Monday, September 01, 2008
Bad Books
I have learnt a bit of a lesson about not being too helpful to people today. I offered to read the transfer report of the first year student in our lab while he was on holiday so he gave me a hefty introduction and methods and I went through it pretty carefully and made lots of appropriate and helpful comments. Anyhow what a waste of time that was as I didn't realise he was back from holiday and submitted the whole thing without getting any feedback from me.
He is also in my bad books at the moment as he never seems to make up any of the communal samples we use in the group. We don't have a strict rota and I generally do it fairly often as other people have asked me to clarify the procedure yet again (which I don't mind too much as if the samples aren't made correctly then I have completely useless results and will have to make up more sample myself and also explain to the boss why we are getting through such expensive material so quickly). Anyway I asked him if he had time to do it with me this afternoon but I ended up doing it myself and with one of the other students.
I in a bit of a grump today after a rubbish weekend where himself was ill and I didn't do anything productive or constructive and just got more and more irritated with my own company. Hopefully I'll get a good nights sleep tonight and be in a better mood tomorrow as I have important experiments to do. I have been attempting Important Experiment for most of the summer it seems like but not got very far due to all sorts of irritating obstacles.
Paper revisions are going quite well I think except for bloody endnote. It is a horrible programme. Once this paper is resubmitted I am definitely going to try my hand at LaTex.
He is also in my bad books at the moment as he never seems to make up any of the communal samples we use in the group. We don't have a strict rota and I generally do it fairly often as other people have asked me to clarify the procedure yet again (which I don't mind too much as if the samples aren't made correctly then I have completely useless results and will have to make up more sample myself and also explain to the boss why we are getting through such expensive material so quickly). Anyway I asked him if he had time to do it with me this afternoon but I ended up doing it myself and with one of the other students.
I in a bit of a grump today after a rubbish weekend where himself was ill and I didn't do anything productive or constructive and just got more and more irritated with my own company. Hopefully I'll get a good nights sleep tonight and be in a better mood tomorrow as I have important experiments to do. I have been attempting Important Experiment for most of the summer it seems like but not got very far due to all sorts of irritating obstacles.
Paper revisions are going quite well I think except for bloody endnote. It is a horrible programme. Once this paper is resubmitted I am definitely going to try my hand at LaTex.
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