More Lab Cleaning
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Plan for the morning: meet with Evangelos to be trained on the Olympus CLSM. How the plan turned out: Evangelos cancelled on me. The reason he gave was that they are having a string of “critical meetings… regarding the future of the center”. Does that mean they’re going to shut it down? I’d love to know, as I imagine this might affect the future of my thesis quite considerably.
A couple of people have suggested I look to other places that might have a CLSM I can use, other than the CNS—other labs at Harvard, or labs at MIT. It seems that the Forsyth Institute has one, although I’d probably be charged as an external user there (it’s affiliated with the medical and dental schools). I wasted much of the morning trawling the internet for information on who else might have a CLSM, but didn’t find anything. Frustrated, I went to the lab.
I was going to start messing with my radiolarian pickings again, but when I went to try and wash the petri dishes to get them lint-free, I was overwhelmed by the amount of crap stacked up in and around the sink, so I embarked on a second cleaning frenzy, throwing out with abandon crusty old tubs, dishes, rusty razorblades, and other unspeakably unsavory things. Most of the day later, the lab looked much better—and most of the day was gone.
