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[bronwynrh]

It's a funny thing about working full-time with a job like mine... I got more done and worked more efficiently working part-time than I do working full-time.


I have two tasks right now, which can be subdivided into about a thousand to-dos.

1. Develop an assay for testing a serotonin transporter genetic variant
2. Pull together our SBIR grant(s)

For the former, I am held up by the lack of an appropriate DNA ladder - a ruler, if you will. The optimization of the very first step of this whole project (which is a doozy) is being held up by Sigma's ground shipping - and was previously held up by my having to await approval to make the purchase.

For the latter, I am held up by slow-moving directors. It's not that they're neglecting me, and I know they have other things to do, but they are taking more time to give me their talking points than I take to write it all up. I've already filled in every field I can in the government application which, by the way, comes right out of a bureaucrat's wet dream. I've pulled together all the little bitty documents that need to be pulled together. I've written a draft of the specific aims - the one thing I need before I can write the rest of the grant - and sent it out for them to chew on. Alas, it will be Monday before I'll get any more input, and that I'll have to tease out of the tangle of opinions flying about the room at our meeting.

Never mind the fact that we can't realistically complete a Phase II proposal when we haven't even received funding or approval to begin Phase I; in other words, we have no data.

Cart.... Horse....

All of the babbling junk behind the cut really says is that I'm stalled out on my current projects and don't want to work on my future projects, so instead I waste time blogging incoherent nonsense and watching the Financial Services Committee hearing on the internet gambling ban... I'd rather be at home playing with the baby and working on my quilt.

I just realized that what I'm really complaining about is a lack of autonomy, control and the authority to do what needs to be done.

Well there we are, then. The mystery of my procrastination has been solved. I feel better now, don't you?

Comments

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

See, blogging isn't a waste of time - it is a vehicle for organizing one's thoughts in order to arrive at a logical conclusion!

[bramey.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was going to add that I have now justified the existence of my little corner of the intertubes.

[wistfulunicorn.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say hi. How's your world and how's star trek?

[curlicue.livejournal.com]

Good luck on the SBIR. It's very cool to be involved in. Thank god for short days...otherwise your brain would just melt right down.