miles ran: 0
laps swam: 0
papers read: 0
pages written:0
We'll make up some of this tomorrow.

There has to be something Wrong with Me

There truly must be something wrong with me. Everyone I work with, at least in Science, hates me after working with me. I feel like it is a combination of people thinking I am disagreeing when I am truly not. It is easy to see the solution to this problem, solution would be just say "Ok and Thank you" to everything people tell you and walk away. But it is not that easy to accomplish specially when people are telling you something that you are not sure how to accomplish or when you don't understand what they are trying to tell you.


miles ran: 3
calories burnt: 300
papers read: 0
pages written: 0

Accomplishments

Hello everyone,

I am sooo excited! Today was my first day excersizing. I am super excited to reduce the fat on my bones and to start getting healthier. So from now on I am going to be recording how many laps I've swam or how many minutes and speed I ran. Just to keep record....Here is the first try.... And also since I need to start studying for the Qual YESTERDAY, I am going to start keeping track of that too.

June 25th 2008->

Laps I swam today at Hearst Pool: 4
Papers I've read for Qual: 0
Pages I've written for my Proposal: 0

Laps Carlos swam: 1 1/2

small miracles make me smile

Hello kitties, How is it going out there in the real world?
For once I am truly elated! I have been stressing about presenting the information from Cold Spring Harbour for 3 weeks. 3 Weeks I have been stressing sooo much that my skin started breaking out. I started getting sick and Carlos reprimanded me for stressing so much. Finally last week I forced myself to work on it. I worked on the presentation til the last minute!

Finally, the day of the presentation comes and I am so nervous that I escape from lab to Borders bookstore and buy a trashy novel. Telling myself that no matter what happends I would have that book to read and enjoy after the presentation. My boss had been away for a whole MONTH.... So...
Before lab meeting I was feeling weird because everyone else only had 12 slides total of the conference and over all I had like 23 slides. Everyone was like what the hell?

THEN I presented I tried to talk as fast as possible so i didn't give so many details as i gave you guys but I got compliments from Wes whom has always been nice to me but has never complimented anything i have ever done. MY PI said to all of us that he liked the way we presented that from now on this was the way we would do conference talks. Then today another lab member said that he wanted a copy of our slides, and then he said, "I really liked the way you guys presented it. Specially you Isa, cause you presented the background and it helped out a lot"

Also my PI asked us, what talk did we like best. Andrew said that he liked the ESCRT one because he hadn't read on that area so much before so it was very interesting. Then I said that I like the TRIM talk because when they said that there were 70 TRIMS I thought 70 projects

and everybody laughed because they got the point (my frustrations with looking for projects)

Andrew told me yesterday and today that I did a good job.

So it feels so good to finally get a compliment in something infact it feels SUPER GOOD.. Like Godiva chocalate melting on my toungue followed by a glass of Don Perignon!