*yawn*

[moonwise]

Lazy rainy morning. My husband, for once, wasn't in a hurry to get out of bed and so we had a very sleepy, pleasant morning snuggling and listening to the rain fall. It was a trial to get up, of course, considering the late night, but I hauled my protesting rear end out of the bed and went to work.

Rob came back to putter around in the lab so we've been filling him in on lab dirt and what our advisor has been spouting about this time. We had a Lecture on How to Be a Good Graduate Student on Friday, with the corollary of You Should Visit Your Advisor More Often. While we can't say it to him, what we're all thinking is, "well if you want company, perhaps you should not shoot our ideas down and then bring them up later as this great idea you just had." This has happened for several techniques and/or equipment suggestions. What pissed me off the worst was the Kugelrohr. I'd been trying to get one in the lab for two - count 'em, two - years, and I finally wore the boss down with two postdoc's support to get one. Then, all of a sudden, it's this Great Thing after the two years' worth of bitching over how no one will use it.

Advisors. Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.

I really must get started on this grant work but it's so much more fun to not work on the grant work. And it's only a crisis because F-squared left his grant renewal off for so long... blah.

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[hidetomatsumoto.livejournal.com]

That's one thing about my boss that I do like--despite some of the differences we've had in the past--he will listen, and if he likes the idea, he always makes sure to give credit where it is due.

If you don't get that grant work started and finished, I will send a singing gorilla gram to remind you, I swear! =P