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Frankly, I'm tired of hearing my own voice.
In the past five weeks, I've given 5 presentations, ranging from 15 minutes to an hour, and I've another three scheduled in the next two weeks.
I'm teaching both lab techs techniques wholly outside of their realms of experience, but with which I am intimately familiar (the techniques, not the techs).
I'm talking to the boss a great deal about collating data and planning hypotheses as she writes the grant renewal and I start cranking up for my fellowship application.
In the past five weeks, I have conducted, at the bench or in the hood, a grand total of 2 experiments, by myself, with my own hands, for my own purposes. 2 experiments, which between them, took maybe a day and a half. On behalf of the rest of the lab, I have run nearly a dozen experiments, for projects that aren't mine, but which techniques I'm trying to fob off to those who should be doing them (see above).
And either being too tired at the end of the day, or too busy on the weekends, I refuse to come back to the lab after-hours. It's the middle of the effin' winter, and I am now and always have been a polar bear.
At some point, I imagine that this balance will shift, and I'll actually get back to doing the work that I need to accomplish, for myself. But that's a ways off, yet.
And, of course, it never helps when a myopic faculty member decides that they don't like how you've signed up to use a given piece of common equipment for a set amount of time across the entire course of the week, so rather they whip out a new sign-up sheet and put their schedule on it, wholly ignoring yours.
In the past five weeks, I've given 5 presentations, ranging from 15 minutes to an hour, and I've another three scheduled in the next two weeks.
I'm teaching both lab techs techniques wholly outside of their realms of experience, but with which I am intimately familiar (the techniques, not the techs).
I'm talking to the boss a great deal about collating data and planning hypotheses as she writes the grant renewal and I start cranking up for my fellowship application.
In the past five weeks, I have conducted, at the bench or in the hood, a grand total of 2 experiments, by myself, with my own hands, for my own purposes. 2 experiments, which between them, took maybe a day and a half. On behalf of the rest of the lab, I have run nearly a dozen experiments, for projects that aren't mine, but which techniques I'm trying to fob off to those who should be doing them (see above).
And either being too tired at the end of the day, or too busy on the weekends, I refuse to come back to the lab after-hours. It's the middle of the effin' winter, and I am now and always have been a polar bear.
At some point, I imagine that this balance will shift, and I'll actually get back to doing the work that I need to accomplish, for myself. But that's a ways off, yet.
And, of course, it never helps when a myopic faculty member decides that they don't like how you've signed up to use a given piece of common equipment for a set amount of time across the entire course of the week, so rather they whip out a new sign-up sheet and put their schedule on it, wholly ignoring yours.
