Ah the Monday morning Facebook check

Seriously, I think I spend 90% of my time waiting for things to reach the right temperature. But anyway, here are two quotes that I will share from my classmate:

"I've never been this excited to run a PCR before except I know the result has a 99% chance of being negative because science is a bastardy bastard coated in bastard icing and filled with bastard filling."

To which her friend replied that that was why success tastes so sweet....  

And  then there's the part where she commented that the results will cause either extreme elation or extreme depression that will "resolve itself into apathetic acceptance by tomorrow". 

With that feeling in mind, I invite all my non-PhD friends to take a look at the PhD movie site (and trailer). Online streaming is available now and I highly recommend it because it's got both heart and humor and explains the life of a graduate student better than I ever could. (Also I like the soundtrack.)

And as I and many of my classmates can tell you, part of the appeal for those of us who are in the middle of our dissertation process (I have another presentation this Wednesday) is that so many of the jokes in both the comic and movie are sad but true, and this is an on-going reminder that other people have gone through what we've gone through and that we're not alone. It's less of a "misery loves company" thing at this point and more of a feeling of solidarity. Solidarity is nice.