just in case you missed that, this is a random rant (stress relief) about lab work so i would not recommend reading it... you have been warned... proceed at your own risk??
sooooo... i should be spending my time typing up a grant application but instead i find myself here... the words seem to come so freely... yet with the other task i sit in front of my laptop for minutes on end starring at a blank page with a title on the top... the crazy busy period has begun and i find myself stressing about how much there is to do... upon realising how heavy the work load was for the coming two weeks, i decided to stay back in lab past 5 pm for a few days to give myself a head start... they (being the superiors who reign over the lab) have decided i should take on the task of closing up the gaps of a genome that has never been published before... this entails going through over 100 contigs are designing PCR reactions to join them, followed by just as many sequencing reactions... i do not look forward to this... but i figured if I go through and finish designing the oligos, I will have at least a weeks break from this as the oligos have to be ordered and delivered. which gives me more time to do as much of my other lab work as possible in the next week so that i can present more results in the THIRTY MINUTE INDIVIDUAL ORAL PRESENTATION, right? wrong.. they decided to pile some more work for me to do instead... yay... =.= did i mention i also have a grant application due this week...
goodluck maggie!!!!!
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