tense, anxious and annoyed
alternatively ta^2.
tense because I have to start writing a manuscript and I have literally got five lines in an outline format. I have started this paper twice before, but neither of those scribblings fits in with what my boss thinks we should focus on.
anxious because of the above, but also because an abstract is due in a couple of weeks for a conference in july in Scotland. It would be great to go to the conference, but the plane tix alone are 900 USD just to get to London. Then there is the train and the lodging and all that other stuff. I haven't been to a conference with this boss, I don't know how much she will cover, there is a travel stipend but with conversion it is only about 440 USD. Eek, and I owe Moms $600 for the tix to TX (also in July - hah!) I hate it when I get anxious about money, but let's face it, it's grad school. I managed to get rid of most of my debts while I was working - never managed to save very much but after 5.5 years of grad school have managed to dig that hole again. I am just not sure when I am going to have $1000 to drop on plane and train tix to Scotland and take care of all the other things I want to do. Of course, self restraint would work here, but really, self restraint and moderation are sooo over rated.
Annoyed because in preparation of manuscript writing I have been online at PubMed all day, making sure I am up to date with the literature. I found an absolutely fabulous (or so it would seem) article from Journal of Applied Physiology, which according to PubMed is published. But I can't get my grubby little hands on it! Not even through my jacked H*rvard login. I can get to the journal, but according to the search engine on the journal's website, the article simply does not exist. It is really really annoying when PubMed is more on the ball than the journal doing the actual publishing.
Good Lord, yoga can't come too soon today. Only one hour and fourteen minutes till relaxation. Until then, I wage war against publishing sites that do not readily yield their articles so that I may expand my brain ever so minutely much more.
Ciao
tense because I have to start writing a manuscript and I have literally got five lines in an outline format. I have started this paper twice before, but neither of those scribblings fits in with what my boss thinks we should focus on.
anxious because of the above, but also because an abstract is due in a couple of weeks for a conference in july in Scotland. It would be great to go to the conference, but the plane tix alone are 900 USD just to get to London. Then there is the train and the lodging and all that other stuff. I haven't been to a conference with this boss, I don't know how much she will cover, there is a travel stipend but with conversion it is only about 440 USD. Eek, and I owe Moms $600 for the tix to TX (also in July - hah!) I hate it when I get anxious about money, but let's face it, it's grad school. I managed to get rid of most of my debts while I was working - never managed to save very much but after 5.5 years of grad school have managed to dig that hole again. I am just not sure when I am going to have $1000 to drop on plane and train tix to Scotland and take care of all the other things I want to do. Of course, self restraint would work here, but really, self restraint and moderation are sooo over rated.
Annoyed because in preparation of manuscript writing I have been online at PubMed all day, making sure I am up to date with the literature. I found an absolutely fabulous (or so it would seem) article from Journal of Applied Physiology, which according to PubMed is published. But I can't get my grubby little hands on it! Not even through my jacked H*rvard login. I can get to the journal, but according to the search engine on the journal's website, the article simply does not exist. It is really really annoying when PubMed is more on the ball than the journal doing the actual publishing.
Good Lord, yoga can't come too soon today. Only one hour and fourteen minutes till relaxation. Until then, I wage war against publishing sites that do not readily yield their articles so that I may expand my brain ever so minutely much more.
Ciao
posted by beaner at 4:31 PM
1 Comments:
$900 airfare to london?!? you're on crack, woman! we can totally find you something cheaper. that would be so awesome if you can go.
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