A day in the life.

[dosciencetoit]

So, I've been exercising a lot lately, which makes me feel better, and strangely sexier, despite the fact that my old pants still don't fit. I'm okay with that, because there are nicer pants in my wardrobe now.

Stuff in the lab is both interesting, and highly messed up. Turns out the reason I haven't been getting some results is because the plasmids the other lab gave me don't encode for any protein. Also, I managed to switch two plasmids around, though I'm not sure when it happened. Worst case I've lost two weeks of work. I also can't seem to get my cells to stick to confocal microscopy dishes, no matter how hard I try, or what cells I use. This is frustrating, because I've gotten some really cool results previously.

On the plus side, my supervisor wants to send me to this fancy "summer camp" for grad students in Jasper this June, and there is this course on translational science (taking research from lab bench to hospital bed, effectively) being held in Brazil in April, and I'm thinking of applying. I don't have any papers, and I might not have any results for an abstract, but it sounds like fun, and it's free.

They're actually both free, which means I might actually get out of the southwestern Ontario (and the country!) this year.

In real life, I met a cute, funny guy who spent Saturday night flirting with me, but I have inside sources who tell me he refers to his girlfriend as "the current one," meaning 1) he is seeing someone, and 2) he's a bit of a douche. It reminds me enough of past situations that I will continue to remind myself that it is not worth getting involved.

Instead, I have a date with a boy from e-harmony, and *fingers crossed* he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who will apoligize for calling my friend a bitch by saying it seems like she consumes a bowl of carnation insta-bitch every morning.

I really just want to sleep a lot, though.