In your honour - Week Six

Monday
Today the question was raised as to why there were no longer chocolates in Bio21. We sell giant freddos etc to fundraise for the Post-grad society.

It was then that I became the Bio21 chocolate rep. I don’t do much, but it’s a very important role.

Tuesday
Stupid meeting day.

Spent the morning polishing my essay intro and e-mailed it to PD and PB.

Went to stupid meeting and acquire $90 worth of fundraising chocolate to sell at Bio21. Good fun.

After meetings PD tells me to come chat with him about the essay. It appears he then walked off out of the building and didn’t return until a few minutes before home time.

Get my sequencing back – it was fact, I was right.

But I’m in the lab preparing bacterial growth (from my blue guys who weren’t supposed to be blue) for the massive DNA extraction I’m about to do.

I get out and wander aimlessly to find PD for half an hour before finding him. I pretend to cry, he laughs, we both go home after agreeing to meet tomorrow.

Wednesday
I went to a doctor today and didn’t ask about my foot. I asked about chronic fatigue instead. So I got manhandled by a pathology nurse.

I arrive a little late and jump straight into the quiz (I got to read it today, how special). Then there was a short meeting with PD about my essay intro, which was pretty bad it would seem. Oh well.

After lunch I started work on the world’s most hideous and painful DNA extraction. I spent 4.5 hours on it and it still ain’t done. Grrr.

Thursday
I do believe I screwed up my PCR again.

I went to a dermatologist this morning and said “What’s wrong with my foot?” “Oh that’s easy, it’s granuloma annulare.”

Well, that was easy.

Finished doing the stupid, stupid DNA extraction.

Then, this afternoon was my lab versus the other CESAR lab at netball. My team nickname was Jude “Don’t mess with me” Mitchell.

I played centre. I’m not very fit, but it didn’t matter because I played really well (and that’s not just my opinion). But that’s besides the point because we won. 28-15 or something. Woo hoo.

Friday
When I got to the office this morning I met with a nice surprise. There was a rabbit in the office. It’s name is “Bunny.” It was a very sweet little thing and I spent a fair amount of the day cuddling it.

I actually did manage to have my weekly supervisor meeting this week (even if one of them is still in Texas). During the meeting I was given some bioinformatics work to do as well as the decision to do a new experiment which will require me to do radiation training. Boo.

Oh well, I might learn something interesting from the experiment. But, I personally, believe it comes down to PD’s predisposition to thinking that his experiments are great and can be applied to everything (see back to Bio21 symposium day – everyone does it).

Then there was pub lunch where Emily and I shared a “fat-ass parma” and we didn’t even get the whole thing eaten.

I also discovered the best way to get one of the post-docs to do something for me. I just followed him around until he finally coughed up what I wanted. Maybe I should try that more often….