My new resolution to update more regularly crumbled in the face of the discovery that The Exam will (most likely) be on Oct. 1st, due to various scheduling conflicts with the different PIs. However, I'm still waiting to hear back from one of them...which actually doesn't make that much of a difference given that with the current four that I have scheduled there is only ONE day when everyone has time free. (They were given the entire month of October to choose from, November being off limits for other activities and December being the No Man's Land of scheduling and fall quarter being the recommended time for The Exam.) So I might need to present twice. Oh joy.
Damnations. I just ran out of tea. Must go make more.
It's close enough to 3pm that I should probably switch to de-caf stuff. Not like I need more reasons to twitch, right? I've opened another bag of the caffeine-free tea that Christine got me. It's called "Caribbean Breeze" and smells like strawberry cough drops. (Tastes a lot like that bright red tea Lucy gave me with the pomegranate and the hibiscus and possibly rose.) And while I'm on the topic I would like to note that the darker of the two green honey sticks left does not taste like apples, but it does taste like some kind of fruit that I can't identify. The lighter of the yellow sticks left tastes like honey, which is very ordinary and surprising that I had to re-examine it but -- well -- it looks very normal.
This is probably going to be a very long rambling post. Forget labels, what blogger really needs is one of those LJ-cut like functions. Since that is clearly not going to happen right now...onwards!
In the reminder of this week I have discovered a way to make myself depressed in under two minutes -- by reading people's comments under the news articles in yahoo, discovered that the other, other post-doc's wife is having a baby (and he didn't even tell us! We saw his wife and figured it out because she looks pregnant) and was helpfully reminded that now, in our lab there is only me and the other post-doc who haven't procreated yet. (They're not counting the undergrads.) ...yes, that's a lot of babies. (Three since January, and I've never even been to a baby shower before the one we threw for the post doc a year ago.) Christ. BABIES. One's due in October and one in November and I really need to go and shop for presents because the lunch-thing we (the lab) are planning on is before The Exam and the weekend before The Exam is off-limits. (For anyone who's curious, that's three boys and one girl. We're in a genetics lab and I'm thinking of ordering this -- yeah? Yeah?)
While we are on the subject of reproducing (and of the remaining babyless post-doc who told me to not worry because I "still have lots of time") I find myself revisiting my stance on dating. As in I really don't actually want to, nor do I want to get married, nor get pregnant and have a baby so why am I doing this again?
After considerable thought, it strikes me that wanting to make friends and go out occasionally is a questionable sort of incentive for dating. The length of time it took me to reach that conclusion makes me feel a wee bit demented.
G2G and SG aren't really doing anything any more (in terms of people messaging and so on) so I'm closing those. I don't want to deal with OC, but I have to admit, the people who have a matching score of 90% or above are really fun to talk to and I think are / will become really good friends (sadly I don't want to date any of them, though they are very nice), so while on one hand I want to just close that account too and say, to heck with it, it's not worth the effort of dealing with all the rest of the people and the messaging, those few people ...might be worth it?
Though with The Exam looming on the horizon, this is not a particularly good time to do anything about it or try to come up with a new strategy. Lucy's introduced me to MeetUp.com so, you know, maybe. Some day. When I'm no longer going insane and pondering whether or not I should make yet another cup of tea.
First years are arriving for orientation next week!
(And I'll be presenting on Friday but I'm trying hard not to think about that.)
1 comment:
The bright red tea doesn't have pomegranate, it was rosehip, cherry, and hibiscus. I also have you a pomegranate red* tea, which I think you liked better.
*In this case red being a label, like "black" or "green" tea.
Good luck with the presentations... which I should be seeing any minute now x)
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