Current mood:	frantic
Current music:	Here I Dreamt I was an Architect - The Decemberists

Thesis Writing
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I have 10 days to finish this bastard
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

The more and more I get into this the more and more I realize that I haven't read enough papers - have read 132 but am so far only using 81. i'm halfway finished and should have not more than 20 more pages to go but the stack of articles in front of me is intimidating. and i still need to translate one from russian, as if the french book wasn't hard enough. and i need to fix my figures and tables and crap. oh, and i have an immunology exam, a film paper, and more lab work on top of all this. what am i doing updating my journal?

but other than that life is not bad. went to a research job fair on friday. only got to interview with 2 dudes cause i had to leave to speak with a couple of prospective emory scholars. the two i spoke to were kinda cool though, one was working with infections in kidney transplant patients (cool cause it's a research specialist lead position and i'd be getting more money and i'd have patient contact besides lab work) while the other looks at the evolution of HIV transmission factors among HIV-/HIV+ heterosexual couples in Rwanda (super duper cool!!! stuff i would like to do when i get my own lab, but the position he wants to fill is only sr. lab assistant and i'd be pouring gels rather than doing my own experiments, plus i'd get less money). so i'm now debating whether i do need a high stress, high responsibility, high paying job for the one year before i go to grad/med school or if i should take the low stress, less paying job in a super cool lab to allow me to jaunt about the country and leave for vacations whenever i want during the one really inconsequential year before med/grad school.
this, of course, is contingent on both of them offering me a job in the first place.
dreaming is free.

and the decemberists are really cool.