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Not enough time for vacation update, but here

2007-02-06 - 11:29 p.m.

Gotta wake up at 6:30 tomorrow morning to do some experiment stuff, so wrapping up vacation'll have to wait. Besides, I still need to finish another 10-15 pages of this chapter on sensation and perception.

But screwing off a little to update is allowed.

My roommate had a no nonsense convo with me this morning. I'd forgotten to turn off the surround sound yesterday, and while the projector could be used for group situations it hadn't miraculously gotten less screwed up so I wasn't supposed to use that either. I'd also started bleeding, staunched the wound, and uh yeah forgot about that small napkin too. Gross, I know. Major blood loss usually occurs earlier in the day for me. This brought up several things that weren't mentioned at the time but came to the forefront now. How I'd switch around cables in the electronics tapestry to get something to work without calling his phone sitting next to me while he was away in Indiana to ask for help, how I might've made his jury-rigged x-box less functional because a chip may have become more loose. Some points were valid, some were a tad silly. However I am willing to admit when I'm in the wrong, and I had inadvertently disrespected some of his stuff. He was only half mad to begin with and by the end things were cool. We've only had one other conversation that wasn't friendly in nature concerning Peak Oil and our collective degree of royal fuckedness. I argued biodiesel wouldn't save us, whereas he argued for American ingenuity.

That didn't bother me much. The degree of disrespect on my part is bigger than he thinks really, considering I'd use the projector long past his recommended 3 hours. I simply didn't care to motivate myself to do something different. That and I thought he was being overly cautious. But yeah: that isn't my judgment to make with other people's stuff. I've always had a cavalier attitude to material objects in general. Although I did feel bad those few times I shoplifted crap when I was a kid.

The rest of the day went quite well. It's been that way in the lab for several weeks now. I'm not sure what happened in my head, but keeping things straight has been smoother. The project isn't as frazzled complicated and there's a routine to it now, so that may contribute. It's been fantastic. I don't walk the halls in constant state of fear wondering if I've forgotten something or if people are judging me. I don't ever care anymore if I see supervisors doing that low talking thing. After all my advisor doesn't kick people out for small infractions and pretty soon I will be utterly invaluable to the lab for several reasons. So there's no point in feeling anxious.

My advisor and I picked through a now abandoned lab by one of his collaborator's. The guy called my advisor and thus we got first dibs. 100,000 dollar piece of equipment for him, 5 years worth of data I can turn into a publication for both of us (really his data that he'd thought was lost), and some new pipettes and stools for the rest of us. He brought me along because I'm the 'PC guy', which hey, if I get first dibs on some data then cool. It was great fun, we joked around, and it was in an odd way a bonding experience. And it's the University's property, so really it's just strategic redistribution. No sight, no foul.

Post-Doc's assistant's PC has also been de-virused and her dual flat screens are available for use. Those are sitting on the meet and greet side of my desk next to the small neoprene black child. We also, in a fit of savvy, removed the 21" non-flat screen behemoth monitor from my office desk. It's as if a UFO landed and left a big circle of space. Pretty soon I can part the dual screens there, potentially add a third if the system allows it, and have excel, SPSS, PubMed, and Word open near maximum or half-max at the same time.

I love academia. Mostly. Like 70%-30%.

Right, gotta wake up ass early now. I wish you all well.

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