Monday: Starting the 5th Week!

Two weeks until the internship is over?! Wow...I must not be paying very much attention to time. Boy, I'm tired, admittedly. I need my caffeine. I really do need it. Either that or some sleep. Actually, eight hours is too much for me, and I got burnt out really easily. SO...I'm going to work six hours, and take a one-hour break. This'll mean less time on the computer, but I'll be actually better off. Anyway, I'm just tired. I need to wake up with some energy pills or something.

Moving on...Patti and I are actually processing embryos. That's really neat. It's mainly bathing the embryos in various degrees of solution. It's all good and stuff. They are E9.5 and E10.5 embryos, so it's all good. Patti has to process an embryo that is about E18.5 days old, and it's the size of an individual soybean, so it'll take a while for her. She admitted it herself.

Anyway, the problem wasn't really the procedure, but mainly the waiting. I hate waiting. It's like a really long moment of suspense. I dunno. I just think it's a pain. Fortunately, I am kept busy with a bunch of other stuff, such as writing my abstract, doing menial chores for them, reading the Far Side, and a bunch of other stuff. Speaking of which, I hope I can finish my poster. I have to figure out what to write about, though. It's very important that I prioritize my assignments. It'll keep me from short-circuiting.

Fortunately, I finished my abstract. It was revised by a lot of people, mainly the majority of the Camenisch lab. Mark read it and made a few changes, as well as Dr. Camenisch. I have to get started on some other stuff, then, such as the introduction, materials and methods, discussion, references, and conclusion parts. Hopefully, it'll be done.

Tomorrow, Patti is planning to take me to another lab, where she will embed the embryos and help some people cut their embryos. I guess cutting is difficult.