I found out that there is a Zach in my plant anatomy class today. He looks nothing like the fictional character, of course (well, he is Caucasian, but that's about it), but mostly I was just pleased to encounter the name in real life.
Speaking of plant anatomy, I had to take a cross section of a pea sprout's root today, as close to the root tip as possible. Since the slide samples usually need to be fairly thin (within 5 cell layers is excellent) and the roots are colorless (white, therefore containing no pigment or chlorophyll), the resulting 1mm diameter slices are very, very hard to see. Both my lab partner and I each lost a slice today. In the end it was faster to try to make another slice than to look for the one that is probably still out there somewhere - its nebulous presence swirling down the drain with the rest of our lost plant tissues, t-blue dye, and DI water.
Need to do: scholarship application, study for midterm, project (breeding program for potatoes with high starch content, I THINK), problem set (less than 10 pages, cheers), thesis background reading (around 20 pages this week), design degenerative primers (first time for everything, right?), and thesis outline, etc.
Kate has just discovered the joy of fat crystal squirrels ("It looks like a chipmunk! She exclaimed, while I stared at her.) It came along with the one of the Christmas gift catalogs and has made her day - not to mention fat-squirrels-induced glee. I told her that I don't understand her and she told me that I haven't looked at it long enough to fully appreciate it and we wondered whether my amusement at how easily she is amused makes me easily amused as well and... yeah. Happy Thursday, everyone.
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