After seven day's worth of "meme-ing" here I am again, ready to blog about the inanities of my day. Today's little blurb is brought on by the animal transfer this morning, where there was enough confusion with the vivarium staff to warrant two trips to the vivarium while we sort out the animal IDs (and yes, these are the animals that take six months to get). There was some degree of communication error between the two people in charge, which resulted in the staff writing down "1 animal per cage" instead of the animal's ID number. Luckily, the delivery people were late so we managed to get everything sorted out before the animals got shipped. Then there's the issue of the undergrads in our lab who tend to forget to write down items on the "to be ordered" board when they take the last of something, which resulted in me discovering, mid-experiment, we're all out of the coverslips I use to mount specimens. Round off that which the email to my PI about a certain protocol in which I briefly mentioned at the end, as an aside, that it's been a really long time since I submitted my thesis committee for approval, and is it supposed to take this long?
Turns out that, guys? My PI had already received a letter approving my committee -- guess when? July 28th.
Why do people not tell me these things?
Given that today's August 26th, I am not going to be doing the candidacy exam before the end of August. So if I've spent the in-between-experiment breaks for the past few days frantically putting together figures for that grant that the PI wants to try for and these two days sorting out the transfer paperwork, guess what I'll be doing in the next...oh foreseeable future? (Admittedly these days I don't see very far.)
Well, cheers.
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