Friday, January 8, 2010

Bad sign

Last night I dreamt that my cell culture was being contaminated by fish! Yes, the fish that we eat. Fish grows in my culture media! Imagine that! Is that a bad sign?
Yes, it is! This morning when I arrived in lab I received phone call from my boss asking about my progress, telling me that he has to report our progress to the funding body. (But I thought we already reported it last November? Remember? I was so stressed that time to come out with results?) The weirdest is that I actually submitted my progress report (for postgrad study committee review) to him few days ago...
On further conversation, he told me the next report will be in March. We will need more data to show that we achieve the milestones. Ok, I admit I'm not working real damn hard. But it's not like I'm not doing anything all this while. I've worked on microarray and qPCR. Just that they were not giving me results. And to get those experiments running, I waited and waited and waited for reagents to arrive. There were many technical issues to deal with. I'm not giving excuses for not being able to produce. But give me all the resources that I need for experiments, spare me from those paper work+ maintaining lab + teaching undergrads chores, and if I'm still not producing, then shoot me to death.
Enough grumbling, back to work!

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