What I Call a Full, Rich Day at the U of A....

It's been a pretty interesting time at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy. Mark Stevens, my graduate student, and I have been discussing what we could do for our project. It's pretty interesting, because we thinking of doing several things for our project concerning the interactions of MEKK4 and Filamen-1, and their role in valvulogenesis, the development of the heart. It's been reported to have been involved in other organ systems. Our goal is currently to determine how the interactions benefit or harm the heart. This will be currently tested on embryonic hearts. Currently, we are testing the procedure to determine the immunoassays so that we could perfect the technique for Monday's performance. Then we're going to explant some real embryos and then do the same thing.Anyway, in the morning, a bunch of things occurred on the side. There really wasn't much, except that Derrick, a gradute student at Dr. Camenisch's lab, had an injury playing soccer. In another case, a pregnant graduate student from another lab was panicking in an elevator because it (the elevator) had one of its many breakdowns. Boy, what a strange day.

Too bad I didn't have my coffee. Yes, I was detoxing from caffeine. I really needed to focus, and caffeine made me look like a kid with untreated Attention Deficit Disorder, the really severe kind.Moving on, there were some more things that have happened at the U of A. At the College of Pharmacy (also known as the Skaggs building), I walked out of the lab and met Shiana, who also came out of her lab, coincidentally. We walked...and walked...and walked...I tried calling Andrew but he seemed pretty occupied, and Tiffany walked off with her mentor somewhere. More or less, Shiana and I walked out of the College of Pharmacy and were supposed to be going to the CatTran stop. Shiana, more or less, gave me a trip around the BIO5 Institute (the Keating building), and part of the College of Pharmacy. Daniel then called Shiana, and she admitted that she didn't know where she was going. Finally, I tell her, "We're going the wrong way." She has a small fit because I didn't tell her. She then rubbed it in for about a couple of minutes while Shiana and I tried to meet Andrew and then went into the Purple Route. Unlike the Teal Route, it didn't stop anywhere near the Student Union, but at the Main Library, which was next to the Student Union. I ask her, "Aren't we supposed to stop over there?" She didn't say anything, probably a little testy because I didn't say anything, yet knew where everything was. We miss our stop, and then we have to wait until the driver turns around and drives us to a stop that was a little farther than the Student Union, but a lot nearer than the other stops.

Strangely, the I.Q. place was one of the few places that would not clog my arteries, but still expensive. I just hope that Burger King and that other place would open up so I could buy something over there. There aren't really anymore options other than Papa John's....yuck...too greasy...

After lunch, I took the Teal Route back to the College of Pharmacy and then finished my procedure. It was just incubating some slides. Nothing interesting happened afterwards, but I did finish my procedure. I just hope that there's a lot more to do tomorrow.