every day I'm learning

[sciatrix]

....today, the learning experience is that coordinating the shipping of twenty-odd singing mice from New York to Texas is a mind-bogglingly complex endeavor, and I am just barely coming out on top of the bureaucracy. But! But! There will be mice I can use for this experiment, ideally by my committee meeting and at least so that I can do a kickass talk for Evolution this year. I'm applying for the SSE Grad Council this year, although the deadline is today--gotta make sure I set some time aside today to do that in amid the flurry of emails.

Also, I'm very carefully dipping my toes into The Body Keeps the Score and gritting my teeth the entire way--more because conceptualizing my life as traumatic in any way feels bad and wrong and self-indulgent and terrifying than because I think that the book itself is problematic. (I'm listening to the text-to-speak function on my phone, which is comforting and a little less scary than reading it for reasons I have no idea how to articulate.)

I'm low on Diamine Meadow right now (review) in my TWSBI stub pen, and I'm really sad about it. I think I need to commit and buy myself a proper bottle of it--this is just the tail end of the 2mL sample I got for my birthday last year.

Comments

[felinejumper]

MICE TRANSFERS. THE WORST. The worst. So much paperwork and obscure forms and institutional specificity and emailing vet staff to be like "please....?" and meanwhile time is passing and they're aging, damnit. UGH. Good luck, they'll get to you eventually and you can make lots of jokes about flying first class. Or driving, I suppose.

[sciatrix]

OH MY GOD I KNOW. And bossman was like "the mice will be probably between weanlings and 10weeks?" and I went "hm I don't believe you" and then YEP speaking to the lab manager at the other lab she was like "oh, I was figuring I'd send animals about 1 year or under..." and I'm very :| at my boss and glad I asked, because a third collaborator is theoretically taking the brains and he's a notorious asshole and is the person going "ALL OF THE ANIMALS SHOULD BE BETWEEN 8 AND 12 WEEKS." Which. Their litter sizes are 2.5 on average, motherfucker, and they don't breed real great; you're going to get what I can put together and like it.

Grumble, grumble.