loving my job
Oct. 23rd, 2014 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI am loving my new job. Sure, the lab doesn't exist yet, but it is getting closer. There is a big wooden box in the hallway outside of the lab room (which is still being renovated) that contains the coolant system. The ICP-MS unit is on a truck on its way here from Germany. Hopefully they haven't shipped the laser yet though, since the manufacturer says that once it is delivered we need to get it hooked up to the ICP-MS system within three weeks, or it will have leaked too much of the gases that it comes pre-loaded with, and then something terrible, no doubt, will happen. Or, at least something expensive.
Today I spent 1.5 hours meeting with the researches who hired me talking about the lab and what all still needs to be done before the equipment arrives and soon after it gets here. I am keeping so busy I often wind up more than working my half time, but then on other days I go home early to make up for it, so now I am only 1.4 hours ahead of where I should be at this point in the month.
Part of the reason I am ahead at all is that I went to a course today on how to run the system for making web pages at the uni. The course was held in Swedish, but I did just fine with it, and learned lots. Looking forward to improving our lab web page, but not before Monday at the soonest.
Tomorrow is supposed to be a day off for me, but my Master's student, who was supposed to finish his degree last Spring, is finally doing his presentation tomorrow, and I have to be there, so I will go in for an hour or so.
Today I spent 1.5 hours meeting with the researches who hired me talking about the lab and what all still needs to be done before the equipment arrives and soon after it gets here. I am keeping so busy I often wind up more than working my half time, but then on other days I go home early to make up for it, so now I am only 1.4 hours ahead of where I should be at this point in the month.
Part of the reason I am ahead at all is that I went to a course today on how to run the system for making web pages at the uni. The course was held in Swedish, but I did just fine with it, and learned lots. Looking forward to improving our lab web page, but not before Monday at the soonest.
Tomorrow is supposed to be a day off for me, but my Master's student, who was supposed to finish his degree last Spring, is finally doing his presentation tomorrow, and I have to be there, so I will go in for an hour or so.