Saturday, July 25, 2009

Settling with Stan

So, as you can see I have re-vamped my background theme and I know what your thinking 'this isn't like a fireworks display seen through the eyes of a short-sighted person'. It's what I settled on after my cousin stopped answering my e-mails. I don't want to make a habit of writing such short posts but I thought it would be best to explain the differences in my background descriptions.

Back to the joys of Drosophila, Stan's my third year project person (haven't quite figured out the best way to address him), as friendly and laid back as he tries to come off he's pretty rigid. My project partner Eleanor and I were sitting idly in the lab office waiting for a data analysis program to be uploaded onto our laptops, so we did what most 20 year old students would do in that situation...we talked about Robert Pattinson. We were not loud and there were 2 other adults, who if they needed to could have told us we were being too loud, present. In walks Stanewsky, who recognizes us for the first time in 3 meetings, he comes over to us and tells us that this is a place of work; a place of work with countless bottles of alcohol, full ones, empty ones, the place was full of them. He goes on to tell us that if we wanted to talk we should do so in the lab, huh... the LAB of all places. He says all of this with a smile on his face and adds that we can still talk if we want.....would you talk after your professor basically tells you that your being too loud according to him.........I don't think so. Even our supervisor thought he was being ridiculous. My aim know is to steer clear of him.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Blogging out!!!

So, I tried to update my blog page.....I liked the black but I also wanted bursts of colour. I thought it would be easy, I mean in my family I'm the go-to-gal for computer problems. Comparatively speaking I'm a computer genius in my family, I've grown up using Microsoft because that's what we generally use in England. Realistically speaking I'm not amazing but I'm solid, so when I found the perfect blog theme on the Wordpress site I was unbelievably excited. I would describe it as seeing a fireworks display through short-sighted eyes, if your optically challenged like me you would understand. I thought it would be easy; click download here, click run there and ta-da, a wonderfully colourful blog theme. Wouldn't it be great if life worked that way a click here and there and your done. Well it didn't, instead I saw words like: html, php, Xml. What are these things, and why can't they be found in my Collins English dictionary????SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!

After a solid 24hrs of clicking anything and everything I settled on e-mailing everyone. Replies from my cousin in England included phrases like "I uninstalled my local server stuff so I can't even try trace steps"......aaaaaagghh!!! she was doing it too, I mean what the hell does that mean????At that point I seriously began to think that there was a conspiracy. My cousin in Ghana offered an escape from the world of html and notepad. Apparently there's some Xml rubbish stuck in there.

That was a week and a half ago and I have been waiting, waiting, waiting (sound familiar). My computer genius cousin apparently doesn't know how to open e-mails. I am giving up hope, I even tried to install Wordpress for like the third time. I can tell I'm getting pretty whiny, but it's hard to not be when you have your heart set on something. I went as far as asking my sister her opinion on a alternative theme and she chose something with sunflowers and some other pinkish flower...DO I SOUND LIKE THE FLOWERY TYPE!!! I give up, I'm gonna leave it black to represent my despair...I just filled in my yearly quota of overreactions and histrionics.