I hope everyone had a happy and safe holiday season. I can't say I enjoyed the Christmas blizzard in ND this year. It is pretty sad when shoveling cars out of snow piles is a Christmas tradition. Luckily all my loved ones were safe and warm during this storm. We are already getting nervous about the potential for flooding at my uncle's house again this year.
I received my "birthmas" present this year...a new Dell laptop. It is a beauty. The only problem was that the memory was bad...leading to blue screen of death whenever I tried to do anything. I am lucky to have a husband who dabbles in computer stuff, so after an hour or so on the phone with Dell support, my new memory was in the mail. After we dug out of ND, it was waiting and my new machine is up and running. Now I just have to find a nice laptop bag for a 17.3 inch screen.
Karen is preparing for her oral doctoral candidacy exam at the end of the month. At the same time, I am starting to plan out the next 4-5 months before I defend my thesis. At times in lab (like today), I feel like time moves by like molasses. BUT, all I have to do is look at the list to "things to do" and I am off like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland (I'm late, I'm late), and feel like going home to drink heavily. I know that everything will mostly likely get completed one way or another, it is still daunting to think about it. Even scarier to think I will be back on the wards in 6-7 months!
Well, my timer for competant cell transformation is about to go off. Time to plate some E. coli and pray that I have colonies tomorrow.
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