I want

a stiff drink

a hot bath

a nice walk

and dinner

God, what a day. I don't like drama. I don't deal well with emotional people. Today I had to deal with labmate from hell (the most congenial, reasonable, calm person in our lab approached her and explained that she couldn't ask the entire lab to spend 3 days cleaning her lab place).

She later accused me of going behind her back and sending one person to talk to her. (Now we had decided that would be the best way to deal with things-email can get a little heated and the whole lab telling her she's fucking insane didn't seem like a good idea either). She was also really upset at me that we had cleared a bunch of junk out of her way without telling her.

Then I had office hours with one student who just came in weeping and wept for an hour while doing problems. Finally, I had an unexpected meeting with a rather confused student (edit to add: this was a random student from an entirely different department.) about his research who was totally terrified of me.

I definately do not feel like a people person today.

Update: So after I posted this I sent off an email to all my students directing them towards some old quizzes they could use as study aids. One of them just sent me a thank-you. It's amazing how nice that sounds when you feel just miserably wasted.

So say something nice to someone.