Vague mess of deadlines and treading in other people's disorganized mess - that is what my life has been reduced to, at this point. I have just spent almost half an hour sorting through emails and other deadlines and things and it's mind boggling how fast the dreariness gets to you, even on a Friday morning.
On the other hand, I'm going home this weekend, so that should be interesting.
Halloween has passed rather uneventfully this year. Not that many people dressed up and the next day I heard people telling each other how they only had TWO trick-or-treaters the entire evening. The labs where the TA cracks truly horrible plant-jokes are on Tuesday and Thursday only, so I didn't get to see whether or not anyone dressed up. I did, however, see three guys dressed up as Tetris blocks in their painted, highly cuboidal cardboard costumes dash into the middle of the bioenergetics lecture, run up to the platform, fit their squarish costume pieces together, bounce up and down a few times, and then dash back out. There was a moment of pause right afterwards and then the professor asked, looking very confused, "Does anyone know who they are?"
Angela said she'd managed to take a picture of that. If I can get it from her I'll post it here.
That pretty much concluded my excitement for the day. That and the fact that I (finally!) ordered the primers. So now it's keeping my fingers crossed that they'll work. If not, it's either back to the designing stage or attempt to do something with enzymes, instead of the DNA sequence that codes for the enzymes.
...at least I'll get to learn how to do PCR.
It's Friday. Cheers.
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