Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Brrrrrrrrrrr
What happened to the sunshine. I am wearing my lovely new cardi and jeans and totally freezing my tits off in the office today. I was in such a happy sunny mood decked out in my sophisticated (for me at least) clothes and now I'm stuck in a crummy cold office with grey moopy windows wondering what happened to summer. I was all keen to get to work and get going on my 'to do' list but instead I've been faffing about on the internet and being entirely unproductive. I think I definitely work better in sunny weather. When I'm stuck in the lab looking out at sunshine and sunny days I feel like I want to make the most of the experiment and get it done quickly and effectively as I'm missing out on glorious relaxing sunshine wheras in the winter I take ages to do stuff and am a bit crap as there is no motivation to make me think there are better/other things I could be doing with myself.
Denied
Today I'm feeling unreasonably sad. I figured that being one of the least ill people I know I should really get around to donating blood. I went along to the drop in donor centre in town, got all the forms filled out, was relieved to find I wasn't anaemic and got settled on the bed only to be prodded by 3 different nurses on both arms to find a vein. Eventually I was told my veins are just too small to be useful for donating blood. I felt so totally rubbish walking out without having donated anythign while all these other people were lying about donating. I think I'll have to take up body building or something to get myself some nice big juicy veins and try again!
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Still Tired
Still not caught up on missed sleep from the weekend and not sleeping any better at the moment which isn't good. Also the lack of sleep coupled with long infuriating days at work trying to do stuff in various different labs isn't helping with the tirdness, irritiability and grumpiness. I had a right face on all of yesterday and can't see my mood improving anytime soon. Work is going poo what with equipment breaking and samples generally not behaving and doing what they should.
I think I could do with a holiday but can't see anything like that coming up soon (if at all ever again)
I think I could do with a holiday but can't see anything like that coming up soon (if at all ever again)
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Science Machines
I'm in quite a grump today. I am still tired and a bit stressed after the weekend and haven't caught up on my sleep properly. Then today I finally got all my samples prepared for characterisation on a bit of kit which then went down just as my first samples were ready to load. Typical! And even worse, the chap who is in charge of the equipment is off this afternoon so all my carefully and lovingly prepared samples will be sitting around all night. Oh well. Hopefully tomorrow I will get double the amount of super results done to make up for it - I live in hope.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
I knew it couldn't last
Now not only am I totally tired from trying to work in 3 separate buildings spread across campus this week, I am now WET and tired. Roll on the weekend and eurovision
Labels: wet and tired
Thursday, May 03, 2007
A bit of a moan
Sooooooo tired today. The lab work has been going pretty well. I think I'm getting a feel for it and hopefully I will be able to repeat the proceedures in a month or so to really get it lodged in my brain and stuff so I can breeze through it and get loads of stuff for other experiments. It's been good being in a different lab which has been nice and chilled and things have worked out pretty nicely there. Everyone has been helpful and answered my really stupid questions and stuff. Has been quite good for motivating me with my project and appreciate my fantastic boss even more. He is so highly rated by everyone, it's amazing - but fair.
Other stuff is not going so well though. The boyfriend is poorly again and it's so draining. I feel really bad for him as he's obviously in a lot of pain and it is obvious to see the painful problems developing and worsening. It is just hard for me as I try and be sympathetic to his problems and needs and feel like a selfish cow for resenting him sometimes. It's just hard as I can't really speak to people at work about it and stuff. It is just hard for me to come home after a long day at work and see him laying in bed or on the sofa, having just watched tv, DVDs, computer games all day, and then for me to go to the shops for food/drink, cook dinner, wash up, tidy up, do the laundry etc. He's really good when he is healthy at sharing the chores equally and I know that if he didn't have his problems he would help if he could. It just gets me down sometimes and feels like my life is slipping away a bit and has no fun to it anymore and I don't know what to do.
Other stuff is not going so well though. The boyfriend is poorly again and it's so draining. I feel really bad for him as he's obviously in a lot of pain and it is obvious to see the painful problems developing and worsening. It is just hard for me as I try and be sympathetic to his problems and needs and feel like a selfish cow for resenting him sometimes. It's just hard as I can't really speak to people at work about it and stuff. It is just hard for me to come home after a long day at work and see him laying in bed or on the sofa, having just watched tv, DVDs, computer games all day, and then for me to go to the shops for food/drink, cook dinner, wash up, tidy up, do the laundry etc. He's really good when he is healthy at sharing the chores equally and I know that if he didn't have his problems he would help if he could. It just gets me down sometimes and feels like my life is slipping away a bit and has no fun to it anymore and I don't know what to do.
Labels: caring, home stuff, lab stuff
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