It's a shame that my clearest reflection over what happens and should be happening, these days, happen in the morning in the bus ride to school. Back in the days evening was my thinky time. Now I find myself missing chunks of time -- by which I mean I find myself going from the bus stop at point A to the stop at point M with no memory of what happened in between. The time as I was falling asleep these days -- well, I'm usually so far gone then that there's no way to logically assess anything. Instead my mind usually wonders to inconsequential things that are related to the day, and most of my thought processes at that point, will make no sense if I'm actually awake.
It makes blogging in the evening a bit more difficult, as I realized yesterday. There's a lot of staring blankly at the screen, thinking "I knew there was something else I want to mention" involved. By now, for instance, I forgot what I was going to write about to begin with. If I had to summarize my day in bullet point format, it would go thus:
- campus-wide grad student orientation is today, met international students looking for directions on the bus
- lost a person I was supposed to practice my presentation on, due to scheduling conflict, so I'm down one
- got email notifying me of gigantic mess up with my mice at the other vivarium. Flailed at PI, flailed at vivarium staff. Hopefully this will never happen again or I will go mad. Or cry. Or both. The two are not mutually exclusive.
- helped labmate update lab equipment software, as she uses a mac and the equipment runs a Dell desktop
- directed people to the right exit during lunch
- gave a practice presentation
- went to lab meeting, which was blissfully short; there were cookies
- three new litters of baby mice born today!
- forgot I had a gel running -- all my samples ran off
- Ivy's bios got corrupted again and I couldn't repair it at lab
- went home early to fix Ivy; fixed Ivy
... - sleep
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