Ahhhh stretch

I'm not at work today. I feel kinda guilty but really happy. I have a double batch of chocolate mousse in the fridge, Enya is playing, a large pot of coffee has brewed and there are creme puffs and pumpkin pie to be made.

Confession: I was actually dancing (slowly as Enya is playing) around the kitchen this morning as I hunted up ginger.

Also, I am such a geek. Last night my labmate and I were running some experiments for her. She had a bunch of meetings and kept popping into my lab and sending emails to discuss said experiments before rushing off to be berated by supervisor or review a talk or run some analysis. Anyhow, everything was ready around 5:00 and she had just been told by her supervisor that these data weren'tworth presenting even if they did work. I said we should just run them, as everything was set up and we would just run one electrode and see what happens and then next time, we could start from there.

Anyhow that electrode ran beautifully. We were watching the results come up on the computer and worrying about weird signals that shouldn't show up and then we got the signal we wanted and we are smiling and gloating and then we get the second signal and we practically cheer. So we decided to run a new material, never been done before, might not even work.

It worked and we were too gobsmacked to believe it. Stuff NEVER works that well the first time. We thought of a couple reasons we might get a false positive and came up with the next exeriment we should run, but we should really get home (She had been at work 12 hours already and she bikes an hour each way-freak).

But everything was set up and in 10 minutes we would know for certain whether we were making the coating on our new material. So we ran it and stared at the screen and the commented on every bump in the data. We saw a a promising signal and then we saw confirmation. We didn't actually high 5 each other, but some cheering and "we rock" comments were in evidence. It was beautiful.