Dubbskii’s Rants

December 11, 2009

Win Some, Lose Some.

Filed under: Food,In The Lab,Just Life — Tags: , , — Dubbskii @ 1:12 am

Well I’ve been marginally productive today.

I was awake from 1am-7am thanks to drug*-induced sleep.  I was simply trying to clear the congestion and the next thing I knew, I’d been sleep for almost 5 hours.  This left me wide awake, and instead of doing the right thing (reading papers, working on my document), I surfed the internet and looked at people’s outfits on weardrobe.com.  So sad, but hey – you win some and you lose some.  I definitely lost that one.

At 8, I decided to make coffee cake muffins.  It was basically a coffee cake in a muffin liner.  I didn’t have the strength or energy to make anything else for lab meeting.  I ended up falling asleep from more drugs*. This led to too much spending at Wal-mart so my labmates could have a variety of food.  Not doing that again.  Can’t please everyone.  I lost and won because there was a lesson learned.

I stayed in lab until ~9pm and got a lot of stuff done for tomorrow.  It’s been so long since I’ve worked at the bench that I’ve felt somewhat awkward.  It was great to get my science mojo back.  I definitely WON that one.

Tomorrow I have a meeting with the Dean of the Graduate School and a departmental holiday party.  I’m making Spiced Pecans as an appetizer – I wanted to make pecan pie, but they had enough desserts.  I may make one anyway, and bring it in to Sunny.  Then, maybe I could convince her to take some pictures for me next week to document my winter wardrobe.  Sounds like a good trade to me…

I’m crashing a bar crawl on Saturday in downtown Raleigh.  I went last year, paid a bunch of money, and had a good time.  This year I plan to go, save that money, and still have a good time.  We’ll see how that works.

*Said drugs are simply Nyquil, Chloraseptic, and Maxifed. I will not be on A&E Intervention.

November 18, 2009

Every Time

Filed under: Just Life,Procrastinating — Tags: , , , — Dubbskii @ 1:20 am

Every time  I say I’m gonna do better…

I don’t.

It’s pretty pathetic, but it’s me.  What else can you ask for?  I’m so grateful for the *few* good friends that I have to keep me on track.  The past couple of weeks have been really tough, and I’ve had trouble staying focused.  I must have given myself the existential scientist talk at least 3 times a week.  Even as I type this I’m wondering why I want to be a scientist.  Do I really?

So strange.

Anywho, not much going on in the land of me.  Just a bunch of piles of dirty clothes, boxes from too much online shopping, and a massive credit card bill to prove it.

Winter is my favorite time of year, and I love dressing in layers and wearing lots of turtlenecks and whatnot.  However, mother nature missed the memo and it was 75 degrees here yesterday.  So of course I looked crazy with my suede boots on.  As soon as I hit the door, I had to run back inside and change.  I need to check the weather more often.

Last week, a classmate passed the prelim.  I was so happy for her, then the conversation turned to me and everyone wanted to talk science.  That would’ve been fine, but we were at the bar!?  Seriously? Give me a break!

Thursday night was a blast aside from that little portion.  I went with a buddy to the Red Bull Soundclash that same night.  It was Battle of the Bands: The Foreign Exchange v. Love Language.  FE won and I was supergeeked.
I think this Thursday, I’ll head out to Tigallo’s Two Step, which is hosted by Phonté of Foreign Exchange (and Little Brother).  I’d heard of it but never made my way down there.

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