Work Update

I have not mentioned this before, but I am interning at a startup company this summer. Things are so much different compared to the industrial monster I used to intern for. For starters, I can count the total number of employees at this place on my fingers and still have some to pick my nose with. Second, I directly report to the CEO and COO. Of course in such a small place that does not mean much, but it is still cool to say that I report directly to the CEO. So here is the funny part. This company wants me to keep a time sheet. I need to log in every hour I spend on the job and mark it up to one of 7 activity classes. This ladies and gentlemen is the lamest idea ever! They first waste my time creating this sheet and then waste even more encoding this into some system no one is going to look at.

I have been working with QoH to get a major pharma company to sign up with our lab from some research project. A while ago they sent us 48 samples to do a blind study, which was all fine and dandy. Now they want us to use those results to predict some physical quality without any knowledge of the sample what so ever. WTF? This just cannot be done! Do these guys even know what they are talking about? I have an equal probability of picking out this week’s Lotto numbers as I have in predicting the properties. Anyways, I am going to have a lot of fun coming up with weird ass theories to rationalize my opinion and work in some many caveats that you can hold a whole parade in the holes in my theories.

This is going to be a busy and fun week.

Google Addiction

It is amazing how much of our lives is controlled by Google. I was watching a TV show a few minutes ago and they were talking about some character’s qualifications and past. I was a bit distracted and missed the on-screen talk. My gut instinct was to fire up Google and search for the character’s entry on Wikipedia. I caught myself just as I was about to hit enter. I really need to get away from the stupid internet.

Lost and Found

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I have experienced anger and annoyance on more than one occasion in the last week. I love it! It is not until you get off the medication do you realize what you have been missing out on. Back in the days when I used to read that depression medications made zombies out of people, I used to wonder what the hell they were talking about. I was sure that these guys didn’t know what they were talking about and but for the medications I would fall apart. In retrospect, the meds induced mellow were what kept me from sinking further, but they did come at a cost. I am free again.

PS: Is it weird to feel angry and then feel happy about the anger simultaneously?

The roll continues..

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1. A new research sponsor has sent us some samples to test and I am incharge of them. So far the results have been good. Ofcourse then again, I am just 25% into the tests.
2. Had to explain the results of my quals to 3 people from my department, and I think I have figured out a way to do it without freaking out.
3. A report is due to QoH this evening, and I have not even started on it yet. I blame me.

1. The experiment that eluded me was finally conquered! The results from today’s work just kicks butt in every which way possible.
2. QoH’s request to the department to allow me to take my quals for the 3rd time was officially accepted.
3. I won my first poker tournament table at a local poker club.
4. I am genuinely happy satisfied with life for the first time in recent history.