May 25, 2004
i have a problem with cross-contamination.
no, not with boys and cooties. with white and blue bacteria colonies. the blue ones look like bath beads, although i'm sure no one here at the lab appreciates that perspective. i have a semi-part-time job (does that make it a some-time job?) at my dad's lab where i do all the odd ends stuff like harvest colonies on petri dishes of agar and duplicate double helixes and copy out many long lists of AGCT's and then make them. Since I did promise micah that i'd blog about him, i'll mention that he asked me to clone bigger biceps for him. my response to that is, "sorry dude, no can do, there has to be something substantial there before i can clone anything out of it." so i guess that's the reason why he's at the gym at this very moment working on his biceps. (come on dee...i had to take a jab at that comment ^^)
my hands are getting dry and gross smelling from all the hand-washing i've had to do here. the people here in the white lab coats seem to be petrified of germs, rubbing their hands with 70% ethanol every five minutes. Me, i refuse a drear white lab coat, and am seen wandering around the lab in my siren red sweater. i can just imagine them whispering as i walk by, "that's Dr. Liu's daughter. she's kind of strange..."
