Sunday, January 20, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
2013
Well 2012 was kind of a rough year.
Here are my 2013 resolutions.
Be happier. Learn to let things go.
Give up (or at least cut WAY back) on diet coke...I WILL do it this year.
Exercise more.
Reunite with Mika for good.
And HummusBoyfriend, I guess. :P
But mostly Mika.
Here are my 2013 resolutions.
Be happier. Learn to let things go.
Give up (or at least cut WAY back) on diet coke...I WILL do it this year.
Exercise more.
Reunite with Mika for good.
And HummusBoyfriend, I guess. :P
But mostly Mika.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Resolutions
2013, I'm ready for you.
I will climb 5.9s well by the end of the year.
I will learn how to sail.
I will consciously try to make decisions that bring me happiness.
I will try to let go of grudges and mishaps and honest mistakes. Because let's face it, I'm the only one ever still dwelling.
I will try to communicate with my boss more effectively.
2012 was good but I'm ready to move onward and upward!
I will climb 5.9s well by the end of the year.
I will learn how to sail.
I will consciously try to make decisions that bring me happiness.
I will try to let go of grudges and mishaps and honest mistakes. Because let's face it, I'm the only one ever still dwelling.
I will try to communicate with my boss more effectively.
2012 was good but I'm ready to move onward and upward!
Coffee addict
I've been living on coffee and takeout to prep for my quals. I can't wait for it to be over. At least I have a killer view :)
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
PNW
I think I finally love it here.
I've decided to become a climber instead of a skier. I'll let ya'll know how it goes!
I've decided to become a climber instead of a skier. I'll let ya'll know how it goes!
Friday, November 9, 2012
Life, a fatal human condition
I heard an amazing talk yesterday by Charles Sabine. He emphatically drove home the point that we are all fragile, our health is not something to be taken lightly, and that we have the power and ability to change the world around us. He pointed to HIV/AIDS as an example of a social movement leading to huge medical advances. HIV/AIDS is no longer the fatal sentence it once was and we should take that movement as a lesson for other diseases.
Since starting grad school I have seen talks by amazing scientists doing incredible work. I have been settled into my lab ready to do incredible work, only to stall out at the day-to-day tedium of taking care of my cells and troubleshooting my assays. I have started to question what I'm doing here and what I'll be able to do when I get out (the bigger question being "if" I ever get out). I've been terrified of this path into science knowing the longer I stay here the harder it will be to leave. At the very least, I'm certainly not studying myself out of a job. It has been too easy to lose sight of the bigger picture of what my project will accomplish.
So it was refreshing to see a patient reach out to us, a patient who's just any other person in this world, reminding us why we do the work that we do. Saying, "All humans are capable of far more than they could ever believe."
Since starting grad school I have seen talks by amazing scientists doing incredible work. I have been settled into my lab ready to do incredible work, only to stall out at the day-to-day tedium of taking care of my cells and troubleshooting my assays. I have started to question what I'm doing here and what I'll be able to do when I get out (the bigger question being "if" I ever get out). I've been terrified of this path into science knowing the longer I stay here the harder it will be to leave. At the very least, I'm certainly not studying myself out of a job. It has been too easy to lose sight of the bigger picture of what my project will accomplish.
So it was refreshing to see a patient reach out to us, a patient who's just any other person in this world, reminding us why we do the work that we do. Saying, "All humans are capable of far more than they could ever believe."
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