Lab dreams

I dream of a magical place you can crash if you're tired and on the lab. I would have nice napping areas.

With a clean and bright place to warm our food

a cool espresso machine...

And an awesome, albeit small, shower.

Seriously, it would take the same space as a normal office. And I'd sacrifice office space for this. They can even reduce the sleeping space to this:

It's not that bad in real life. We have the fridges and microwaves. I one of the labs I worked they even had cutlery, plates, glasses, an electric burner, and a dishwasher. But seriously, somewhere to nap and take a shower would be appreciated. even if means sleeping here

and showering here. Actually, this would be a nice shower to have in a lab area.

Que vida

Thinking about the A exam is like thinking of nonchalantly strolling into Mordor and asking for a cup of tea. Writing my proposal feels sometimes like sitting down for a root canal without anesthesia. And it's kinda crazy because *I fucking love what I study*. Somehow I've read a gazillion papers and book chapters, but I can't will the huge mass of acquired information into a cohesive background for my project.

GAH! As if I didn't have enough on my palte already.

You know what is really awesome? When your boss decides to change your thesis project, and "tells" you by editing your study plan. Ooh, also awesome? It means yet another biophysical technique you have to know inside and out for May.

God, I haven't touched thermodynamics in ages.

But then I fell I'm just bitching because project he added is actually juicy, he could have easily given it to another student, and I can probably get to publish in a good journal because of it.

WTF humanity?!

Ok humanity, we need to have a very serious conversation. I mean, I totally understand that a subset of the population is of the 'fucking assholes' persuasion but, sometimes I think that percentage has become far too large.

Welcoming News After Interwebs Hiatus:

• The rape simulator games being sold in some sites and their supporters.
  
• Racists asshats attack a pregnant woman for speaking Portuguese while in Switzerland. The woman miscarried her twins soon afterward.
• A woman gets gang raped in Saudi Arabia. The result? She's sentenced to a hundred lashes and a year in jail for adultery.
• 2 judges from Pennsylvania pocketed $2.6 million from bribes from some detention centers - and they sentenced tons of kids to them. Oh, they also ordered the state-run detention center closed.

Care explainin' yourself?

Weirdness

I am a skeptic. Ever since I acquired my new outlook on life I randomly put away my fiction reading, unable to suspend disbelief, even for an instant. But yesterday- on a random impulse- I downloaded a huge collection of scifi, erotica, fantasy, horror, and suspense novels. And didn't sleep reading.

A part of me has returned, and my love of all things metal with it too. I've been without my pills for 2 days, have the fucked up withdrawal, and still feel all sorts of awesome. And I suddenly feel hopeful about halving gradually my daily dose.

Fuck Ratzi, you really had to go there?

As an ex-Catholic, I still feel embarrassed each time the Church is caught with its pants down. Unfortunately, that seems to be quite often nowadays.

So which of the current idiotic moves I'm ranting about? Ratzi's reinstatement of bishops that are Holocaust denialists. Here is a video, taken just last week, of Bishop Richard Williamson.



WTF Church? What's next, the Church endorsing goecentrists, or denying that the current genocides exist?

The cruelty of reality

This is where I need to be right now. It's approximately 20 minutes away from my mom's house.

And this is where I am:




Not Pleased.