Stupid Toilet, and Other Shit

I think today was one of those days that wasn't meant to go well.  Seriously.  Well the morning went fine, and I was at lab and I was like, "Hmm, the shaker is not shaking.  Oh, the power is off.  I better set the temperature too."  Except I FORGOT to turn on the heater.  So yeah, shaking my unhappy E. coli cells at like 15 C instead of 37 C.  Then my lovely reaction looks lovely and all, until randomly my spec decides "let's allow water to condense on the cuvet and allow the baseline to go crazy" and it's so messed up that even adjusting the baseline to one value doesn't work.  So that's thrown out.  Luckily I still have 20 mL or so of this stuff left, and I have an even older batch if I really need to go there.

So yeah, I'm depressed about wasting my time at lab.  And then while I am at home, I try to flush the toilet and the stuff isn't going down.  I plunge it and all and the toilet overflows!  And I have toilet water all over the floor in the smaller bathroom.  So I get to try and dry that up, but meanwhile my bacteria are growing and I need to induce them so they do the right thing and make me some protein.  But in my rush I forget to bring my ID card.  So I can't get into the building.  So I have to walk back to the apartment, grab the ID card, and then run back.  Well the only good thing - I got to see the girl I had a crush on last summer twice!  And she talked to me both times, asking to borrow a protein ladder and then telling me where she returned it.  Woot.  Though unfortunately I don't have a crush on her anymore, because I didn't get to test and see if I would stutter badly or whatever with her.

Other bad shit that happened this week include getting sunburned and it still hurting, getting lost in the dungeon in VP2 and playing so much that I missed volleyball on TV, missing volleyball on TV again.  And not having a life that week - that's pretty bad.  I even spent my "off" day looking up housing info.  And this week is not going to be any better, because I am suddenly motivated to do all this labwork that ends up taking a long time because these enzymes are "slow" (well compared to what I worked on for my thesis).  So yeah, I'm going to be in the lab a lot.  So probably a lot of cereal consumption this week - yum.