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Exciting
I realised. Most of my comments to fics goes something along the lines of 'this is so exciting'. Pardon my lack of vocabulary... >< but really that's what happens when I don't want to comment on anything in the fic, but still loved the fic enough and would like to read the next chapter. Since I've wrote a puny few fics myself I know how nice to feels to receive comments... otherwise you'll be wondering if anyone has read your fic at all...
Work wise, today I'm attending a training on how to operate the TEM. Tmr too, it's a two day thing. Last week my sups attended the course too, but this week they've shortened it to two days instead of three - basically by starting earlier and probably ending later too. So well I was feeling a little jealous that I wasn't allowed to attend the course with them last week, but then watching them spending the whole day in the TEM room - oh TEM stands for Transmission Electron Microscope by the way, you can go google it, its really cool, expensive stuff - I figured that they needed me around the lab to help conduct the experiments. Though in truth I have not been doing all that much. And indeed... when asked by the lab manager my sup/boss responded that they needed me and the lab exec to do the experiments... and this week while we are doing the course, they will take over and do what we have been doing. That's the kind of feeling in our group. Everyone is equal... Well the lab exec does most of the routine experiments, but there's one that i've been doing daily as well - that guy's already too busy with everything else. Soon I should be starting on the qPCR and DNA extraction I guess... soon. But my sup is a pretty funny guy. He likes to joke around and stuff but the other two guys in the lab are really quiet. Yesterday my boss went out to get a blender - that costs around 400 bucks woah, for use in preparing the feed for our fermenters. Apparently the lab exec accidentally broke the old one, but all my boss did was the joke about it, saying that if his hands slipped and breaks yet another, we'll end up with two new bases (it the blender jar part that broke). Well granted, I wasn't there when the thing broke so I have no idea if he got scolded then... and then again we have more than enough funds left in our grant so the $ is no issue... but still, my boss is a pretty hilarious guy. And very nice too.
Oh and we went on a run to the uni to visit the career fair cos two of my group members were interested. Its been a long while since i last ate in my uni. And the career fair? First time i attended in person. Why? Because there's nothing in it for me. They are all engineering companies, save for the trusty old IBN that attends every single year. But I know enough about them already... So yeah, I went around masquerading as an electrical engineering graduate and collected tons of free goodies yesterday - mostly pens, notebooks and post it notes. I have enough post it notes to last like... an entire year or longer now. (ok, its not that many, but just because I rarely use post its). And coke was there too so there were free drinks... and this company was giving out cotton candy and umbrellas o.o. But yeah, I had really no interest in any of the companies, save for like IBN which has rejected me already. Not only do I have no interest, I can't even work in those if I wanted to, unless I do some boring admin job. They want mechanical/electronic engineers, something which I know nuts about so yeah. Guess I didn't waste any opportunities by not attending the career fair in all my four years of studies. (All I missed were the freebies I guess). It was kind of embarrassing though. I walked out with like two bag full of stuff where as the other three in my group were pretty much empty handed - they only had like a shoe bag (which sadly I didn't get, the company wasn't giving that out when I walked by earlier), and a few pamphlets. I guess the fact that they were all a little too old (all three had their pHds already) whereas people were asking me which year I was in and treating me like an undergrad made a lot of difference.
Ah right, almost time for the course, needa run!
Work wise, today I'm attending a training on how to operate the TEM. Tmr too, it's a two day thing. Last week my sups attended the course too, but this week they've shortened it to two days instead of three - basically by starting earlier and probably ending later too. So well I was feeling a little jealous that I wasn't allowed to attend the course with them last week, but then watching them spending the whole day in the TEM room - oh TEM stands for Transmission Electron Microscope by the way, you can go google it, its really cool, expensive stuff - I figured that they needed me around the lab to help conduct the experiments. Though in truth I have not been doing all that much. And indeed... when asked by the lab manager my sup/boss responded that they needed me and the lab exec to do the experiments... and this week while we are doing the course, they will take over and do what we have been doing. That's the kind of feeling in our group. Everyone is equal... Well the lab exec does most of the routine experiments, but there's one that i've been doing daily as well - that guy's already too busy with everything else. Soon I should be starting on the qPCR and DNA extraction I guess... soon. But my sup is a pretty funny guy. He likes to joke around and stuff but the other two guys in the lab are really quiet. Yesterday my boss went out to get a blender - that costs around 400 bucks woah, for use in preparing the feed for our fermenters. Apparently the lab exec accidentally broke the old one, but all my boss did was the joke about it, saying that if his hands slipped and breaks yet another, we'll end up with two new bases (it the blender jar part that broke). Well granted, I wasn't there when the thing broke so I have no idea if he got scolded then... and then again we have more than enough funds left in our grant so the $ is no issue... but still, my boss is a pretty hilarious guy. And very nice too.
Oh and we went on a run to the uni to visit the career fair cos two of my group members were interested. Its been a long while since i last ate in my uni. And the career fair? First time i attended in person. Why? Because there's nothing in it for me. They are all engineering companies, save for the trusty old IBN that attends every single year. But I know enough about them already... So yeah, I went around masquerading as an electrical engineering graduate and collected tons of free goodies yesterday - mostly pens, notebooks and post it notes. I have enough post it notes to last like... an entire year or longer now. (ok, its not that many, but just because I rarely use post its). And coke was there too so there were free drinks... and this company was giving out cotton candy and umbrellas o.o. But yeah, I had really no interest in any of the companies, save for like IBN which has rejected me already. Not only do I have no interest, I can't even work in those if I wanted to, unless I do some boring admin job. They want mechanical/electronic engineers, something which I know nuts about so yeah. Guess I didn't waste any opportunities by not attending the career fair in all my four years of studies. (All I missed were the freebies I guess). It was kind of embarrassing though. I walked out with like two bag full of stuff where as the other three in my group were pretty much empty handed - they only had like a shoe bag (which sadly I didn't get, the company wasn't giving that out when I walked by earlier), and a few pamphlets. I guess the fact that they were all a little too old (all three had their pHds already) whereas people were asking me which year I was in and treating me like an undergrad made a lot of difference.
Ah right, almost time for the course, needa run!