Ever had one of those days?
Have you ever had one of those days where everything goes wrong?
Today was one of my longest days at work. The "to do list" was quite formidable to start out with: run two western blots, count and snap freeze cells for the proteomics group, do a kill curve for SHEP cells, in addition to several routine lab management tasks. Componded to it were several "unplanned to do lists" like chasing after people to borrow equipment, troubleshooting, babysitting William while Kelly plated her CES study, and helping Mark as he went solo for his first western. To spice things up a bit, everything that could go wrong went wrong: gels wouldn't run, things wouldn't dissolve, I cut myself, experiments had to be repeated because of inadequate dilutions, experimental procedures were forgotten, and well... at some points, I felt like my brain was shutting down! It was a long day.
But despite the chaos and the exhaustion, today was actually a really good day. There were so many nice little surprises scattered throughout the day that made it great. For one thing, everyone was so nice and helpful. Xueyuan would stop what she was doing to answer my questions, Kim offered to take over some studies, and Ruth even offered to postpone her own research so that we could use her lab's equipment to run our experiments first! Little William's impromptu visit to our lab was also really fun. Well... you guys know about my obsession with little kids. William is about 1.3 yrs old, just learned to make "animal sounds" and how to get into everything that he's not supposed to (but in such a cute way that it just makes you laugh)! Then, Maya, whom I haven't talked to in over a month called and we had an amazing time catching up :) I miss you so much Chiqui! And THEN, my roomates came home and brought me some fabulous looking home-made food! Turns out that we got a last minute dinner invitation and they had waited for me to come back for two hours before they got so hungry that they went ahead. AND, as I thought that things wouldn't get any better, I read Rachel's blog and saw that she had dedicated an entire entry to answering each and every one of the comments that I had left on her xanga! You're such a sweetie girl! Rachel is a perspicacious youth girl that I met in the Mexico mission's trip back in August. She's the one educating me about all the benefits of coffee! ;) Gracias~
Looking back... I feel so blessed. I had a good long day.
Today was one of my longest days at work. The "to do list" was quite formidable to start out with: run two western blots, count and snap freeze cells for the proteomics group, do a kill curve for SHEP cells, in addition to several routine lab management tasks. Componded to it were several "unplanned to do lists" like chasing after people to borrow equipment, troubleshooting, babysitting William while Kelly plated her CES study, and helping Mark as he went solo for his first western. To spice things up a bit, everything that could go wrong went wrong: gels wouldn't run, things wouldn't dissolve, I cut myself, experiments had to be repeated because of inadequate dilutions, experimental procedures were forgotten, and well... at some points, I felt like my brain was shutting down! It was a long day.
But despite the chaos and the exhaustion, today was actually a really good day. There were so many nice little surprises scattered throughout the day that made it great. For one thing, everyone was so nice and helpful. Xueyuan would stop what she was doing to answer my questions, Kim offered to take over some studies, and Ruth even offered to postpone her own research so that we could use her lab's equipment to run our experiments first! Little William's impromptu visit to our lab was also really fun. Well... you guys know about my obsession with little kids. William is about 1.3 yrs old, just learned to make "animal sounds" and how to get into everything that he's not supposed to (but in such a cute way that it just makes you laugh)! Then, Maya, whom I haven't talked to in over a month called and we had an amazing time catching up :) I miss you so much Chiqui! And THEN, my roomates came home and brought me some fabulous looking home-made food! Turns out that we got a last minute dinner invitation and they had waited for me to come back for two hours before they got so hungry that they went ahead. AND, as I thought that things wouldn't get any better, I read Rachel's blog and saw that she had dedicated an entire entry to answering each and every one of the comments that I had left on her xanga! You're such a sweetie girl! Rachel is a perspicacious youth girl that I met in the Mexico mission's trip back in August. She's the one educating me about all the benefits of coffee! ;) Gracias~
Looking back... I feel so blessed. I had a good long day.
posted by Agueda | 1:15 AM
3 Comments:
Well, i'm glad your brain cells didn't fry!
hehe, hope your feeling better, soon, the brain just kind of shuts down after a while, due to a lot of physical stress, and emotional stress... yea. forgot to drop that i hope you're not caffeine addicted yet.... =)
Hehe, it's good to have friends around when you're having those bad days.... it helps clear up the badness! Sho, are you okay? I haven't heard from you for a while, except for the posts on my xanga during the Finals. Thank you for the encouragement. Hope your days are getting better!
Did i tell you that so far, the youth group has at least 4 party's already? It's fun, but i'm getting tired of them. It's just that no-one else is, so yea. I don't really know what to tell them when they tell me to go. *sigh*
Enough about that. I'm praying for that test that you're taking. I don't know if it's past or not, but i hope you did really really really really really well on it. be careful in the lab.... ok? i keep hearing stories from my chem. teacher about those dangerous stuff, and the liquids that can melt your hand and burn a hole in the ground, yea..... be careful!!!!!
hehe. Recieved your card in the mail not long ago. hehe. =P
Alice is currently kind of pissed at me becuase this website works on my computer, and it doesn't on hers. Now i'm scared that she'll sneak unto my computer and go to that website to watch these funny videos of asian popstars being funny. ACK........... *falls*
O yea. I won't ditch school. Even if it's my secret wish that i could. I can't bring myself to walk off campus. Unless it's after school, or if my seventh period teacher lets me go 15 minutes early. Cuz all i do for her is aid for her, basically do the work she assigns me, like take out the trash, recycle the paper, grade homework papers, or tests. XP
HOpe you're fine! I have these irritating allergies that appear like red bumps on my feet. EWW!!!! and they hurt and itch a lot! ARGH!!!!! i really wish you don't have those. It sucks becuase then whenever you close your feet up, they get so itchy and irritated..... it's unbearable. =S
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