For the first time since I started this job, I’m starting to wish I didn’t have it. Just a little. I’ve been through some professional ups and downs in the past few years (unreasonably demanding surgeons, unreasonably demanding secretaries, changing officemates, delays in reclassification, being forced to re-interview for a job I’d been doing for 6 months, turmoil amidst my co-workers) but I rode all those waves of adversity with the self-promise that they would be worth it. Right now I’m fighting tooth and nail with a particular individual on our institutional review board who has, for several weeks, been delaying the progress of a new study, and I’m starting to wonder if it’s all worth it. It’s never the people in charge who are the problem. It’s always the sniveling little underlings who make tasks difficult to complete.
Right now I feel the full weight of our department head, research team and anxiously waiting families pushing on my back to get this study off the ground (before the end of the year, mind you) while before me is this annoying little man from the IRB holding my forehead and keeping me just beyond arm’s length of study approval. (Stupid little man and his power trip!) I wish I had more weight to throw around and get things done without having to run crying to our department head and ask him to fix the problem. Grr.
Okay…I’m over it. Shake it off…
Oh we are covered in ice! It’s beautiful but treacherous. My parking lot is a deathtrap right now. I have no idea how to get my car out. But I will definitely be investing in some Yaktrax in the near future. The number of tumbles down the hill is increasing!
Did I mention that I have all of my Christmas shopping done? All but two of my gifts are wrapped and tagged. I mailed off my Christmas cards today and did all of my Christmas baking last week. I even brewed a yummy pot of chili. I am a superstar! Why is it that when your professional life is in disarray, your personal life seems to be doing okay. Now that I’ve written this, my personal life will manage to fall spectacularly apart somehow…
Cheers for now!
Right now I feel the full weight of our department head, research team and anxiously waiting families pushing on my back to get this study off the ground (before the end of the year, mind you) while before me is this annoying little man from the IRB holding my forehead and keeping me just beyond arm’s length of study approval. (Stupid little man and his power trip!) I wish I had more weight to throw around and get things done without having to run crying to our department head and ask him to fix the problem. Grr.
Okay…I’m over it. Shake it off…
Oh we are covered in ice! It’s beautiful but treacherous. My parking lot is a deathtrap right now. I have no idea how to get my car out. But I will definitely be investing in some Yaktrax in the near future. The number of tumbles down the hill is increasing!
Last weekend Miss Meliss and I went to see the Nutcracker ballet at the Englert theatre downtown. Before that we had yummy appetizers at Atlas. The ballet was cute, but we swear at one point we saw the rat king "raise the roof". I don't remember that being a part of my classical ballet training...maybe I missed that day. Afterwards we grabbed some bottles of wine and watched chick flicks until 
4:00 a.m. It was wonderful!
4:00 a.m. It was wonderful!Did I mention that I have all of my Christmas shopping done? All but two of my gifts are wrapped and tagged. I mailed off my Christmas cards today and did all of my Christmas baking last week. I even brewed a yummy pot of chili. I am a superstar! Why is it that when your professional life is in disarray, your personal life seems to be doing okay. Now that I’ve written this, my personal life will manage to fall spectacularly apart somehow…
Cheers for now!
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