Joy said it all. What a day today! Sometimes you get what you ask for, but it's not what you ask for, and then you're left to scrub out smokey refrigerator gunk for 3 hours.

what a day!

... the end of all of this work just loomed up ahead. I could see my thesis like the top of a big mountain...

:)

This weekend we did something different: we invited a whole bunch of people over for festivities at our apartment. It started when I was talking to Nacho-- hadn't seen him in ages, and thought "well why don't I invite him over ( Read more... )

"Don't try and tackle this thing all at once. Break a seemingly impossible task down into micro-steps, then focus on each one rather than the end goal. Pay attention to the process and you'll be fine. "It's as if my horoscope somehow knew that my committee meeting is coming up and I just spent an hour or two talking about this exact problem with my ( Read more... )

Today Joy and I had Easter lunch and an egg hunt with her cousins at her parent's house. It was fun hanging out with kids, hiding eggs, and getting hit with confetti eggs!

Too bad we didn't have any peeps-- we could have followed the protocol on this site to characterize them. Thanks for brightening up my day, Ty!!!

I had to do some creative food accounting today. Did you know that 1 lb of crawfish yields a little over two ounces of meat ( Read more... )

Ten weeks, and we're still going strong:


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No water.
No DNA gels.
No LB.
LB-Kan plates with the wrong antibiotic on them.
No competent cells.

No competency! Someone please shoot our lab tech.

Sigh. /end rant

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