the multi-verse

I have a paper due in my science journalism class tomorrow, and I've been having a hard time making the words flow, and not digress into a choppy science-themes mess. I figured it was time to update the old blog (sorry mom).

Classes haven't been to stressful, its just all this lab stuff. Its not like I have a project with a set amount of work to do. If that was the case, I'd be stressed I wasn't working enough. My project isn't like that. Nor is it a never ending amount of molecular biology lab work in my future. Instead, its a carefully crafted mix of waiting for bacteria to grow (blast you desulfuromonas), making media, reading scientific papers (which I really should do more), and feeling like I should be doing more.

I go into the office every morning between 7:00 and 8:30 AM, and rarely leave before 4:30. I know I do things, but there is still this overwhelming sense that I'm not going to graduate as soon as everyone else, and that if I was diligent, like many of the other graduate students, I would be gearing up to defend come May, not August. Not that it really matters in the scheme of things: I don't think three or four months really makes a difference. I'm still young, I have time.

In the meantime, I'm sitting in my office, thinking about stories for science journalism, getting ready for seminar in two hours and a meeting with my adviser, listening to radiolab, and being hungry.

I would really like to start the full-on run of my Masters project early next week. Like Monday, that would be great, and get me on track to starting the isotope chem come December....we'll see.