chloroquine's Journal: matheraf

So the work continues apace. I'm here at work waiting for my bloody column to do its thang. It is doing its thang exceedingly slowly though. My work day started this morning at about 9:30am and it is now in the 1:30am region. I'm a little bit tired.

We're starting to have an idea of the possible proteins involved with our protein of interest (POI) and there are some interesting candidates. Every time the guy who does the protein sequencing for us stops by, I drop whatever I'm doing and run over to look at the paper. So far there are three interesting guys to look at. I've already ordered antibody for one of them, the others will have to wait for a while.

I can tell how excited my boss is because he's told me I'm not allowed to tell anyone what the interacting proteins are. So I've been going around with one of those shirt eating grins on my face all day. I know it is evil, but "I know something you don't know." Hee hee.

I also just found out that this fairly well known scientist across the way from us (he's HHMI funded) has a secret addiction to reality television. He's an older man with an English accent, who is well respected for his work. Apparently he hasn't watched television in the past twenty years, but lately he's been lured into watching Joe Millionaire and (even more shamefully) Hot or Not. He's been freaking out at work because he's afraid that his wife and kids will find out his shameful secret. I can see the Jerry Springer show now, Famous Research Scientists Dirty Little Secrets.

Back to work now.

Re:HHMI guy?

[chloroquine]

Nope different guy. Less mice.

Re:HHMI guy?

[chloroquine]

Nope and nope again. I keep thinking I should give you clues, and then my evil side kicks in ...
The column was painful. I was gravity washing resin and lets just say that it would have been good with a little higher g value. I'll know the results today. But it is only a preliminary result - I have other columns to run next. And miles to go before I sleep.