Ranting

Today I had one of those rants. My poor supervisor who gets to listen to me. It is not his fault. It is the PI who goes on adding things to my to do list at a time when I should be taking things off the list and trying to finish off.
I sat down to start tackling a few things today and suddenly starting feeling a bit fragile (nerves) with all I have to do and juggle and try to keep abreast of. All I want to do is get on with my labwork with a few nice safe genes I have selected. With the PI wants is for me to do more analysis, wait for people who are doing other types of analyses to finish and then select a few risky, unknown genes to work on. But I do not have the time. So I say yes and try to cope and then at times I freak out and go have a rant. It does not help my image much I think.
However, the work I am doing now has worked out nicely and I am pleased. I have also struck a fair few things off my list of administrative things to do. I'll get more I am sure but I'm hoping to keep my head above the water... fingers crossed.

Oh, yes. It is also very cold. One would not believe it is the first day of spring. The daffodils and hyacinths are all out but the warmth is still far far away.