A somber day.
Today is inauguration day. For me this is a sad day.
This is also true for many of my coworkers, so I brought a cake to work today to cheer everyone up. At least we all have each other, you know? This week overall has been shitty for me, things kept causing me to get to sleep really late so I've been tired and off my usual schedule all week. BUT at least the week is over.
I ended up baking a 9x13 pan brownie and then cutting it into a two-layer cake, with raspberry buttercream frosting between the layers and covered in chocolate ganache icing. I wanted to make an actual chocolate cake, but the day I was going to get the ingredients and bake it, I accidenitally left the house with my wallet still sitting on my bed. So I had no keys, no wallet, no nothing, and my roommate doesn't get from work until like 9pm, so I had to hang out at the university library until then. The cake would have had to cool overnight whereas the brownies can cool after a few hours, so they're ideal for last-minute cakes...people seemed to like it anyway.
I also spent all week making a present for a coworker: I went to the craft store on Monday and got a cute basket and origami paper and made a whole basket full of origami flowers. She's had...basically an entire year of shitty weeks really, and she just had cancer again. Last year a tumor was found on her back and removed, and then last week another was found on her leg. Both were found early and taken out via surgery, so she hasn't needed chemo or anything, but...well, I think she must be worried about the fact that another tumor was found in a completely different location, because once skin cancer starts metastisizing...well, your odds aren't very good from what I understand. But the one on her back was a really aggressive cancer and this one was not so maybe it was just bad luck and they were different sorts of cancer? I don't really know enough about the science to say. Maybe it's sort of good that it was skin cancer again and hadn't moved to another organ? But hopefully things will get better.
I have data collection again very early in the morning tomorrow...my routine is all messed up because of working on weekends, it makes the days all blend together. And it messes up my sleep cycle too. But in another month or two we'll be done with data collection hopefully!
Other than that...it's been kind of a weird week but not in the sense that anything interesting to describe happened. Mostly I was just kind of tired, I think leftover from getting home ultra-late on Sunday and then that threw off subsequent days. Weekend data collection is kinda shitty you guys! I have to seriously get some stuff done on Sunday, I need to vacuum and cook with the ingredients I bought on Friday and stuff...when my work schedule alters I tend to fall behind on household things.
I'm also still playing through Pokemon Sun, it continues to be great lol. But, I'm having trouble deciding on my final team because there are so many cute Pokemon. And...there's really nothing else to say about my life currently lol, I haven't been up to much. I need to like, schedule my free time more so I actually get around to playing various games on my list, reading the books I have out from the library, etc...once data collection ends, perhaps...
Next week I actually have data collection on a weekday, and the last game only STARTS at 8pm, sooooo...I may not get home until really late. I may need to take like, a personal day on Friday, if I don't get to sleep until 1-2 am then I'm going to be useless the next day. But such is the life of a researcher!
I'm also still trying to think of some way to publish using the data from this project, but it seems very difficult, because the data are...kind of shitty, basically...but I'll keep trying. I just feel like the team deserves it, you know? After a year of struggling and sweating over this miserable project, we need to get SOMETHING out of it.
And that's my life! I work, sleep, and play video games. Sometimes, I bake cakes. I still have loads of origami paper left so maybe I'll make more random things.
This is also true for many of my coworkers, so I brought a cake to work today to cheer everyone up. At least we all have each other, you know? This week overall has been shitty for me, things kept causing me to get to sleep really late so I've been tired and off my usual schedule all week. BUT at least the week is over.
I ended up baking a 9x13 pan brownie and then cutting it into a two-layer cake, with raspberry buttercream frosting between the layers and covered in chocolate ganache icing. I wanted to make an actual chocolate cake, but the day I was going to get the ingredients and bake it, I accidenitally left the house with my wallet still sitting on my bed. So I had no keys, no wallet, no nothing, and my roommate doesn't get from work until like 9pm, so I had to hang out at the university library until then. The cake would have had to cool overnight whereas the brownies can cool after a few hours, so they're ideal for last-minute cakes...people seemed to like it anyway.
I also spent all week making a present for a coworker: I went to the craft store on Monday and got a cute basket and origami paper and made a whole basket full of origami flowers. She's had...basically an entire year of shitty weeks really, and she just had cancer again. Last year a tumor was found on her back and removed, and then last week another was found on her leg. Both were found early and taken out via surgery, so she hasn't needed chemo or anything, but...well, I think she must be worried about the fact that another tumor was found in a completely different location, because once skin cancer starts metastisizing...well, your odds aren't very good from what I understand. But the one on her back was a really aggressive cancer and this one was not so maybe it was just bad luck and they were different sorts of cancer? I don't really know enough about the science to say. Maybe it's sort of good that it was skin cancer again and hadn't moved to another organ? But hopefully things will get better.
I have data collection again very early in the morning tomorrow...my routine is all messed up because of working on weekends, it makes the days all blend together. And it messes up my sleep cycle too. But in another month or two we'll be done with data collection hopefully!
Other than that...it's been kind of a weird week but not in the sense that anything interesting to describe happened. Mostly I was just kind of tired, I think leftover from getting home ultra-late on Sunday and then that threw off subsequent days. Weekend data collection is kinda shitty you guys! I have to seriously get some stuff done on Sunday, I need to vacuum and cook with the ingredients I bought on Friday and stuff...when my work schedule alters I tend to fall behind on household things.
I'm also still playing through Pokemon Sun, it continues to be great lol. But, I'm having trouble deciding on my final team because there are so many cute Pokemon. And...there's really nothing else to say about my life currently lol, I haven't been up to much. I need to like, schedule my free time more so I actually get around to playing various games on my list, reading the books I have out from the library, etc...once data collection ends, perhaps...
Next week I actually have data collection on a weekday, and the last game only STARTS at 8pm, sooooo...I may not get home until really late. I may need to take like, a personal day on Friday, if I don't get to sleep until 1-2 am then I'm going to be useless the next day. But such is the life of a researcher!
I'm also still trying to think of some way to publish using the data from this project, but it seems very difficult, because the data are...kind of shitty, basically...but I'll keep trying. I just feel like the team deserves it, you know? After a year of struggling and sweating over this miserable project, we need to get SOMETHING out of it.
And that's my life! I work, sleep, and play video games. Sometimes, I bake cakes. I still have loads of origami paper left so maybe I'll make more random things.