I forgot all about this

[solarbird]

This popped back into my head the other day; I think I came up with most of it when I was in grad school.

The Postdoc's Prayer

Our advisor, who art in research,
Funded be thy lab.
Thy postdocs scrum,
around the rum,
on Friday, sometime 'round eleven.
Give us this day our papers read,
and forgive us our hangovers,
as we forgive those fucking geologists,
who never turn off their rock grinder,
no matter how nicely we ask.
For thine is the key,
to the storeroom, with the enzymes,
and all of our data.
Amen.

By the way, I am not making this up: I did my genetics work in the laboratories of Drs. Davy and Grace Jones. Which were down the hall from a geology annex. With a rock grinder.

(A musician now, you say?)

Comments

[maellenkleth]

Uh, yeah, grad school.

Personally, my pet peeve was being stuck in the unwanted lab space between the HF digester (with a leaky fume hood) and the particle-beam microprobe. Kampus Kops issued me with a rappelling kit, upon having concluded that my only safe emergency evacuation route was three stories straight down, out the small window behind my desk.

[goodconceited.livejournal.com]

I snerk, but I only snerk because I'm still safely in undergrad and haven't faced the augh of grad school (or rock grinders) just yet.

[solarbird]

LAUGH A'WHILE YOU CAN, MONKEY-BOY!

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I really don't get all my friends who are talking about or actually going back to school. I was so happy to be done.

Actually, something of Whedon's has recently tempted me to return to Academia, but I've not yet found any Schools with a good program in Horribleness ;)

[solarbird]

Davy and Grace were actually really nice. Grad school was more than its fair share of crazy and I have issues with the department chair, but I liked my lab heads.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

It's really more that I'm burnt out on academia as a whole. After 19 years on one side of the desk or the other, I just don't think I have enough coping left to take the bad along with the good in that environment.

[solarbird]

That's cool. Honestly I could've done with a couple of years off before that round of grad school myself, but, well, circumstances are circumstances and I got a couple of papers out of it, so yay! But yeah, definitely don't go in pre-burnt-out!