In which I should probably go to sleep and call it a day

A bunch of things in no particular order, because it's late on Friday and my brain is more than a little fried:

Workload in the upcoming week -- three readings for the ethics course, two for the presentation I have to give next Friday, the presentation that I have to give next Friday, one paper for the presentation due in June, the presentation due in June, and a written response for the ethics course that is thankfully short, so I won't start on it until late next week.

As for lab right now -- I've five plates of bacteria with eight different vectors (PI decided to do two per plate, not sure why since I made about 30 plates and they last only six months, anyway, before the antibiotics degrade), three different cell lines, and reagents for three different treatments. I've finished a first round this week, with two vectors and one cell line for all three treatments! (Whoo, productive week!) Unfortunately one of the treatment didn't turn out that well, so I'll need to play around with it to get better results (and also optimize another one, but at least that one sort of worked whereas this one didn't). I'll need to go in on Monday to get some things started. I also need to email a whole bunch of people about equipment and paperwork for training, which I have to do next week as well.

Oh and the oil-immersion lens' resolution sucks.

I also have to go to a safety training thing next week. Which should be fun. Not. (Do they make it boring on purpose? I've often wondered.)

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Last night I had a dream in which I had to identify cones of gymnosperms. There were cones from pines, firs, sequoias. They were all in these plastic trays, similar to the ones during the labs in floristics. I remember wanting to ID this one thing as something from cedar of Lebanon, except from what I retain of the image from my dream, upon waking, it doesn't really look anything Cedrus lebani. I wonder if this is symbolic of anything.

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I got this in one of the school-wide flyer-emails this week:

5/22 • 10:00 AM-3:00 PM
Fri, May 22 - EBU1 Rm B706
Ever wonder how a hologram works? Want to make one yourself? Come to our Spring Hologram Workshop and you can bring your own object to image. For more info, see listing at right (Entertainment & Fun).

It sounds awesome. Doesn't it sound awesome? Unfortunately I had both lab and class in that time (not surprising, since that's a huge chunk of time right there) and so couldn't make it. Now I'm tempted to look up hologram-building. And maybe try to make one the next time I have the time & leisure to do so (which is not in the foreseeable future, but well).

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I should do laundry. Maybe tomorrow morning.