Today, I came in rather late, but I was still occupied with various tasks to be performed around the lab. I liked the jobs nonetheless. For instance, I was assigned to perform an explant and a PCR reaction that I performed yesterday. Once again, I liked both jobs. It’s better than washing dishes. I don’t exactly know why Derrick and Sophia are so interested in me washing dishes. This is the same “drama mama” who lost it in a procedure because a harmless chemical went into her eyes.
Moving on…the explant was a very detailed and important procedure, because that is definitely where the embryos come from. All I needed was some forceps, scissors, and a sponlike device to transfer the embryos from one Petri dish to another. I was pretty happy applying such dissection techniques to mice. It takes more time to actually prepare for the procedure, admittedly, than actually doing the procedure. We had to clean the tools and the other equipment to try to keep the embryos as sterile so we wouldn’t have to face contamination and thereby preventing tampered results.
The PCR was also interesting. Currently, a gel is undergoing electrophoresis for another photo shoot. However, it was just the same procedure as before. I can’t really state any notable difference, not even an anomaly, in the procedure. It’s routine, that’s all. No more, no less.
Well, it’s a good thing I had my daily, regulated, and miniscule dosage of caffeine today. I’m too tired to be hyper. I stayed up until three, but I took a five-hour nap as soon as I go home. Yikes. *sigh* 34 mg/12 ml is a strong dose for me, but it’s still tasty.
Travis came by today. He took some pictures of me making PBS and pipetting “something” into a tube. I can’t say they were very good pictures. They definitely seemed staged because they were. It lost it’s authentic feel. It did not have a certain je ne sais quoi. Maybe the interns should just give a certain time to Travis when they are doing certain procedures and then he’ll try to fit it into his schedule.
Tomorrow, I’m doing another IHC. Mark’s going to be pretty busy with some other stuff, but he’ll be around to supervise and help when he deems it necessary. I’ll also have to do some more stuff, and probably figure out what to do while Mark is away. He assigned me to design my poster so that Dr. Camenisch, Mark, and I can try to edit and revise more stuff about stuff.
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