Bio professor actually said "nucleuses" today. He makes me very hopeful because it means that getting a doctorate doesn't require great grammar or spelling. At least not in the field of science. It's incredibly relieving to know.
Four hours in the green house today, the first half of which I spent planting eucalyptus. Who knew there were so many different species? I planted Eucalyptus baueriana, E. macrocarpa, lehmanii, and possibly something that starts with a "c" and is quite long. They also had very tiny seeds (about millet size) that are wedge shaped and quite moldy because we had to stick them with damp paper towel in the fridge to get them to germinate (we call that a "treatment"). It's...kind of disgusting, actually, but it works. However, planting it means tweezers and a handful of moldy seeds and while I can be patient, by the end of three species I was starting to feel twitchy (about 50 pots per species) - not to mention the truly awful crick I got in my neck from bending over the pots. The next harvesting starts Friday, I think, and we have...10 x 6 x however many species we have x 2 + the small pots and I think the sum is in the hundreds (oh boy). On the bright side this time I know exactly what to do in terms of root and shoot analysis.
Left at 4pm. Originally I think Mike and Jen were going to stay around for a bit longer, but then this really awful smell came from who-knows-where and everyone decided to call it a day.
Oh look, they've finally decided to post the answer key to the practice midterm. Will go and look into that now.
I spent half an hour thinking about widgets today, for the simple reason that I couldn't get the word out of my mind. Is it normal to get one word stuck in your head?
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