Hurrah for Hanukkah!
Today is December 6th. Do you know what that means!?!
It means that we're only two days away from the start of Hanukkah! This year Hanukkah begins on December 8th. Yay for the celebration of light. I've got my menorah out on the side table in the dinning room and a box of pretty candles next to it, just waiting to be light.
Nick bought me the menorah and candles as an early Christmas gift. (The irony speaks to you, doesn't it?) But it's sooo pretty and it makes me smile.
Okay, There's this bacteriology/microbiology type project I've been working on, and today I finally started to get things sorted out, which is great, because I've got 25 days til it's due, and I have no idea what the fuck I have. The damned things are really quite hard to sort out. But today I found out that I have Gram positive cocci, and Gram negative bacilli. It makes me happy. I can now rule out an arse load of bacteria. Yay for me. Someone buy me a drink.
There's a lot of work to be done though... I have to make more Petri dishes of agar, slant tubes, and agar deeps. It's a real pain, but it's worth it being by the time that's all made and set I should have my bacterial colonies seperated so that I can continue with more tests. Someone made some plates for me but used the wrong kind of agar, and my stuff didn't grow. It wasted materials, as well as my time... I am really worried about making the deadline. Especially because of the lab report that has to accompany the project. This could very well beat my 19 page lab report record... This will probably end up being somewhere near 25-30...
Please wish me luck. I really really need it.
Kisses.
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P.S.
Here's a lil bit on Hannukah. (I stole it from The History Channel's website)
"The holiday commemorates the rededication of the holy Temple in Jerusalem after the Jews' 165 B.C.E. victory over the Hellenist Syrians. Antiochus, the Greek King of Syria, outlawed Jewish rituals and ordered the Jews to worship Greek gods.
In 168 B.C.E. the Jews' holy Temple was seized and dedicated to the worship of Zeus.
The fighting began in Modiin, a village not far from Jerusalem. A Greek officer and soldiers assembled the villagers, asking them to bow to an idol and eat pork, activities forbidden to Jews. The officer asked Mattathias, a Jewish High Priest, to take part in the ceremony. He refused, and another villager stepped forward and offered to do it instead. Mattathias became outraged, took out his sword and killed the man, then killed the officer. His five sons and the other villagers then attacked and killed the soldiers. Mattathias' family went into hiding in the nearby mountains, where many other Jews who wanted to fight the Greeks joined them. They attacked the Greek soldiers whenever possible.
About a year after the rebellion started, Mattathias died. Before his death, he put his brave son Judah Maccabee in charge of the growing army. After three years of fighting, the Jews defeated the Greek army, despite having fewer men and weapons.
Judah Maccabee and his soldiers went to the holy Temple, and were saddened that many things were missing or broken, including the golden menorah. They cleaned and repaired the Temple, and when they were finished, they decided to have a big dedication ceremony. For the celebration, the Maccabees wanted to light the menorah. They looked everywhere for oil, and found a small flask that contained only enough oil to light the menorah for one day. Miraculously, the oil lasted for eight days. This gave them enough time to obtain new oil to keep the menorah lit. Today Jews celebrate Hanukkah for eight days by lighting candles in a menorah every night, thus commemorating the eight-day miracle."
Neat Huh? Now you've all learned a little bit aboot Hanukkah. How fun.
It means that we're only two days away from the start of Hanukkah! This year Hanukkah begins on December 8th. Yay for the celebration of light. I've got my menorah out on the side table in the dinning room and a box of pretty candles next to it, just waiting to be light.
Nick bought me the menorah and candles as an early Christmas gift. (The irony speaks to you, doesn't it?) But it's sooo pretty and it makes me smile.
Okay, There's this bacteriology/microbiology type project I've been working on, and today I finally started to get things sorted out, which is great, because I've got 25 days til it's due, and I have no idea what the fuck I have. The damned things are really quite hard to sort out. But today I found out that I have Gram positive cocci, and Gram negative bacilli. It makes me happy. I can now rule out an arse load of bacteria. Yay for me. Someone buy me a drink.
There's a lot of work to be done though... I have to make more Petri dishes of agar, slant tubes, and agar deeps. It's a real pain, but it's worth it being by the time that's all made and set I should have my bacterial colonies seperated so that I can continue with more tests. Someone made some plates for me but used the wrong kind of agar, and my stuff didn't grow. It wasted materials, as well as my time... I am really worried about making the deadline. Especially because of the lab report that has to accompany the project. This could very well beat my 19 page lab report record... This will probably end up being somewhere near 25-30...
Please wish me luck. I really really need it.
Kisses.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
P.S.
Here's a lil bit on Hannukah. (I stole it from The History Channel's website)
"The holiday commemorates the rededication of the holy Temple in Jerusalem after the Jews' 165 B.C.E. victory over the Hellenist Syrians. Antiochus, the Greek King of Syria, outlawed Jewish rituals and ordered the Jews to worship Greek gods.
In 168 B.C.E. the Jews' holy Temple was seized and dedicated to the worship of Zeus.
The fighting began in Modiin, a village not far from Jerusalem. A Greek officer and soldiers assembled the villagers, asking them to bow to an idol and eat pork, activities forbidden to Jews. The officer asked Mattathias, a Jewish High Priest, to take part in the ceremony. He refused, and another villager stepped forward and offered to do it instead. Mattathias became outraged, took out his sword and killed the man, then killed the officer. His five sons and the other villagers then attacked and killed the soldiers. Mattathias' family went into hiding in the nearby mountains, where many other Jews who wanted to fight the Greeks joined them. They attacked the Greek soldiers whenever possible.
About a year after the rebellion started, Mattathias died. Before his death, he put his brave son Judah Maccabee in charge of the growing army. After three years of fighting, the Jews defeated the Greek army, despite having fewer men and weapons.
Judah Maccabee and his soldiers went to the holy Temple, and were saddened that many things were missing or broken, including the golden menorah. They cleaned and repaired the Temple, and when they were finished, they decided to have a big dedication ceremony. For the celebration, the Maccabees wanted to light the menorah. They looked everywhere for oil, and found a small flask that contained only enough oil to light the menorah for one day. Miraculously, the oil lasted for eight days. This gave them enough time to obtain new oil to keep the menorah lit. Today Jews celebrate Hanukkah for eight days by lighting candles in a menorah every night, thus commemorating the eight-day miracle."
Neat Huh? Now you've all learned a little bit aboot Hanukkah. How fun.