Attention Wiley lab...
Prepping slides for immunofluorescence...not much fun. Looking at slides for immunofluorescence when the UV lamp is off center...difficult. Looking at slides for immunofluorescence when the UV lamp is centered...beautiful. I think I spent about two hours at a time this afternoon in a dark room with only a computer screen and UV lamp on. I came back to the lab at 5:30 PM, and the following happened:
Dr. Wiley: You're back?
Sharon: My eyes started to hurt.
Dr. Wiley: Ah. Well, congradulations.
Sharon: Why?
Dr. Wiley: You've arrived.
Sharon: Huh?
Dr. Wiley: You have hit a new level - your eyes started hurting.
This could get really bad...I'm still not sure if I'm okay with there only being four and half weeks left for this job. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to get done between now and then. Then again, the month off will allow me to prepare for GREs and graduate school applications.
Funny how I used to think about getting ready for MCATs only a year ago. Now, I've sort of completely abandoned the medical school track and am now thinking about another test and career track. Funny how life turns out that way.
So, my Taq is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Not sure about my primers yet. But, maybe I'll have PCRs to do again (yay!). That and more staring a computer screen for hours. My poor eyes...I sat in front of that computer screen for hours just trying to get pictures in focus. Something's not right about that camera because things look so much better when I look at them through the scope myself without the camera and computer in between. I wish I could take better photos without all these problems. Would make this whole process less painful. I wonder if now that we got the microscope fixed and all, I don't need to turn off the lights in the room (will try that tomorrow).
Well, I shall stop being a complete biology dork now. I have a new mouthpiece for my clarinet - I better get that $350 dollars back I paid for the other five to try. *dies* Such a hassle, but worth it. (Ish bad and should be practicing right now...) My clarinet sounds pretty now...which would be a good thing before the concerto...Ima going to die...nowhere to breathe in that piece.
Heard from some people in my first RPG the other day. I miss the days when I had time for RPGs and writing - not that I don't love being in lab 24/7 and being dorky all the time. FC and DH were places I could go when I needed a break from everything else that was going on. I'm really glad that some of us are trying to stay in touch. If anything at all, the RPG was place where we all met. I hope I keep hearing from some of them.
Ah, well...life goes on. I'm somewhat surprised about where I'm at in my life when I think about it. It's very different from what I ever thought it was going to be even two years ago. Definitely many changes that have happened, even in the past year. Makes me wonder where other people I went to high school and even middle school are...every once in a while, I get some glimpse of that time and it just makes me wonder. It was only ___ years ago that I last had a class/game/concert with them...how time does fly...