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I had a dream about my girlfriends boss this morning. For two days I cant fall asleep fore two and its hurting. Its like a joke, today is. Days before thanksgiving are always a little wild. People go away, the lab wonders who is in on Thanksgiving, etc. Basically a bunch of foreigners wonder what the hell thanksgiving is about round here. Do we keep working, or do we take the day off?

So in this dream this prof, who is a member of my committee, organizes some type of joke zombie hunt game once a year and we all have to play along. People have fun but I pretty much think its stupid. My girlfriend wasnt really around.

Then in my real day I go to work and talk to him, which is a relative rarity, about some conditions in the lab. I am wicked tired because the bright lights of bossmans eyes are upon me. I might have found something interesting. I reported on friday. Now there are emails, explanations, obnoxiousness. Floating point guidelines. We cant even standardize a motherfucking phenotype. We dont know what is publishible, or rather we dont define that this early. I would like to, however, and thank you very much.

Tech man my buddy called it that bossman was going to join us for lunch today. A rarity in the new buildings total months. He was right but late by 15minutes. Boss knows when people have been absent from lab. Knows also our regular patterns. So we jump lunch by fifteen minutes. People are buying new conditions without much choice in the last few days. He is writing a paper for a former pDoc/visiting scientist.

Godamned anyway I have candidate genes, and boss wants me to jump on a former pDocs candidate gene as well as send my goddamn list of genes of interest to a way former pDocs lab. Listen to me, this way former pDoc is now giving a job to the first auther of the paper that got sent. Boss wants we send the list to them so that we are not so much getting scooped, or scooping.

Fucking point is that I go talk to my committe member, PI of my woman. He explains that boss owns everything in the lab. Every piece of information in your lab book, strain made, etc. I say the list is in my head, there are lists all over the place. He is not digital as I guess. Point is, I am absolved. Sorry former pDoc. Boss says I do it, maybe I have to do it. If the boss reminds me three times to do this experirement, and I cannot distract him from it, Im going to step on your territory. I am sorry. You know mostly what its like.

End of the day, tiring, at least everyone jets early. Grab dinner with my girl. She was introduced to a new gene they want to test out in her lab. My motherfucking gene. No fuking joke. I narrowed to 6 genes last year. I gave up one to a postdoc I love, and she finally published it. Seriously. 6 fucking genes. The remaining 5 I study. I clone 4 for close study. Maybe the sequences are not perfect for all fuck I tried. And now, in this other field, in my own school, my girlfriend is being independently suggested to study the same gaddamned gene. I cant fucking believe it.

I hava fire under my ass, which is nice. I will write people across this globe for antibodies this weekend. I will sequence my gd clones and take another look at culture data from months ago. I will not tell my boss, or the committee member of this overlap. My lady friend does not appear to have an opinion about this situation. She says let me know if I do, as to whether she should bring it up to her boss. So, fine. This is a ridiculous situation brought on by ridiculous people, and I am just going full steam ahead on the path I was on. Which is fully sanctioned by the boss, I might add. This is one of those spells where we are on the same page. I pray that it might last.