Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com

Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com

This article is about one of my favorite musicians Joshua Bell and how people riding the metro in Washington DC were able to hear him for free and didn't even notice.
Wow....

I am sort of in a funk right now. One of my co-workers has made not so thinly veiled statements to me that she believes I am not working hard enough toward my graduate degree. This is from the person who works only 30 hours a week, most of which is spent writing notes to undergrads. I have been waking up at 5:30 so I can read papers before getting on the bus at 7:30, working in lab right up until class starts at 9, hitting class hard for two hours, then working until either seminar starts or I collapse from hunger. I don't leave before 5, usually before 6, where after I eat I start reading and working again until 11. Excuse me....where am I supposed to find MORE time to work. I am very hurt and insulted by this, but I know that I have to suck it up because I will never win with this woman. If I confront her she will get defensive and be even worse to me. If I relay her behavior to Dr. Vercellotti or Dr. Steer it will be even worse. Instead I have this terrible feeling of inadequacy, which is what she wants me to feel anyway. I can't win....

Matt's mom is coming for Easter. I am hoping that a weekend celebrating the holiday will help me out. I won't have a take-home exam (for a change), so that puts some of the pressure off. Next weekend I will probably work. I do need a haircut though...I am pretty scary right now....

Well, I have to get back to work on my take-home exam. This class is taking forever to end.