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Destressing by writing it out in LJ
Jul. 15th, 2005 08:22 pmI keep wondering why the hell this brain got stuck in my body. Why can't I just be a bartender and be happy with it? Why must I be in research? Why, why, why?
So today wasn't very happy for me. I had my last McNair Scholar meeting today on how to give a presentation. Two and a half hours of the same guy chatting away about the same stuff that you would find in Speech 101. It started at 9:30am which for me is early even though i know my days are probably going to start getting that much earlier in the near future.
Tim (the guy that oversees all of my research) had the computer I was working on stripped of all programming and then reloaded of only the essentials. Of course, this is great except for the fact that it was right before I was scheduled to run a participant. To make a long story short, 4 of the 5 programs did not record any data, so I will have to run another participant in her place.
The part that really got to me was that I was blamed for the fiasco by not being 15 minutes early to the lab before I was scheduled to run her. Bullshit. I could have been an hour early and the damn programs still wouldn't have recorded data. Apparently, the NumLock was lit but the keypad wasn't typing in numbers. So when I entered the participant number, nothing registered and it defaulted to 0 which indicates to the computer not to record data.
In other news, I will be starting back to work on Monday at the YMCA that I was working at previously. Mon-Fri 3-7pm. I was debating during the meeting/formal interview if I should wait two weeks before starting so that I could devote time to the McNair paper. I decided against it because I know how busy they get right before school starts and I don't want to come in to work on the childcare bookkeeping already knee deep in...whatever it will be. But this is why I will have to get up earlier. I work better on school stuff in the mornings, so mornings will now be devoted to data analysis and paper writing.
So that's my little update for the moment.
So today wasn't very happy for me. I had my last McNair Scholar meeting today on how to give a presentation. Two and a half hours of the same guy chatting away about the same stuff that you would find in Speech 101. It started at 9:30am which for me is early even though i know my days are probably going to start getting that much earlier in the near future.
Tim (the guy that oversees all of my research) had the computer I was working on stripped of all programming and then reloaded of only the essentials. Of course, this is great except for the fact that it was right before I was scheduled to run a participant. To make a long story short, 4 of the 5 programs did not record any data, so I will have to run another participant in her place.
The part that really got to me was that I was blamed for the fiasco by not being 15 minutes early to the lab before I was scheduled to run her. Bullshit. I could have been an hour early and the damn programs still wouldn't have recorded data. Apparently, the NumLock was lit but the keypad wasn't typing in numbers. So when I entered the participant number, nothing registered and it defaulted to 0 which indicates to the computer not to record data.
In other news, I will be starting back to work on Monday at the YMCA that I was working at previously. Mon-Fri 3-7pm. I was debating during the meeting/formal interview if I should wait two weeks before starting so that I could devote time to the McNair paper. I decided against it because I know how busy they get right before school starts and I don't want to come in to work on the childcare bookkeeping already knee deep in...whatever it will be. But this is why I will have to get up earlier. I work better on school stuff in the mornings, so mornings will now be devoted to data analysis and paper writing.
So that's my little update for the moment.
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