stay at home Tuesday

So the massive amount of catching up I had to do is finally showing a light at the end of the tunnel. I finally finished updating my notebook (YEA!) and now the -80 sheets are coming along. I don't know if anyone will ever work on my stuff again in my lab but I want to make sure that at least someone might be able to make sense of my stuff. My lab notebook writing has improved but still needs a lot of work. I hope the whole industry job thing will not only force me to keep up-to-date but also help me with writing a more comprehensive notebook. I mean sometimes I look at what I wrote and go 'what was I thinking here' and then have to read a week before to go 'oh yeah that was what I was trying to do.' But the huge weight of the notebook is now off my shoulders so I am ecstatic.

We are still packing away. The pod is filling up little by little but there is still thank goodness space left. We have ALOT of stuff. I'd like to think that I am not a packrat but I like books and I have a hard time letting them go. I know that I probably will not read them again but I like having them on hand to....I don't know collect dust. I just like having them around. In case you didn't know, books are heavy meaning Dawn does not get carry such boxes because of her back meaning John has to suffer for my addiction to books. That poor man didn't know what trouble he had gotten himself into marrying me. Grandma was right when she told him good luck after we got engaged :)

Today I saw the SURP student from our lab present her research. She did a great job though the talks were quite distinct from each other. The program encompasses all disciplines, not just science. So we heard about Melissa's talk on V. fischeri, moved to Respiratory Syncytial Virus and then ended on Female Genital Mutilation in Africa. Yea it's a big leap. I think its great that there is this kind of program for students but it would be nice to kind of group the talks by section so that way we could see all the science kids together and then the history kids together. Maybe there point is to keep us all awake and the FGM talk was definitely disturbing to say the least.

On the way back from the talks, EVS, Noreen and I ran through a thunderstorm. Yes we need the rain but no I did not want to be soaked through and through. It was full of laughs though. I mean how many times do you get to kind of play in the rain as a big kid :)