"The rain has fallen. To press for more at this time is ill-advised." - I Ching

[jebbypal]

Uuughh...soooo tired. Today was a marathon day at work. I literally managed to eat lunch in 10 minutes so I could get right back to work. It was only for 6 hours, but I didn't have hardly any time to breathe during it at all.

Major annoyance of the day (beyond the continual crappy noise that is the music that V plays on Yahoo Launchcast -- which I'd try to change/alter except I have to have the password.) -- Had to open a new bottle of phenol/chlorophorm (chemical mixture used to do DNA extractions. Verrry Toxic). AFter Cutting the 8 pieces of tape off of the metal canister that held the bottle, I then had to fight for five minutes to get the bottle out because that was how tightly it was wedged in after being wrapped with cloth. Afterward, i still couldn't use it because none of us knew why there was a bottle of 1M Tris buffer that came with it. It looked like every bottle of phenol/chlorophorm I'd ever used (I'd never opened a new one before) and even the boss wasn't sure. At which point, I find out that Fisher is infinitely less helpful than Sigma with their chemical catalogs (or even info on their websites) as looking up the catalog number didn't yield much except for price. If it had been a sigma catalog, I'd also have been presented with a long list of chemical facts and attributes. So off to call customer service (while my samples had been sitting benchtop for 30 minutes when they shouldn't be. But I had to have the phenol/chlorophorm to proceed).

Fortunately, I didn't have to wait very long to get through on customer service. I'm then informed that the Tris is simply to alter the pH, if you need to.

Gee, thanks. Why couldn't you at least put an insert into the tightly sealed can of doom? *rolls eyes*

That was mostly the only excitement of the day...except for where I colorfully swore for five minutes after spilling one of my samples. I think I managed to safely pipet most of it up.

Everyone asleep now? See, this is why I don't go into more details.

After the day was done, went out shopping at the outlet mall w/ B. And proceeded to spend WAY too much money. Have been feeling like I should stop dressing like a perpetual college student (and a badly dressed on at that). Plus the fact that most of my jeans are very very very holey. First stop was United Benneton on a lark -- of course they have to have a great sale going on (which only means the stuff in the 200s was down to 100s). Sadly, my mind pretty much focused on the fact that I'll be going to the conference in NY and I don't have a single suit outfit that qualifies as 'winter' wear. So got a perfectly fitting black suit for about 160 (usually 250). Needs to be hemmed but it was very flattering. Also a nice pair of pin-striped slacks (I don't own any slacks not bought at Penneys) as well as two nice rayon turtlenecks. Total---400 dollars. My head hurts thinking about it. But all the stuff fit. And looked good. And I'm so sick of the crap that is in department stores. It's all either too old or too young. Or cheap looking.

That pain was alleviated some by then finding a new wallet (mine is barely holding my cards) as well as paying 40 dollars at Guess for two pair of jeans that are almost the perfect heighth on my hips...could be a touch higher, but hey, at those prices, I'd be tempted to buy the ass-crack bearing ones.

But now, very very very tired. Very. But my mother will finally be able to get off my back about if I've bought any clothes w/ my birthday money yet.

Comments

[luridmuse.livejournal.com]

chlorophorm... isnt that what they used to use to put people to sleep back in the old days?

[jebbypal]

Yep....but for this it's mixed with a highly toxic base that can dissolve skin:)

Very stinky too:P