Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Biggest 2 weeks ever
I'm about 2/3 of the way through a monstrously busy 2 weeks. Masses of lectures and practicals which means I've had to work around them. A grant application went in and I'm preparing for a presentation and interview for a job on this Friday. Samples are coming into the testing lab for something we've never done, so I had to design a protocol for them and make up new and interesting media. I've also been going to a series of presentations by other people for various jobs they are applying for (one a day all week). Then the PC3 lab air flow started to play up...so its been shut down and we are setting up to sterilise it on Monday-Tuesday prior to technicians doing repairs. Oh, I also did a lot of phone calling regarding a complicated order for pipettes. I'm now taking a breath and a coffee before pouring agar plates and tightening up my presentation...must also find out the type of questions that get asked at interviews before Friday morning. This afternoon I will be running a food quality practical and then going to aquarobics.
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Woot! Sounds exciting. I got my ARC Application in at the absolutely last moment to be couriered to Canberra, on Monday afternoon. I expect it is full of terrible errors from being rushed but all the powers that be will remember is that I was one of the ones who put in an application and am therefore 'research active' and to be numbered among the righteous.
Yay! you got yours in too!
When I was in Sydney last week I was talking to a colleague who went to this conference... he said on the last night they had a fancy dinner for all the big names who were heads of their national organisations (he wasn't one of them) and they all got violently ill with food poisoning.
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