For Godot

I spent the day waiting. I waited for my reactions in lab (and then I realized I forgot to add the enzyme which means no reaction... I'm pretty genius at 7:00am), I waited for my supervisor, I waited for someone to send me data, and I waited for my laundry. How much time do we spend waiting? I wish I could make things happen so I can move on with my life, but there's only so much yelling you can do at a laundry machine.

S: "So what do you do at your labs--simply?"

J: "Filter, kill, and heat things, pipet, analyze data, repeat"

S: "What? That's it?"

That's what it is if you want it simply. Oddly enough this applies to every lab. -_- My life is mundane, let me be. Here's a snapshot into what goes on at the Neurology lab. Freaking... 100Hz microelectrode data... I spent so much time changing the baseline for every individual EPP. It might seem irritating, but there are days where I don't want to move and data analysis + earphones/iPod are the way to go.

If you can guess what this is you are a genius! One of our samples got contaminated at work and we were trying to figure out what it was: Nostoc, also known as... algae. You can even see the heterocysts! :) This made me happy for some odd reason. I'm such a nerd.

Does anyone sleep on a tempurpedic bed? I'm really afraid of those things. I know it's super expensive and a supposed luxury, but I don't think I could ever sleep on one permanently. Don't you feel like you're getting eaten by a squishy monster? Someone gave me a pillow as a present, so I thought I would try to use it, but I felt like I was going to suffocate.