success has its price

[asimplechord]

+ One more day, and I can haz fangirls and Fall Out Boys and Gabe Saporta in my face. Why, yes, I'm ignoring the fact that 50c is involved in any way.

+ Most of my department is on a scientific retreat. Since I'm not technically a student, post-doc, or faculty, I do not have to go. Thank fuck. I'd be really annoyed about the frowny faces I'd earn for bailing on the Friday portion of the agenda to go to Dallas for the above-mentioned fangirls and Fall Out Boys.

+ Sadly, this does not mean I am alone in lab, as I had hoped. I was really looking forward to cranking the tunes and rocking out, but the Idiot and the Other Post-doc declined to attend the retreat. >:?

+ My latest experiments involve MCF10A cells. They're an immortalized normal mammary epithelial cell line, for comparison to cancerous and cancerous/invasive mammary epithelial cells. I do not like growing them. They are slow to grow, they stick like mad to the culture plates, and they require an assortment of the oddest media additives ever. (Seriously: horse serum? cholera toxin? WTF? How did they figure that shit out, just randomly throw things they found in the freezer into the media and see what made the cells keep growing? I mean, why would you think that human cells would maybe want horse serum to grow? Not an obvious leap, to me.) DNW to keep using them. Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be using them for the foreseeable future, since they form 3-D structures similar to mammary ducts when grown in soft agar, and that's relevant to the breast cancer model we're studying. :(

+ I twittered this, but I'll post it here, too: Saturday is Record Store Day. Every day is a good day to go to an independent music store, but they're giving us EXTRA reasons this weekend: a bunch of in-store appearances. And according to their myspace, Cobra Starship is supposed to be doing one at Cactus Music. They're at 4pm, but there are other performers there all day. I know not all the Texas crew have early entry to the show at the Race Park, but is everyone going to go hang at the venue early to get barrier spots, or are some people going to go to Cactus while others hold a place in line?

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[catchmelike.livejournal.com]

hm I don't know! I'll probably have to stay at the venue, cause my sister is coming later, since a) she doesn't know if she'll make it and b) she's been sick, so she doesn't really want to stand in the hot sun all day, and I'll have to be at the venue when she gets there.

Also, I am maybe grabbing Jennifer tonight, so that we don't have to make the extra detour in the morning to get her and can just head right out of town. I don't know what time you want to head out, but I'm all for leaving super early, cos I'm crazy like that. :( (lol, we should maybe be discussing this via text, huh?)

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

M'kay. Seriously, I can leave whenever tomorrow morning. Just remind me of the address, b/c I remember it's right off 518, but not the cross-street.

Also, I just realized that the in-store is pretty late, and I think even with EE, ppl have to be there by 4:30pm, so I'm guessing that'll be a "no" in the end.

[catchmelike.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's not right near the venue, either, is it? The Racepark is pretty far north, and Cactus is right near Downtown.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Racepark is up off the Beltway on the northwest side, and Cactus is right in midtown. NOT CONVENIENT. I wonder if that will affect whether Gabe et al. hang out after the show - if they've done a bunch of m&g stuff at Cactus beforehand.