Rant

Lately I've had the misfortune to have to work with this Italian PhD (BITCH!!), whom I used to think was quite nice when I first met her in German class last semester.
Her (what I initially thought to be) boisterous (now to me, just seem obnoxious) laughter and chattering made her out to be a typical (or so I thought) friendly, fun and warm Italian. But some people you only get to see their true colours when you have to work with them. She's highly strung, easily stressed, with Italian curses at the tip of her tongue which come loose at even the littlest things that don't go her way (like a used pipette tip not going into the bin properly like it should).

There's another Italian PhD student with whom I started working with in the beginning and although I'd found her very distant and always rather serious (don't joke much), now I'm starting to appreciate her calmness and cool headedness.

The past 2 weeks in the lab, the BITCH has been making me do her shit work (boring time-consuming immunocytochemistry, immunofluorescence etc.) while she works on her poster for the upcoming meetings. And because there were different antibodies and fluorescent colours for the different transfections, and there were small variances in the protocols, the whole process was quite confusing. Added to that was an evil headache that plagued me the past 3 days (thankfully today I'm better today) and I made a mistake. So, you can imagine her fury when I told her! Out came her magnificent strings of swear words which I don't understand (I should learn the vulgarities of all the European languages!) and of cos' she also scolded me in her (limited) English.

She thinks her time is all precious ('I don't have time, you know!') and everyone's else are just nothing. Just now, she asked me to prepare everything to passage the cells and left me waiting in the cell culture room even after I rang her to say that it's all ready. So I went down to her office to tell her that I have my own work to do afterwards and that I can't just wait for her forever. She said she'll come once she's done and, not wanting to sit around like an idiot, I went to my table in the other lab to use the computer. She rang me from the cell culture room afterwards and said she's upstairs. I went up immediately and she started her 'You called me to come up and I did and where were you??? I'm very busy, you know!!!') Ya, and I am doing you a fu*king favour and I still have my own work to do... Such an ARSE isn't she?

Anyhow I won't let her spoil my 'wonderful' weekend... Have to come back to work. Bleagh. But at least that's my own work.
All work and no play makes Jane a dull girl! Thankfully I have other activities planned; dinner with some Chinese friends tomorrow night (more jiao zi! happy! :D), some boat repairing on Sun afternoon (hope weather will be ok) and I shall attempt to cook a pork rib dish for dinner either on Sat or Sun and if I can squeeze in some time for a dessert, I shall make something. ^_^