so i'm at work right now and it's almost 5:30. i want to leave, why? my boss isn't around and one of my two experiments didn't work. i'm upset. whatever the case, this is the fourth time it hasn't. perhaps it isn't me...maybe it's the reagents. god knows right now since i'm pissed! tonight we (lab) is going out to celebrate frank (senior ( Read more... )

so i'm at work right now. yes, it's the fourth of july and i'm here with two other people. the boss and another research tech who had to make up time for the fact that she's also got another job and two kids. my reason...i want to take tomorrow off so i said i'd work today. except i was an idiot and i'm doing tons and tons of tasks which could ( Read more... )

i swear that i'm working so much this week...but i'm doing it to myself. i messed up big last week and i want to prove myself. the problem is that, i think i have already but not to some people. for example, i always feel like i have to make sure that rich (the post doc i'm working with) knows who i am and realizes that i did something right. ( Read more... )

my first week of work at the brb and honestly, i wanted my mom there the whole time. it was okay...not horrible but definately not great. i'm hoping that the mistakes i made i learned from and that i will be able to come out at the end of the week saying, that i learned something each time. this week, i learned a bit since i made a lot of errors ( Read more... )

so a few weeks ago i said that an experiment that i completed actually worked. i was rather excited about the whole thing since that was the week that the postdocc fellow i was working with was away. i thought, hey! i'm doing this all on my own and i'll be alright. nope...turns out that i sucked at it. supposedly, the fragment that i spent ( Read more... )

so i've been the laziest person in the world the past week. i haven't gotten out of bed until around 2 pm and then i've just sat around, read or watched tv. at night, i don't sleep til around 3 am and sometimes i forget (okay, bad word) to eat. that has some bad connotations and no it's not that i'm starving myself. it's just that so bored and ( Read more... )

I guess I’m supposed to revel in graduation and speak of how changed I am as a person, an alumnus of a college that I didn’t especially love when I first got there. I guess I’m supposed to get all sad about the friends that I won’t be able to run to any longer when an experiment runs improperly or a job get irritating. I should say that ( Read more... )

so school is over or atleast classes are. work isn't. i'm still at penn as i'm a workaholic and when people said they'd sleep late this week, i started monday morning at 7 am! fun. okay, well, right now i'm at this point where i don't know what the heck to do with myself. i want to read but i feel anxious to pack or something. i've packed up ( Read more... )

paper done... happy birthday to me!

alright, i feel totally irresponsible right now and want someone to reassure me that i'm okay. first of all, i have three major responsibilities this finals period. i had my swahili final which i took on tuesday. i have a bioethics paper which is due tomorrow morning and i have a psychopharmacology exam which has to be done by friday. open book ( Read more... )