Thursday #55 – this Thursday started off in a fairly
unmemorable fashion…in that I legitimately don’t even remember it 5 days
later. I can only assume I ate some
weetbix and possibly downed an OJ before setting about…doing something. Possibly uni work, probably watching TV shows.
The excitement and memory kick back in at lunch time when an
administrative error at Subway saw me score 3 free cookies instead of just
1. So much macadamia and white chocolate
goodness I’m fairly confident I more than undid any benefit of the chicken teriyaki
sub. I gulped it down watching The Doctors and learnt that I should be
spending 20 minutes eating my meals. Oops. After lunch I headed into uni to meet The
Italian and get our stories straight before heading up to the lab to do some
more fun research project analysis.
The Persian Uniform Police and The Not Much Older Than Me
Supervisor stopped us on our way into clinic and insisted we sample some
of their baked goods. We spent what felt
like an eternity deciding and eventually walked away with a vanilla slice and
rocky road. After my cookie binge
earlier I decided to donate mine to The Choir Girl and left it on her desk as
we headed into the lab.
We spent a couple of hours bashing plates against the desk,
washing them out, bashing them again, adding chemicals, incubating samples and
repeating. We held our breath as The Choir
Girl added the substrate and hoped that it would be a case of 3rd
time lucky for our research project and that the samples would turn blue. The good news is they did turn blue; the bad
news is we’re such super nerds we were genuinely excited by it.
After a reasonably successful afternoon in the lab, I headed
off to the shops to buy a first birthday present for The Cutest Kid I Know. I tried to stay focussed but couldn’t help
noticing that baby clothes were way cuter for girls than boys. I managed to get a little outfit for him and
drove home to get my statistics on. After
bragging for the best part of 18 months about my HD in stats (and the only mark
on my uni transcript to start with a 9), it seemed only fair I would be stuck
with the stats part of our research project.
I was back in my element with pages of formulae in front of me and for
once in this 5 year degree felt like I knew what I was doing.
Not a particularly exciting Thursday but with free cookies
and lab results I can’t complain too much.
Here’s hoping next Thursday is at least more memorable.
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