Monday, September 24, 2007

Dodging Bullets

My advisor just walked in and asked me cryptically Have you been good? And nothing else.

There are a number of things to which he could be referring here:
  1. working on writing my dissertation - um, not this week-end...
  2. finishing multiple choice questions for his class's first exam - only about 1/2 done...
  3. writing an abstract for a conference so to that he can enjoy a fabulous tropical island vacation with some professor buddies under the guise of scientific exchange in which he'd present my work (so unfair) - haven't even begun to think about it and resent that I have to...
  4. buying a new computer monitor because ours pooped out and I've been borrowing one of his - no attempts made thus far...
  5. reporting good experimental results - well, seeing as he doesn't give two craps about my research other than the fact that it allows him a relevant excuse to attend previously mentioned conferences, I knew he wasn't asking about that...
In an attempt to avoid jogging his memory of any of the above points, the only response I could muster was a very guilty Well, that depends on your definition of good...

Luckily, he just wanted to share with me a recent bootleg copy of Norah Jones material. We're both big fans. Whew! :)

On a scale of one to ten, how severely does my grad school bitterness show?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

*sigh* I'm never gonna get any babies from you. :(

Larisa said...

Sounds kinky...

Anonymous said...

dirty girl