In which there was a massive attack of time management

I have to be in lab both days this weekend, due to a slight misunderstanding when I'm working with a postdoc in which we thought that the protocol took three days when it took four, and I was planning to add on another day to it for something else I'm doing, so it ended up needing five days and we started on Wednesday.

As a consequence I am currently in lab, waiting for the timer to go off so I can start the next round of incubations.

This week's been pretty good, all things considered. I ended up plotting out my experiments, once again, only to realize that there were a few images that I need to have taken that I haven't yet and so had to tack on a few extra hours of quality time with the microscope. There was three hours of minor panic on Wednesday morning regarding some misunderstanding with the vivarium paperwork, but luckily that sorted out alright too. I turned in my final on time, neglected to read my paper for journal club, and took part in the baby shower we (meaning the lab members and I) threw for Wendy. (I suspect my concept of what a "normal" baby shower is is nice and skewed by now, given I've only attended two and they're both lab-hosted ones.)

...and there is still no spring break for grad students. Stop asking.

...though I am taking next Friday off to go see Lucy (and possibly visit that nice botanical garden). I felt fairly justified, considering that I've had to come in on the weekends for something like three weeks straight and that after next weekend I have to come to campus on Saturday, again, to attend a TA training session of all things. (Yep, they do train us. Or at least they do try.) (Que horror?)

I have to present at lab meeting next week. I need to put together my powerpoint slides (I've decided to save trees and not do printouts, given how many images I have.) I also need to do the pilot run on my sequences on Daemon's linux OS sometime this weekend.And possibly clean my apartment again. Somehow I did manage to remember to fill out the Census form that I got and drink tea.

My PI continues to be strange, as usual, though he did bring us earl grey chocolate from Chuao's (yep that fancy chocolate place) which I figured most of you will probably approve. (He also classified RNA extraction procedure as being split between "crunchy" and "squishy", e.g. worms are squishy and flies are crunchy.) (...yeah I don't know, either.)