Wave Up and Down

I cant sleep with an oscillating fan on. Or with two pillows beneath my head. Are these dealbreakers? You cant be too pragmatic about these things. Rational mind cant parse it effectively enough to come to a good conclusion. Facts dont write this.

Yesterday made more RNA than I ever had in a day. Working with an assistant can be quite nice, especially when you see that years of training will actually increase your yield in a purification relative to a second year undergrad. However, when the bill comes due just before labmeeting and you see that no, scaling up does not actually give you the result you wanted, it hurts. If doesnt even give you the result you dont want, then where are you. The boss is getting exasperated. We had a couple good head to heads that amounted to nothing. As though he was about to travel, he is talking to everyone more often, but less fruitfully. It gives me evil pleasure to see postdocs walking away from these meets quickly and shaking their head. When you get famous, for shitsakes you better just focus on hiring good people. Obama doesnt know how to run a country, he has advisors. My boss can argue a point till you want to stab yourself in the eye. He is cantankerous to the degree that it is easier for most everybody to just go along with what he wants. Then there is me. Most of the time I demand some higher level of sensibility. So that leaves me where? What am I going to teach him. Little. Keep the GD goals in mind here: learn to formulate significant questions and answer them. Progress lately? Running around, postits everywhere.

Please just roll with the punches tomorrow, no eye stabbing allowed. Seriously though, some things will come due soon. Please ignore the postdocs though.