Well....crap

I missed another Five-fer. I was out in Santa Fe getting my scientific conference on and Friday was spent returning back to life in the real world. My day started with over an hour shuttle ride to the airport. An almost 3 hour flight from Albuquerque to Atlanta. Then about an hour flight from Atlanta to the Greensboro. Plus the obligatory waits and layovers and such. So...I didn't get onto a computer at all on Friday.

Anywho, so during my graduate school career I have been to 2 major conferences. The first one I did not like at all...and really gave me a bad taste for conferences. It wasn't what I was interested in, it was way too big and it was way too unfocused. So I wasn't looking forward to this conference much either.

But this conference was very different and very good. Don't get me wrong, I bitched about sitting through 7+ hours of talks a day (in rather uncomfortable chairs) and all, but it was a good conference.

The final night of the conference, after the closing talk by a Nobel Prize winner!, there was a banquet. By the time I got to it and got my food...most of the tables were full. There was one table about half empty, but with some people I know I didn't want to sit with (nothing against the people personally...but I just didn't feel like I would have much socially in common with them based on previous interactions with them). There was an empty table...but did I want to really be sitting by myself? Then there was a seat open next to my boss...at a table full of people that looked like they were a fun bunch but most of whom I hadn't talked to. So I asked if the seat was taken, it wasn't so I sat down. The guy I was sitting next to was at the same point in grad school I am in. So we were able to talk about being in the same point.

He is having a committee meeting tomorrow which he hopes will be his last meeting. His was worried because his boss had already told him he was going to be giving him a hard time during the meeting. So he was nervous about it and was really trying to make sure he had everything all worked up and ready to go.

I said how I will soon be scheduling that hopefully last meeting. And how I was optimistic because my boss had recently mentioned me graduating soon.

Until....

Awhile later while we were all sitting around chatting...my boss mentioned how he now had so many new experiments he wanted to do (some of which the group we were sitting with were doing but that would probably work for our system). Somehow during the course of the conversation...my boss said...while practically cackling with glee....that I would never graduate.

Which...crap.

Five-fer Friday: Short and Sweet

Ok, I lied.

1. I
2. HATE
3. YOU
4. FEBRUARY
5. !

No sir, I don't like it

Dear February,

I do not like you. At all. You are not being a very nice month. I thought January was being a little...moody....but really, January was just PMSing. YOU, February, are a bitch. And we are only 1/4 of the way through you. I'm not looking forward to the remaining 3/4.

Even though you are a short month, I still am approaching each day with dread and disgust. It is going to be an irritating month for me, and the irritation will be approaching me from all sides.

I won't speak of this hatred I have for you again, but I needed to let you know how I feel. And I can't wait until March.

With deep disgust and hatred,
nicole