Lab continued

I found out that the post-doc in my lab has renewed her funding and will be here for I don't know how much longer (originally she was supposed to be done in May). This is a post-doc who doesn't speak English, doesn't talk to anybody in lab and monopolizes some of the equipment. Lab is going to be really crowded this summer with two (maybe three) more students joining. At least two of them are pretty cool and do things like speak English and attend pub nights so things should improve.

Life

Research is going fairly well. Slow right now (waiting on wafers so I can get new samples), but going well otherwise
My main problem is my adviser's apparent lack of desire to publish anything - it sucks getting good results, having my adviser tell me to write a paper, making figures and writing a draft, then having my adviser sit on it for a month and longer. Oh well.

crossword

The UCI student paper's crossword puzzle takes me an average of 10 minutes to do. I need to be able to waste more time than that on my various nonacademic pursuits.