Time for a therapy session.
Man I hate this. My cortisol levels must be through the roof. I tested my clones and got weird results. I was racking my brain all weekend trying to figure out why. Then yesterday I tested a positive control, and got negative results. I feel like I'm trapped in the twilight zone. (I would have rather been at the ASCB meeting.)
What to do?
One advice that I got long time ago - if things don't work anymore, throw away all your reagents and start all over. It's the best advice that anyone has ever given me.
So today I'm doing exactly that.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
I've been spending the past week or two trying to get my groove on with respect to work. I scared myself quite badly with how overwhelmed I got at the end of last semester, and how quickly. I vowed to myself not to let myself get sucked into such unhealthy patterns, and then beat myself up over…
I know what I feel, and I don't like it. I don't know what to say, and I don't like that, either.
I've been trying to write this post for two hours and three beers now, and I've spent most of that time staring at a blank white box on the screen. I've started to write things time after time, and…
Antivaccinationists irritate me, for reasons that should be obvious to regular readers. The reason is that vaccine-preventable diseases can kill. Contrary to the beliefs of many nonvaccinating parents, who downplay these diseases as being not particularly dangerous, they are dangerous. Of these,…
Rerun time is over.
Very early Monday morning, a plane touched down, a car drove along a dark and deserted freeway, and my wife and I found ourselves finally back at home. True, we did have a late night diversion to Denny's because we were starving, but by 2 AM or so we were back home. Time to go…
So, unfortunately, Nick was right: you thought that you were climbing up, when in fact you were climbing down.
That's the life of a postdoc...
That's so true it's sad.