Crazy Kitty
I called the UC Davis vet school to schedule a clinic for Atticus today. Last night he went crazy at Momo again. Wawa is here visiting now that my parents are on vacation, so she probably added to the stress. I'm not sure what I can do to stop his sudden attacks, which I can tell stresses Momo out. Not to mention that he has also become aggressive towards me during his crazy kitty moments. Makes me scared to even go to my room when he is nuts like that. The clinic is rather expensive--$225 for a 2 hour session with a 3 month follow up. But these people are vets specialising in animal behavior, so they know what they are doing, not just some quack who calls himself an animal behaviorist.
Am not in the mood to work today. Ever have those days whem you just don't feel like doing anything. It's one of those days for me. On the list for this week--get poster for the SU meeting done, prep BAC DNA for injection, QPCR on embryos from last week, paper outline for EHD.
Had a rather long discussion with EHD last friday. He's been very busy recently, with the SU meeting coming up and the revision of his book in the works. But we had a good chat. He had suggestions for some experiments I should do with the new data I got, and there were definitely things I hadn't thought of. So it was a good discussion. He also thinks that I should write a paper on the work I have done so far with Otx and my cis-regulatory elements. I hate writing papers, but I realise that papers are the currency in this field. I guess I don't really HATE writing, but the inertia is so great that it's hard for me to get started. Once I get the juices flowing however, it is not that bad.
Called the choir today to schedule my audition time with Rae and to tell her that I will participate in the performance of Beethoven's 9th at Walt Disney Concert Hall. It was a really experience performing the 9th with the LA phil last summer/winter, and I look forward to it again, this time with the Korean/American sypmphony. The audition I'm not looking forward to. I know the goal is just to see how we are progressing and not to weed people out, but the idea of having to sight read a music passage really makes me nervous, mostly because I suck at it. Granted, I'm a lot better now then I used to be, but still.....most people are better than me. Guess I should have paid more attention during those piano lessons :P
Seeing I am not going to get anything done today, I will go shopping for a new bag and then a run...hee hee
Am not in the mood to work today. Ever have those days whem you just don't feel like doing anything. It's one of those days for me. On the list for this week--get poster for the SU meeting done, prep BAC DNA for injection, QPCR on embryos from last week, paper outline for EHD.
Had a rather long discussion with EHD last friday. He's been very busy recently, with the SU meeting coming up and the revision of his book in the works. But we had a good chat. He had suggestions for some experiments I should do with the new data I got, and there were definitely things I hadn't thought of. So it was a good discussion. He also thinks that I should write a paper on the work I have done so far with Otx and my cis-regulatory elements. I hate writing papers, but I realise that papers are the currency in this field. I guess I don't really HATE writing, but the inertia is so great that it's hard for me to get started. Once I get the juices flowing however, it is not that bad.
Called the choir today to schedule my audition time with Rae and to tell her that I will participate in the performance of Beethoven's 9th at Walt Disney Concert Hall. It was a really experience performing the 9th with the LA phil last summer/winter, and I look forward to it again, this time with the Korean/American sypmphony. The audition I'm not looking forward to. I know the goal is just to see how we are progressing and not to weed people out, but the idea of having to sight read a music passage really makes me nervous, mostly because I suck at it. Granted, I'm a lot better now then I used to be, but still.....most people are better than me. Guess I should have paid more attention during those piano lessons :P
Seeing I am not going to get anything done today, I will go shopping for a new bag and then a run...hee hee
posted by La Nuage at 4:03 PM
4 Comments:
Good good good you are talking to your advisor about your research and problems. One of the things that I regretted the most about grad school is I didn't discuss with him, the research superstar, more often about research, until the final year. He is an awesome guy and will be able to offer good suggestions, if he only gets to know your problems (in research). O/W he takes it that you are surviving very well or have other plans other than graduating (getting married or something) :)
Keep him up to date with your progress.
I planted tons of basil, mint, etc to distract myself, no Atticus nor Momo. Sad to say I was awful in running. As exercise, I jog around a freezing lake for 15 minutes every monring. Good old days then, lots of self-discovery :)
By the way, I was referring to my own advisor. Hope you didn't get confused by my comment
yeah my boss is a rather busy guy so it's really easy to fly under the radar. sometimes i think it can be a good thing, cos i see his favorites have a hard time leaving cos he gives them so much attention. at least the people who had left recently were not his pets.....i think that i would prefer a less high power lab for a postdoc, but then i need to get a job, so a famous advisor is important.
i asked you this before, but maybe you don't want to answer, but are you a biologist?
I am not a biologist. But I am in the hard sciences.
One thing that worked for me is to have a direct, firm but polite talk with my advisor, what was my intentions. Intentions can be the time frame which YOU like to graduate, financial support required, types of jobs looking for, etc. If you do not like a job to stay in his lab, say so. Vice versa, he told me what are the opportunities and realisms about types of jobs available, abilities, talents etc. For my case, accept his advice, because of his experience and it was done in no ill-intent. Mostly it came true, but there were some pleasant surprises.
Also, convince him your intentions is not quitting studies to have a baby or something, if that is true.
I guess our advisors are slightly different. Mine likes certain students better, but when it came to the crunch, he would fulfil the opportunity offers fairly to students, in things that matter (though not things that doesn't matter like Thanksgiving dinner etc). This fair business is not true at all in the working or real world. Depending on luck, you can be in heaven or hell, the two extremes, when you graduate. He doesn't keep his best students. If he needs them, he justifies there are emails, phones, arrangements for research sabbaticals for a couple months at the alma mater. In a way, that's good for his best students.
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