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Aug. 15th, 2007 11:42 amMy date this weekend was pretty great. I'll post more about it in a locked entry later... Hopefully there will be a second date. Fingers crossed!
Also, after we first met on Saturday night and talked for three hours, I had to ask him what his name was again (I'm so terribly, terribly bad with names. It's not personal.). At least I avoided this guy's plight.
I finally seem to have gotten into some sort of schedule rhythm. It doesn't bug me to wake up at 8 every morning anymore (a few months ago I was complaining about the dreadful consistency; I'd been so used to waking up super early some days and super late on others, and the variety kept me on my toes), and *gasp* the consistency is actually starting to be comforting (hurray for routine!). Also, finding time to go climbing has actually gotten easier. Since I'm not taking classes, I don't have any homework to worry about in the evenings, and all the papers I need to read for lab I can read while I'm in lab. I suddenly have... free... time.... (As I typed that, I sort of cowered a bit in fear that lightning would strike me down, or someone would run up to me and provide me with a heap of extra, excruciating work to do.)
Anyway. Climbing is good. Knitting is slow. The only time I knit these days is on the shuttle to and from lab. It's just too hot to knit. And too nice outside to sit indoors and knit if I have the choice to do something else. It doesn't help that all my fun knitting supplies are packed in some random box somewhere in the basement.
Only two more weeks until I get my life back and we move into a real house!
Also, I'm now officially a Connecticut driver. I have a CT license and CT license plates. All I need to do now is notify California and hope they don't fine me for not notifying them earlier. I really hope this doesn't involve actually calling the California DMV. I'm fine with internet legwork, but making phone calls to DMV employees is one of my least favorite things in the entire world. My personal hell would involve a rotation of things like calling DMV workers in other states, optimizing colorimetric quantification assays, and changing diapers on other peoples' children. While being exposed constantly to giant malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Today, I have nothing to do in lab. I'm waiting on four plates of yeast to grow. Then I will resume the constant litany of western blotting (can a repeated action be a litany? or does a litany have to be a spoken repetition? *goes to look it up...*).
In the meantime, alternating reading papers, listening to NPR, and finding pertinent webcomics is going to keep me from dying of boredom. Or bothering the other grad students.
Also, after we first met on Saturday night and talked for three hours, I had to ask him what his name was again (I'm so terribly, terribly bad with names. It's not personal.). At least I avoided this guy's plight.
I finally seem to have gotten into some sort of schedule rhythm. It doesn't bug me to wake up at 8 every morning anymore (a few months ago I was complaining about the dreadful consistency; I'd been so used to waking up super early some days and super late on others, and the variety kept me on my toes), and *gasp* the consistency is actually starting to be comforting (hurray for routine!). Also, finding time to go climbing has actually gotten easier. Since I'm not taking classes, I don't have any homework to worry about in the evenings, and all the papers I need to read for lab I can read while I'm in lab. I suddenly have... free... time.... (As I typed that, I sort of cowered a bit in fear that lightning would strike me down, or someone would run up to me and provide me with a heap of extra, excruciating work to do.)
Anyway. Climbing is good. Knitting is slow. The only time I knit these days is on the shuttle to and from lab. It's just too hot to knit. And too nice outside to sit indoors and knit if I have the choice to do something else. It doesn't help that all my fun knitting supplies are packed in some random box somewhere in the basement.
Only two more weeks until I get my life back and we move into a real house!
Also, I'm now officially a Connecticut driver. I have a CT license and CT license plates. All I need to do now is notify California and hope they don't fine me for not notifying them earlier. I really hope this doesn't involve actually calling the California DMV. I'm fine with internet legwork, but making phone calls to DMV employees is one of my least favorite things in the entire world. My personal hell would involve a rotation of things like calling DMV workers in other states, optimizing colorimetric quantification assays, and changing diapers on other peoples' children. While being exposed constantly to giant malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Today, I have nothing to do in lab. I'm waiting on four plates of yeast to grow. Then I will resume the constant litany of western blotting (can a repeated action be a litany? or does a litany have to be a spoken repetition? *goes to look it up...*).
In the meantime, alternating reading papers, listening to NPR, and finding pertinent webcomics is going to keep me from dying of boredom. Or bothering the other grad students.
