Thursday of Tiredness....

Finally, a lull. After three days straight of explants, PCR, gels, IHCs, and IMFs, dishwashing, cell culturing, pipetting, and various other seemingly endless tasks, I’ve finally got some downtime and there are two procedures that I’m performing simultaneously, another PCR and an IHC. Repetition is good, even in science. It makes you want to go back to the basics, really.

Yesterday, Andrew sentenced me to 24 hours of “friend probation”. He and Tiffany concurred to the notion that since I’ve been taking small doses of caffeine in order to pep me up, not to go crazy. I don’t know when that sentence is carried out, but he said when he feels like it. It can even be carried out over the weekend, which is what I hope. I don’t know what’s wrong with regulated dosages of caffeine via Coca-Cola. It’s not like I’ve gone hyper yet. He said I probably won’t have to carry out the sentence because I was pretty calm. Unfortunately, I aggravated my sentence, and I’m undergoing said “punishment”, also due to the fact that I “insulted” LBD and used words that completely confused him and threw him into a state of confusion. He has the chutzpah Boy, why has he been so testy lately? He also was rather euphoric today, because he kept spazzing out during lunch today. Ugh…boy…it’s sure to be a great time to alienate him. He was ready to cough up a lung. That would be very disgusting, by all accounts, not just mine. *sigh, drinks a Coke*

Moving on…the lab was actually slightly more enjoyable than lunch. Slightly is going to be the VERY subjective term here, defined, for Andrew’s sake, as “subject to opinion”. I really don’t understand the concept of “friend probation”, really. It’s not academic, and it’s certainly oxymoronic.

Boy, I am really tired. I really need to take another power nap. Power naps are very convenient, because I can’t really stand to sleep for a long time. I’ll get tired EVEN MORE, conveniently. I don’t know. I can’t sleep in Dr. Camenisch’s lab. I’ll get into trouble. *sigh* He’s not a fan of people sleeping in his lab, because it shows slacking off, and he loathes slacking off. He can’t “hate”, because “hate” is such a strong word, and it’s too direct and hateful. “Loathe”, on the other hand, is very, shall we say, legalistic. But, all in all, I like the term “loathe”. Currently, Derrick is imaging a gel that I ran. I asked him to, because I’m starting to lose focus due to tiredness. I really feel off today.

Oh...wow...the gel images came back, and the reaction worked. I'm a little happy now. I feel a little better to the fact that procedures worked out. Tomorrow, I'm going to the Schroeder lab and get some images done for the IHC, then go to journal club. See you all there!

Alex….