Confessions of an Undisguised Drama Queen

Thursday, December 15, 2005

A little less gloomy...

Thank goodness that in the same way you can't have too much of a good thing, bad things don't bug you forever.

Today's a MUCH better day. I've gotten over the shit-person (in my previous entry) and things are definitely looking up. Even Christmas is coming soon... I can feel it in the air, and there's no stopping it!

We had lab meeting cum breakfast tea this morning - my prof baked cookies and cake for us! We were spoilt with sweet delights and warm earl grey and peppermint tea... ahh... I've always believed that the festive season brings out the wonderful side of people.

So anyway, I had the opportunity to share about the shitty incident and the shit-person with everyone. While recounting what happened, I noticed that most of the lab personnel had surprised looks - apparently no one really knew about it! I must have been oversensitive with the stares.. HMM.

My prof was also piffed by the audacity of this imposter and I'm quite sure that this matter will be brought up to the higher management in the school.

Yeah man! I hope they find the culprit and sack the shit outta the person.

Shit-person aside, for the first time in my life, I experienced a cold winter.

Almost.

The temperature was winter temperature: 4 degrees; but the falling snow and snow-covered landscapes were only part of my imagination.

Von and I had to do protein purification today and one of the required conditions was to perform the extire procedure (which spans about 4 hours) at 4 deg.

4 hours. At 4, sometimes 3.5 deg in the cold room.

It's a good thing I wore my long-sleeved tee today and jeans instead of my usual 3-quarts. I also had a jacket which I zipped right up, keeping the neck warm, but also made head movements fairly restricted.

However, my poor hands, being skimpily clothed in only a thin layer of rubber gloves, lost all sense of touch in the cold room. Such a situation makes protein purification very, very challenging.

But alas, Von and I pulled through without getting a single frostbite - probably also because we took occasionally breaks and left the room to thaw by walking around and doing jumping jacks (when no one else was around, of course).

Last and best news of the day?

UBLUES WILL BE BACK IN TOWN FOR XMAS.

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[Time of Confession] 10:39 PM
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