September 8, 2021 [80/100] ::: Today was alright. I took care of a few things in my apartment. My bf and I are shuffling rooms so I had to make room for his stuff to fit in mine. Bonnie and I had our co-working zoom session later than normally which required me to put some shade in my window to block out the sun.
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I worked a bit more after than but I feel my motivation slipped from me again, but it's rooted in the fact that I am once again at a point where I don't know what topic to read up. I texted my PI ten minutes after our meeting was scheduled. "Ok, I'm coming", was their response, but yeah. Meeting itself was alright*. There's only going to be one more in two weeks from today and then I'll stop for now and focus on studying. I went outside, got myself some falafel and enjoyed the late summer sun.
* Actually, I, for once, asked a few questions. One was a discussion about a paper that Bonnie recently sent me and that was somewhat controversial. Was interesting to see what PI had to say about it.
And secondly: So there's this moment when I get comments that PI asks me questions and I always feel stupid because I can't answer them BUT
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I never know if these are genuine questions or questions to test my knowledge and see whether or not I am up with the literature. I always felt stupid because I assumed it was the latter, but it turns out that these questions were always genuine and PI really wants to know.
So we had a little exchange bc I came up with an idea to solve on of their questions and they went:"Huh, interesting, yeah, that might explain it to some degree." Turns out, I am not (that) stupid after all.