Lock and Load, Ladies!

March 9, 2009 By

I’m already exhausted and the frenzy hasn’t even begun!  March is the busiest time for an Irish pub for one reason, Saint Patrick’s Day.  The first clue to the initiation of the season was getting called in for an on-call shift almost an hour before I was supposed to check in with the manager.  Today has been a bit of a zombie day due to lack of sleep in general, compounded by losing an hour from the change in time, and a late-night shift on Saturday night/Sunday morning.  And it’s only going to get worse.

From memory I believe there is a “Sexy Kilt” contest on Wednesday, parade through downtown Saturday morning, pre-festivities for the less hardcore patrons unwilling or unable to party on Tuesday, and a “Shamrock Shuffle” 5k charity run on Sunday.  My schedule includes the usual genetics Monday-Friday, but Saturday I will open the pub and then have a tub shift extending to Sunday morning.  Then I am on-call again for a noon shift later that day.  Monday it’s back to the lab and my nitrile gloves.  I requested off Tuesday and a few hours Wednesday morning  to work the actual St. Patrick’s Day, and after I will return to genetics from 10:30am on Wednesday-Friday.  Typing it out helps me realize that I have to rest up, eat my Power Bars, and get pumped to distribute green libations like I have never distributed before.

Grab your push-up bra, an extra small tee to assist with tips, and the willpower to pull through, ’cause it’s GO TIME!

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ST. PATRICK’S DAY/WEEK/MONTH

Now for the bread & butter of our St. Patrick’s festivities! As always you know we are the place to be on March 17th, this year will be no different. Our ever popular open air parking lot party will be in full effect by 12 Noon on Tuesday, but for those who have to work we will be ready for you after 5:00. If you are an early bird come by for breakfast and a pint at 8am (that’s when we open the doors) the parking lot will get kicked off with food, Green beer , bottled beer, plenty o’drink and our lovely ladies in their best St. Paddy’s attire. Don’t forget to pick up your very own 7th Anniversary Tee, we went ahead and printed more for sale on this very special of Irish holidays. You know you want one! There will be music from Noon until the wee hours of the morning with Murder the Stout, The Slags & Saturday Night Palsy to close the party out. Cass Academy of Irish Dance as well as the dancers of O’Maioledigh & pipers will dropping by to entertain all. For those of you that answer to the man and have to take it easy on the 17th we have the party for you! On Saturday March 14th , after the parade Downtown we will be having a parking lot party for all ages. The Slags perform at 3pm outside as well as some Irish Dancers. Green beer will be flowing along with bottled beer, a full bar and carnival food for all in attendance. So after the parade ends come join us for good food, great music and lots to drink! Bring the kiddies too!

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Post Docs and Fellows

February 8, 2009 By

They’re not teaching me more about genetics, but they are teaching me about sites popular in Asia.  These are a couple examples of what I was shown after I put my picture into some templates offered at a picture editing site.

Me in a museum...hey, it could happen.

Me in a museum...hey, it could happen.

Look, already happened again.

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Chicken and Tea help The Man go down.

February 6, 2009 By

There are days when nothing goes right, days when you wake up late and have to pedal your little heart out to work so your day ends at 4:00 and not at 4:05.  There are days when you find someone has left your light sensitive Big Dye plates in a brightly lit room, days when the one primer you need is the only one empty and the drawer containing the concentrated primer is frozen solid.  There are times when you can remember buying a breakfast taco but the moment it took to travel from the table to your mouth was hardly memorable.  The only proof there was any breakfast at all is the uncomfortable bloated feeling cutting off all circulation.  These are the times you struggle to not yell at the top of your lungs, “Why is there no hood?  Why can’t I find that DNA?  Where is my plate?  How long are you going to use that? TPS reports?  Why?!?”  Maybe I got a little carried away with the “TPS reports”-part courtesy of Office Space, but I swear that is what it feels like.

There are days when you arrive home at 4:10 instead of 4:05 despite your best efforts to blow that popsicle stand; there are days when you jump in the car at 4:11 to brave the throbbing metropolitan traffic only to discover your beloved debit card and all forms of identification are safe at home.  These are the times where you have to choose between backtracking through rush hour and buying the filet you’ve been salivating over all week or getting a couple pomegranates and using the rest of the cash in your wallet to do the necessary errands.  It’s not a fair trade by far, but life’s not fair.

I’m not sure how you overcome those days, but I cope by celebrating the small things that make me smile, events like 50¢ Boneless Wing Day or my green tea latte time.  I sit back thinking “Damn the MAN!” but then realize without “The Man” my 12 boneless buffalo wings doused in garlic-parmesan sauce or green tea latte with non-fat milk, no foam, and light syrup might not be possible or as easily accessible.  I may loathe spending 8 hours a day with Mr. Man, but I suppose I can momentarily put my feelings aside to make room for some chicken and tea.  Truce now.  Damning later.

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