Okay, now what?
Jan. 25th, 2006 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninevirtuesWell. I survived hell week in reasonable fashion. Now I am thinking. Warning: Post contains no profound intellectual content and no coherent theme. One idea per paragraph, no waiting. I'm maundering.
1) I am least likely to be socially proficient, to get the joke or appreciate irony, when I am tired as hell. Surprise.
2) When I get stressed out, my left quad tightens up, apparently under the misconception that it can actually help the situation. Sadly, it's usually wrong about that. (Grad school-- rarely is the solution to a problem "Kick the #&$(*@% out of someone". Wait, make that "Never".) But knowing that's the tendency keeps me from getting stressed out about the fact that my knee hurts, which makes my quad tighten even more.
3) In the next two weeks or so, I have about a bazillion little school projects. Busywork, even. I guess if our professors can't overload us with academic information (as with Neuro), they do their best to overload us with random, meaningless work. (This is grad school. God Forbid it be a pleasant experience, apparently. No, I'm not bitter much; why?)
4) My housemate graduated December 10 (Hooray!). I'm watching her proceed through the interview process and prepare to take the boards. (She rounded up three or four interviews, and finally accepted a job at a 54-bed hospital in the rural mountains of VA. They were clearly very pleased with her to begin with, and she used good negotiation advice in a book I loaned her (big sister's guide to the world of work, if you're curious) to increase the salary, add a sign on bonus, and get them to pay for professional association dues and the boards. (Wow. I'm really happy for her. She worked so hard in her classes, and she's got such a great attitude-- and she went to town with the negotiation skills. Well done! I hope it works out great for her.)
1) I am least likely to be socially proficient, to get the joke or appreciate irony, when I am tired as hell. Surprise.
2) When I get stressed out, my left quad tightens up, apparently under the misconception that it can actually help the situation. Sadly, it's usually wrong about that. (Grad school-- rarely is the solution to a problem "Kick the #&$(*@% out of someone". Wait, make that "Never".) But knowing that's the tendency keeps me from getting stressed out about the fact that my knee hurts, which makes my quad tighten even more.
3) In the next two weeks or so, I have about a bazillion little school projects. Busywork, even. I guess if our professors can't overload us with academic information (as with Neuro), they do their best to overload us with random, meaningless work. (This is grad school. God Forbid it be a pleasant experience, apparently. No, I'm not bitter much; why?)
4) My housemate graduated December 10 (Hooray!). I'm watching her proceed through the interview process and prepare to take the boards. (She rounded up three or four interviews, and finally accepted a job at a 54-bed hospital in the rural mountains of VA. They were clearly very pleased with her to begin with, and she used good negotiation advice in a book I loaned her (big sister's guide to the world of work, if you're curious) to increase the salary, add a sign on bonus, and get them to pay for professional association dues and the boards. (Wow. I'm really happy for her. She worked so hard in her classes, and she's got such a great attitude-- and she went to town with the negotiation skills. Well done! I hope it works out great for her.)
