warning: VENTING ahead
Let's face it. I'm here to vent.
Sad, but true-most of my journals/diaries/random entries in things are venting-oriented. I guess this doen't really count as venting though- because I'd have to be angry to vent, right? I'm not angry, I'm just really really frustrated.
I.
hate.
the.
stupid.
MRI.
machine.
I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I absolutely positively freaking hate it.
Just really frustrated at a lack of data, some mean people, and my stupid mice who are such freaking abnormal respirators. Although that might actually be good news for the project itself.
On the bright side, my PI is really nice and has been super understanding. I just want some data!!!!!!!!!
In other news...
Insights from researching for honors thesis lit review, painfully earned at 5 am the day it is due:
We prefer the term compartmentation to compartmentalization, which is popular with many of our colleagues, one of whom has been heard to say compartmentalizationize. Why our preference? For economy of space and from a desire to avoid the redundancy of making an overly long noun (compartmentalization) from an already awkwardly long verb (compartmentalize), which itself comes from the perfectly useful and shorter noun (and verb) [to]compartment. The infinitive "to compart" may sound Dickensian to the modern ear. That notwithstanding, when we compart or compartment, we get compartments (spaces that are compartmental) and achieve compartmentation. Enough is enough. More is too much.
-footnote in Compartmentation of G Protein-Coupled Signaling Parthways in Cardiac Myocytes
Intruiguing. Someone clearly had to fill some space in their review article.
What else?
Hurricane Wilma hit Miami pretty hard. 80% of the folks down there are still without power. Luckily, my family got power back a few days ago. They made Mom go to work today, but there was in fact no work that could be done because the network/comps were down. Schools still aren't open. They had a curfew (not sure if that's still in place). Apparently the lines for gas go on for miles. The crazy thing is, I don't remember this sort of Hurricane scariness before the last couple of years. I hope this isn't the way it's going to be every year. Miami is a fantastic place to live, but it's scary having your family down there with four or more major hurricanes passing by for 1/3 of the year during storm season.
Minor venting: the guy lecturing in EMT class the other day kept saying how a patient could "go south on you" if this that or the other happened. What has he got against the South anyways?
This is probably discombobulated and making no sense. Things are not going well. Please send me happy thoughts and butterflies.
No, I take back the butterlies. Insects with wings. Let's not discriminate on appearances.
Sad, but true-most of my journals/diaries/random entries in things are venting-oriented. I guess this doen't really count as venting though- because I'd have to be angry to vent, right? I'm not angry, I'm just really really frustrated.
I.
hate.
the.
stupid.
MRI.
machine.
I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I absolutely positively freaking hate it.
Just really frustrated at a lack of data, some mean people, and my stupid mice who are such freaking abnormal respirators. Although that might actually be good news for the project itself.
On the bright side, my PI is really nice and has been super understanding. I just want some data!!!!!!!!!
In other news...
Insights from researching for honors thesis lit review, painfully earned at 5 am the day it is due:
We prefer the term compartmentation to compartmentalization, which is popular with many of our colleagues, one of whom has been heard to say compartmentalizationize. Why our preference? For economy of space and from a desire to avoid the redundancy of making an overly long noun (compartmentalization) from an already awkwardly long verb (compartmentalize), which itself comes from the perfectly useful and shorter noun (and verb) [to]compartment. The infinitive "to compart" may sound Dickensian to the modern ear. That notwithstanding, when we compart or compartment, we get compartments (spaces that are compartmental) and achieve compartmentation. Enough is enough. More is too much.
-footnote in Compartmentation of G Protein-Coupled Signaling Parthways in Cardiac Myocytes
Intruiguing. Someone clearly had to fill some space in their review article.
What else?
Hurricane Wilma hit Miami pretty hard. 80% of the folks down there are still without power. Luckily, my family got power back a few days ago. They made Mom go to work today, but there was in fact no work that could be done because the network/comps were down. Schools still aren't open. They had a curfew (not sure if that's still in place). Apparently the lines for gas go on for miles. The crazy thing is, I don't remember this sort of Hurricane scariness before the last couple of years. I hope this isn't the way it's going to be every year. Miami is a fantastic place to live, but it's scary having your family down there with four or more major hurricanes passing by for 1/3 of the year during storm season.
Minor venting: the guy lecturing in EMT class the other day kept saying how a patient could "go south on you" if this that or the other happened. What has he got against the South anyways?
This is probably discombobulated and making no sense. Things are not going well. Please send me happy thoughts and butterflies.
No, I take back the butterlies. Insects with wings. Let's not discriminate on appearances.
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2:16 PM
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