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I would love to say that Friday is a slack day. But it's not at all that slack. Spent the morning washing all the tubes that i've been using the past week or so. Then I needa put them in the washer later, since it was all occupied just now. And then there's uv-vis to do. And then after that there's the usual cleaning up. Washing and soaking of tubes. That takes me longer than the measurement itself seriously. And results to be keyed in. Managed to do a lot of sets this week. GC is still down so I can't do the other test. Sigh. Also another group asked if I could help with qpcr in two weeks. I can't say no can I? That's like my forte, I should hopefully finish with all these backlog in two weeks - provided that the GC is working - and I think its pretty likely that I will be put into their group in the future anyway. I do need to give them a reason to keep hiring me. And in this chem and engineering oriented environment, qpcrs are about the best choice and chance I have. No matter how nice and slack this place may be, I still need my own niche to survive here. Not just here and now, but for the future too. While trying to go as broad as possible, you need depth too.

Ah. Another lonely day. Having lunch alone again cos my usual lunch buddies took the 11:30 bus out. They asked me to join but I had that bit of washing to do, and I really hate leaving just that not of incomplete work like that. Oh wells. It's just yet another #foreveralone day. What's new? At least I've already talked to one person today, so it won't be one of those rare 'I didnt talk to a single person besides the stall holder day'. I don't think I even uttered five words but it counts ok?