Listening to: "Rapture" - BlondieLab turned out to be pretty interesting. We're still setting up stuff and waiting for the flies to make babies, but I'm learning a lot about lab procedures. As exhausting as it may be, I think I can enjoy life as a biochemistry research minion. A summary of what I've done so far:
-Isolated virgin female flies (yes, you can tell them apart...we need virgins b/c non-virgins can store eggs) and crossed them w/ males
-Purified plasmids
-Isolated DNA
-Loaded a gel for electrophoresis
-Inventoried the stocks (in what's basically a walk-in fridge)
As for the cooking, I haven't done much. Yesterday the movie room crew went out to Chinatown for dinner. I'm bummed that I didn't get to really say good-bye to Jared. :( He may be coming back, however, before he goes off to China. Tonight, Becky and I made chicken pot pie. Actually Becky did the cooking. I read from the recipe, but it looked easy. I'll have to try it out when I get home. Later tonight, before we finish watching the Keira Knightley version of Pride and Prejudice, we'll have to decide what to make next week.
Hunter quote of the day (I figured that since I have a Shakespeare theme, I'd create one for Sherrilyn Kenyon's Hunter Legends series.):
"I really hate Oracles. If I wanted to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's Cube." - Acheron (the ultimate badass) in Night Pleasures
We hate slutty flies!