I'm trying to be positive and happy, I mean I should be all relaxed and happy. I've just come back from 2 weeks of not thinking about work once, relaxing with my whole family- being able to catch up with everyone at the same time, re-connecting with my nieces and chilling in the pool and swimming in the sea. Not to mention the spa of heaven....
I got back from Thailand on Wednesday, popped round and saw off one of my friends whose off to Europe for a month of job hunting. Came into work for April 1st- our labs estrogen count has increased even more, which is great. I have a neighbour back on one side, and should be getting my other neighbour shortly once he's completed his tour of duty as the departmental secretary (a hellish job, I'd never want to do). Eased back into lab life- I even set up a PCR to check my newly arrived primers (which I'd spent days designing before the hols). It probably started on Friday when I ran the gel of the PCR and got a blank picture instead of glowing white bands next to the markers....
Meaning my primers are crap and its back to the drawing board. The mysterious ways of finance mean that I"m unlikely to be able to quickly get any new primers until the new finicial year kicks in properly sometime in May most likely. Seriously, why does this take so long? we've been on limited ordering powers since mid January for goodness sake.... anyway.... I shall prevail.
Got to the weekend and caught up with washing, said goodbye to yet another friend, leaving 2/3 of us for the next month for company. This year has seen many of the fellowship of foreigners departing these shores, with little prospect of meaning new ones as I've no time to take anymore Japanese courses. Thus adding to the slight empty, grumpy feeling.
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