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OftenBen  ·  2765 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 31, 2016

Sorry I missed the pub, I was too busy making poor decisions. I picked up a 'Captain Save-A-Ho' costume several years ago and like to pull it on every now and then when I feel masochistic. Lucifer was the most beautiful of all the angels, right?

Chicago in a little less than two weeks. I have a several page word document full of suggestions for improving clinical research that I need to format into something meaningful. I'm not going to be presenting in any official capacity, just sitting in on a few committees and a Q&A panel, but I'd like to have something concrete to give to the group that might one day fund my research. I have suggestions/concerns split up by 'Patient Comments/Concerns' 'Clinical Staff Comments/Concerns' and then my own breakdown of the problems with the current modes/methods of clinical research and how they could be improved without dramatic changes in budgeting. At the moment, I think I'm going to leave both the patient and clinical staff lists as they are, and do a write up to summarize each one.

Kayaking and coffee girl has ghosted me. I thought we had a nice time, at the end of the day we talked about getting dinner the following week and just... radio silence. Such is life in post-grad dating, evidently. At this point I think I'd prefer having a drink dumped in my hair, that's at least an act of passion rather than apathy. Bill Burr has a bit tangentially related to this, how when you're single for too long the little voice in your head that says 'Don't say that!' flips and starts saying 'Say it! Why not?! See what happens!'

Neck needling at the end of the month. I'm going to a party on a lake this weekend. Lots of boats, lots of alcohol, and I'm fairly certain I'm going to struggle to get out of my head. I know that this group of people is friendly, but they aren't the type of people I'd call my 'tribe' or 'troop.' We'll all get nice and drunk and say pleasant things and then not see each other for another few years.

Man I am the definition of a party pooper.

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Just got genetic testings results back on a pair of little kids, both are perfectly healthy and have no chance of developing disease.