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Books and Kindle
Apr. 14th, 2016 02:52 pmI've definitely been reading more ever since I got my kindle. So far I've finished reading 3 books on it, and am finishing the fourth. Yeah sure, that's still not much, but considering that I mainly return books borrowed from the library half read/unread these days... Because I pass out on the bed after work... That's an improvement. Well mostly because I'd bring the kindle out to lunch and sit there and read while eating. Even if it's just 40 mins or an hour of eating + reading, I still can get quite a lot done. I've started on two other books on the kindle too, but abandoned them because they weren't quite to my liking. Hard to find fiction books to my liking these days.
On the work side...
We're definitely feeling the effects of not having any microbiologist around.
My new sup??? (I don't even know who's in charge of me anymore, either way, she's higher ranked than me so yeah.... and she's been contacting me a lot since unsup left so yeah...) called me like twice today to ask about molecular and microbio stuff. And like the latest call was about... Let's say it's something that I'm still scolding myself for having to look up wikipedia to double check. One of those faceplams, OMG didn't you learn this is sec sch basics. Ok, I didn't learn this in sec sch... And I pretty much believed in the answer... But having been asked by someone else I just had to look it up to make sure. Gosh. A mirror copy of myself with more bio knowledge would be so totally mocking me now, like how I'd been mocking everyone else.
Meh.
Can also tell that the new rf... (I need to give these people nicknames soon...) really doesn't have much microbio/molecular bio background. Like she's never seen a filtration unit - ya know those that can filter 500ml or a whole liter? Nor has she used the BSC hood before. Ok, those are more cell bio maybe? And then when she picked up my fungified plate to examine, she put it back down the right side up. You always place plates upside down so that condensation doesn't get on the plates...
Meh.
On another note...
I'm still passing out at 10pm or so each day. And waking up at 5 am or something. Which is bad, because I want to go back to bed in the mornings... And I dilly my time away, and not get anything done. So it's been almost another week of no GRE and JLPT studying. And this is really, really bad. It's not going to change unless I change *something*. What? I don't know. Not waste time when I wake up maybe? And actually start studying. Yeah... I'm gonna try that. It's that or not pass out by 10pm. We'll see... :X
Anyway. Back on the books. I'd set on good reads that I'd like to finish reading 12 books this year. Basically, one book a month. I think I'm doing good on that so far. All thanks to the kindle. Won't be reading anything otherwise... Let's see how many books I'd finish on the kindle by the end of the year.
On the work side...
We're definitely feeling the effects of not having any microbiologist around.
My new sup??? (I don't even know who's in charge of me anymore, either way, she's higher ranked than me so yeah.... and she's been contacting me a lot since unsup left so yeah...) called me like twice today to ask about molecular and microbio stuff. And like the latest call was about... Let's say it's something that I'm still scolding myself for having to look up wikipedia to double check. One of those faceplams, OMG didn't you learn this is sec sch basics. Ok, I didn't learn this in sec sch... And I pretty much believed in the answer... But having been asked by someone else I just had to look it up to make sure. Gosh. A mirror copy of myself with more bio knowledge would be so totally mocking me now, like how I'd been mocking everyone else.
Meh.
Can also tell that the new rf... (I need to give these people nicknames soon...) really doesn't have much microbio/molecular bio background. Like she's never seen a filtration unit - ya know those that can filter 500ml or a whole liter? Nor has she used the BSC hood before. Ok, those are more cell bio maybe? And then when she picked up my fungified plate to examine, she put it back down the right side up. You always place plates upside down so that condensation doesn't get on the plates...
Meh.
On another note...
I'm still passing out at 10pm or so each day. And waking up at 5 am or something. Which is bad, because I want to go back to bed in the mornings... And I dilly my time away, and not get anything done. So it's been almost another week of no GRE and JLPT studying. And this is really, really bad. It's not going to change unless I change *something*. What? I don't know. Not waste time when I wake up maybe? And actually start studying. Yeah... I'm gonna try that. It's that or not pass out by 10pm. We'll see... :X
Anyway. Back on the books. I'd set on good reads that I'd like to finish reading 12 books this year. Basically, one book a month. I think I'm doing good on that so far. All thanks to the kindle. Won't be reading anything otherwise... Let's see how many books I'd finish on the kindle by the end of the year.
