Long weekends are great...

But boy does going back to work after a long weekend SUCK!!! It's not like I didn't get enough sleep or anything... I just have no desire to come back!! And even though it was a long weekend, I still feel like there was so much more we wanted to accomplish and it just didn't get done!! But it's not like we were slacking off... okay, Saturday we kinda slacked. But Sunday and Monday we were running errands all day and still didn't get everything done! Oh well... such is life.

So the latest updates... first, school. So my Genetics students have a semester-long project with Drosophila (aka, flies).



Now, I find this amusing since this is the first time that I am working with flies also. So I'm learning with the students. Fun times. Here I thought I had escaped working with them... but obviously, not so much. Oh well. Anyway... last Friday was the first day of lab and first day with the flies. And we have normal wild-type flies and then 4 different mutants. And each group of students was assigned two different flies to cross over the semester and see what happens. So on Friday everyone had to anesthetize their flies and then transfer some male and female flies to new tubes to start the experiment. Well, my first fear was that all of their flies would be dead. My next fear was that I told them something incorrect and it just got screwed up. So today I came in and was so happy to find that almost all of the flies lived and nothing was screwed up (as of yet). So that was way good news. What also made me happy is that Kent's group (the lab is divided in half... I have half and Kent has the other half) didn't apparently learn (or listen) to how to label their tubes. So they either didn't label their tubes at all (so they have NO clue what flies are in there... if they're mutant or wild-type) and if they put the date on there, they put the wrong date!! For some reason, they put the date as 8/30 instead of 9/1! Well, that wouldn't be an issue except that Kent and I had split some of the flies on the 30th!! So there are already tubes with "older" flies from the 30th!! So now the students have no clue which tube is which, etc. It makes me laugh... needless to say. So I was feeling a bit better. Now I'm kinda sad because Kent just put all of the tubes of each mutant together so that students can go to any tube now to get their flies. That sucks for my group because they actually did it right and now other people are going to use their tubes so everyone is going to be fighting for flies. Personally, I think that everyone should keep their own tubes and then we can have some general use tubes of flies so that if someone screws up, they can start over again. But I don't get to make the rules. Needless to say... when I take this class over, I'm going to make every group responsible for their OWN work!! Welcome to the real world kids!! LOL

In other news... Mark and I had dinner at Lawry's on Saturday night. It was way yummy... as usual and Mark enjoyed his first trip there. Although I will say that he wasn't prepared for the quantity of food that he got... so I think that next time, he will be more prepared. :) But it was a great night... and just nice to go out and celebrate (and have someone else cook for us!!).

What else?? Not too much to report, really. I'm pretty boring, as you guys know. Mark and I did some preliminary ring shopping yesterday... nothing big at this point. Just looking to see what I like and don't like. I'm realizing that what I thought I would like isn't what actually looks good on my finger. LOL I'm also realizing that the biggest problem/issue for me will be that so many rings have this really big/tall setting for the center stone. I understand that the point is to show off the ring... but I really could care less. I'm not trying to prove anything with my ring... I don't need the whole world to see it from a mile away. It just looks stupid to have something sticking up from my stubby fingers. And honestly, it's a bit of a hazard to have a stone sticking up so much when I'm in the lab because I have to put gloves on at times... and that just won't work with a big stone sticking up!!! So yeah... we shall continue our quest. Good times. :) Mark laughed because this is probably the only thing I actually "care" about when it comes to a wedding/getting married. But the way I figure it... the wedding is just a day... I'm wearing this ring for the rest of my life!! Therefore, I'm going to be more picky and not just settle for something that MAY work. LOL Hell, I was picky when I chose a boyfriend... you've got to assume I'll be picky with the ring. It's not my fault that they don't design rings that are compatible with science research!! LOL

Anyway, that is my life right now... I know it's thrilling. :) I hope that you are all doing well and had an enjoyable long weekend. Until next time!!