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[asimplechord]

I left an agarose gel of a DNA digest running overnight... at the current I'd use if I wanted to visualize it in an hour. *facepalm*

Also, I shouldn't sign up for bandombigbang, right? Even if I could write the Matt Cortez gen Panic fic. Or Gabe-isn't-nearly-as-smooth-and-easy-as-people-think-he-is fic. That's 20k words due, in rough draft form, by 30April. Is that a deadline I could meet?

Aaand, OMG, still giggling over the woman wearing the "apple bottoms" jacket on the light rail this morning.

AND. JFC, LOOK WHAT JUST APPEARED IN MY INBOX:

BELIEVERS NEVER DIE PART DEUX TOUR

Gabe Saporta and Patrick Stump on stage together, Y/MFY?

ETA: Also... any of you Houston ppl going to see Scott Weiland this weekend? Dunno, I sorta wanted to, but I've heard that he's not doing any STP. Like, when the crowd yells requests, he ignores them completely. And I don't like his new stuff well enough that I'd want to hear 90 minutes of it.

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[chiralove.livejournal.com]

I errr ... may have sort of hooked up my gel wrong and ran it backwards ... whoops! *shares your gel woes* :(

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I've done that before. I've done that to SDS-PAGE gels, too, and there is no salvaging them. At least you can re-use an agarose gel... if you don't melt it. :/

[chiralove.livejournal.com]

Yup, it was my native PAGE gel ... complete waste of time. I have sample left, but ... meh. None of my ligations worked, none of my transformations worked, and I have a killer headache ... going home early, and screw the rest of the experiments anyhow. :P

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

There are days like that. Hell, I've had WEEKS like that, where by Friday noon I've gotten to the point where I'm just like, "I'm going home. I am opening a bottle of wine, and I'm not thinking about science until Monday."

[chiralove.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's the only thing you can do! Some people think we're slightly alcoholics, in our lab, but hey, there's always either cause to celebrate something or commiserate over the fact that NOTHING is working. I am self-medicating by having dessert tonight!