Comments | molliebatmit: Still at lab

molliebatmit

Still at lab

Aug 05, 2005 18:07

It's 6:15 PM on a Friday night, and I am still. In. Lab. And it's raining buckets and thundering and lightning. Woot pathetic fallacy ( Read more... )

stress, undergrad lab

Comments 5

halolizzrat August 5 2005, 18:34:24 UTC

i hear ya.

aloha_moira August 5 2005, 20:46:13 UTC

If I had a camera, I'd take a pic of the Ti70 bottle that I, er, rendered completely useless during a prep last year - the bottle got stuck in the rotor and I had to autoclave the whole thing to get it out. Needless to say, the partly cleared cell lysate inside looked pretty nasty after that trip. So I kept the bottle. :)

And I definitely ran a Western backwards yesterday. Turned out not to matter much, as our developer is broken, but still...

molliebatmit August 5 2005, 21:03:07 UTC

Yeah, I sort of think it's more the "Oh God, I'm a retard" feeling rather than the actual lost experimental results.

And of course the applying to grad school compounds it all -- like "how do you expect to survive in graduate school if you can't even boil protein samples" -- which I know is pointless, but that doesn't mean I'm not thinking it.

Blrgh.

eatmewithcake August 5 2005, 22:13:38 UTC

I found you through the lab gripes community, and I friended you (I hope you don't mind). I love biology dorks (I'm one too!)
Anyways, I totally admire your ability to not get completely PO'ed about stuff like that. I over-ran gels constantly, and at one point it got so bad that I just had to sit and watch my gel the entire time, because I just *knew* that it would run off into oblivion otherwise. But, hey, Friday night in lab? That's dedication! :)

molliebatmit August 6 2005, 07:05:20 UTC

Hey, I'm a fan of friends. Added you back.

I think the major reason I didn't get pissed about what happened yesterday might have been what happened on Wednesday (which I wrote about in lab gripes)... I think I had used up my quota of rage for the week.