Advice?

I don't know whom I should work for. Help me decide. Since this is what I'm going to spend the rest of my life doing, I need lots of input and advice. I don't want to get bored after six months like I did with my thesis.

I think I would really like to work for Aaron Barth. He does research on black holes, which are awesome. He also has a project with Carnegie (CINGS). It's hard for me to gauge what exactly his students do, though. I've also heard that by coincidence he only works with women. I get the impression that that might also be partly by design. It's a joke throughout the department. He's not theory, though, which I always thought I wanted to do. Also, Jonelle is always in her office working, and I don't want to be like that. I should talk with her and Carol about what they're doing. I've heard he can be a bit harsh, but he's always been nice to me, so...

Up next is Manoj Kaplinghat. His website is not very informative beyond the fact that he does theoretical cosmology. Maybe I should send him an e-mail. I'm scared about theory, though, because my programming skills are not that great. I suppose I can always work on that, but I'm still afraid. I should be more confident, generally. I think I would do better on tests. But back to Manoj. I have no idea what he does. Reading his CV and publications titles it looks like gravitational lensing and dark matter, which I am interested in.

Asantha Coray. His work looks interesting, but what I would be doing looks like straight up data reduction. So...boring. Also, he's in charge of the GAANN, and if I lose that it would be embarrassing to work for him.

I also think working with James Bullock could be interesting. I know lots of people working for him, but therein lies the rub. He has a lot of students working for him. Perhaps too many for him to take on more. He does theory, as well. I think mostly numerical simulation, which is not quite up my alley.

Lastly is David Buote. He does x-ray stuff similar to what I did at Carnegie. I'm sort of tired of that stuff. Apparently his last grad student did a horrible job and I've heard he's not taking more students (possibly because of that, possibly because of money). He seems weird.

I'm too tired to continue writing. I'm so tired all the time. If you have thoughts let me know.