Five Centimeters Per Second: 11/1/10

26 November 2010

Research and some gobble goble

Yesterday was a bust in terms of doing anything remotely productive research wise. Got up at 10 to take my bird out of the brine to prep it for cooking, and it surprisingly it came out well! Definitely know what to do next time I cook it. Lots of cooking, trips to the store, entertaining guests and what have ya. Still for my first bird, I liked how well it came out.

Today, went out shopping a bit, got my bro a nice jacket from Zara, along with fingerless gloves from banana republic. So that was nice, wrote half a page of my introduction for my research so that was great! I'm going to write more tomorrow as I felt really tired in the evening. I'm going to shoot for a page tomorrow. Sunday, I'll come in and score slides and write.

24 November 2010

Say anything

One of my favorite movies. I feel really tired, mentally drained. Poor food, little sleep. However I've gotten through 13/17 of my slides! It's funny how cold this room is. As soon as I turn off tr heater, it's gotten uber chilly. So I was excited to see such good baseline firing ( meaning no user errors in the experiment) but I got poor response from the ETH. Emailed the advisor and she said it's on order and I should probably focus on setting up my graphs ready for the inclusion of my data.

I'm feeling kinda good, getting work done. I wish I had an easier project, but I've gained a lot of experience from this lab. It's getting done! Painfully.

23 November 2010

At a snail's pace.

Yesterday, I sorted all the literature that u was going to use for my thesis. And I made some progress on my thesis. Granted, all it says is "Dh and LK are important to ecdysis..." but still.

The CNS didn't make it, don't know why. I'm optimistic though. I'll try again tomorrow. I'm on 9 out of 17 slides, I should be nearly finished by tomorrow, and tonight I'm going to outline my intro for the diuretic and leucokinin portion of my thesis. The other half will be my electrophysiology, which I'm hoping I'll be able to add more too. So yay.

Thanks to @molecularbond for totally picking up my spirits.

22 November 2010

Research update!

The Cns didn't respond to the ETh, going to have o try again tomorrow. Also, 2/17 slides analyzed so far. No progress on the thesis writing. Will try tomorrow. Maybe I'll do lit searches tonight

11 November 2010

Gotta figure out the funk

I don't know why I can't get back into research. I wish i can isolate what my issue is. I can't figure out what drives me any more. I think I'm slightly demoralized by what my advisor said, that I need to get more work done. Sigh. Have to stay home and read papers...