grad school priorities #12

What I should have accomplished today:

Recovering from last week's trifecta of PCR, cloning and transfection failure.

What I did accomplish today:

Two free exquisite gourmet meals provided by my amazing building in honor of symposium day, and the purchase of ubernerd embroidered patches for my lab coat.  Met a fellow Crohn right in my own backyard!

OMGSUCCESS!

grad school priorities #10

What I should be doing:

Working on my SfN poster... or analyzing behavior... or working on my grant-writing workshop presentation... or working on my journal club presentation...

What I'm doing instead:

Abating nausea.  Touché, CD. 

grad school priorities #9

What I should be doing:

Slicing brain tissue.

What I'm doing instead:

 Watching Olympic soccer with my labmates.

grad school priorities #8

What I should be doing:

Reading my book and watching the olympics.

What I am doing instead:

Revising lab protocols and data sheets and watching the olympics.

Damn you, Dropbox... 

grad school priorities #7

What I should be doing:

Writing my final take-home exam.

What I am doing instead:

Anything and everything else that I can possibly think of. 

grad school priorities #6

What I should be doing:

Absolutely not a damn thing.  Hiking, maybe?  Cleaning my house?... the sky is the limit!

What I'm actually doing:

Freaking out because I'm not in lab or studying.