chloroquine's Journal: Twinkle toes

Skipped work Friday afternoon to go visit family halfway across the state. It is nice to see green stuff that isn't contamination on my bacterial plates. I definitely have farming tendencies because anyplace there is good soil, it makes me want to stay there and raise crops. I'm not sure if this is evolutionarily advantageous for this era.

Now it is Sunday and I'm back in lab running the western for the new RNAi attempt. I've never done this before, but most of the rest of my lab has been doing this for a while. I hope that the RNAi I ordered works out. We use Dharmacon for our oligos. I guess they're pretty good.

Tomorrow I'll develop the film that I put down on Friday morning. I hope it works. If both things work, it means that I'm a step closer to a paper. This next week is going to involve long hours. I'm fractionating a big prep of nuclear extract through some columns. The first two take a while and it ends up being a couple of 20 hour days in a row. The nice thing is that I live 15 minutes walk from work, so I don't have to calculate in commuting and all that crap.

I have to go to bed early tonight so I can make it through this week without wanting to throw glassware at my coworkers.