Week of Hell, the Second

Omg. This has been the WORST week possible, not only of this semester, but of the entire year. Well, the week I had the flu was probably a little worse, but this one has just been awful. Things that have really sucked this week include:

1. My annotated bibliography. I worked at least 40 hours this week on it, going to bed at 2 AM every night this week to get it done.

2. The ridiculous amount of lab work that I have to do. Basically, I'm on this huge pusch to finish all of my research on my first four chemos before Thanksgiving. As of tomorrow, I'll be at 70% of my metabolic studies and 60% of my cell surface studies. This next week is going to suck even more, as I have 180 samples on Monday to run, probably 144 on Tuesday, 120 more on Wednesday, 120 more on Friday, and again, 120 more on Saturday. That will put me at 85% completion on both studies.

3. The total lack of payment for my work. I had been promised a pay-raise at the beginning of the summer of over 2 dollars an hour. I got 34 cents (university mandated funding, not altruistic at all). It looks increasingly likely that I will be paid nothing for the lab that I'm helping to teach. I love how promises of pay turn into volunteer positions.

4. History of medicine is looming.

5. I put myself into a ridiculous amount of debt...because on top of my trip to Ireland in Januray, and my family trip to Death Valley in December, I decided to go visit my cousin in Munich over Thanksgiving. I paid off about $400 of my $900 that I now owe on my credit card for this plane ticket. My rationalization? I need to have these huge debts that I pay off so that I can get student loans....right.


Course schedules came out at UCCS today. My current leanings include:

P AD 5001: Intro to Public Administration
P AD 5615: Health Policy
P AD 5004: Research and Analytic Methods (UWY requires one of these courses)
BIOL 541: Virology
GER 102: German II (PPCC?)
GRK 102: Greek II

I desperately want to take Medieval England too....maybe the professor will let me sit in on the class for free?
Ugh. Too much.