Another wasted day

[trampolineboy]

After spending the whole day on a competent cell prep, the styrofoam box I carrying them in broke while I was coming down the outside staircase, casting the neat little frozen eppendorfs over a vast area of questionable sterility. Well, I can always do it again...

Anyone care to remind me why I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing this?

Comments

[foxe]

Waaaah!! *is sympathetic*

But, you know, if you just wiped down the outside of the tubes with ethanol, you'd probably be ok - epps are fairly contamination-proof, and you'll (presumably? unless you are using some special sort of selection?) be selecting your transformants with antibiotics anyway. No help now, I realise, but maybe for next time.