New moderator today. He was a more talkative individual, and between him and the course instructor (who did not appear to suffer afflictions of psychological origins today) the class was kept well entertained and I was saved from having to talk too much.
In fact, they took up so much time that I was a little behind on time and was ordered to rush through two of the figures in my paper. I did get picked on for my summary slide, where I wrote "complex forms" instead of "complex is activated" since based on the paper it's not possible to know whether or not the protein complex does form or not, only that it's activated at the time point of interest (it could be still in a complex, just inactive the rest of the time). All in all though, I got off fairly lightly. My presentation is over and I say thank goodness and good riddance.
My cells are growing very slowly. If they don't grow faster I'd be going through my entire rotation without accomplishing anything except getting the sequence for part of a protein.
I got a new USB stick today, since my mp3 player is still out and my other USB drive that I tend to carry around with me is only half Gb and has lost three gel electrophoresis photos in as many days. The campus bookstore happened to have a sale on Kingston datatraveler today and so I got a 4 Gb one. (They didn't have many types -- it was either that or a white and pink one / white & greyish one. So I got a dark blue & silver one that looks like the one in the photo. Zach's favorite colors!) It is shiny.
Learning to use the new camera on the microscope tomorrow! Also up: more cells.
(What's the temperature like where you guys are? It's insanely warm today here. I'd given up on my sweater by lunch time and was wandering around in my shirtsleeves.)
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Mornings and evenings are in the 60s, days in the 70s. It's windy this week though :P
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