I took on the nickname "Murphy's Law Magnet" in my lab. It's kinda funny, but very true, since everytime I did experiments, something (and one time, nearly every single part of the system, albeit during different runs) would go wrong, no matter how closely I tried to follow directions.
It's good to be that kind of person in lab. Helpful too since it makes your protocols robust.
But I feel like that sort of attraction to error has spread into my job.
I'm just seeing patterns because it's hard to comprehend that life being harsh is just random events that just so happen to occur close together.
I'm just having a very hard time lately. And because I don't have anyone around IRL, I come on here. Even if it's just to tell the void I'm not doing okay. It gets it out of my head to at least mitigate some of the festering.














