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Recent local abundance of luck
Things haven’t been going particularly well for most of the summer, at least with regard to work in the lab, and I had been fairly annoyed by it all. Some of it was likely due to the fact that I was exhausted from moving from Alexandria to Pentagon City gradually and without the melp of movers, but most of it was the direct result of inefficiencies in the lab finally becoming apparent.
Luckily, I wasn’t alone in my frustration, and consequently, had help from my intern in trying to address some of the issues we were having.
Oddly enough, as inappropriate as venting my frustrations about work at work probably is, it helped a lot, not only to sort o my feelings about it and finding a solution, but I think also made me a little less scary and distant to my intern.
Since then, things in the lab have actually been working pretty well — well, at least until today, when I discovered a problem with the protocol I was using. I can still use some of the data that I generated; just not all of it.
What actually prompted me to write this post was actually what happened to me on the way home — a “no passengers” train pulled into the Gallery Place station and turned into the train I needed, saving me the 10 minute wait for the next train home since it was 8:30 pm.