Just some Tuesday

This morning I found it difficult to head into work. I have days where I just don't feel like getting up, but today I struggled to go into work...and I am a workaholic. Instead, I spent time at the computer researching terrible movies for a friend's competition.

The University of Chicago Medical Center has been a sea of negativity lately:
1) Yesterday it was anounced that the hospital was going to lay off 450 people with more to follow. Large swafts of the hospital were already falling into a state of disrepair and since service workers are the first to go, it will get much worse.
2) Chicago was revealed to be #3 on the most miserable city list. I think poverty stricken areas, like the area that surrounds the Hospital, are usually the areas most likely to feel the deepest misery. When I am with Lee or in the loop it feels like a magically wondrous place.
3) My research has been going very poorly. Often, I don't feel like I do anything, but it is because I am waiting on something all the time. The truth is we don't have the money in the lab to conduct high-level research. The Primary Ivestigator is an incredibly brilliant guy and he is working tirelessly on grants, but there just aren't any to be had...although that is supposed to change with the stimulus package.
4) Tuesdays and Thursday I am slated to leave and return >15 hours later...just in time for bed.

I think all of this might be getting to me a little bit. I am very glad that I worked here , if for no other reason than to recognize that it is not where I want to go to medical school. It was my first choice.
At this point I am just planning on eeking out the next few months in the hopes that I will begin medical school and move on to something more intellectually challenging and less emotionally taxing.

-JohnMark