I am home now, ditching lab after another couple of hours spent with the cryostat. I now have coronal (i.e. frontal), transverse (i.e. horizontal), and sagittal sections all ready for next week. At which point I looked outside, noted the weather (rain), the light (dark), and the people still left in lab (three post docs) and decided I'd rather go home. And eat food. I had to throw away my lunch because I made it with some of the stuff mom got me and I suspect that it went bad, because it doesn't taste right. None of the on-campus stores, save the bookstore, are open and I am not sure if I drove off campus for lunch (free parking this week) I'd still have a parking spot when I come back. The school of med parking lot is THAT full. We have, apparently, a lot of workaholics.
In other news: the PI got me a monitor yesterday! It's giant and black and made people do a double take when they first see it, because no one is used to seeing anything larger than Ivy on my desk. The process of getting the monitor involved the PI walking up to me and asking how I would like to see my stuff on a larger screen, to which I replied that that would be very nice, and then he told me to go with him and we went to the bookstore and hauled back the monitor. It's the fastest acquisition of lab tools, ever. Except for when I have to get the common chemical such as salt and formaldehyde which I can just pick up from the chem stock room.
Am now caught up on the chores that have accumulated since last week (caught up as of this morning, anyway: I was scrubbing out my microwave before I left for lab). Tomorrow is the pre-New Year's house cleaning.
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