Don't sweat over the small stuff... and they're all small stuff.

last night i was working on my slides for my meeting with the bosses later this week, so i was spending hours and hours plotting and replotting a bunch of data points to create some graphs, like the one below... and then it struck me.


Does anybody, beside me, really give a shit about this thing? This thing, amongst other similar (redundant) work, that i've been spending 4 of my most valuable years on? All these things that cause me to lose my sleep, my zest for life, and worst, my once-raging libido?

I looked at it again. Does it fuck? Are my bosses gonna look at it, thump the table, and hail, "OMG, nerd, you've just made a contribution to scientific knowledge that will save the world"?

I'd let you know after the meeting. Meanwhile, it's back to work again.