meisa's lagoon

everyday when my mother and i speak on the phone, she says to me, "how was your day?" and i say "okay". and as part of our routine she always says "just okay?" and i sort of testily respond "yes, just okay." i explained to her awhile ago that since i have started grad school, my days here are just okay. and that is good because it means that i am at least staying afloat in the sea of constant failure that is science. i've told her that i have really only had about 5 good days since i've been here (we're talking days in terms of work, i don't typically allow this sort of negativity in the other parts of my life) where i have gotten some really good data or a key experiment actually went the way i wanted it to. but yesterday...yesterday was one of the good days. yay! my thanks go out to chris who ran an experiment for me that finally gave me the evidence i need to publish again. yippee!!!