This week's been a lot more productive, lab-wise, than I have been in a while (read: before qual took over). I finally got an in situ to work, got some qPCR data, and some E14.5 mouse embryos (the dissection of which is truly nasty). My radioactive reagents have also arrived later in the week, which means that I'll probably be shifting my focus to that the next two week while the material's still fresh (beta particle radiation, in case anyone's wondering). I've also had to collect material from adult mouse brains and got bitten many times in the process, since my strain is, unfortunately, one of the most aggressive (I call them bloodthirsty) strains. Mostly I feel bad though, because Wendy got bitten too while she was helping me scruff the mouse (she's been working with mice for years and years, after all) and she bled a whole lot more than I did with my multiple bite marks. Eventually Dorothy had to rescue us and I learned one more thing to add to the Unexpected Uses for Tweezers list.

We also had to defrost a freezer. The ice build up in it was preventing the door from closing properly and so things weren't freezing like they were supposed to.

At the home front...well when I last posted it was already this week, and not much generally happens during the week. Plane tickets have been ordered. I will be flying out Wednesday afternoon and returning Sunday morning. Christmas plans are in the making. For those of you who haven't heard yet, Lucy and I will be driving up for Christmas. I wonder how well cookies travel. (All of my baking material are here.)

Okay, time to head into lab briefly, and then do the grocery run.