This blog has been a tad serious lately so I wanted to lighten up a little. I couldn't think of anything both chipper and coherent, so here are my disjointed thoughts for the day:
- I forgot to put on deodorant this morning. After a few hours at work, I remembered I had some in my desk and slapped it on. Unfortunately, it was like, rancid or something. At a minimum there was no fragrance left. It smelled terrible and made me feel queasy all day.
- Advisor has lots of time for lengthy impromptu conversations, but has trouble scheduling an hour to discuss my paper draft. I highly value these unarranged chats, as I learn a heck of a lot and really enjoy them. It's just a little frustrating when I want to talk about something specific. And it's all about me, right?
- Someone asked me this question as sort of a quasi- pseudo- personality test, "would you rather give up eating or sleep, knowing that you wouldn't be physically harmed by the loss?" Really, I'd like to give up pooping, but since that isn't an option, I choose eating. I *heart* sleep. However, I hate putting myself to bed, even when I'm tired. I think there are few things as decadent as falling asleep on the couch, which I've been doing pretty often lately. This question is supposed to give some insight about your personality, but I don't know what that might be.
- Do you ever listen to the radio show This American Life? I play the podcasts while I do this super tedious task at work. It makes the time fly by. The one from last week about "tough crowds" was really good and funny.
- The spellcheck in Blogger is working again!
- Lost was awesome tonight!
11 comments:
I'd give up food, Hubby'd give up sleep. Could be why we can share things so well :)
i am in the middle of watching lost right now... there is so much i want to know!!
It would have to be sleep for me. I love my food!
Your deodorant comment made me laugh. I bike to work and shower and change there, and because I don't bother trying on my outfit before I leave, I put it on for the first time at work. I often find that I've forgotten something crucial, like, oh, my bra. Or I've brought a black bra and a summer-weight white top. Yesterday I took pinstripe black trousers and a mostly charcoal grey sweater, and realised I had no black shoes with me. So I had a choice of the purple runners that I'd biked in, or brown boots. I had no meetings so went with the runners (it's OK, my boss wanders around in his socks most days).
If I archived my posts and you could do a search on them, you'd probably find 4 or 5 of them singing the praises of This American Life as I work on particularly tedious data processing tasks.
Oh, I'd give up sleep. I love sleep, but I think I love food more. And think of all you could accomplish if you didn't have to sleep! (it might get a bit lonely at night, but hey, that's what blogging is for, right?)
I'm having similar troubles lately with my advisor. I talked to him a week and half ago about scheduling a time to talk about my review, but plans keep getting pushed back. Our plans to talk today were foiled by illness. I don't really mind a whole lot though because honestly I've hardly had time to work on the paper. But really I just want 10 minutes with him to make sure I'm on the right track before I reorganize the whole thing.
I'm with Bean-Mom...I love food! I once accidentally put on rancid make-up and it was revolting! Now I give all of my make-up the sniff test before I use it.
This probably says a lot about my level of girliness....
We could have the same advisor! Mine is ALL about the chats =)
I totally forgot Lost was even on this week!
This made me laugh and laugh.
Been there on the deoderant one.
The poop thing just made me laugh and laugh and laugh.
Way to go with the third alternative.
Actually re: talks with the advisor, I'm still reading that book on women and negotiating, and one of the things they say is that men usually want to get right to the point, and women like to chat about personal things.
Um, yeah, they're wrong about that, too, as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway I'm totally with you, I hate it that they can't understand time management enough to realize that dealing with a few important issues FIRST would be the way to go. No reason you can't still chat afterwards.
cae,
see I could never do that because I'm incapable of figuring out what to wear without trying it on, and I can't stand wardrobe malfunctions.
I love the image of a boss walking around in socks all day. Can't do that in the wetlab!
I'd give up sleep for sure. I love food. I love sleep too, but I love to sleep from the necessity of it. Because if I didn't sleep I'd be freaking exhausted and my brain feels like cotton. If I didn't need it, I'd be fine. Plus I have a hard time sleeping anyway and insomnia is the worst.
I podcast This American Life when doing data entry.
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