Sometimes the olde schoole methods are scarily like alchemy. (And I had a grand total of three seconds to reminisce about Merlin before I realized that I have to bleach all the other bottles too. Today is Bleach Everything Day. Every day with direct bacteria clone nucleic acid prep is Bleach Everything Day.)
In other news, I have finally had a chance to read through the inauguration speech transcript (yay). Kind of want to hear it (words are only half of a good speech, after all), but I don't think I'll get around to it until this weekend. Maybe I'll leave that on instead of music while I'm cooking this weekend. I've had my interview with the next PI, who has a very large lab (about three times the size of my current lab) and who promised to send me stuff to read. Except he worries that they might crash my computer. He told me that if they do I can drop by his office and he'll print the stuff out for me, which I suppose was very nice of him, although I have to wonder what kind of manuscript can crash a computer (and seriously, does his lab have special computers?). In my email I've received something that reads:
Speed Friending
Tuesday, January 27th, 4pm
Women’s Center
Limited Spaced! (only 30 spots)
We are bringing back a very well attended social event last year, Speed Friending. This activity will give you the opportunity to have brief interactions with a number of other graduate students from across the campus in a relaxing and fun environment. Afterwards, we hope that you can continue the discussions and further develop friendships that have been kindled by this event.
It's apparently like Speed Dating, except it's grad students only and less discriminating about gender. Kind of disturbing, actually. Though I'm half-way convinced now that speed friending may be the only way I'll find time to make friends here, since my next lab apparently has grad-student-paper-talks on Saturdays. (Whee.)
Okay. Over and out. Er. Dinner. Right.
1 comment:
That sounds kind of fun. Although it suspiciously sounds like one of those things that only sound fun in theory. Er, not to discourage you or anything. (talking about the Speed Friending).
The speech wasn't one of his most moving, but it was good. Looking at good professional photos from the inauguration is more inspiring.
I realized yesterday that I've never been to UCLA's botanical garden. And now I feel guilty. IT'S YOUR FAULTY. SOMEHOW. IT IS.
..I'll go next week.
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