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Dreams, stats and a bunch of things
May. 7th, 2016 11:57 amStill trying hard to restore some sense of normalcy/order into my life. Things are getting better, I think. I bought some GRE flashcards - yes, despite all the book I bought, I, this immense money spender, decided that I'd like some flashcards.
But hey, those flashcards have been useful thus far. I actually look at them. Unlike the books. I think... Because flashcards are a lot less intimidating than books. I've finished reading about half the cards on the math facts section... I just leave the cards out on the table and I look at them in the morning before going to work (yay for more productive mornings!), and at night when I come home. The vocabs... they are making much slower headway though. Oh wells. I'm getting an idea of what more words mean... Like what their meanings roughly alludes to, whether it's a positive or negative word... But the exact meanings? Still working on remembering those. Yes, I definitely should try making more sentences too.
Studies for JLPT is coming along much slower... :X
Things seem to be going fine at work. Busy, but I'm trying to take things slower and not overwork myself because... What's the point? I have been dreaming about unsup though. A lot. A whole freaking lot. Like, been so for 5 consecutive days in a row. My brain would just put her in my dreams somewhere. And the fact that I even remember my dreams is something huh?
I thought I'm pretty over it already but... Guess not. My dreams certainly tells me otherwise.
It's hard to pinpoint what exactly is it that I missed about having her around. Because she was my unsup, my colleague, my friend, and more...
Of course I'd a much easier time at work when she was around. Not in terms of the 'business', but rather... There were a lot of things that she handled. Like the purchasing, data analysis... Things that I certainly can do, as I am doing now... But hey, I'm not complaining when someone else does the work for me :P
But she was a lot more than that. A friend. Someone to talk to. To message when my experiments doesn't go well (just for the sake for having someone to complain to), or when it goes brilliantly. That's something I can't do with the rest of my colleagues. For one they don't know my project, might not even understand the work if I tried to explain (depends on which of my lunch buddies)... But no matter what... They don't know it like unsup does because they are not molecular/microbiologists. As for solutions and suggestions? Of course it's only unsup who can, who could help with that. The new RF? I'm still... Working on it. The communication and all... But at least I got her daily schedule down... How she shows up for work at around 10, then takes a nap after lunch... Then goes for dinner at 6ish... And I have no idea what time she leaves the office. But communication wise... Very lacking. Sure, unsup didn't discuss much theory and such with me but... This is bad because now I have no idea where things stand. Who is supposed to drive the project...? Who is doing what? I have no idea what's happening, and I have no idea what role am I to play. Doesn't help that I have so many other experiments that I'm supposed to do too. Oh wells. Whatever. I'm just going to take it slow.
I wonder when the results of the progress report will be out. By that, I mean the yearly bonus and salary review. We don't get any year end bonuses... Just a mid year performance review bonus. I doubt I'd get much of a salary increase... I would stay if they increase my salary enough. But I doubt that's going to happen. And when I think about how irritating they are making things with the online booking system and all. Nah. I should just be harder working and continue applying for jobs.
It's just that...
I have too many things on my plate that I don't know how and what to focus on. GRE and JLPT at once is stressful enough. Lol. I asked for it though. And I might not even study otherwise... But yeah. The job search is coming along too slowly. Sigh.
Trying to divide my time well between work, study and play...
At least, as mentioned earlier, I do get quite a lot of things done in the morning now. Pretty happy with my morning time.
Oh yes! Went to watch Korosensei on Thursday. By that, I mean Assassination Classroom 2. I'll be writing some sort of a review on NM later/tmr. That'll be my NM post for the week. Do keep a look out for it.
Hmm stats. It's been a long time since I was really active on LJ. So of course, my LJ ranking dropped a lot again. But I went to my profile page to check out my comment numbers... Because I just 'spammed' a bunch of comments on Storm Freaks. And woots, 11.1k comments! Nice. That's a pretty impressive number, isn't it? Just goes to show how much time I've spent on LJ over the years hahaha. Well, I've perfected the art of replying quickly too, thanks to my years of experience spamming in forums prior. (40k+ posts in the maplesea forums!? If my memory serves me right)
Alright. That's all for now I guess. I went to buy a lot more pieces of heat shrink plastic from Daiso yesterday. I'll print and trace some stuff on them when I'm free I guess haha. And then mass shrink them all in a day when I've gathered a sufficient number of plastic pieces... Because taking the oven out is troublesome, and there's no space in the kitchen to leave the oven out... Mom got so pissed at me last weekend for leaving it out for two day, and not keeping it back when I was 'done'. Well I still had more pieces to color but... Whatever. I'll leave them till next time.
I'd definitely like to start selling those crafts someday. Together with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aussistorm? Well as of now all I have is... Loads of eraser stamps to sell XD I love doing those crafts but I have nothing to do with them after the crafts gets finished. I mean. What do you do with 30 odd eraser stamps (and the number is still growing)? I can't possibly use all of them... And all the time... I just like creating...
Ok. That's all for now. Maybe I'll carve some eraser stamps today... (And of course, I'll study too)
I should send out some applications too huh...? Maybe finish that fanfic that I started writing yesterday... That came from a very disturbing dream that I had... I'll explain more about the dream when the fic is posted.
