It is, unfortunately, a Wednesday.
I intensely dislike Wednesdays.
All things considered though, the events today haven't been all that bad. The pacing of things have picked up, certainly, but that has more to do with the progression of the quarter than Wednesday in particular. At this point I'm pretty sure I'm just biased against the day for the principle of things. It would probably be better if I'm living with a bias for a specific date such as Friday the 13th, for example. Those come along far less frequently and would probably lead to a much more productive life than one where I spend every Monday dreading Wednesday.
But then, you know, that's just one more of my many idiosyncrasies.(Did you know that "idioplast" in botany means a cell that looks different from the cells surrounding it? I'm guessing that "idio" is the root.)
As far as lab work went, I got around to designing primers today which, to put it more accurately, wasn't so much me "designing" the primer as me selecting conserved regions of DNA, counting the nucleotides and combinations, and plugging it all into an online program (123 Genomics is your friend). There was some confusion about the sequence because one of the sequenced genomes was the whole genome, so I need to find out which part of it was the code for the enzyme that I needed. The whole process took somewhat longer than expected and I had to literally run off to my bioenergetics class. I missed the few vacation photos that the professor usually would show in the beginning of each lecture but that's okay, Angela told me that we had birds today, and boobies are no where near being my favorite bird (though you have to give them credit for having a name that is based on the word for "crazy person").
I found cat hair on my desk today, which is puzzling since I don't let Simba into my room. It may be one of those mysterious cat things. Or else Simba has learned how to walk through walls which, although it'd be pretty awesome, would also be kind of creepy and possibly highly annoying. Do I really NEED to be poked awake at 4am in the morning? I think not.
FYI: I just realized today in my plant genetics class that people outside of botany / horticulture / agriculture related fields, who don't grow things much, probably don't know that red bell peppers and green bell peppers are the same thing. Yes, you heard correctly, they are actually the same type / cultivar of plant. When the peppers ripen they turn from green to red. The professor said that that's why red bell peppers are more expensive -- because they have to stay out in the field longer and so run a higher risk of being damaged (bugs, diseases, etc., i.e. pathogens). She also said that that's why red bell peppers are generally sweeter which, personally, I've never noticed, but then I don't eat raw peppers that much and she does, so I'm going to take her word on that.
2 comments:
I knew about the peppers!! *stupidly proud of this* And DUDE, of COURSE the red ones taste much sweeter, there's no way not to notice the difference. I used to like them a lot when I was a kid.
And uh, the cat hair could have just been carried over through the air into your room when you opened the door or something.
Umm I actually think everyone knows about the peppers. It's one of those common knowledge things. Though we never had green bell peppers in Russia, only red and yellow.
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