Three things for Sunday
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nwhikerMaybe it'll be three things. Maybe it'll be more. I don't know.
1. This past week was... interesting. Worked the full week, mostly doing training. From only mentioning "neuronal cell culturing" I'm now finding out there is a lot of mouse work (*), something he'd mentioned during the second interview, but implied was a lot less than it's going to be, and some work with -no I am not kidding- monkey brains. 😐 (*) Basically, the implication was that I'd have to do some mouse euthanasia. I interviewed for a job that required that a while back and read up a bit on it. I didn't feel totally happy with the idea, but I figured I could euthanize mice with CO2, which seemed to be, from my reading, a common method. Well, no. It's mouse pups with scissors, and yes, I'll have to be trained but I'm not sure even then I've got the guts. So this job may go not further than me crying in front of a case of mouse pups. We shall see. And tbh, I don't think he was trying to hide the info. It's just that he was really enthusiastic about another aspect of the job, as was I, and we were both focused on that. So.
2. White fonted for weight loss Well. Alas, this is bad data collection. First full week on Zepbound, I was up 1lb. Second week, this past week? Down almost 3. Is it the meds, or is it the in a lab all day with only the food I've brought it? It's going to be hard to tell. I think I'm dealing with less "food noise" but is that data or placebo? I probably won't know. But I'll take the weight loss and hope for more!
3. Linnea and team were at a regatta yesterday, she was bow in the Varsity 8, yay her! They came in second, which is fine, and the boat looked really good.
Here are the last 30 seconds or so of the race.
4. Seems like Anne-Chloe is the youngest or one of the youngest lab directors they've ever had at Fred Hutch. Yay, but she still really needs to get a freaking PhD or MD. I've only spent a week at UW and I'm already feeling strangely uneducated and dumb.
5. As if things weren't bad enough... My sister brings my mom up on 14 Mar. She leaves 16 Mar, comes back 30 Mar. 31 Mar is Easter Sunday. We leave Friday 5 Apr for Louisiana before we drive to TX to attempt to see the 8 April Eclipse. This was all going to be a bit stressful what with me being gone all day, but then the folks helping my aunt in Vancouver BC decided that... they want to put the house on the market early April and JoAnn agrees. That's nice. When we suggested those dates, they all said no, we can wait until late spring or early summer. Now it's a crisis to go through everything she has left there and figure out what we want -a lot of her stuff is -thank goodness- at the assisted living place with her, but the last two or three times we were up, everyone (including me) agreed that no, we should wait, it wasn't like the house was going on the market right away. My sister was the only one who'd initially pushed for an earlier time to market and to go through JoAnn's stuff. Now I have no idea what we're going to do. I guess dh and I will have to go up at some point, leave my mom at the assisted living place, and start to weed stuff now. Tbf, the folks up there promised to box of anything we wanted/thought we'd want and store it for us in one of their garages, but really, just fucking no. Sigh.
6. Drove Linnea up to Bellingham today and then went on a hike at the Stimsom Family Nature Preserve. About 3.5 miles on well maintained and graded hiking trail.... in the pouring rain! We looked like drowned rats at the end, but smiling drowned rats! Only iffy moment: tree over the trail. No way to go off trail easier to go around, it was too high for me to get easily over and too long for me to easily get under. I had to do under. At one point, I was essentially in a plank trying to move sideways. At least it was dh, and not the kids... they would have taken video, I'm sure, not to post on Instagram but to show either sibling not present.
1. This past week was... interesting. Worked the full week, mostly doing training. From only mentioning "neuronal cell culturing" I'm now finding out there is a lot of mouse work (*), something he'd mentioned during the second interview, but implied was a lot less than it's going to be, and some work with -no I am not kidding- monkey brains. 😐 (*) Basically, the implication was that I'd have to do some mouse euthanasia. I interviewed for a job that required that a while back and read up a bit on it. I didn't feel totally happy with the idea, but I figured I could euthanize mice with CO2, which seemed to be, from my reading, a common method. Well, no. It's mouse pups with scissors, and yes, I'll have to be trained but I'm not sure even then I've got the guts. So this job may go not further than me crying in front of a case of mouse pups. We shall see. And tbh, I don't think he was trying to hide the info. It's just that he was really enthusiastic about another aspect of the job, as was I, and we were both focused on that. So.
2. White fonted for weight loss Well. Alas, this is bad data collection. First full week on Zepbound, I was up 1lb. Second week, this past week? Down almost 3. Is it the meds, or is it the in a lab all day with only the food I've brought it? It's going to be hard to tell. I think I'm dealing with less "food noise" but is that data or placebo? I probably won't know. But I'll take the weight loss and hope for more!
3. Linnea and team were at a regatta yesterday, she was bow in the Varsity 8, yay her! They came in second, which is fine, and the boat looked really good.
Here are the last 30 seconds or so of the race.
4. Seems like Anne-Chloe is the youngest or one of the youngest lab directors they've ever had at Fred Hutch. Yay, but she still really needs to get a freaking PhD or MD. I've only spent a week at UW and I'm already feeling strangely uneducated and dumb.
5. As if things weren't bad enough... My sister brings my mom up on 14 Mar. She leaves 16 Mar, comes back 30 Mar. 31 Mar is Easter Sunday. We leave Friday 5 Apr for Louisiana before we drive to TX to attempt to see the 8 April Eclipse. This was all going to be a bit stressful what with me being gone all day, but then the folks helping my aunt in Vancouver BC decided that... they want to put the house on the market early April and JoAnn agrees. That's nice. When we suggested those dates, they all said no, we can wait until late spring or early summer. Now it's a crisis to go through everything she has left there and figure out what we want -a lot of her stuff is -thank goodness- at the assisted living place with her, but the last two or three times we were up, everyone (including me) agreed that no, we should wait, it wasn't like the house was going on the market right away. My sister was the only one who'd initially pushed for an earlier time to market and to go through JoAnn's stuff. Now I have no idea what we're going to do. I guess dh and I will have to go up at some point, leave my mom at the assisted living place, and start to weed stuff now. Tbf, the folks up there promised to box of anything we wanted/thought we'd want and store it for us in one of their garages, but really, just fucking no. Sigh.
6. Drove Linnea up to Bellingham today and then went on a hike at the Stimsom Family Nature Preserve. About 3.5 miles on well maintained and graded hiking trail.... in the pouring rain! We looked like drowned rats at the end, but smiling drowned rats! Only iffy moment: tree over the trail. No way to go off trail easier to go around, it was too high for me to get easily over and too long for me to easily get under. I had to do under. At one point, I was essentially in a plank trying to move sideways. At least it was dh, and not the kids... they would have taken video, I'm sure, not to post on Instagram but to show either sibling not present.
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