* lab sampler
Posted on May 12th, 2007 by maitreya. Filed under Cross Stitch/Embroidery.
I’ve been working on this sampler for a while now, and finally mounted it the other night over at Becket’s house. The backstory is, a few months ago I was complaining about a lousy review one of my papers got. It was so unreasonable, blah blah blah. In the middle of my rant, a good friend and colleague gave me the best science career advice ever: get used to it. All the bad science things that happen, lousy reviews, experiments that don’t work, personal conflicts, etc, there is nothing you can do about them. So get used to it. Best. Advice. Ever. I used to get upset over this kind of stuff, but now I just say get used to it. It had to be embroidered into a sampler.
The design inspiration is the building my lab is in. There are these funny louvers that are supposed to cast a DNA-like shadow, and the prevailing color scheme is burnt orange and dark dark brown. The louver pattern took a bit of trial and error to get the right aspect ratio, but I’m pretty happy with it. Haha, now I will tack it up on my wall to scare the grad students.
photo credit to Becket
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May 12th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Sounds like good advice for life in general. ;)
May 13th, 2007 at 9:10 am
I got the ‘double helix’ reference straight off! God, I miss science. Your lab building is far far more gorgeous than anywhere I ever worked.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:14 am
ha! makes complete sense – love it!
May 13th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Oh I LOVE it! I’m a genetics grad student, so that advice definitely applies to me. Think I’ll have to make something like yours to put up in my lab!
May 13th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
I really like how you worked this architectural pattern into needlework! So cool.
May 14th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Love it! I’m in an old lab from the 60s but I get to look next door at a pretty lab like that.
May 15th, 2007 at 2:13 am
it’s brilliant!
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:52 pm
alternative (though negative) sampler sayings:
“why is my gel crooked?”
“rats behaving badly”
“scooped”
“cv fodder”
May 30th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
I’m in the middle of finishing up some manuscripts (looking ahead to applying for full professor in a couple of years – gotta get some pubs out). I think I need one of those samplers.
Except, I’m an ecologist, so I’d have to have mycorrhizae or prairie plants on the border of mine.
February 1st, 2011 at 2:05 am
Greetings from Idaho! I’m bored to tears at work so I decided to browse your blog on my iphone during lunch break. I really like the info you provide here and can’t wait to take a look when I get home. I’m shocked at how quick your blog loaded on my mobile .. I’m not even using WIFI, just 3G .. Anyhow, very good blog!