Heavy and light

We had to cover hematopoeitic stem cells today (translation, stem cells that make blood cells) and unfortunately for us, we get the stuff on B cells, which involved a lot of very dense text about immunology that most of us didn't care much about. (We have a grand total of two immunologists in the class.) As a result, I spent two hours contemplating which is worse -- structural biology or immunology? In the end I decided it's structural biology. Immunology, if I went insane (more insane) one day and decide to dedicate my life to understanding it, can actually be interesting. I can see how it can be interesting. Structural biology still fills me with dread. Therefore, structural biology wins. (Or loses, depending your perspective, I suppose.)

I have discovered today that a piece of information someone in my lab has found could mean that I may have to back and re-do everything I've done in my current lab, in terms of in silico experiments. As the PI pointed out, "Such is science." So now I'm sitting at home, drinking hot chocolate as a consolation of sorts. It's Swiss Miss, which is better than the Safeway brand, but still a bit too sweet for my taste. The coffee cart in front of one of the biomed buildings, where I got my cocoa last week, had surprisingly good chocolate. I wonder if I can inquire about the source of it, since I haven't really seen many other brands in stores. My other option is to say "heck with it" and get cocoa to make my own chocolate. It always grows more appealing as I drink more of the store-brought kind. Admittedly, some of them aren't too bad. Though the orange hot chocolate that Lucy and I tried over Halloween doesn't count. It's not only orange, but also tastes nothing like chocolate. Therefore it doesn't count.

Going into the lab tomorrow, though hopefully I won't stay the entire day. Cheers.