Author Archives: Amanda

RBOC: Bad News/Good News Edition

Bad News: My enzyme died while I was waiting for the very-nice-now-working centrifuge to be fixed. Good News: It doesn’t matter that I lost my sample. Bad News: I came in around midnight last night and will work for about … Continue reading

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Oh me of so little faith

Why is it that I have so little faith in myself?* I made a really stupid mistake in the lab today (accidentally dumped a sample that I sort-of cared about) that really won’t set me behind very much (maybe by … Continue reading

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Confession

Bless me internet for I have sinned, I am a bad grad student. I took the entire past weekend off from the lab (I was here yesterday, though). Yep, I took two whole days off from lab work. I didn’t … Continue reading

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Little Rant

I’m so fucking burnt out. I wrote that on Friday. After that I just couldn’t go on. I had nothing to say that wasn’t some variation on I work all the time and other people around me don’t do that … Continue reading

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Patriotism

I’m so proud of my country. My entire country. Let’s keep moving forward. [Edited to add: This was supposed to go up yesterday, but I had some technical problems. I still feel this way, so I posted it even though … Continue reading

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Vote, please

I voted a while ago. Still, I’m happy everytime I see an “I voted” sticker. If you can’t do it for yourself, then do it for me: Vote. Continue to make me happy.

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