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I have just discovered my limit for dealing with crap at the lab. It is 20 days. I know this because it is now September 21st and I can no longer deal. The thing that sucks is, I was beginning to think that I had been too hasty in my decision to return home because things, while still not the best, were not as bad as they seemed before the one month vacation.
I arrived to work early today so that I could get into the cell culture room before everyone else and actually get to use the ONE microscope to look at my ailing cells. They look to be recoving nicely. We shal see in a couple of days. That is the only good thing that happend today. A few minutes after sitting down at my desk, the maintenance crew arrived to continue working on the air conditioners tha have been broken since June. Nice of them to wait until SEPTEMBER to fix them. So I move out of the way and the crew procedes to stand on my desk and make a huge dusty mess in the lab. They are drilling holes in the ceilings and floors for new drainage pipes, you see. This takes three hours.
When they are finished, I go around the lab and wipe up the dust from the bench tops, computers and chairs. I close all of the windows and turn on the AC. Yay, clean at last. Then T and L come back in and open all of the windows. F tells them that I just finshed cleaning and closing, but they say that it smells in the lab. No, it doesn't. I have the world's most sensitive nose and I didn't smell a thing. All of the clean surfaces are currenlty becoming dusty again. So I went home.
The one good thing is that my cells didn't do so well over the weekend, so I was unable to do the three day experiment on them that I had planned. If I had, I would have had a huge dust cloud everywhere contamination everything and I would have been IRATE instead of just irritated.
Deep breath. In. Out. Good.
EDIT: This is my MSN horoscope for today. Sometimes theses things are accurate.
Aquarius
January 20 - February 17
If you are involved in a class, or if you find yourself in any kind of group activity or social situation, be prepared for quarrels to break out among everyone there. You could find this extremely useless and counterproductive, and you might be tempted to try to break in and put a stop to it. It's best to stay out of it, dear Aquarius. Get rid of your frustration by walking home! You'll feel better for it!
I arrived to work early today so that I could get into the cell culture room before everyone else and actually get to use the ONE microscope to look at my ailing cells. They look to be recoving nicely. We shal see in a couple of days. That is the only good thing that happend today. A few minutes after sitting down at my desk, the maintenance crew arrived to continue working on the air conditioners tha have been broken since June. Nice of them to wait until SEPTEMBER to fix them. So I move out of the way and the crew procedes to stand on my desk and make a huge dusty mess in the lab. They are drilling holes in the ceilings and floors for new drainage pipes, you see. This takes three hours.
When they are finished, I go around the lab and wipe up the dust from the bench tops, computers and chairs. I close all of the windows and turn on the AC. Yay, clean at last. Then T and L come back in and open all of the windows. F tells them that I just finshed cleaning and closing, but they say that it smells in the lab. No, it doesn't. I have the world's most sensitive nose and I didn't smell a thing. All of the clean surfaces are currenlty becoming dusty again. So I went home.
The one good thing is that my cells didn't do so well over the weekend, so I was unable to do the three day experiment on them that I had planned. If I had, I would have had a huge dust cloud everywhere contamination everything and I would have been IRATE instead of just irritated.
Deep breath. In. Out. Good.
EDIT: This is my MSN horoscope for today. Sometimes theses things are accurate.
Aquarius
January 20 - February 17
If you are involved in a class, or if you find yourself in any kind of group activity or social situation, be prepared for quarrels to break out among everyone there. You could find this extremely useless and counterproductive, and you might be tempted to try to break in and put a stop to it. It's best to stay out of it, dear Aquarius. Get rid of your frustration by walking home! You'll feel better for it!