Under the threat of scoopage, I worked all day Saturday through Tuesday in GradLab, and YES! I got the key functional data that we thought might be impossible. N = 4, will probably try to get one or two more but since the experiment is a proof of principle and doesn't need much quantitation, this is sufficient to revise our mostly-rejected manuscript.
I also managed to get some extra N for other reviewer-requested experiments that were already underway. I am feeling pretty damn smug.
However, zero weekend + streaming cold + pregnancy means no Nyquil + waking up coughing every 30 min + stress about revisions + angst regarding assorted lab issues = razor thin tolerance for irritation when I returned to PostdocLab today. Naturally, the karma bank took the opportunity to get some money back.
Expect the next post to cover (b), amazingly grouchy.
15 years ago
4 comments:
Hey, that is great. (Not that you are tired and grouchy, but that you got your possibly impossible data). Try to take a breath, knowing that perhaps the hardest part is over!
Yay, that's great! I love it when those final expts come through, especially when it doesn't initially come easy.
Sorry to hear about all the other stressors. My wife definitely suffered for lack of advil throughout her pregnancies. Now she's still suffering through the lack of caffeine. Hang in there!
Good for you!
I think I've exceeded my maximum deposits in the karma bank for all the crap I've been putting up with at the bench lately...or maybe it doesn't work this way...maybe it's dishing out all kinds of pain for some past transgression. In any case, it needs to turn around to some of your kind of success, and quickly!
Good for you, pat on the back!
I think we suffer from a similar problem: not giving ourselves enough credit when we get things done.
I prescribe a good long sigh of relief about the manuscript.
And I hope your cold gets better.
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