Relationships change. You could just feel it with each passing day.
I don't see things as a race anymore. It's not a matter of catching up with everyone. Otherwise I would just live each day feeling left behind.
The same thing that I noticed with Poorneel, I see it happening again with Nants and Janey.
People are just busy, and it seems as though everyone's day has been busier.
My Dan's little Dan gave me a toy truck this weekend when the lab had a get-together at Half Moon Bay. Ate lunch made by one of the postdocs and his partner. We talked, we ate, we drank. I tried to get little Dan to play Scrabble with me, teach him to build words, learn new ones, but his current cravings consist mainly of trains and destruction. However, he was quite amused when I decided to be creative with the scrabble tiles and lay them in intricate domino patterns, for him to later knock down, of course.
Children are so easy to please, difficult to keep focused. That sounds an awful lot like me still.
The times I enjoy lab the most are when it's late at night, with few neighbors moving up and down the aisle, leaving me room to breathe and quietly think.
2.06.2011
2.02.2011
Huguenot
One of Janey's loves, Alexander Rudensky, is coming to give a seminar talk. I don't know if I feel like going, although people have advised the grad students in my lab to read broadly rather than deeply.
Perhaps this also applies to other aspects of graduate school aside from reading those monotonous journal articles. One problem I've been trying to nip in the bud concerns being able to read an entire article completely in one sitting without instinctively distracting myself with other less mundane activities.
Lab has been feeling better. I come to lab less angry, and I have learned to say no to people when they ask me for favors, in particular the lab manager. My negative opinion about him will never change unless he does.
Perhaps this also applies to other aspects of graduate school aside from reading those monotonous journal articles. One problem I've been trying to nip in the bud concerns being able to read an entire article completely in one sitting without instinctively distracting myself with other less mundane activities.
Lab has been feeling better. I come to lab less angry, and I have learned to say no to people when they ask me for favors, in particular the lab manager. My negative opinion about him will never change unless he does.
1.23.2011
luxor
I've been on a chocolate binge in the past few minutes. These Lindt chocolates that my landlady's mother offered since she couldn't eat all of them. Too much sugar. I feel gross.
But not as gross as last night, when I drank too much.
Drinking too much for me = 1 shot of tequila + 1 mixed drink + sips of other people's drinks.
I got bored of my group, so I walked home. Took about 20 minutes. Along the way, I peed on someone's wall, tried to steal balloons off someone's front porch steps, stopped by lab, took tubes out of the pcr block, ate some cheese ravioli alfredo, and went home to sleep.
But not as gross as last night, when I drank too much.
Drinking too much for me = 1 shot of tequila + 1 mixed drink + sips of other people's drinks.
I got bored of my group, so I walked home. Took about 20 minutes. Along the way, I peed on someone's wall, tried to steal balloons off someone's front porch steps, stopped by lab, took tubes out of the pcr block, ate some cheese ravioli alfredo, and went home to sleep.
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