I think I can understand why people take sick leave from work.
My nose has its typical texture from blowing into too many tissues: skin rubbed into a red rawness through removal of the epidermis.
My sinuses congested to the point of being unable to breathe properly.
My head filled to the point of impending explosion.
Ohhhhhh need to leave work soon...
2.18.2011
2.06.2011
long necks
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.
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.
2.02.2011
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.
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