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The unfortunate thing about working with a postdoc is that usually postdocs, like most other people of my acquaintances, turn to be Not Morning People. Therefore, despite of the fact that I purposefully stayed in for 30 minutes this morning I still had to wait for about an hour before the postdoc came and showed me where the qPCR reagents are. (Attempts to attain information about the whereabouts of reagents before I actually need them are usually met with abysmal failure, as postdoc does not seem to trust me to do the experiment on my own without her being there to show me where the stuff is and give me a perfect walk-through.) (Although this is understandable, currently the only mistakes I've made are the ones that the walk-throughs wouldn't have helped with and everything else just resulted in unnecessary amounts of waiting.) Then again, I've suddenly realized, now I have a valid excuse to not have conclusive data by the end of my rotation.

Am currently sitting outside again. Postdocs have taken over the area where I usually work and the PI is having a Meeting With People in the area where I usually stay, when I'm not working.

Our final assignments were assigned today. I was made aware that I have to write two papers and take one take-home exam. I'm more worried about the papers than the exam, since one of them is supposed to be a mini research proposal. I've never actually done a serious research proposals (by which I mean more prose-like and less...uh...bullet points or anecdotal). I expect there will be a lot of reading involved (well the number is currently at six papers and counting) on top of my class papers. And the presentations.

Have made banana bread over the weekend, as bananas from last week have acquired too many brown spots and are not looking very appetizing anymore. Banana bread very good though. Attempt to bake chicken has failed. Kate's given me some tips though, so there may be hope yet for the future. Of chicken baking. Or something.

I've moved my pot of narcissi out, since the light deprivation indoors has given it a serious case of plant starvation and it's looking sickly. Aloe needs to be transplanted into a larger pot. I have no larger pot. This is probably going to get tacked on to the end of my "to-do" list which will, in reality, not get resolved until summer.

The wireless is particularly sucky at the library today (finals are starting, med students have trooped in to cram for last midterm / early finals with their laptops). I want tea. I also need to vacuum my place this weekend.