so much snow work keeps getting cancelled. I've been stressed out about it b/c i have important experiments canceled but can't do them cuz the gov't keeps closing! I guess I should enjoy my time off, but getting stressed out about it instead.
i dunno why it's annoying to me when people tell me - why are you at work on a snow day?? stop working?! that i'm the only one who seems to be annoyed at the lost work week. that when i talk to people work seems to just be something you do- to get by, to make money/a living, because that's what you have to do.
and i know i'm probably an idealistic med student. but I guess being a student, that idea of going to work to put in your hours, as an obligation, as an obstacle to things you actually want to be doing with your time -- its so foreign to me. I mean, not to say that this is how i think everyone else feels about their job, but there is that aspect to it at times. While I'm doing research here at NIH, really i'm the one who benefits if I work hard, and i'm the one who pays if i don't.
what ever happened to simply believing in the intrinsic value of your work/job? I wonder what it will be like when i actually have a real job (many many years from now...)
