dumb things you do in the laboratory

I think I've found a new use for this blog...it will be something to occupy my brain when I've done something dumb in the lab...like tonight's fatigue-induced error: using the wrong buffer for my electrophoresis.

Today I spent most of my day in a meeting at the UC Office of the President...another day like today and I might be convinced that I'm not cut out for administrative life. If I hear the words "restructure", "affairs", or "strategic planning" strung together so many times in a discussion again, I'll start speaking in tongues. I've not seen so many grown people nodding their heads in unison since the Annie Lennox/Sting concert I attended last year. Slow blinks, head nods, murmurs and grunts of comprehension or approval...it's mass hypnosis or some sort of business body language that I've yet to learn. So strange. Strangest of all, I suppose, was the "oohs" and "aahs" my pithy comments elicited...what does that mean? Is it insult or praise of my logic and thoughtfulness? Hm....

The gel's done...cross your fingers for my cloning....