Today has not been an easy day. I fell asleep last night at about 10 pm. It was supposed to be a 15 minute nap. I woke up from my name at 8:05 with a computer in my bed. I did not make it to my 8 am class. I got to school by 10, and more or less paid attention in Cell Biology. We have a test on Monday and EVERYONE is freaking out. Its all stuff I covered in genetics my junior year. So... interesting, but not much new in the class.
Dr.A was out today, so lab meeting was canceled. This was good... but also not so good. I didn't have a 2 hour lab meeting, but I had to fill those two hours with productive work. My computer charging cord somehow didn't make it into my school bag this morning, so when I went to plug in my computer, with its 1 hour battery life and 8 hours required to charge, I was basically screwed.
I tried to use Matlab. Its amazing software, I just need a file that lists every function which we already have written, how to call it, and what it does. That way, I don't have to spend two hours trying to write my own, only to discover that the function is not helping me. I spent 4 fruitless hours on Matlab today.
Made myself avaliable for office hours for students at 2, 3 and 5:30. I spent 2 hours, and only 2 students showed up. The girl who made the appointment for 5:30 especially never came. This would have been fine, except for my lack of laptop.
Seminar from 4 to 5 and paper sorting took up another hour and fifteen of wasting time. By 6:45, I was sick and tired of everything. Tonight was the first time this week I left the chemistry building before the sunset. I probably shouldn't be admitting that, on the off chance that my mom reads this blog, but its the truth. I biked home, and had a low grade nervous breakdown. One of those things where all I could do was cry. It was somewhat inspired by the song, "Left Behind" from Spring Awakening. I may need to stick to Jon Groff and Lea Michele in Glee for the forseeable future. Spring Awakening is too depressing for now.
A crying jag, call to refocus the microscope, brief chat with Ad and sandwhich, and the 8 - 10 thrusday block on fox later, I am content and ready to go to bed. My students lab reports never cease to amaze me. I told them EXACTLY what I wanted. EXACTLY. It was almost formulic. I was generous last week. I've already given one zero this week.
I'm going to stop reading and read Geektastic for the millionth time. Tomorrow I have to go to the public library, both to return books and to get new ones to read. School saps most of my energy, but I need stories to renew myself. I hope they have what I want. Also, that my fine isn't too huge. The book is only a week or so overdue...
Anyway, we are approaching the crux of this experiment. I am approaching some degree of madness at this point. I have no doubt we will be collecting real (instead of the background data represented by the previous posts) data soon.
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