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the cure for public humiliation

Yeah, so I meant to write last night. Really, I did. It’s just that my talk didn’t go so well. So I was too bitter and angry to write. Yes, it was really that bad. But let’s not linger on things past. Let’s talk about how I cured my utter shame and embarrassment (no, it didn’t involve consuming large amounts of alcohol, although it was tempting).

I now present to you the ultimate cure for public humiliation:

Yep, I’ve been coveting this little thing here since it came out and now I have it because my husband likes to reward failure. Eh, not that I’m complaining here. Though the mere thought of how bad yesterday was still makes me cringe. It’s times like these when I wish I had a “delete” button in my brain for those memories I can’t forget fast enough.

another experiment, another failure…

So in a last ditch effort to actually have data for the talk I’m giving next week, I’m squeezing two experiments in this week.  I was all ready for a super hardcore weekend analyzing data, but the amount of data I’m going to need to analyze has already been cut by 50% because today’s experiment failed miserably.  And not even in the usual ways, such as by pulmonary embolus or overzealous induction of our disease state.  This time, we failed because the treatment agent we’re testing outright killed the animal.  Which can’t be good for my thesis.  Nope.  Not at all.  I’m going to go panic now.