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Mar. 23rd, 2005 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bronwynrhI'm still here, but nothing has changed. Why bother with journaling when I could just write, "see below"?
I'm coming in earlier now, trying to give my Motvation Meter a jump start. I work best when I start early, and I really lose all ability to achieve 'round about 3:30 in the afternoon. Having someone to come home to makes an early return even more attractive. I made it to the 7:30 bus this morning and was quasi-busily molecular biologying away by 7:45. In spite of all my efforts, not knowing where the @#%= my boss is planning on spending his next Christmas is putting a HUGE damper on that Motivation Meter. So still, the progress I make is made in smaller steps than it should be.
What's the deal now? There are two bosses, see. PIs, actually. We'll call them Thing1 and Thing2. Thing1 and Thing2 are a package deal. I work for both of them, though I have not yet been in a joint meeting with them - not since my interview. I've been told such meetings are coming, but I'm not holding my breath. Thing1 is on my floor and has a PhD. He's the molecular biologist, microbiologist. Thing2 is an MD and really needs Thing1 because he's not specialised in the molbiol microbiol stuff (like I and Thing1 are).
So Things1and2 are a package deal because cystic fibrosis + bacterial pathogenesis = mega fantastic lucrative reasearch field and these two are (in the field) like princes. I will tell you that to their subjects here on the fourth and fifth floors of the Eckstein Medical Research Building, they are a source of much frustration and anger, especially now.
Professor BigShot used to head the shop here, but he left to head the shop over at UW in Seattle, where his CF-suffering daughter has a better chance of getting better treatment and a super lung transplant. Great! Prof. BigShot has since been recruiting Things1and2 to join him there. This has been going on for over a year.
The tug of war has been fierce from what I hear, and PBS made a superfine offer just a couple of weeks ago, right under the Deadline Wire. That was the Deadline Wire that Thing1 had absolutely promised us would be THE DAY he would tell us the final decision. Since then, we've heard nothing.
This morning, in a fit of honesty, I told the other boss on our floor (the one who really just wants everyone to settle down and stay) that I'd love to get into my project, but the frustration over the whole thing makes it damn near impossible to motivate. He told me that now we're down to a problem between Thing1 and Thing2.
Thing1 and Thing2 are a package deal, right? Well now, Thing1 wants to go but Thing2 wants to stay, but neither has the balls to say so and commit to a breakup.
What I want to know is, if they DO split, can I then decide which one to stay with? And if I stayed with Thing2 here, would that be researchical suicide? I'd be all alone with one Japanese postdoc who (a) barely speaks a word of English and (b) is only here to make little mice sick, and Thing2 would be on rounds all the time.
*SCREAM*
So now you know. Like I said, nothing's changed.
I'm coming in earlier now, trying to give my Motvation Meter a jump start. I work best when I start early, and I really lose all ability to achieve 'round about 3:30 in the afternoon. Having someone to come home to makes an early return even more attractive. I made it to the 7:30 bus this morning and was quasi-busily molecular biologying away by 7:45. In spite of all my efforts, not knowing where the @#%= my boss is planning on spending his next Christmas is putting a HUGE damper on that Motivation Meter. So still, the progress I make is made in smaller steps than it should be.
What's the deal now? There are two bosses, see. PIs, actually. We'll call them Thing1 and Thing2. Thing1 and Thing2 are a package deal. I work for both of them, though I have not yet been in a joint meeting with them - not since my interview. I've been told such meetings are coming, but I'm not holding my breath. Thing1 is on my floor and has a PhD. He's the molecular biologist, microbiologist. Thing2 is an MD and really needs Thing1 because he's not specialised in the molbiol microbiol stuff (like I and Thing1 are).
So Things1and2 are a package deal because cystic fibrosis + bacterial pathogenesis = mega fantastic lucrative reasearch field and these two are (in the field) like princes. I will tell you that to their subjects here on the fourth and fifth floors of the Eckstein Medical Research Building, they are a source of much frustration and anger, especially now.
Professor BigShot used to head the shop here, but he left to head the shop over at UW in Seattle, where his CF-suffering daughter has a better chance of getting better treatment and a super lung transplant. Great! Prof. BigShot has since been recruiting Things1and2 to join him there. This has been going on for over a year.
The tug of war has been fierce from what I hear, and PBS made a superfine offer just a couple of weeks ago, right under the Deadline Wire. That was the Deadline Wire that Thing1 had absolutely promised us would be THE DAY he would tell us the final decision. Since then, we've heard nothing.
This morning, in a fit of honesty, I told the other boss on our floor (the one who really just wants everyone to settle down and stay) that I'd love to get into my project, but the frustration over the whole thing makes it damn near impossible to motivate. He told me that now we're down to a problem between Thing1 and Thing2.
Thing1 and Thing2 are a package deal, right? Well now, Thing1 wants to go but Thing2 wants to stay, but neither has the balls to say so and commit to a breakup.
What I want to know is, if they DO split, can I then decide which one to stay with? And if I stayed with Thing2 here, would that be researchical suicide? I'd be all alone with one Japanese postdoc who (a) barely speaks a word of English and (b) is only here to make little mice sick, and Thing2 would be on rounds all the time.
*SCREAM*
So now you know. Like I said, nothing's changed.
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Date: March 23rd, 2005 05:46 pm (UTC)*hugs*
I hope you find out some news soon!
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Date: March 23rd, 2005 06:30 pm (UTC)