This again. I'm getting so bored at work I started to gnaw fingernails. That only means that the stressy time is about to threaten again. I so HATE it, I am so fed up with either complete boredom or so much work that I am literally drowning in it ( Read more... )

Yesterday we ran the first true, real ballast water analyse. We drowned in work, literally. I don't know how we shall analyse samples in a time window of 24 hours, when the samples arrive at noon in our lab and are then already about ten hours old. Two workers need about 8 hours to do 2/3 of all analyses. Huh. What to do with the last third without ( Read more... )

I finally got the updated test plan for the ballast water tests we will run from next week on. Surprisingly, again there were more samples listed for us than we had agreed about. Wah ( Read more... )

What holds me up these days is: FILKCON is getting nearer and nearer! *bounces*
I'm so damn curious who that third GoH might be... *gnaws fingernails*
I am practising my filk stuff, yep. Not only for the spot, but for circles and wishes. *looks to thesilee* I know I will have to sing the "Swans" song this year, really. Have to. Will do. But I have to ( Read more... )

Argh. Who killed my E. coli? There ought to be at least SOME on SOME plates! Maybe the incubator temperature was too high. Blrgh. I have to tell my partners that the zero test cycle we did this week was really a zero thing. Nothing really functioned, neither on the ship, nor on the lab. It's like general rehearsal - when it's bad, the condert will ( Read more... )

Ouch. My thumb hurts from too much use of Eppendorf pipettes ( Read more... )

I'm going to work now to face the trillions of analyses I will have to do ( Read more... )

I think you don't know that my hubby studied biology before he switched to do informatics instead.
But that makes him qualified to be my helper in the lab for the water project!
*big sigh of relief*

Finally I got news on the ballast water projects I can deal with. Ship tests will start in the middle of August, landbased tests of a new mamagement system will start at the end of September ( Read more... )

Since our project start is delayed and all my plans I made for work are thrown into the dust bin, I declare that I have nothing to do at work ( Read more... )