When boredom hits while in lab
I've come to realization that nearly all my posts are put into a nice little LJ cut except a rare few. Not sure whether to think that's odd or not, but moving along.
I'm not even halfway through the summer here, and I'm starting to get bored. It's bad. I'm one gel away from finishing those expression profiles for THD2. I'm a few pictures away from finishing the cytology in vegetative and starved states for mutants without THD2. And, I can't do much else until I get:
- E2 to be a full knockout (and it was supposed to be, but it seems it was not in a recent PCR screen) for mating mutants without THD2...this could take months
- more Taq Polymerase for expression profiles...maybe it'll be here tomorrow?
- more primers to find the 5' end...another week if we're lucky
Until then, I'm just sort of fiddling around, trying desperately to find things to do. Yes, I could leave early for once (this is all considering that I get to lab earlier and then leave later than everyone else), but I came to Claremont to do research and to work. I suppose I could start writing things for my report or even the possible article on THD2, but that's no fun. All I'm really doing is just waiting for things to arrive so I can do something.
Maybe I really do need a full day off or something because I'm starting to get annoyed with things around here: certain labmate, a certain lab in the building, lack of things to do, overly busy boss. It could just be the day or the week - wouldn't know. Starting to feel like I get shoved aside because I sort of know what I'm doing in the lab and can do most procedures on my own. And that's great. I can do my own thing and not have constantly ask my boss about specifics, but there gets to a point when I do need help, when I don't know where I'm going next. Or, when I'm actually doing something (my one thing left for the day), I get kicked off midway because someone else needs to use it. Of course, it's not like I can refuse when they needed to get it done...though, my slides did end up drying out by the time I got to use it (they said 10 minutes...it was 30 minutes).
Bah, I'm just whining. Not much I really can do about getting shoved aside. It's what I get for not doing thesis and for not needing help with most things. And the lack of work to do...well, just have to keep doodling around until something comes up. The Taq better be there tomorrow so I can actually start doing things again.=
I'm not even halfway through the summer here, and I'm starting to get bored. It's bad. I'm one gel away from finishing those expression profiles for THD2. I'm a few pictures away from finishing the cytology in vegetative and starved states for mutants without THD2. And, I can't do much else until I get:
- E2 to be a full knockout (and it was supposed to be, but it seems it was not in a recent PCR screen) for mating mutants without THD2...this could take months
- more Taq Polymerase for expression profiles...maybe it'll be here tomorrow?
- more primers to find the 5' end...another week if we're lucky
Until then, I'm just sort of fiddling around, trying desperately to find things to do. Yes, I could leave early for once (this is all considering that I get to lab earlier and then leave later than everyone else), but I came to Claremont to do research and to work. I suppose I could start writing things for my report or even the possible article on THD2, but that's no fun. All I'm really doing is just waiting for things to arrive so I can do something.
Maybe I really do need a full day off or something because I'm starting to get annoyed with things around here: certain labmate, a certain lab in the building, lack of things to do, overly busy boss. It could just be the day or the week - wouldn't know. Starting to feel like I get shoved aside because I sort of know what I'm doing in the lab and can do most procedures on my own. And that's great. I can do my own thing and not have constantly ask my boss about specifics, but there gets to a point when I do need help, when I don't know where I'm going next. Or, when I'm actually doing something (my one thing left for the day), I get kicked off midway because someone else needs to use it. Of course, it's not like I can refuse when they needed to get it done...though, my slides did end up drying out by the time I got to use it (they said 10 minutes...it was 30 minutes).
Bah, I'm just whining. Not much I really can do about getting shoved aside. It's what I get for not doing thesis and for not needing help with most things. And the lack of work to do...well, just have to keep doodling around until something comes up. The Taq better be there tomorrow so I can actually start doing things again.=