Rain's finally arrived in SD and boy did it arrive. I woke up last night from the sound of it when it started, it was pouring by morning, and by lunch time the outside looked like we're in the middle of hurricane. (I did not know we can even get wind like that down here.) The ants on the ground level have already started their emergency-flood evacuation, so that by the afternoon we have...ants. And also fruitflies. My labmates and I could not figure out where they come from, since no one on our floor works with Drosophila. The current theory is that one of the labs from upstairs had a few jail-breaks and our intrepid arthropod explorers found their way into the ventilation system (the alternative theory means that they have managed to successfully navigate the many doors and exits/entrances in the lab building, which people frequently still cannot do, so this theory is somewhat less likely). (Also, as far as I know, the flies do not have access cards.) The flies we found have dark brown eyes instead of the normal red color of the wildtype animals, so they're probably some sort of mutant.
Dorothy put up the Christmas lights in lab today. It went around the thermocycler area and across the top of the chromatography fridge. They were very shiny.
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It rained all day yesterday here too. Today it is sunny everywhere, but quite cold.
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