This blog
post brought to you from the chemistry lab!
We are in the middle of searching
for a “home” church in Morgantown. Today
we went to our second church and we think we like it, but I’d like to go to a
few more just to find out if it’s “the one.”
If I have any readers who spent
time in Morgantown and had a church they liked I would love suggestions! Right
now we are just using google to find options.
Aaron’s P.I. in the chemistry
department wants him to have a lot of answers for her this coming week so that
means it is back to the lab today! He
asked nicely if we could go after church so I packed up my computer and am
sitting here quietly while he does his work.
In case you are wondering what a P.I. is, let me tell you! When one goes to graduate school for
chemistry, you are supposed to join a group under a professor who is doing an
area of research that interests you. The
professor that is over that group is called a “Principle Investigator.” They oversee your individual research project
or projects and give you advice and suggest things you could do differently. When
your research is successful, you get to publish a paper in an academic journal
and the P.I. gets their name on it too! They are basically your boss so when
she says I want to know this by Wednesday, you get her the answers!
I am also a science minded person,
but I have always been more interested in biology than chemistry. I took chemistry in school, but I only
understood enough to get by. One of the
only reasons I passed organic chemistry is because Aaron was my lab partner!
No, I did not cheat, but he did help me with my lab reports, and “it’s fine”
because we shared data. (At least that is what I told myself so I didn’t feel
bad about it) A wife should be interested in her husband’s work, and I do want
to know if he feels good about his research, but that is about where it ends. When he starts explaining exactly what he’s
doing, it goes in one ear and out the other, not because I don’t care, I just
cannot grasp the concepts no matter how many times he tells me. I am just going to sit here and let him do
his thing!
So it is Sunday afternoon and we are
both in this cold lab, but you know what? “It’s Fine!” because I am wearing a
$100 flame retardant lab coat to stay warm (safety first!), we are still spending time together,
and Aaron just said the magic words, “I got a Panera gift card if you want to
walk down the street and get us lunch.”
Until next time…
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