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Originally intended as a place to rant about PhD life, this blog is a collection of different issues that occupy my academically overloaded mind... This is the place for the burnt-out scholar.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Being Virtuous

Do you feel rather virtuous when you are the first in the morning and have to open the lab door? What about when you are the last one to leave for home and you are closing the lab? Or during those long and lonely weekends when you have the entire office just for yourself…

This never happens to me. I am never virtuous no matter how hard I try.

If I come early in the morning Adam or Ian have already opened the door, and since Adam left, Lyndsey have succumbed to the early bird bug that must have been left contaminating her new desk. Working late Karen always beat me by at least half an hour. Glorious Saturdays became crowded with Adam and Amy working all day long, while the quiet Sundays are usually interrupted by Ian walking in and out to set models to run.

So no, I can’t be virtuous unless I revert to Bolivian time and became a researching vampire. I am working on the look.