Friday Fun: Adventures in Small Business

This has been a looooong week.

I often modify tweets with hashtags #startup or #phdlife, to give readers a flavor for just how chaotic, random, stressful, yet strangely rewarding life at a small company can be. This week, though, takes the cake - here's a brief breakdown of the last four days:

• Haggled with Enterprise Rent-a-Car; planned an equipment-gathering "road trip"
• Set up safety training
• Toured a now-defunct medium biotech for info on soon-to-be-auctioned assets
• Arranged for large instrument crating and cross-country shipping
• Year-end software updates
• Convincing colleagues, granting agencies, and local gov't that, yes, we really are that small
• Scheduled an electrician to hook up (large, heavy) new toy
• Writing, writing, and more writing

Reflection. Seemed apt.

Oh, almost forgot to mention: chemistry.

Happy Friday,

SAO