oops

Heh. Our new water heater was making the water WAY too hot...so upon request I turned it down last night to the setting our old one used to be at.
Which was apparently WAY too low. Poor J had to have a cold shower this morning and thought the new water heater was broken..
He noticed what I did and turned it back up but I feel really bad he had to have a frozen shower...it's no fun at all to start your day that way.

Some days I excel at oops.

News Flash!

While they my look remarkably similar, salt and sugar taste very different.

Particularly in my cup of coffee.

Bleargh

Mmmm...ChIPs

Because I'm always not very observant, I forgot friday was a stat holiday when planning out my work week...so I planned a 3 day Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)experiment...starting Wednesday.

Yeah. Oops.

Sooooooo here I am at the crack of dawn in the lab, doing the last 2 days of the ChIP assay in one, so I don't have to come in tomorrow to finish things.

Longest. Day. Ever.

So.
Tired...

Note to self...xnay on the affeinecay

Perhaps it was unwise to drink obscene levels of caffeine before trying to core and assemble a microarray out of hundreds of little 1 mm cores and wax punches.

heh...oops

Anyone want a milkshake? :)

Whoops...he heh heh

So...um..yeah.
Alarm didn't go off this morning. i know I set it, but I have no idea what happened after that. I slept in a bit too as I was tired from the weekend and staying up to watch Doctor Who.
I feel like a turd when I sleep in. That's never happened to me at my current job, and hopefully no one noticed...working in the lab alone does have it's advantages at times...
Needless to say I woke up this AM to brilliant sunshine and thought "ah what a beautiful day"...which then immediately twigged my brain and I shot up in bed as I realised "wait a minute - the sun shouldn't *be* up yet!". After a lot of running about and arm waving and the odd choice words, I got to the bus and to work about 2 and a half hours late. Not a huge deal, as I'm a good worker, but it does screw up my day. I have a 9 hour experiment to run, which means I am here at work until almost 8 PM finish the experimental run I had to do today.
A hearty boo to that.
So..my friend (whom I was going to spend the evening hanging out with on a day "off" from the pledge drive) is picking me up to hang out at 8ish instead of 5...but now that I'm in the midst of the day and calmed down it's all OK. At least I get to spend some of the evening together with her. I've been looking forward to it for a long while, as she is away a lot for work and I don't see her enough lately.
And so, good people, I must be off to the lab and get back to things.

And..um...tomorrow I will set no less than 2 alarm clocks!

Handy lab tips

1. Do not fill the distilled water reservior by leaving the water tap running unattended in the sink. Yes you're busy, but it only takes 5 minutes.

2. In case you weren't paying attention, reread step 1. Why? Well, the tap could reposition itself and overflow all over the counter and floor.

3. Go and get a mop dumbass

*sigh*

I flooded the wet lab this morning.
Top form today, me...:)