3 months doesn't amount to much when it comes to science... especially when cloning doesn't actually get to look like real results until you use what took you 2-3 weeks to make in an experiment of it's own...  So my 3-4 pages (including graphs) feel a little piddly ( Read more... )

So most likely I'm spending most of today writing this "End Report" to explain where I'm leaving things.  I'm basically transcribing my presentation I gave earlier, so it's easy, and the best part is that I've tried to take the pressure off myself... since even when I half-ass things it turns out better than expected, and I never REALLY half-ass ( Read more... )

I am constantly struggling through work this week, mainly due to a « greener grass syndrome ».  Right now all I want to do is to be somewhere else, be it on vaccation or even working or being in school.  This hiatus of 8-9 hours every day is frustrating beyond anything I can explain.  I am not here for the biology… I am here for the travel, the ( Read more... )

So I’ve been really lax of late with the posting.  I blame it on the turtles… yah, that’s it… evil internet turtles that decided to block my ability to post ( Read more... )

but there is officially NO way i can finish any of this project. I mean seriously. The only thing that got any results was a dinky side project I've been working on. I worked today from 9am-7:30pm and still am thinking about going back in half an hour to finish something so that i can save a day's schedule... bah ( Read more... )

You wanna know what I did this week?  VIRTUALLY NOTHING when you look at the results... and WHY is there hardly anything to show for about 40 hours of hard work?  Oh yah... because SHE told me to use the wrong fucking plasmid, that's why. 

So... I just had a mini-meeting with my boss and well... I find it hard to be excited about my stupid little project here.  There is really no application of Leptospira for the most part... especially not iron transcription factors.  I try to show excitement about my B-gal assays, but seriously... whoop de do!  I learned this in INTRO bio.  Plus, I ( Read more... )

Only 4 weeks left on this project... how insane is that? I hardly believe anything will get done, but we'll see. The weather has turned incredibly gloomy this week though... My silly little forcaster is telling me to expect rain today and tomorrow... and the rest of the week has been flipping back and forth from rain to sun, so it could be bad as ( Read more... )

So, I didn't go to the festival... I know, I do regret it but I was in such a foul mood I don't think I could have enjoyed it.  Hungry but disinterested in food, exhausted from stress, and generally perturbed by french and having to work longer hours than I should have, I balked at any semblance of being social.  However, once Thursday was over, ( Read more... )

you want me to do something?  sure... just ask.  I know as girls we assume everyone knows everything... but seriously.  you hand me a protocol, I'll follow it.  if it says 10mL, I use 10mL.  If it doesn't say "save 1mL" how am I supposed to know?