Archives for April 2009:

Gchat status messages, part II

Apr 26, 2009 in with no comments

Only one of these was actually from another person’s status. In other words, these are quotes I would put on my own Gchat status message. Basically, I found these quotes interesting.
When we like people, for some sad reason, we can convince ourselves that it is reciprocal, no matter how obvious the truth is to everyone [...]

A Story of Last-Minute Panic

Apr 20, 2009 in , , , , with 1 comment

I’ll start with the ending: three Mondays ago, after 2 years of work in a lab and several recent months of panic and suffering quiet perseverance, I turned in my thesis. It arrived at the biochem office 51 minutes after the deadline.
This was after I wrote an abstract in 10 minutes (4:30pm), an entire [...]