rainy monday; not so bad though

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Anyway, today was fairly good for a rainy Monday; the crappy weather kept me inside during the day in order to get some science (and grading... uuugh) done. Primary antibodies are incubating overnight; secondaries go on tomorrow, then I'm signed up on the confocal for Friday PM. Guessing I'll probably end up spending some time on there on Saturday and/or Sunday as well... confocaling is awesome, and I'll get a bunch of pretty pictures for my rotation talk. I also need to start remembering to bring my hard drive home at night (and install Office on this machine) so I can process movie files at home. I come home for dinner most nights, and don't generally feel like going back into work once I'm home, but I tend to end up sitting at my computer most of the night anyway, so I might as well be doing something productive. Since a lot of what I'm doing with Excel is what I like to call "data munching" - that's different from crunching, mind you - it'd be nice to have the better processor and bigger screen real estate than my little lappy.

Another reason today was better than an average rainy Monday: I met up with several of the UO cycling women this evening with the intent of going for a ride, but as soon as we started riding it started raining, so we headed to Maire's house for coffee and talked about bikes, riding, racing, training, and everything in between. It was fun to get to chat and get to know people, and it was really nice to have Lisa there, to impart all her wisdom and glory to the new generation. Lisa Turnbull is currently finishing her dissertation in the biology department, and then, rumor has it, is going to start riding pro. She's an amazingly strong rider, and also a really nice person. She won't be doing the collegiate circuit races this year, so it's up to the rest of us to step up and win some races for the Ducks this year. Wouldn't we look awesome in these jerseys?

Almost done grading papers - less than 10 lab reports left. Not horrible grades on the whole, but I'm being pretty lenient - it's obvious that lots of people didn't understand the directions or missed something in the lab protocol.

Bleh. Anyway, time to cycle laundry and take a shower. If I get up early enough tomorrow, I can go ride some really fun hills...