Have gone through five papers today. Conclusion? That pulmonary hypertension is veeeeerry deadly and phosphorylated tyrosine blots are cool, but doesn't really pertain to anything I'm interested in.
The paper I have to present made me lol by including a paragraph explaining that, originally, they named the protein Fish, but naming it Fish made it really hard to work with in databases and search terms so they had to change the name back to Tks5, which was a clone name.
Creative naming fail.
Have also concluded that it's entirely possible to like someone as a scientists and not like her as a person. Have concluded that the current lab has far too many meetings (four per week, if I'm interested, which thanks, but no thanks, since I don't want to be in the lab on both Saturday and Sunday). Also that the tissue culture room is no longer a safe haven because once the clock hits 10:30 am and people all arrive, there is only one microscope and something like eight incubators, all stuffed in a room with five laminar flow hoods in a configuration that possibly violates six different safety codes and it gets crowded. At the risk of sounding anti-social, I just want to be left myself somewhere without having to move aside and make room for other people every five minutes.
Not to mention I don't get my own pipetmans, and that makes me sad.
Have cells, will induce genes tomorrow and harvest on Sat. May do qPCR tomorrow too, but we'll see. Have constant urges to draw things today but do not have sketch book on hand. Will settle for sketching them out in my head.
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