Just a few seconds to say . . .

. . . AAUUGGHH! OK, I'm feeling much better now.

I had a physiology exam on Monday that SUCKED -- was too long to satisfactorily complete in 50 minutes. I finished it with 30 seconds to spare, but I didn't get to go back and add anything to my answers to make them better. Spent the majority of Tuesday in the lab watching Barney and Chad set up a gel to try for what seems to be the twelfth or fifteenth time to elucidate a particular protein from a particular fish cell line. Have I mentioned there's a REASON I don't like molecular stuff? So basically Tuesday went something like this -- dash to lab, have impromptu meeting of only Barney's lab because grad student from other lab who was supposed to conduct the meeting was at the police station filing a report on his stolen car (right from in front of his house), hash out amongst the five of us exactly what experiment we're going to run, calculate volumes of proteins needed to load gel, load gel, hook it up to electricity and let run, eat lunch, go to class, go back to lab to check progress, run home to pee, go back to lab to see results of gel transfer and staining, go to supper with Chad, finally go home and STAY home, begin studying for Fish exam on Friday by reading in text. Wednesday brought two classes, a meeting with Fish prof to find out what we grad students are supposed to do on Friday as far as directing the undergrad research projects (Chad and I are contemplating studying in the library so we can't be found -- yeah, it's going to be THAT interesting), a meeting with classmate Danielle to figure out what we were going to do for today's seminar class, then home to finish prepping for the seminar class and finish typing notes so I could really start studying for the Fish exam on Friday. Today I finally REALLY, TRULY started studying for the Fish exam on Friday, which was/is quite a feat because it's cloudy, dreary, and cool -- just want to curl up with The Spiral Dance or the new Laurell K. Hamilton and a good cuppa. Sigh. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.