Low

I did not want to wake up today, I really don't feel like it. This is probably the starting of a few lows in life for 2009. I did not want to go to lab, I am sick at looking at UPM compound. Sick of smelling the lab. I want to dig a hole and stay there (maybe find some new cestodes for Dr Malina). Its like arghh!... some things are not going the way I want it to be. Right now I am in a big fight between my many selves inside of me, each trying to steer my life. The rebel, the nerd, the hopeless romantic, the crazy, the devil's advocate, all just trying to control me. Well as I was tossing and turning in bed, I decided I have to get up. No matter what, I have to get up. Its almost over...

Silver

This is what I got for spending a Saturday in the lab. Silver nitrate staining using an old kit that is not even sold anymore by the company that produced it. Luckly it still works, although it was stained too much because I forgotten to prepared the stopping solution to stop it from staining too much. This has my crude protein, which literally mean a broken form of my T. gondii (by freezing, thawing, sonicating, and centrifuging), my surface antigen 1 protein and the protein marker. Hmm my prof would love to have this picture, although the main problem would be that funny line across the gel. It seem I am the only one whose gel has these streak mark across it. Hmm well, back to the drawing board..

*slowly but surely getting there...to the finish line..