Phew, it's sure has been a while, hasn't it? My lack of posting hasn't been a result of a lack of science-y things of worth, in fact, it's been quite the opposite. I've had so much going on that there just aren't enough hours in the day. Lots of things to say, but instead of spelling it all out in a novel, I'll try to break things up and do a few postings over the next several days. Basically, over the past month and a half, I've had the opportunity to help train two high school students, worked insane hours attempting to wrap-up a part of a project before leaving for the summer, spent a few days at home and at the Jersey shore, started my pharmacology training at NIH (love love love it so far!), used my touch of death to break lots of expensive equipment at NIH, gave my first big research
powerpoint presentation to the Department of Oncology back at school, and started my first animal experiment (which I said I would never do). Plus, I'm finding a little more time for myself and actually getting to see some of my friends, and it's amazing how much happier (and more productive!) I am not working 12 hours/day, 7 days/week. I guess I really did just need a little break.
My hours at NIH are a little crazy (as in, I am out of bed before the sun rises in the middle of July in the northern hemisphere) and I haven't quite adjusted to getting to bed at 10pm to get 7 hours of sleep, but I don't have much work to bring home and I never have to come in on weekends, so of course I think the schedule is fantastic. I do a few things for my thesis lab at home/on the weekends, but my PI seems to be a bit "out of sight, out of mind" and since he doesn't physically see me in the lab everyday, he forgets that I could be coming in on the weekends, so he hasn't been giving me any big projects. I don't think there's much that I really could be doing anyways, since most things require several days of bench work, and I can't let things sit for 5 days before working on them again.
At the moment, I am contemplating strangling myself with the faulty leaking
HPLC peek tubing, but provided that I don't, tune in the next few days for some stories about my life chained to the bench.
My hours at NIH are a little crazy (as in, I am out of bed before the sun rises in the middle of July in the northern hemisphere) and I haven't quite adjusted to getting to bed at 10pm to get 7 hours of sleep, but I don't have much work to bring home and I never have to come in on weekends, so of course I think the schedule is fantastic. I do a few things for my thesis lab at home/on the weekends, but my PI seems to be a bit "out of sight, out of mind" and since he doesn't physically see me in the lab everyday, he forgets that I could be coming in on the weekends, so he hasn't been giving me any big projects. I don't think there's much that I really could be doing anyways, since most things require several days of bench work, and I can't let things sit for 5 days before working on them again.
At the moment, I am contemplating strangling myself with the faulty leaking HPLC peek tubing, but provided that I don't, tune in the next few days for some stories about my life chained to the bench.