Thusly I Fail
There was something wrong with me yesterday (whether that state was unique to yesterday I will leave to discussion). Let me illustrate.
Dropped a test tube of bacteria (because I was only holding onto the lid) — it broke on the floor.
Dropped/somehow facilitated-in-falling a microcentrifuge tube of bacteria — it got on my sock and shoe.
Absentmindedly poured 2/5 of a polymerase chain reaction mix on my dress while I was transferring it to separate tubes.
Put the thermocycler (the machine for doing PCRs) on 'pause' and forgot to take it off 'pause' — it sat at 95˚C all night.
Centrifuged some bacteria at 13,000 rpm instead of 6,000.
Did not process the Summer Bible School teacher's (whom I was in theory helping) instructions on at least one occasion.
I think I should start taking lunch to work...
But there is a silver lining to the cloud of Yesterday:
The bacteria were avirulent, so the spills were not major reportable incidents.
The PCRs might still work — it'll just take me longer to find out.
The centrifuged bacteria didn't die.
The SBS teacher was very gracious.
Unrelated to the mishaps, it's fun having D&B Smucker's children around. Yesterday I conversed with their eldest about tsunamis, etc, and he (at 12 years old) knew more than I did. And Summer Bible School at Brownsville Mennonite is in general keeping me sane this week.
Dropped a test tube of bacteria (because I was only holding onto the lid) — it broke on the floor.
Dropped/somehow facilitated-in-falling a microcentrifuge tube of bacteria — it got on my sock and shoe.
Absentmindedly poured 2/5 of a polymerase chain reaction mix on my dress while I was transferring it to separate tubes.
Put the thermocycler (the machine for doing PCRs) on 'pause' and forgot to take it off 'pause' — it sat at 95˚C all night.
Centrifuged some bacteria at 13,000 rpm instead of 6,000.
Did not process the Summer Bible School teacher's (whom I was in theory helping) instructions on at least one occasion.
I think I should start taking lunch to work...
But there is a silver lining to the cloud of Yesterday:
The bacteria were avirulent, so the spills were not major reportable incidents.
The PCRs might still work — it'll just take me longer to find out.
The centrifuged bacteria didn't die.
The SBS teacher was very gracious.
Unrelated to the mishaps, it's fun having D&B Smucker's children around. Yesterday I conversed with their eldest about tsunamis, etc, and he (at 12 years old) knew more than I did. And Summer Bible School at Brownsville Mennonite is in general keeping me sane this week.
posted by Claire at 09:57
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