So that project I was talking about…. turns out the other research assistant had already done everything I was up late doing, and she never told me about it until after I turned it all in. Awesome, right? And of course, since that was the last thing I wanted to hear at 8am when I had just stayed up finishing it, a cat-fight ensued, for which I got taken off the project. Score one really big win for me I guess.
Actually it’s not that traumatic, the meeting I had with my boss went well, mostly because he’s a fantastic guy and a great professor, and he basically told me to let it roll off my back, that this battle wasn’t worth my time or effort, and he put me on another project. One that has a sooner publishing date, which is awesome because now instead of getting my name on a project that will be published in a year, I get my name on one that will be at the presses in January. And if the “very nice and lovely” (read: things I don’t want to say on a public blog) other research assistant wants to do all that tedious work by herself, well then, as my people say, mazel tov. Enjoy it. She wanted me off the project from the beginning, and now I am - so I hope it’s everything she ever dreamed it would be.
This frustration seems to go with the weather. Being from Seattle I thought I was acclimated to rain, but damn, I guess 6 years on the East Coast have softened me. It’s been pouring rain and freezing for the last 4 days here and I am about to lose my mind. I’ve asked my dad for a sunlamp for Hanukkah, and he said I was part lizard and should get a nice flat rock to go with it. Ha.
So in honor of the crappy weather I have done a couple of things to lighten the mood. 1) I have created some original artwork expressing my feelings (see below), and 2) I will post about something funny happening in DC in just a few moments.
