to see when the last time I posted an entry here.  My record has been shameful.

Because I have no other place to write this, I just want to document 2 very exciting things that happened to me this week:

1.) I was accepted into Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, for the class of 2013.  This is my first acceptance and I am THRILLED.  I would be 100% happy going there if I got no other acceptances because I think it matches my personality…unpretentious but hard-working.

2.) After presenting my quarterly progress report in this morning’s lab meeting, I caught our lab’s senior postdoc on the way out.  “Do you maybe have any suggestions for what I could be doing better, and how do you think I’m doing so far?” Keep in mind that this was the same postdoc that said “Shame on you!” in public at last week’s meeting, for asking a question that I should have known the answer to (i.e. she has very high standards). “I think you are doing an excellent job…I was so impressed with that one graph…I was amazed!” Are you SHITTING ME. This has basically made my entire year! I think that it is funny also, that because my boss never gives me any direct feedback on how I am doing, that her approval means more to me than his. So…yeah.  Pretty much floating on air right now.

Unfortunately, this was tainted by the fact that I got in a number of stupid fights with my boyfriend when I got home. He blamed me for not choosing a restaurant to go to on Valentine’s fast enough, because (apparently) most of the reservations are booked for the good restaurants in town.  I told him that I thought it was more important to celebrate our being together, and that it didn’t matter the exact day…that we could eat dinner on the 15th.  Sigh.  I’m not sure what to do about him sometimes, I feel like more of the man in the relationship than him. But he is my little puppy and I will take care of him.