Comments | malcubed: Kill me now

malcubed

Kill me now

Nov 14, 2008 13:17

Injected animal with terminal dose of anesthetic at 9:08 AM.
Gave animal booster injection at 12:50 PM.
Animal is still unconscious at 1:18 PM.

Don't you just love that moment when you realize your only hope to get out at a reasonable hour is that your animal suddenly up and dies before you get your data?

Le sigh.

fun with urethane, research, grad school

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malcubed November 15 2008, 01:57:01 UTC

For the most part I'm pretty okay with it, although clearly less so than some I work with (if I had a dollar for every time JP has told me "If the mouse starts squealing, just close the door and keep going as fast as you can..."

My main source of stress/frustration/borderline bipolar is pretty much the generic bane of grad students: experiments going meh and lack of results. I know that in the long run I will eventually do enough of these surgeries to A: get good at them, and B: actually get results, but right now I'm pretty sick of having to show up by 8:30 so I can prep for a surgery that wouldn't be over until 5 or 6 if I'm lucky... and I'm usually not lucky. Bleh.