Dear all,
I cannot keep up with the amount of random one liner comments in twitter, it seems, and the random words followed by exclamation points are building up to be an impenetrable wall of inside-jokes at this point. It's not that my schedule is any busier, per se, but after I get home and finishes all the chores I tend to spend the time either reading or drawing things in the 30-60min that I have left, so the blog just does not get updated, no matter how well meaning I was on the bus, on my way home from work.
I am currently typing this up while waiting for my eight samples to thaw. There're quite a lot of experiments today, especially since I'm hoping to get everything wrapped up by 6pm tomorrow evening so I won't have to be in lab (again) this weekend. The new quarter commenced with meeting up with some of my classmates in the genetics journal club (basically, aside from journal club, possibly seminars, and a few alcohol-filled social events that I avoid, we all disappear into our labs and don't see anyone for the rest of the year), where socialization began by sharing stories of the undergrads we've had to train over the summer. I, apparently, am exceedingly lucky. For one thing, mine never set anything on fire. For another, we actually got along. Though the fire thing was a bit... . In either case, for those of you who are doing bench work, the lesson to be learned from this, I gathered, is to always keep an eye on your undergrad when doing anything involving either ethanol, isopropanol, or phenol. (Oh God phenol.)
I will also share the fact that my current box of lab gloves are bright blue and says "grasshopper grips" on the sides, which probably amuses me more than it should.
Okay, the samples should be somewhat thawed now, I hope.
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