Taking off from work is rewarding at first, but once your come back you’re screwed man. Hmmm, whatever…
It’s weird how my time at this job is coming to an end. I’ve learned a lot at this coop, which I’m super thankful for but, I’m kind of done with it. You have to know when to move on, and as much as I love electrophysiology, the likelihood of getting a publication from this lab is close to none. Maybe at a different lab that wasn’t ephys I could probably get a publication, especially if I committed some time in the fall, but ephys is SOOO SLOW. At the same time, it taught me patience and how to keep an open mind (always keep your head up and remember your long term goals).
I have to find a decent lab on campus for the fall, sadly all of Northeastern’s research sucks. They have no taste in quality work, plus their neuroscience department is pretty seriously underfunded. So much in fact, that no lab on campus does any sort of neurodegenerative disease research, which, of course, is my biggest interest in neuroscience. All they do is stupid neuro-pharmokinetics which is boring as hell. Hmphh I guess I have to put up with it (remember your long term goals George).
I have to stop talking to myself in the third person…
I’ve told a couple people about this blog and got some positive feedback. I don’t know when I’m going to be completely open about it, I guess that comes with time. Knowing my brother though, he’ll be like:
*insert nasally voice* “why would you waste your time and money on something like that??”, and then proceed to critique everything about the website.
He’s coming to pick me up from Boston this weekend, and is being a major pain in the butt. His minor obsessive compulsive disorder mandates knowledge of what he’ll be doing every other minute of the weekend, weeks in advance. I wish I could just tell him to “bishwesh” (“relax” in Arabic), he hates it… sometimes I say it just to piss him off and its hysterical.
Whatever, I’m just salty and tired. Today I was waiting for some prescriptions to get filled so I walked around for a half hour and got some cool photos. This is one I got in an alleyway by Berkeley University. I’m pretty proud of it, I’ll be honest.
I tried buying a camera off EBAY today and was on the phone with PayPal customer service for like 3 hours trying to get the transaction to go through… it didn’t work. I’m telling you, its a sign from god.
Oh, today’s song is by a favorite band of mine, Blind Pilot, its called “3 Rounds and a Sound”. I’ve been listening to mellow, acoustic music recently.
Mildly Muddling 