Everyday

Everyday I get surprised by how much I am loving this thing called grad school. I don't even want to admit it really, just in case the evil gnomes read this blog and start making my "lab life" miserable again by messing everything up.

Anyways yeah I love lab! I just love it. Everytime I have a very busy day, those days in which I can't eat, I hardly get any sleep, I miss class, those days are just the best. NO matter how much I kick and scream and cry and how many nightmares I have over it.
Today I was in lab harvesting PKR knock out cells that I trasfected with Dengue dsRNA. Isn't that just the coolest thing you've ever read? YEAH baby.... My job is SUPER cool... I love it.
Anyways. I was reading papers and for the first time in my life I actually was looking forward to them. I was searching for papers for my secondary qualifying exam ideas. I have two and I have to work on them....
So yesterday I gave Dr. Liu my MOCK Grant. It feels good to know a lot about HCMV and HIV co-infection. I mean it is not like I am an expert but it feels good to have all this knowlege kind of like what a car would feel when the tank gets filled up. I swear my car drives better after I fill it with gas.
My qualifying is supposed to be next year around this time. Everybody thinks I am nuts because I am already preparing for it. As far as I know, I am not super smart, I am a slow reader, so I have to start reading for this.
In the mean time, I have to start reading for all my work in the current lab so that I can understand everything and not get as nervouse as I got in the last lab meeting I gave. Besides I have to reach the heights of impression that Maria left....
In the mean time, I have to prepare for my interview with the UCSF professor.
I guess I am high from all the work I did today.
I got in at 9:10 am and got out at 9 pm.... What a day.

P.S. there is a smile of satisfaction coming from me that is as bright as the sun!