Bats after midnight

Quote of the day, "Don't feed the graduate students."


Yesterday was mothers day. I called my mom around 1 pm as I was getting into my car to go to lab. I thought I would only go to lab for like 4 hours. I thought that would be more than enough time for me to set up a gradient western gel, lyse my cells, do a bradford test, load my proteins, transfer them, block them, and leave the primary antibody over night. It turns out I didn't take many things into account. For example, I didn't take into account that I would have to do 4 gells, that I had around 36 samples, and most importantly that I didn't know where anything was. I didn't think finding things would be so hard since at some point or another Jose would show up. I was wrong. I was thinking he would show up around 6 pm. But instead he showed up at 11 pm.
So everytime I couldn't find something I tried my best not to but I ended up calling him to ask where it was. No where along the line did it occur to him to tell me that this would take long to just leave it for monday.
Well long ass story short, I ended up eating lunch at 10:30 pm, and dinner at 11:00 pm. Then Maria showed up to write the final assignment for Stats like around midnight. Our paper was subject on the data about different species of Bats. This data was collected by her brother. We found out that unlike the male bat, the female's length of call can be predicted solely by the intensity of the call. While the male bat's call depends on all kinds of things.
Yeah, we ended up getting out of UC Berkeley campus at 2 AM...
I was so pist because my whole sunday was down the drain. I was planning to read all of the papers related to my old project and Jay Levy's recent papers on innate immunity and HIV. But I ended up doing the most annoying western and writing about Bats til after midnight.
"Welcome to Grad School" sigh.....