Till the next post! <3
But hey, those flashcards have been useful thus far. I actually look at them. Unlike the books. I think... Because flashcards are a lot less intimidating than books. I've finished reading about half the cards on the math facts section... I just leave the cards out on the table and I look at them in the morning before going to work (yay for more productive mornings!), and at night when I come home. The vocabs... they are making much slower headway though. Oh wells. I'm getting an idea of what more words mean... Like what their meanings roughly alludes to, whether it's a positive or negative word... But the exact meanings? Still working on remembering those. Yes, I definitely should try making more sentences too.
Studies for JLPT is coming along much slower... :X
Things seem to be going fine at work. Busy, but I'm trying to take things slower and not overwork myself because... What's the point? I have been dreaming about unsup though. A lot. A whole freaking lot. Like, been so for 5 consecutive days in a row. My brain would just put her in my dreams somewhere. And the fact that I even remember my dreams is something huh?
I thought I'm pretty over it already but... Guess not. My dreams certainly tells me otherwise.
It's hard to pinpoint what exactly is it that I missed about having her around. Because she was my unsup, my colleague, my friend, and more...
Of course I'd a much easier time at work when she was around. Not in terms of the 'business', but rather... There were a lot of things that she handled. Like the purchasing, data analysis... Things that I certainly can do, as I am doing now... But hey, I'm not complaining when someone else does the work for me :P
But she was a lot more than that. A friend. Someone to talk to. To message when my experiments doesn't go well (just for the sake for having someone to complain to), or when it goes brilliantly. That's something I can't do with the rest of my colleagues. For one they don't know my project, might not even understand the work if I tried to explain (depends on which of my lunch buddies)... But no matter what... They don't know it like unsup does because they are not molecular/microbiologists. As for solutions and suggestions? Of course it's only unsup who can, who could help with that. The new RF? I'm still... Working on it. The communication and all... But at least I got her daily schedule down... How she shows up for work at around 10, then takes a nap after lunch... Then goes for dinner at 6ish... And I have no idea what time she leaves the office. But communication wise... Very lacking. Sure, unsup didn't discuss much theory and such with me but... This is bad because now I have no idea where things stand. Who is supposed to drive the project...? Who is doing what? I have no idea what's happening, and I have no idea what role am I to play. Doesn't help that I have so many other experiments that I'm supposed to do too. Oh wells. Whatever. I'm just going to take it slow.
I wonder when the results of the progress report will be out. By that, I mean the yearly bonus and salary review. We don't get any year end bonuses... Just a mid year performance review bonus. I doubt I'd get much of a salary increase... I would stay if they increase my salary enough. But I doubt that's going to happen. And when I think about how irritating they are making things with the online booking system and all. Nah. I should just be harder working and continue applying for jobs.
It's just that...
I have too many things on my plate that I don't know how and what to focus on. GRE and JLPT at once is stressful enough. Lol. I asked for it though. And I might not even study otherwise... But yeah. The job search is coming along too slowly. Sigh.
Trying to divide my time well between work, study and play...
At least, as mentioned earlier, I do get quite a lot of things done in the morning now. Pretty happy with my morning time.
Oh yes! Went to watch Korosensei on Thursday. By that, I mean Assassination Classroom 2. I'll be writing some sort of a review on NM later/tmr. That'll be my NM post for the week. Do keep a look out for it.
Hmm stats. It's been a long time since I was really active on LJ. So of course, my LJ ranking dropped a lot again. But I went to my profile page to check out my comment numbers... Because I just 'spammed' a bunch of comments on Storm Freaks. And woots, 11.1k comments! Nice. That's a pretty impressive number, isn't it? Just goes to show how much time I've spent on LJ over the years hahaha. Well, I've perfected the art of replying quickly too, thanks to my years of experience spamming in forums prior. (40k+ posts in the maplesea forums!? If my memory serves me right)
Alright. That's all for now I guess. I went to buy a lot more pieces of heat shrink plastic from Daiso yesterday. I'll print and trace some stuff on them when I'm free I guess haha. And then mass shrink them all in a day when I've gathered a sufficient number of plastic pieces... Because taking the oven out is troublesome, and there's no space in the kitchen to leave the oven out... Mom got so pissed at me last weekend for leaving it out for two day, and not keeping it back when I was 'done'. Well I still had more pieces to color but... Whatever. I'll leave them till next time.
I'd definitely like to start selling those crafts someday. Together with
aussistorm? Well as of now all I have is... Loads of eraser stamps to sell XD I love doing those crafts but I have nothing to do with them after the crafts gets finished. I mean. What do you do with 30 odd eraser stamps (and the number is still growing)? I can't possibly use all of them... And all the time... I just like creating...Ok. That's all for now. Maybe I'll carve some eraser stamps today... (And of course, I'll study too)
I should send out some applications too huh...? Maybe finish that fanfic that I started writing yesterday... That came from a very disturbing dream that I had... I'll explain more about the dream when the fic is posted.
Till the next post! <3
