Wednesday, September 03, 2008

i hate this stuff

so, i have been toiling away, and i do mean toiling. i am talking blood, sweat and tears on this presentation for a huge international blood banking meeting i am lucky [please read dripping sarcasm] enough to attend. the meeting is early october up in canada. my abstract was accepted for publication, so i now need to make a poster and stand in a gallery with said poster answering questions about the study i did.

apparently, this is prestigious in the world of blood banking. apparently, colleagues compete to be in this spot and revel in the chance to learn and absorb information at this level. apparently.... i couldn't be any less interested. (does this mean i am in the wrong career? that is another blog).

i'll spare you any more detail. however, i have put somewhere around 100 hours worth of work on this thing all up. i had it printed, sitting on my desk and ready to go over to graphics today.
i got an email from my medical director at 11:11pm last night with a casual note:
I would prefer the blah, blah machine be on the x-axis, that is more commonly the standard with these method evaluations. Thanks.

i wish this was as easy a fix as the email makes it sound. 12 graphs need to be reworked. so i sit here biting my nails waiting for the biostatistics group to finish another rework for me. once that is done, i hope i can slip everything in to the documents i have ready to go.

for some reason, the universe is not on my side lately. i can't wait to get to the UK (let's hope someone lucky is on the plane with us, so i will be covered too).

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your good luck charm is Ruby!!! Don't worry it will all work out...you always land on your feet.
enjoy your vacation or holiday.
xxoo
Me

carinna said...

impressive work. good on ya.

i know a little about being in the wrong career myself. my goal is to change that in 5 to 6 years. who knows what I'll become. join me.

Anonymous said...

Well done you on getting it done (AGAIN). I think you have done a remarkable job and I am proud you are published. WELL DONE. And yes your mom is correct Ruby is your lucky charm and we can't wait to have you all here. 2 SLEEPS xxx