cannot spend that time off without consequences - the day and a half I'm taking are being made up by working MLK Jr Day and the thirteen hours I spent in lab on Tuesday. (As an aside, J is going to be in town that weekend too. Cling-time! :D :D :D)
2. New post-doc arrived. SO TIRED OF ANSWERING QUESTIONS. It would be okay if it were just her, but I have literally spent hours the last three days showing other people how to do things. It's not like I have, you know, shit of my own to do.
3. I keep thinking about writing something, anything, but by the time I get home from work, I can't be bothered to think straight.
4. Almost through S2 of The West Wing. It's funny in a sad way how a decade after these episodes aired, NONE of the issues they confront have altered significantly. (And I still love CJ like burning.) [ETA: The more I watch, the less I care for Bartlet. To me he comes off as a predictable, pompous ass who relies on a bottomless well of useless trivia, his own opinion, and the bible more than anything else.]
5. Rise Against's new album comes out the same week as GD's Awesome As Fuck? Good music week. Actually, I think that's the week of SXSW, so it'll be a FABULOUS music week. :D :D :D (Also, did I ever flail here about Another Station; Another Mile? My heart eyes over them, I can't even explain.)
6. I was earwormed today by Wisdom, Justice, and Love. First when Tavis Smiley & Amy Goodman got into it on Democracy Now this morning (and wasn't that a total lovefest?) and then when my iPod kept cycling through A Thousand Suns. [There was a thought somewhere about violent political rhetoric and the long war and the political assassinations of the 60s, but I'm too tired to connect the dots now.]
7. A reminder from J had me all excited: the new Mercy Gunderson novel is out! And Amazon said that my copy had been delivered. But there is no package on my doorstep, in my mailbox, or in my neighbor's house. The USPS is not being particularly helpful at the moment, but I suppose that's because it's after hours. *sigh* I guess I'll keep slogging through Aftermath and Learning To Eat Soup With A Knife in the meantime.
8. Fuck yes! (PLEASE, BILL WHITE, RUN FOR HER SEAT.)
9. 30Jan shows of American Idiot are/will be sold out b/c it's BJA as St. Jimmy and it's most likely Michael Esper's last show, y/n?
10. Fanta orange soda + Dripping Springs vodka = A+ supper choice
2. New post-doc arrived. SO TIRED OF ANSWERING QUESTIONS. It would be okay if it were just her, but I have literally spent hours the last three days showing other people how to do things. It's not like I have, you know, shit of my own to do.
3. I keep thinking about writing something, anything, but by the time I get home from work, I can't be bothered to think straight.
4. Almost through S2 of The West Wing. It's funny in a sad way how a decade after these episodes aired, NONE of the issues they confront have altered significantly. (And I still love CJ like burning.) [ETA: The more I watch, the less I care for Bartlet. To me he comes off as a predictable, pompous ass who relies on a bottomless well of useless trivia, his own opinion, and the bible more than anything else.]
5. Rise Against's new album comes out the same week as GD's Awesome As Fuck? Good music week. Actually, I think that's the week of SXSW, so it'll be a FABULOUS music week. :D :D :D (Also, did I ever flail here about Another Station; Another Mile? My heart eyes over them, I can't even explain.)
6. I was earwormed today by Wisdom, Justice, and Love. First when Tavis Smiley & Amy Goodman got into it on Democracy Now this morning (and wasn't that a total lovefest?) and then when my iPod kept cycling through A Thousand Suns. [There was a thought somewhere about violent political rhetoric and the long war and the political assassinations of the 60s, but I'm too tired to connect the dots now.]
7. A reminder from J had me all excited: the new Mercy Gunderson novel is out! And Amazon said that my copy had been delivered. But there is no package on my doorstep, in my mailbox, or in my neighbor's house. The USPS is not being particularly helpful at the moment, but I suppose that's because it's after hours. *sigh* I guess I'll keep slogging through Aftermath and Learning To Eat Soup With A Knife in the meantime.
8. Fuck yes! (PLEASE, BILL WHITE, RUN FOR HER SEAT.)
9. 30Jan shows of American Idiot are/will be sold out b/c it's BJA as St. Jimmy and it's most likely Michael Esper's last show, y/n?
10. Fanta orange soda + Dripping Springs vodka = A+ supper choice
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*hugs and good luck*! <3
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Dude, my patience is worn so thin. I signed up for 2.5 hours in the tissue culture hood because I needed that much time, and coming and talking at me, asking me if I could let someone else use the hood for just 15 minutes? Um. NO. Fuck no. The sign-up sheet was there for a week and no one else signed up. Sorry, go away. >:/
Good luck to you, too! Have you heard back about the paper you resubmitted? Are you allowed to submit a thesis chapter that is the equivalent of a paper, or does it have to be completely re-written b/c of copyright/IP issues? [The latter is true at UT, which I find ridiculous. It de-incentivizes paper-writing until after the thesis. Which is shitty for grant-renewal and fellowship application purposes.]
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I'm training the techs because the only one left who a) knows enough to train them and b) is actually there! Our lab is like, really tiny right now. :/ The last one was fine, but she ended up with some research job studying ... snails, or something over in the evolutionary bio department, which, well, whatever. Our new tech is making me want to bang my head against the freaking wall ... she almost made us tetrazolium plates, instead of tetracycline plates. Ugh. At least she's bright enough to ask questions before going off and doing these things, so there's one plus!
Our paper got rejected at the second journal as well ... two days before Christmas, lol. It's definitely going to be chapter one of my thesis (I can just paste it in, though I'm going to add a couple of results that aren't in it for whatever reasons) ... it just needs to be accepted somewhere so that I can start applying for fellowships. :/
We're going to try appealing to the journal because the reviewers praised the science and rejected it for really crappy reasons, but if that fails, I guess we'll go to PNAS. I should stop being such a spoiled bratty child and acknowledge that PNAS is an okay journal, but it feels so much like settling and ridiculousness and, I don't even know. I read the most fricking ridiculous paper for journal club this week and it was in PLOS Genetics, so I don't even know. It's all ridiculousness, and one shouldn't be bitter about it, I guess.
Time for another glass of wine, anyhow, lol. :)
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*facepalm*
The thing about the hood is that there's always been a weekly sign-up sheet - it's not like that's a new phenomenon. And I didn't just go in at 8:45 and sign out 9-11:30; I checked with people, and then signed up the afternoon before.
PNAS is decent. IDK, I find the quality variable because it's such a "who you know" journal, some papers are awesome, and others make me wonder how they got in. The longer I'm in academics, the more convinced I become that success at research is based 25% on work, 25% on intelligence, 25% on luck, 25% on who you know.