Mad Scientist-like
There was a point this weekend when I thought....I might become Mad Scientist-like here....for some of these reasons....
a) I have lots of work to be done while here and will be flying back and forth for two week intervals and there is WAY more work than I had realized.....(it is good but I didn't know what I was getting into.) Lots of this work is also surprisingly needing me to speak and understand French...which I kind of do but still....who new? (Note The people in the lab are the best thing and are great..and have given me lots of props for my fastly improving French....I did take if for an long time...but was rusty)
b) My housing (if you can call a small baren room...with a nice bathroom.....housing) is located just off of the lab....so this is like 20 meters away........so I walk down the stairs and out the door to leave the lab building and OH wait what is right there?..... as I turn left...yup MY ROOM. I am living in the lab.
c) No phone or internet connection in the room sooooo if I want to talk to the world I need to go back inside to the lab.....which oh yeah lucky me I have all the required keys. (this means finishing work but returning late night to talk to people.....late night lab....creepy at times). (another thought....I am constantly staying up late to talk with people in other time zones but no-one there ...aside from sister and mother ....is getting up earlier to talk to me.....hmmmmm now as a programed rower I would much rather get up earlier to talk with people...but alas that is not how it is, over a year and a half into this move and I am still the predominant caller...I have studied and found vast ways to make it cheaper for me and others..SKYPE people!!!....)
d) The research institute is located out of the city centre ...quite a bit. There is walking to public transportation which then takes you to civilization....I need to do this more as I feel like I am becoming crazy.
e) I think I am being referred to as the "girl who sleeps in lab".....well this statement in French by the security guards....this is sad.
At the moment when I thought ....surely I have snapped.....I was brought back to sanity by two nice long phone calls back to back....(as I think they were both worried) by my wonderful sister and brother.
I think wonderful sister called my brother before calling me and said....."OK I think it would be good if we called Reb. She needs to talk." Five minutes into my conversation with my brother...he said...."um,You might becoming a Mad Scientist there Reb." To which I went bug-eyed and said "Oui Oui...I mean YES YES...that is what I think too...YES YES Oui "
Those talks were really wonderful and soooooooooooooooo helpful. They are sooo great and are the two people in the world I really can't imagine my world without. They know me really, and no matter how much time or how far away we are....the connection and knowledge is sooo strong.
Thank you both for spending a million dollars and dialing 20+ digits to call my French Cell phone! I really needed it! My amies in the UK have been great and checking in on me and sending cute emails but sometimes it is those that reach you from farther away that you are really closer too.
M spoke to me before these conversations and I was ......out of it. I said "Hey look M, you know when you started dating a Scientist there was a time I would become a Mad Scientist." ...to which he just calmly said.."Um OK you are going to be alright...I will be there next weekend."
Then M and I spoke the day after the my wonderful sister and brother called and it was like I was a new person.
Yeah
a) I have lots of work to be done while here and will be flying back and forth for two week intervals and there is WAY more work than I had realized.....(it is good but I didn't know what I was getting into.) Lots of this work is also surprisingly needing me to speak and understand French...which I kind of do but still....who new? (Note The people in the lab are the best thing and are great..and have given me lots of props for my fastly improving French....I did take if for an long time...but was rusty)
b) My housing (if you can call a small baren room...with a nice bathroom.....housing) is located just off of the lab....so this is like 20 meters away........so I walk down the stairs and out the door to leave the lab building and OH wait what is right there?..... as I turn left...yup MY ROOM. I am living in the lab.
c) No phone or internet connection in the room sooooo if I want to talk to the world I need to go back inside to the lab.....which oh yeah lucky me I have all the required keys. (this means finishing work but returning late night to talk to people.....late night lab....creepy at times). (another thought....I am constantly staying up late to talk with people in other time zones but no-one there ...aside from sister and mother ....is getting up earlier to talk to me.....hmmmmm now as a programed rower I would much rather get up earlier to talk with people...but alas that is not how it is, over a year and a half into this move and I am still the predominant caller...I have studied and found vast ways to make it cheaper for me and others..SKYPE people!!!....)
d) The research institute is located out of the city centre ...quite a bit. There is walking to public transportation which then takes you to civilization....I need to do this more as I feel like I am becoming crazy.
e) I think I am being referred to as the "girl who sleeps in lab".....well this statement in French by the security guards....this is sad.
At the moment when I thought ....surely I have snapped.....I was brought back to sanity by two nice long phone calls back to back....(as I think they were both worried) by my wonderful sister and brother.
I think wonderful sister called my brother before calling me and said....."OK I think it would be good if we called Reb. She needs to talk." Five minutes into my conversation with my brother...he said...."um,You might becoming a Mad Scientist there Reb." To which I went bug-eyed and said "Oui Oui...I mean YES YES...that is what I think too...YES YES Oui "
Those talks were really wonderful and soooooooooooooooo helpful. They are sooo great and are the two people in the world I really can't imagine my world without. They know me really, and no matter how much time or how far away we are....the connection and knowledge is sooo strong.
Thank you both for spending a million dollars and dialing 20+ digits to call my French Cell phone! I really needed it! My amies in the UK have been great and checking in on me and sending cute emails but sometimes it is those that reach you from farther away that you are really closer too.
M spoke to me before these conversations and I was ......out of it. I said "Hey look M, you know when you started dating a Scientist there was a time I would become a Mad Scientist." ...to which he just calmly said.."Um OK you are going to be alright...I will be there next weekend."
Then M and I spoke the day after the my wonderful sister and brother called and it was like I was a new person.
Yeah
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