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May 12, 2007
lab sampler
I've been working on this sampler for a while now, and finally mounted it the other night over at Becket's house. The backstory is, a few months ago I was complaining about a lousy review one of my papers got. It was so unreasonable, blah blah blah. In the middle of my rant, a good friend and colleague gave me the best science career advice ever: get used to it. All the bad science things that happen, lousy reviews, experiments that don't work, personal conflicts, etc, there is nothing you can do about them. So get used to it. Best. Advice. Ever. I used to get upset over this kind of stuff, but now I just say get used to it. It had to be embroidered into a sampler.
The design inspiration is the building my lab is in. There are these funny louvers that are supposed to cast a DNA-like shadow, and the prevailing color scheme is burnt orange and dark dark brown. The louver pattern took a bit of trial and error to get the right aspect ratio, but I'm pretty happy with it. Haha, now I will tack it up on my wall to scare the grad students.
photo credit to Becket
Posted under Cross Stitch/Embroidery at May 12, 2007 08:32 PM
Comments
Sounds like good advice for life in general. ;)
Posted by: futuregirl at May 12, 2007 11:18 PM
I got the 'double helix' reference straight off! God, I miss science. Your lab building is far far more gorgeous than anywhere I ever worked.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 13, 2007 09:10 AM
ha! makes complete sense - love it!
Posted by: laurie at May 13, 2007 10:14 AM
Oh I LOVE it! I'm a genetics grad student, so that advice definitely applies to me. Think I'll have to make something like yours to put up in my lab!
Posted by: Jane at May 13, 2007 03:45 PM
I really like how you worked this architectural pattern into needlework! So cool.
Posted by: abbyjane at May 13, 2007 08:21 PM
Love it! I'm in an old lab from the 60s but I get to look next door at a pretty lab like that.
Posted by: Melissa at May 14, 2007 11:09 AM
it's brilliant!
Posted by: lisa s at May 15, 2007 02:13 AM
alternative (though negative) sampler sayings:
"why is my gel crooked?"
"rats behaving badly"
"scooped"
"cv fodder"
Posted by: fert at May 22, 2007 01:52 PM
I'm in the middle of finishing up some manuscripts (looking ahead to applying for full professor in a couple of years - gotta get some pubs out). I think I need one of those samplers.
Except, I'm an ecologist, so I'd have to have mycorrhizae or prairie plants on the border of mine.
Posted by: fillyjonk at May 30, 2007 02:37 PM