Right now I've one reaction running in the machine which will take three hours, and my other reaction is waiting to go into one of those giant centrifuges (size of a laundry machine) which won't be free until 11:30. This means that I have about thirty minutes right now, presumably to read the paper that I've been handed and perhaps to get ahead on my project. ...Except I have no motivation of whatsoever to start that, since the project isn't due until the end of the quarter and I still haven't even gotten through half of the lectures yet, which are required for me to pick a topic on.
That, and the paper I have to read isn't that interesting.
I worked with radioactive materials for the first time yesterday! It was dyed a florescent green, possibly to remind us that it is radioactive (otherwise the liquid looks the same as water and dozens of other reagents in the lab). A labcoat was required in case of contamination -- and contamination did happen when we discovered that the outside of a container that was supposed to be "clean" was contaminated. Then followed a massive sweep to try to find the source of contamination (kind of sad, since I only used 0.1 mCi). For some reason we had one spot on the table cover that was very radioactive. I wonder how it got that way.
The radioactive freezer was kind of sucky. Okay, make that very sucky.
I had a lecture on antipsychotic drugs, antidepressant, and CNS depressants (sedatives and the like) today. It was supposed to give us an idea of the different mechanisms of drug action as well as the differences between the drugs. Aside from developing a new-fond respect for barbituates, the rest of it was a little disappointing.
Iwanttea.
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If a superhero with a weird mutation shows up in San Diego next week we'll know which lab to blame.
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