A day in the life.

[dosciencetoit]

So, I've been exercising a lot lately, which makes me feel better, and strangely sexier, despite the fact that my old pants still don't fit. I'm okay with that, because there are nicer pants in my wardrobe now.

Stuff in the lab is both interesting, and highly messed up. Turns out the reason I haven't been getting some results is because the plasmids the other lab gave me don't encode for any protein. Also, I managed to switch two plasmids around, though I'm not sure when it happened. Worst case I've lost two weeks of work. I also can't seem to get my cells to stick to confocal microscopy dishes, no matter how hard I try, or what cells I use. This is frustrating, because I've gotten some really cool results previously.

On the plus side, my supervisor wants to send me to this fancy "summer camp" for grad students in Jasper this June, and there is this course on translational science (taking research from lab bench to hospital bed, effectively) being held in Brazil in April, and I'm thinking of applying. I don't have any papers, and I might not have any results for an abstract, but it sounds like fun, and it's free.

They're actually both free, which means I might actually get out of the southwestern Ontario (and the country!) this year.

In real life, I met a cute, funny guy who spent Saturday night flirting with me, but I have inside sources who tell me he refers to his girlfriend as "the current one," meaning 1) he is seeing someone, and 2) he's a bit of a douche. It reminds me enough of past situations that I will continue to remind myself that it is not worth getting involved.

Instead, I have a date with a boy from e-harmony, and *fingers crossed* he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who will apoligize for calling my friend a bitch by saying it seems like she consumes a bowl of carnation insta-bitch every morning.

I really just want to sleep a lot, though.

Comments

[fleshlycherry.livejournal.com]

Heee! Travel! The transitional science course sounds really interesting, and right up your alley. I hope you can get a spot :D

a)Dudette! How many times must I tell you that London is not Southwestern Ontario. You are the place we, in Southwestern Ontario, escape to :p

b)Yeah, "the current one" guy? Total douche.

c)Are you going to the mythical first meeting after getting to know each other over the internet location of cute, independent coffee house?

d)It totally blows that we're not going to cross paths in the near future...I've been having my morning Carnation Insta-Bitch regularily and no one seems to appreciate it except guys you go out with ;p

[notragicmercury.livejournal.com]

I tried to take a course this semester, but only four of us registered for it, so it was cancelled. They're going to try running it again in the fall, and my supervisor is going to twist arms to get enough people. Brazil is unlikely, but I'll apply anyway.

a) Southwestern Ontaio is any area in Southern Ontario that tends towards the more western part. I consider Guelph part of southwestern Ontaio, and I need to get out of it :p Don't be all reverse-elitist just because you happen to be the most southwest of us all.

b)Glad to have my opinion confirmed :)

c)No cute, independent coffee house. Instead a small independent restaurant. Not my first pick, but I've come to the conclusion that London is too vanilla to allow for anything as interesting as a cute, independent coffee house. It does pasta and pubs very well, and that's about it.

d)Well cross paths eventually. And we definately need to go to the zoo this summer. Nothing will interfere in that plan this year :)

[fleshlycherry.livejournal.com]

Ack! Guelph is totally NOT Southwestern Ontario. It is way to hippy and cool and not!Windsor to be SWO. Sorry, my Windsor shapped bitterness is showing a bit these days.

Also, very shortly I am going to need to get very, very drunk because I will be sad and alone. We should do that *nods*

[notragicmercury.livejournal.com]

I miss hippy, cool, alternative Guelph so very much sometimes.

I'm also up for getting drunk with you if you need it.

On a side note, dinner date was rather short, but there were no mentions of bitches, and he didn't run fleeing at the mention of AN and costuming, though he did laugh, a lot...

[fleshlycherry.livejournal.com]

Yeah, break up was a total fail on my part *sigh*

Hahaha, there were only no bitches because I wasn't there silly :p

Did I ever tell you about the time I told P that he had failed his awareness roll? And the blank look of incomprehension that followed?

[fleshlycherry.livejournal.com]

Also, being reverse-elitist is like a freaking art form here...sorry if it has rubbed off.