Monsoon Hits the Big B

I woke up to rain yesterday, got out my extraordinarily flowery Asian umbrella (thanks Dad for leaving me the most embarrassing umbrella, thanks Mom for buying it, and of course me for being too lazy to get another one) and walked to work (That's the building I work in by the way). As with everything new, the experiment setup took longer and my mentor and I anticipated. At one point, the incubator on the microscope was making a high-pitched beeping at us (just the type of noise that crawls through your skin, into your skull and promptly sprawls itself out on your brain and makes a picnic there while your brain is screaming: please make it stop! ). Then other various problems occurred, but in the end we triumphed! (Restart the system when you don't know what the heck is going on... that was my advice for the problems and it worked for the most part :) )

Today I set up another overnight microscope experiment (I'm getting better with the set up and the really expensive microscope). For the rest of today it's onto more cell culture and preparations for next week!

LILY