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Oh man, what a week. I've been avoiding lab as much as possible. I finally decided that this lab stresses me out too much. I like the research and I like most of the other people in the lab, but for some reason the overall atmosphere and dynamic just really freaks me out. I'm terrified of lab. I don't hate it, I'm afraid of it. I just can't see myself being in that kind of an environment for the next five years, so I don't think it would be a good choice for me to join. But I do really like the PI, and I'm a little sad that it's not going to work out.
Classes have been awesome. Okay, well maybe not awesome. But I got my midterm back in Euks yesterday, and I did awesome. Awesomely. I don't remember what the average was (I wrote it down somewhere...), but it doesn't really matter. I got the second-highest grad student score (there are undergrads in our class, and apparently every year they do better than the grad students, which sort of freaks me out a bit), which was revealed to me in secret, and which secret I suppose I am violating by telling EVERYONE, but I'm super excited about it. I've been feeling stupid and slow and worthless lately, and I REALLY needed this.
Anyway, I then proceeded to be really stupid, and run around the conference room like an excited... (quick, give me an excitable creature. bird? chipmunk?) ...in my socks, which led to the inevitable. I slipped and fell (HARD) on my right hip, bruising it pretty badly. I mean, no big deal, I wouldn't have posted about it, even though I couldn't sleep on it last night--except for the fact that this morning, as I was walking to lab, I tried to cross the street and step up onto the sidewalk on the other side, and I caught my boot on the edge of the sidewalk, causing myself to hurtle onto the pavement at an astonishing speed, landing on the SAME SPOT on my right hip and putting a tiny, painful hole in my left palm. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I will be clumsy until the day I die.
So today was a little... uncheery. I was also forced to skip class by my uncooperative feminine organs, which I have decided should be removed as quickly as possible. This is ridiculous. I had surgery for this. I'm so mad at my body. How DARE it make me miss the RNA seminar (I only get one a week!)? How DARE it make me want to vomit with pain? How dare it influence my daily life in any way, shape, or form? I don't think I've ever been livid with my body before, but I really and truly just want to go in and yank things out myself.
I also just realized that I also missed the weekly MCDB seminar, which means I missed stealing the free cookies. Damnit. My feminine organs are so out of here.
In better news, think about my midterm score again! (Okay, maybe that only cheers up me.)
Also, I finished knitting my shawl (*cheering!*). I didn't have to buy any more yarn, and it's big and beautiful and I'm in love with it and the salmon color is actually really starting to grow on me. It goes with just a few things I have, so I'll really only be able to wear it a few places, but I think I might appropriate it as a "lab shawl." You know, the kind you have on your chair at your computer so when you sit down (and thus stop moving) and get cold, you have something to throw over your shoulders. I mean, a scarf isn't enough, and a coat is too much. So this shawl might be just the thing.
Also, I bought more yarn. I should be flogged.
Also also, I think this is one reason I've gotten so addicted to knitting. Knitters are hilarious.
I'm going to bed now.
Classes have been awesome. Okay, well maybe not awesome. But I got my midterm back in Euks yesterday, and I did awesome. Awesomely. I don't remember what the average was (I wrote it down somewhere...), but it doesn't really matter. I got the second-highest grad student score (there are undergrads in our class, and apparently every year they do better than the grad students, which sort of freaks me out a bit), which was revealed to me in secret, and which secret I suppose I am violating by telling EVERYONE, but I'm super excited about it. I've been feeling stupid and slow and worthless lately, and I REALLY needed this.
Anyway, I then proceeded to be really stupid, and run around the conference room like an excited... (quick, give me an excitable creature. bird? chipmunk?) ...in my socks, which led to the inevitable. I slipped and fell (HARD) on my right hip, bruising it pretty badly. I mean, no big deal, I wouldn't have posted about it, even though I couldn't sleep on it last night--except for the fact that this morning, as I was walking to lab, I tried to cross the street and step up onto the sidewalk on the other side, and I caught my boot on the edge of the sidewalk, causing myself to hurtle onto the pavement at an astonishing speed, landing on the SAME SPOT on my right hip and putting a tiny, painful hole in my left palm. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I will be clumsy until the day I die.
So today was a little... uncheery. I was also forced to skip class by my uncooperative feminine organs, which I have decided should be removed as quickly as possible. This is ridiculous. I had surgery for this. I'm so mad at my body. How DARE it make me miss the RNA seminar (I only get one a week!)? How DARE it make me want to vomit with pain? How dare it influence my daily life in any way, shape, or form? I don't think I've ever been livid with my body before, but I really and truly just want to go in and yank things out myself.
I also just realized that I also missed the weekly MCDB seminar, which means I missed stealing the free cookies. Damnit. My feminine organs are so out of here.
In better news, think about my midterm score again! (Okay, maybe that only cheers up me.)
Also, I finished knitting my shawl (*cheering!*). I didn't have to buy any more yarn, and it's big and beautiful and I'm in love with it and the salmon color is actually really starting to grow on me. It goes with just a few things I have, so I'll really only be able to wear it a few places, but I think I might appropriate it as a "lab shawl." You know, the kind you have on your chair at your computer so when you sit down (and thus stop moving) and get cold, you have something to throw over your shoulders. I mean, a scarf isn't enough, and a coat is too much. So this shawl might be just the thing.
Also, I bought more yarn. I should be flogged.
Also also, I think this is one reason I've gotten so addicted to knitting. Knitters are hilarious.
I'm going to bed now.
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Date: 2007-03-08 09:33 pm (UTC)From:And *snicker* at the Very Special Button....I'm still dying :P
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Date: 2007-03-09 12:19 am (UTC)From:"I missed stealing the free cookies."
Interesting.
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