Small pleasures in life

It feels great to walk into the lab early in the morning, open your inbox and find this in an email... " We are pleased to highlight these important articles from the latest issues ", followed by my paper! And finding this specially at a time when you're slogging your butt off, clocking in crazyy hours, being the first person to open the lab doors and the last one to lock it up for three back to back days. Life's worth it! :)

lifes the same.

Life as a post-doc a'int very different from a grad student's. You're still pushing yourself to work and get data. Data is just as precious now, as it used to be back when graduation heavily depended on it! You still spend hours in the lab slogging away with that western blot, trying to make sense of all the crap! But it's fun in it's own way. You still get paid pittance. The only difference I find - When I used to walk out of the lab at 11:30 in the night, I had to be watchful of crazy men ready to mug/gun u down in Newark, NJ. Now when I walk out of the lab at 11:30 PM in San Diego, I need to be mindful of some crazy scared animal in the open parking lot ready to spray you down with its stinky scent, because you invaded it's privacy by disturbing it in the night.
Such is life! Amen to that!

Back to the AHA grillmill.

Many more thanks

Early this morning, I became the proud aunt of a 'beautiful' niece. Maitri is what we'll call her! I'm putting the beautiful in quotes, because I still haven't seen her. But I'm sure she is gonna be a beauty, no doubts! I'm all excited for my dear sis and bil! Parenthood is something that comes naturally to them! I'm sure they're gonna be very caring and adorable parents! Thankyou God for everything!

The past year has taught me that surrendering everything is the only way things work. Mebbe I should rephrase it, surrendering is the only way one can deal with questions for which only time has an answer. Unfortunately there are some questions/ circumstances in life which only time can answer. If you surrender, you just drop it and actually tell your mind that things will come by and fall into place. It's more like you are endlessly procrastinating worrying about something when you surrender!! At least that's the way I see it. Surrender, get it off your mind, move on and He WILL take care of things - have faith. This doesn't take away the fact that you need to work and do your job. Do your best and leave the rest to be taken care of. It will be. Amen to that!