coolohoh | This week...

Is just going badly. So, the GC is down, and I needa repeat those experiments. It's been down the whole week already. And then today, the UV-Vis is down. Arghs. I gave up. There is another UV-Vis but it's reserved for the group who bought the machine after 2pm, and I was there at 1:40pm, with a whole lot of sample IDs to fill in, and enough samples to take me at least 40 mins to complete. Nah. I just decided to leave it till next week. In the machine I normally use, I have an excel sheet already made with all my sample IDs keyed in, I just had to copy and paste. (No internet, no thumbdrive, no way of transferring that excel file.) Not gonna start on a new set of that experiment today either. So while it means I'm now free to spam everyone on LJ, it also leaves me feeling rather pissed.

Everything seems to be against me finishing that backlog.

The bunch of FYP students working at my bench - my group's bench! Using our micropipettes and stuff without permission from us - their mentor told them to use it... arghs they are just pissing me off. It's not exactly those student's fault, more on their mentor who did not teach them properly, but it's pissing me off so much. They are really ignorant of basic lab rules too. First day and I spotted on of them DRINKING in the lab. Right at the benches. And they just leave their bags and belongings all over the place till I told them flatly to put in underneath the labcoat racks. Do you know what sort of place the lab is girls? It's not a freaking play area! Basic lab rules like no eating and drinking in the lab! And your belongings! Just throwing them all over the lab chairs like nobody's business. Seriously! Their mentors didn't tell them to put their bags elsewhere too! All of them! Gosh! And you know where they put their bags? Right in front the place with the bottle of Ag2SO4. That exact same bottle of chemical responsible for the ton of holes in my brand new jeans - I took a photo, shall share it this weekend. I feel really sad just looking at my jeans. And they freaking just threw their bags and things all over the place. Freaking dangerous. Obstructing the way too. Arghs they make me really pissed off. Like some girl even asked me at the start how to change the volume of a pipette. I was like WTF? YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO USE A MICROPIPETTE? Hello! You are in UNI already aren't you? I learnt how to use that in secondary school! Sure it's a 500ul - 5ml pipette, but it works EXACTLY the same way! Plus you are using my group's pipette without permission. They wanted to take our cuvettes too but I stopped them. Yeah they are quite poor things because their mentor didn't prepare anything for them. They don't have enough disposable plastic cuvettes and had to keep washing and dying them. Disposable syringes too. So they were taking up all the space on the bench to air dry their stuff. I don't want to scold them for that because it's not their fault they need to reuse those disposable stuff. But it's just the whole way they are NOT taking lab seriously and all that irritates me. And there's this new girl who just appeared yesterday, that's again, putting her bag on the chair (and no one tells her where to put her bag! Like seriously!), taking up someone else's bench, and even using her macbook right on that person's bench. I'm pissed up I really can't be bothered anymore. It's not my bench and that guy isn't even in my group anymore, so I don't really have a right to chase her off that bench I guess. As for her belongings. I don't give a shit. If someone accidentally gets some acid or sludge on it, it's none of my business. You're freaking in university now. You should know better than to put your belongings there. Seriously. Freaking, freaking pissed.