Chargers?

The bus stop that goes closest to my apartment is closed these two days, which is a bit inconvenient. The bus that I rode on today kept switching its display between it's route/destination and "Go Chargers!", which I really can't be bothered with to look up at this point, but presumably it's a team of some sort.

Also, I got home at 7pm today. One of the classes ran over time so I had almost no break from 8:30am till 1pm (two classes and a seminar), lab went just after six (tissue culture + bacteria transformation), so the day is a little grueling.

On the plus side: the 5-6 class period thing that is this afternoon apparently doesn't really exist. (It was meant to be an extension of the 10 to 12 class except not.) On the plus side: I really like the current lab -- it's small, the PI is funny (and weird -- extremely weird), and I like everyone there, from the PI (I like weird people) down to the two undergrads, and at the current juncture they appear to like me back. One of them even spent considerable effort to chase down a cell line for me so that I can have a easy line to work with to make my own neuronal cells. (Day: 2; cell lines passaged: 2; papers read: 3; papers to read: 5; times that I started off in one direction only to remember that the equipment I needed is in the other direction: 10+) On the minus side: the PI is extremely weird (read: talks in continuous punch-line style and offers me extensive advice on modern day science...and possibly cooking) and the lab work is likely to be very intense, once I get into it. (I didn't get to see the mice yet. They're apparently in a high security vivarium and the amount of time it'd take for my paperwork to go through is likely to be longer than the duration of my rotation.)

Classes are yet to be determined. They currently involve a lot of papers, at least two written assignments and two more presentations. My education today went: inflammation, cell cycle, phagocytosis, cell culture! I wish there was better transition (or at least a ten minute break between the subjects) but eh, what can you do?

Cheers people! I've gone back to wet lab and all things considered, life is good.