Today was a strange day. It started out well; we got up, we were running a bit late because my hubby couldn’t find his umbrella and it was raining out. We somehow managed to get on the express train to the city despite it already being at the platform when we arrived at the station.
I got to work in reasonable time and only slightly damp at the bottom of my jeans due to flicking water up from my shoes as I walked. Then things started to go a little strange. There were heaps of samples for me to extract DNA from and some had been put on to digest that morning but weren’t ready yet. Mel was hungry, having gotten up very early and not had time for breakfast, so we went out to Bar Colluzi because coffee sounded like a good idea to several of us. I got a latte because I don’t like the way they heap on the chocolate powder to my cappucino – that wasn’t a great idea because it came in a glass, I like mugs. Anyway, I drank my coffee, we all had a good chat. By the time we got back to work I’d been there for nearly two hours and not done any work!
While waiting for those samples I ended up with the joyful job of defrosting the freezers. It actually wasn’t that bad, just relocating things and then letting the ice thaw. It was satisfying to have them cleaned out – I just remembered that I forgot to wipe the tops down, they have some grime on them.
I extracted the DNA from the samples and that was pretty much my day…
Except for the time I spent on the computer. In the morning it didn’t start properly, so I turned it off and back on. When one does that it automatically logs in as someone else who used to work there which was actually quite a blessing because they had an admin account! This meant that I was able to tell the computer that it wasn’t July 1970 and I could also make my own account on the computer. However I can no longer get onto the internet because for some crazy reason my unipass doesn’t work on the network and they supposedly need to send someone out to fix that. I guess despite my efforts I’m stuck using other people passwords for the internet.